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GreenSalem··on Stop Making TUIs
Incoherent and far too long .

Lists a bunch of things .

Fails to make any clear points .

Fails to give real reasons for the few claims it makes .

GreenSalem··on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
Good to see a whole genre of scam artists and their books being displaced.
GreenSalem··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
Android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.com.wiisoft...
GreenSalem··on U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
Rogue nation.

North Korea behaves better.

GreenSalem··on Trump administration considers $300B fund for Iran if deal is upheld
Donald wins.

Donald silently gets 10% of any deal money.

GreenSalem··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
Some books deserve to be banned.

I would put Kevin MacDonald's antisemitic trilogy The Culture of Critique, the Turner Diaries ( which calls for mass extermination of non-white groups in the USA ) and Mein Kampf in the realm of books that should be shunned.

GreenSalem··on I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
Beggars cant be choosers.

She would rather have done corporate law but did not have the academic credentials or the networks needed for a job at the likes of Latham Watkins or White and Case.

Still it is good for society that criminals get the worst lawyers to defend them.

GreenSalem··on Your ePub Is fine
"EPUB is an amazing open standard for ebooks, and yet so many implementations of it are just fundamentally flawed, all in the name of keeping IP lawyers happy."

Easy to be dismissive, but IP violations can cost a large company hundreds of millions.

IP lawyers are more important to many companies than their software developers.

If you doubt that, check to see who gets paid more...

GreenSalem··on I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
A lawyer I know who specialises in rape, and is excellent at getting the obviously guilty exonerated, lost a case last year because of GoPro videos.

Her client was recording while committing the abhorrent crime. The criminal would otherwise have got off.

From my perspective, the GoPro camera produced a good outcome. Still, one has wonder why anyone to record their criminal actions.

GreenSalem··on Linux 7.1
Current default for Arch is 7.0.10

Looking forward to 7.1 rolling out soon.

GreenSalem··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
If your translation is as bad as your English, I really have to wonder what value you bring to the table...
GreenSalem··on How to earn a billion dollars
Words of wisdom. PG is always worth Reading.

The haters do not seem to be actually reading and comprehending PG's article.

I have news for you.

The article is not written for those of you who are comprehension challenged...

GreenSalem··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
This is why for the census my forms said that I was a poor widow from Kazakhstan with 9 chidren , no education and an adherent of the Mandean faith.

Never ever provide true information in any form.

GreenSalem··on On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles
AI slop warnings should be mandatory.
GreenSalem··on Leaving Mozilla
Rust was an own goal foot gun.

Interesting language with a passionate community / cult, but the value to Mozilla was vanishingly close to zero.

GreenSalem··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
Despite the protests, he admits using AI and then charging his clients full price...

"But maybe I will ask Claude’s opinion, and if one of the suggestions is smart—cutting a paragraph, for instance, or clarifying a sentence—I might accept it.

When I started translating 15 years ago, we used to paste uncooperative sentences into Google Translate to see if it had interesting ways to phrase things differently. Then came DeepL—same idea."

GreenSalem··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Time to switch to open weight Chinese models.

Any company that uses Magaland LLMs should be aware of the very real Trump related risk.

What happens if the LLM your firm runs on is disabled tomorrow, because Trump wakes up feeling slightly annoyed...

GreenSalem··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
MAGA madness strikes again ..
GreenSalem··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
I had transliterated lyrics of a song * with stanzas in Urdu , Braj Basha, Persian and Arabic , that I wanted to understand better ..

Gemini did a pretty good job of translating this to English .

Sure a professional human translator would have done a more nuanced job if I was willing to invest the money and time . But ...

* tajdar e haram originally by Payam Saihalwi, later versions by the Sabri Brothers and recently by Asif Aslam

GreenSalem··on CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
There are a LOT of bad CEOs.

There are also a LOT of bad software developers.

When they meet, the software developer is fired.

The CEO exits after a while, after exercising their stock options...

GreenSalem··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Should just bribe Trump again.

He will bomb Paris and London until Europe capitulates.

Two billion in bigly notes should suffice.

GreenSalem··on OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
AI written release post and it shows...
GreenSalem··on Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?
We need cheap tokens from China...
GreenSalem··on New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections
Indian pharmaceutical companies will produce a biosimilar in months.

This will enable it to be supplied at a non-exploitative price to Africa and Asia.

GreenSalem··on Richard Scolyer Has Died
Glioblastomas have a poor 5 year survival rate.

The poor man was made into a local Australian celebrity by the media.

GreenSalem··on Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap
It is not exploring anything.

It is bluntly stating nonsense, while misunderstating the basics of Leech lattices and the Yoneda lemma.

A 12 year old with a LLM could do better.

GreenSalem··on Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap
Advanced AI psychosis.

Professional help might be necessary.

GreenSalem··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
Software engineers are fungible commodities, in the wake of the LLM.
GreenSalem··on Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates
Waiting to see what happens to the heat shield on reentry...

https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

https://theconversation.com/heat-shield-safety-concerns-rais...

GreenSalem··on Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste
Australia has an unenviable track record of promising sounding companies that get funding from government sources and soon go belly up.

Poor implemenation, poor quality control, complacency and the lack of educated personnel all contribute to this.

Meanwhile, the technology is studied, improved and transferred by enterprising Chinese and soon becomes a billion dollar company in Guangdong.