As I had never seem an image of Don Knuth before, my head always pulls up an image of Don Knotts whenever I see his name :)

I guess that will change now.

For good measure you might as well see what the young Knuth looked like, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhh8Ao4yweQ .

I think showing grace was the right way to do things. It preserves the value of all the effort he put into it. When you work on things that long they are part of you. Like your baby, you don't toss them aside carelessly, it's painful to do that I'm sure.

Well done for Tim for being one of those guys that worked so hard for others to benefit. Tim, you've done something you can be deeply proud of forever, no matter how it ended.

Anyone know whether it was iPhone or android ?

I’m pretty sure it was an android phone.

Ah. I see it looks like an android. Indeed.

Which smart phone ?

Sorry :) I couldn't resist. I think I'm the oldest person in the department and I think also that I am probably one of the ones that have been using AI in software development the most.

Don't be so quick to point at old people and make assumptions. Sometimes all those years actually translate into useful experience :)

Possibly. The focus of a lot of young people should be to try and effect political change that allows billionares wealth grow unended. AI is all going to accelerate this very rapidly now. Just look at what kind of world some of those with the most wealth are wanting to impose on the others now. It's frightening.

Are they hot enough to cause forest fires when they hit the ground? I can't imagine that they would completely vaporize from that low orbit.

The big problem is reward risk. Risk is 15,000,000 euros. Reward is peanuts.

In the past we could choose to work for peanuts with low risk. Now we can't. We have to work for nothing or work for a lot to have a chance of covering compliance.

The GDPR carries a fine risk of up to 20 million, but usually the fines are a few hundred/thousand euros depending on the entity. Think "300 euro fine to a driving school" rather than "300 million euro fine to Google".

And even then, you have to be unlucky enough to actually get caught and investigated by market surveillance authorities. I think you're going to be more likely to get caught up in income/donation/gift tax bracket fraud investigation than to ever feel the impact of the CRA as a hobby open source dev.

It would be foolish to ignore the risk, however, especially if you work on something potentially controversial, such as encryption, privacy tools, or any software that may have uses that the EU frowns upon. I strongly suspect that this will eventually be used as a cudgel against disfavored projects/devs to compel project changes or even kill the project outright (or force it to move overseas).

If you’re a FOSS dev in the EU who works on something controversial, and you accept donations, it would be better to outsource the project “ownership” to someone unnamed or outside of EU jurisdiction.

This is a rather big maybe.

Now, from a US perspective rather than an EU one, even being investigated in the US carries a huge risk. It is especially bad in the case that someone wants to prove a point against you. You could suddenly find yourself having to spend huge amounts of money defending yourself because someone wants to make a name for themselves, or you pissed a large political donor off.

Can't we find a way to cure lawyerism? That's a terrible debilitating sickness.

I expect that Kennedyism is also hereditary. Another one.

Our early warning AI powered polar bear detector proved it's worth this morning. The detector is a result of a collaboration between Kim Hendrikse from Wildlife Security Innovations, The Netherlands and Lars Holst Hansen from Copenhagen University.

Using training data gathered from Copenhagen Zoo and the Skandinavisk Dyrepark to train a model and this year deployed to Greenland. The system is scanning 24 video streams from just a single Jetson. In addition to provide a powerful state engine for local response and control, the system provides a publish-subscribe event callback over websockets. Each detection is checked and double checked against two different large parameter AI models before sending alerts.

The system is Greenland is using all visible light cameras, but the Wildlife Security Innovations smart camera system also supports a wide range of miniature thermal imaging modules with resolutions such as 640x512, 384x288 and 256x192. There's also a lower cost Raspberry Pi 5 based system available.

So okay, assuming they were able to tell a story. Are the people in Europe that have to listen to that story not also part of the problem?

This highlights the telling part, but the people who have to listen are also different from people in the states. I didn't read a lot of mention as to whether this population would just be reception to such story telling or not.