Picard responsibility tip: Don't leave known, wide-scale problems behind for the next generation to solve.
So-called "technology transfer" at universities is a disease for [open] science. Episode #1451.
A student of mine asked the authors of a security paper, involving LLMs and cyberattacks, details about their experimental setting, which were crucial for reproducibility (and reviewability…).
Answer (from tech. transfer staff): « To receive the code and the prompts, [university] would need to enter into a license agreement (with strong confidentiality clauses and a $30,000 onetime fee) »
Rafah has twice the population density of the Warsaw Ghetto at its peak during WWII and Israel is telling people to evacuate or its not their fault if they die. Actually it is, Rafah is right up against the Egyptian border and there's nowhere left in Gaza that hasn't been substantially bombed by Israel.
55% of the buildings in the whole of Gaza are damaged or destroyed.
This is genocide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5N9IHqqGcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1TZXc5DiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvz_gW5C2cY
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
– Naomi Shulman
Impressively, GLaBIOS (the open source XT BIOS) even lists the drive while it boots (I don't think there are many people at all that uses this configuration out there).
Here's a little video of it booting up. Next it will get FreeDOS, then I'll have an XT with a free BIOS and free OS!
Mick is 80. Mitch is 81. It’s time we acknowledge the benefits of sex, drugs and rock and roll.
