OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” last week as the upstart faces greater rivalry from Google, threatening its ability to monetize its AI products and meet its ambitious revenue targets.

Interesting that even Sam Altman is worried now!
AFAIK there are also problems that Chinese companies have their own tool chain, and are releasing high level truly open source solutions for AI.

Seems to me a problem for the sky high profits could be that it is hard to make AI lock in, like is popular with much software and cloud services. But with AI you can use whatever tool is best value, and switch to the competition whenever you want.

It’s nice that it will probably be impossible for 1 company to monopolize AI, like Microsoft did with operating systems for decades.

Hopefully things will work with Wayland at that point.

I used XFCE many years because there were bugs and limitations in KDE I couldn’t live with.
Now I’ve used KDE for about 2 years without issues, and they pull this stupid stunt!
I still have XFCE installed, and when I switched to that my games worked fine again. Then when I wanted to switch back to KDE/X11 I couldn’t. It was friggin removed as an option after the latest upgrade, despite I specifically used KDE/X11 instead of Wayland because of a KDE/Wayland limitation that you can’t disable compositing.
I do use compositing, but I like to have the option to disable it if I need to. And it was when I noticed I couldn’t disable compositing, I switched to XFCE to see if that worked.
So long story short, I had to install a kde-x11-session package to be able to switch to it? WTF??
I must admit this incident has made me think of switching to another distro that respect user settings more.

PS:
My short trip to XFCE was quite nice, they have refined the design some since last I used it. But damned I’ll have to port all my hotkeys again, I used top have them in xbindkeys, but I moved them to native KDE to be compatible with both X11 and Wayland. 🙄

UK also isn’t in the EU, and lack of protection of privacy was a serious problem when they were.

I wouldn’t be surprised. Same on phones tablets laptops etc.

OK that would make sense.

It has to be recording at least for temporary storage to “observe” the surroundings as exemplified.
Usually the way Google does that is to use a centralized service to treat the data, that means these recordings are also sent to a server.

This creates immense surveillance potential, and in EU USA and American companies are not considered safe to handle or store such data.

Even if the recording is deleted seconds after, it is still recording, and “someone” could decide to store it permanently based on the content. For instance based on face recognition.

When people do that with smartphones, it’s a conscious decision by the user to record whatever they are recording, and it’s up to the user to decide whether it’s legal.
Google Glasses record indiscriminately, and will also record illegally, for instance in a situation where there has been an accident, where the people involved have privacy protection. Or if you go into a restaurant, where people also have an expectation of privacy that is protected. Or if you are sitting in your car, which is also protected by privacy.
So unless the glasses correctly can account for all privacy situations and stop recording, they should be illegal. And since the privacy situation can only be determined AFTER having actually recorded it, I don’t see how they can be legal.
Except maybe in USA, where laws don’t matter if you are a tech company.

You absolutely can. There is no expectation of privacy in any public place except restrooms.

American standards are third world standards, in civilized countries you cannot just record people, it’s only generally true if you are in a public street, where there absolutely are situations that are protected by privacy such as accidents. Also if you sit in your car or in a restaurant, those are private situations. Glasses that continuously register what you are looking at, are therefore most likely illegal in such situations.

Those glasses will have to be illegal to wear in public. You can’t legally just walk around recording everybody. Which these glasses do.

It would be nice if we could switch MESA version as easy as we can switch the kernel.

to some disappointment is still using Mesa 25.1 series graphics drivers

Good call IMO, my distro just upgraded to MESA 25.3, and I’ve had problems with black screens in games since that. I even tried switching to older kernels and since it’s apparently not the kernel, my guess is on the MESA driver.

PS:
I use a Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, and it has worked fine for years before the upgrade.
I checked the cabling first, and that the card was firmly socketed, but they are fine, and it clearly happened after the kernel/MESA upgrade??? It doesn’t happen in desktop, only in games.

EDIT!!!
Turns out it was KDE/Wayland that caused the problem, for some reason the upgrade moved me from X11 to Wayland, and I had to install X11-session for KDE, after switching to that it works fine again.
Sad that Wayland which is supposed to be the better supported option now fails where X11 is still going strong.

It was never a major part of my job description, and I lost interest doing small hobby projects.

OK thanks for clarifying. 👍

it being not obvious what happens under the hood

To me it feels like it does things I didn’t ask it to. So I’m not 100% in control 😋

the idiomatic version of a loop in Rust usually involves iterators and function composition.

What? You need to make a function to make a loop? That can’t be right???

C-loops are easy for me to understand.

Absolutely, the way C loops work is perfect. I’m not so fond of the syntax, but at least it’s logical in how it works.

OK that’s new to me, I have to admit I haven’t been looking at it for years, I do not feel comfortable following Microsoft specifications, as Microsoft has a long h9istory of fucking things up for others on purpose, and their safety record is probably among the worst in the industry.

I 100% agree, but some would consider that a matter of ideology.
The other point about dependency on USA when they are acting with hostility is more pragmatic.

99% of people don’t understand all the reason why open source is better for public services, except if we can say it’s cheaper. That’s the one point they understand, and the one point Microsoft has been attacking most with their propaganda against open source.

I am willing to bet that the ownership paradigm that it enforces is going to feel at least moderately new to you

Absolutely, I am more used to program closer to the iron mostly C. My favorite was 68000 Assembly, python is nice, but I prefer compiled languages for efficiency. Although that efficiency isn’t relevant for basic tasks anymore.

The compiler error messages sound extremely cool. 👍

Thanks, I might take a look at it just for fun. 😀

I would have guessed that mixing different programming languages would cause problems. But apparently it’s working well.
It’s been 20 years since I did any serious programming, so I’m a bit rusty, is that what Rust is for?