That’s great news! Strengthening ties to other nations more interested in creation than destruction and stimulating R&D across borders are both very worthy aims.

Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

This being the Internet, that’s definitely also a valid option.

It was nice knowing you guys.

Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we’re programmers! That’s what code generation is for.

That’s a good point, even though I’m not a fan of how you chose to deliver it.

Kindergarten-level divide and conquer. I know that, you know that. Everybody knows that. Question is: Does Trump know that?

At least he finally let go of the fake trophy that replaced the one he stole, so I guess it could have been worse.

Tell that too Google. And Microsoft. And OpenAI. And X. And…

Um. If you use the file encrypted with a weak keyphrase a the key for a second round, how would you decrypt the result unless you keep the first-stage encrypted file around, thus defeating the purpose?

There’s a lot of decent models out there, these days. The following are all solid options:

• F5-TTS (https://github.com/SWivid/F5-TTS.git)
• Sesame CSM (git@github.com:SesameAILabs/csm.git)
• SparkTTS (https://github.com/SparkAudio/Spark-TTS)
• Kokoro (https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro)

I didn’t really need additional evidence that business is increasingly divorcing itself from actual consumer needs, but here it is anyway.

It really doesn’t. I highly doubt there isn’t office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that’s likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.

Eh. It’s not like we’d be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn’t exactly right around the corner.

On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we’re conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.