This reads like a desperate attempt at proving to investors that their "AI" is useful for handling factual information, with a hint of plain old corporate bribery to avoid further lawsuits from publishers. Grifters gonna grift, and all that.

And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.

Careful now, you'll open the door for fElon Musk 2028. We don't want that, do we?

Years ago, you could - I'm not sure what the situation is currently, but it would be extremely weird if they had removed this possibility entirely. You could see if the official command line tool does what you need. At least there seems to be an option to change the password.

Ok, great to know. Nuance doesn't cross internet well, so your intention wasn't clear, given all the uninformed hype & grifters around AI. Being somewhat blunt helps getting the intended point across better. ;)

You can play with words all you like, but that's not going to change the fact that LLMs fail at reasoning. See this Wired article, for example.

I have to disagree with that. To quote the comment I replied to:

AI figured the “rescued” part was either a mistake or that the person wanted to eat a bird they rescued

Where's the "turn of phrase" in this, lol? It could hardly read any more clearly that they assume this "AI" can "figure" stuff out, which is simply false for LLMs. I'm not trying to attack anyone here, but spreading misinformation is not ok.

Or, hear me out, there was NO figuring of any kind, just some magic LLM autocomplete bullshit. How hard is this to understand?

If the reason for you wanting to avoid bitlocker is incompatibility with linux, you might want to reconsider. It's been many years since I had drives with bitlocker+ntfs, but they worked reasonably well back then with dislocker, so perhaps check that out before considering alternatives.

You might want to remember that he has done more to advance open source software than perhaps any other person on this planet. You don't get to take away someone's achievements just because you don't like them...

You can use LUKS for something like this too by mounting a file through a loop device and then using it like any other disk/filesystem. For more details, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_a_non-root_file_system#File_container

Analysts: "Is this 'car' in the room with us right now?"

Musk: "I have concepts of a car."

I'd put my money on that account being hacked/sold and gaining a new life as a bot in some disinformation network ready to spew bias and bullshit when the time and topic is right. There's no other way to explain the comment history before 9 months ago, then a long silence, and then a restart just a few weeks ago with a complete change in character.

Idealistically and realistically: Totally and absolutely cool. If anything, they have a moral imperative to keep the project going, since there are users that depend on it, and doing that requires money. As such, people will need to be informed of how to contribute, so a pop up doing just that is a good way to achieve this. Why would this not be ok, even idealistically?

Perhaps LLMs can be used to gain some working vocabulary in a subject you aren't familiar with. I'd say anything more than that is a gamble, since there's no guarantee that hallucinations have not taken place. Remember, that to spot incorrect info, you need to already be well acquainted with the matter at hand, which is at the polar opposite of just starting to learn the basics.

You do realize that a very thorough manual is but a man bash away? Perhaps it's not the most accessible source available, but it makes up for that in completeness.

This is one of the reasons I've disabled uefi by default with the noefi kernel parameter, the other reason being the LogoFAIL exploit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Disable_UEFI_variable_access

Frankly, I'm baffled to see such negativity here and in the github comments.

Sure, winamp could have handled this better and just referred to the release as "source available" instead of "open source". Then again, calling it "open source" is not that far fetched and is likely only going to annoy those who want to find fault in any case.

It's almost like "open source" has become a religion unto itself, with fanatic zealots defining what is and what isn't acceptable - I kindly ask you to stop that bullshit, we have enough of these already.

Having source available is infinitely better than not having it, so let's keep that in mind. Obviously, this doesn't mean that people cannot give constructive criticism on how to improve the situation, but most of the shit on display here make my eyes roll hard enough to cause strain: https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/6