"Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a ...

5 years ago, at the end of 2020 or thereabouts, we began experimenting with Gemini Protocol. Back then (at the very start) ...

I also love slide rules and other forms of mechanical computation. Aviation involves many kinds of calculation, and to ...

Today the EPO's Administrative Council starts a two-day meeting. The time seems right to commence a new series. It'll deal ...

Almost a Thousand EPO Workers Have Voted for Industrial Action. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2025. Yesterday we wrote ...

The corresponding text-only bulletins for Tux Machines and for Techrights contain all the text. As long as what we publish is ...

People online were always rude, but that seems to have gotten worse. In recent years it bordered on the criminal and some people went crazy. We've managed to stay calm and our composure helps us cope ...

"Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a kind of symbolic reasoner imo), I think he has a deeper understanding of the ...

Democracy and Buzzwords. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2025. Somebody asked me (as recently as this morning) if I was ...

"Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a kind of symbolic reasoner imo), I think he has a deeper understanding of the ...

Will expenses go down? It sure sacks a lot of "expensive" workers, but as we showed before, IBM (and Red Hat) also lays off Indians. There's no real coordination. So what is the overall strategy?

Computers that need more RAM because of a bloated OS that's 'inside' them are becoming a lot more expensive. Alternatively, for those who try to upgrade their OS, assuming additional RAM is required, ...