@jonathanhogg yep. And if they're working on an operating system (or any related system software, or anything that needs to stay up and running), they're committing malpractice that's going to get a lot of people killed:
https://mastodon.social/@JamesWidman/116133223470110717

@jonathanhogg well, things started going downhill bc of Steve Jobs:

Atkinson: [At an event at the school our kids went to], he said "you know, Hypercard was really ahead of his time, wasn't it?"

And that was the first time he'd ever said anything good about hypercard. I think before that, the problem is: Hypercard is the reason I didn't go to NeXT, and it had Scully's stink all over it. [...]
https://youtu.be/INdByDjhClU?si=Ft-fFBWBGC5tmC74&t=954

That doesn't explain why the world stayed at the bottom of the hill tho.

@tante but yeah, the fact the people aren't going to be able to trust FLOSS for the foreseeable future is... unimaginably bad.

it's like if scam health-food influencers took control of the CDC.

@tante https://mastodon.social/@JamesWidman/116032953161658413

@tante
> (Sidenote: It should be the law that when you offer or run an “AI” you are 100% liable for everything it does. Sure, that would kill the whole industry but who gives a shit?)

i give a shit. i want us, collectively, to deliberately end the entire gen-"a.i." industry. i want the data centers that were built for that purpose to be completely physically dismantled, and the CPUs & DRAM repurposed. i want charges to be brought against its leaders for a wide variety of damages.