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chris_woton India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

Just where would one get the source for this? It’s not like Universities publish this sort of thing. It’s very much anecdotal, but it’s also very much something that lecturers and tutors have been noticing for so active now.

chris_woton India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

In Australia, our universities are finding that a large proportion of Indian students have been using GenAI for cheating. Often they get away with it. I'm not saying that people other than Indian overseas students cheat, but it does seem more entrenched. I'd love to know why. It doesn't actually help in the long term!

chris_woton Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge

"How is it a good thing to refuse to provide our warfighters with the tools that they need?"

Perhaps you should consider that this is a loaded question. I don't think HN needs this sort of Argumentum ad Passiones.

chris_woton LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

I am currently trying to wrangle this UI. It is called VCL and it was initially created in the early 1990s.

If you want to see my efforts, I have a number of branches on github:

Phase 5 can be located here:

https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr...

Check the source here:

https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr...

in particular keep an eye on:

https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr...

chris_woton I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer

What’s the bet this was Divers Alert Network (DAN) that did this. There aren’t a huge number of insurance companies who insure diving students in Malta.

chris_woton Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

I'd be impressed if you would process my donation. Your platform says it can't right now.

chris_woton Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)

So... people actually converse and have civil debates on social media? I wouldn't know, I'm not on Facebook.

chris_woton The New Collabora Office for Desktop

Downvote me all you like, this won’t happen.

chris_woton Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

No, he's talking about ReactOS.

chris_woton The New Collabora Office for Desktop

All of that is true. Collabora has put a lot of time and money into LibreOffice.

chris_woton The New Collabora Office for Desktop

That is not going to happen with LibreOffice.

chris_woton Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

Well, if a rootkit gets installed later, attention might be handy? Or am I missing something?

chris_woton Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

Yes, but it took some time before the suck became so bad too many people started to notice, and those people weren’t tech people.

Most people had never even heard of Linux. It has taken a lot of very bad things on Windows for it to get to this point. It’s classic frog in a slowly heating up pot territory.

chris_woton Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

I’ve been working at a school that uses a mix of Surfacebooks, HP Elitebooks and MacBook Air M2s (now migrating everyone to M4s!).

I used to prefer Windows for work. After the absolutely abysmal performance using a SurfaceBook Pro, never again. I’ve never had to deal with such slow performance in my life. I literally cannot get work done. Staff with Windows have constant problems, updates take forever, reboots aren’t very fast, programs crash, and (not OS related) but the new Outlook is universally despised.

I’ve never seen a company shoot themselves in the foot so badly as I’ve seen Microsoft do this of late. More and more staff want MacBooks , and are even ok with using a remote session (ugh) to access the one app that relies on Windows.

chris_woton AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release

It seems to me that after seeing some of the presentations by the LibreSSL folks that OpenSSL is not evidence of elegant code.

chris_woton Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in

If only there was single-payer universal healthcare, huh?

chris_woton SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

You don't tell or demand another company do something with their own employees. There's more professional ways of dealing with a situation like this.

Joyent's CEO once said he would have sacked another companies employee.

chris_woton GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

Agreed. I do this too.

chris_woton I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

I used Word to write a reasonably complicated document that necessarily used tables. It was one of the most frustrating, bug inducing experiences of my life. I had to open the document and edit it in LibreOffice to get any sort of stability.

chris_woton Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

Shouldn’t you give lifetime access to specific major releases? Aka the traditional way of doing things in software development.

chris_woton Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

Dunno why you are being downvoted - there is a certain type of person who contributes virtually nothing on Wikipedia except peripheral things like categories. BrownHairedGirl was the most toxic person in Wikipedia but she was lauded by her minions - and yet she did virtually no content creation whatsoever. Yet made millions of edits!

chris_woton How to complain (2024)

Who was the author?

chris_woton Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should

If you can code in C#, how is C++ difficult? Are pointers and the stl that difficult?

Not denigrating, genuine question.

chris_woton Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should

Scared off a lot of customers, too.

chris_woton Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access

You say there are costs, but you don't say what the costs actually are.

chris_woton After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up

So... given that the Iranian regime is not paying any heed to the experts, does this mean that the end of their regime will be because of their own arrogance and incompetence?

chris_woton I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

"minced" would never be used in such fiction.

chris_woton RemoveWindowsAI

For all the same reasons you don’t want data leaking from a native OS running on bare metal? Not sure where you are going with this.

chris_woton RemoveWindowsAI

Because a VM will still be running the AI components?

chris_woton Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

There will be next to no friction.