Jim Salter

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Jim Salter
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Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka "the biggest ZFS stan on the planet." I am *not* Jim Salter, the Associated Press reporter based in Missouri. That's a different guy, and he hides from the Internet. tech blog: https://jrs-s.net/ github: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/ Practical ZFS: https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/
Hot take: AI is the literal antithesis of the Unix Philosophy. I really kind of want to write up a full piece on this, but I'm also pretty damn tired. So here's the short version: The UP is about keeping tools simple, modular, and reusable to maximize what a practitioner can accomplish with them, as opposed to self-contained, huge, and complex so any idiot can (hopefully) use them. AI isn't merely about building complex tools, it's about *replacing* tools with *servants.*
RE: If we don't start vigorously we-are-not-fucking-around-here enforcing the antitrust laws we already have, we'll never get the chance to write the stronger ones we've needed for longer than I've been alive. View quoted note β†’
Today, I had to dig into a senior executive's email to find out why the hell "Otter dot AI" was suddenly invited to every Teams meeting the company had, and was emailing people snippets from what was said, still images of them from the call, etc. If you sign up for this thing, it starts emailing anybody you've had a meeting with, pretending to be you, giving them a big fat blue button that says "open minutes." If they do: now it attends THEIR meetings, and emails THEIR contacts as THEM. image