No no, that’s TempleOS
" … a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple from the Hebrew Bible. It was created by American computer programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of manic episodes that he later described as a revelation from God."
First of all, rude.
There’s a new one being launched by a San Francisco-based startup that has some impressive specs, is powered by Linux, and isn’t looking to sell user data.
…yet.
This is not an open source project. We covered it because the operating system for this is based on Linux.
It’s (not) FOSS
Some use cases the company points to include hands-free coding agents, reading board schematics mid-build, following a recipe in the kitchen, and keeping sheet music in view while playing an instrument.
We’re trying really hard to come up with justifications to normalize people wearing a camera and microphone on their face all the time.
Before you get worried, Raven Prism will ship with a physical cover for the camera that you remove when you want to use it and put back when you don’t.
Which people will discard or lose within a month, especially if it looks like a weird extra piece attached to the frame.
There’s also “Beakon” lights that illuminate when the camera is active, making it visible to both the wearer and anyone nearby.
Which will get disabled almost immediately.
The problem is that the seal around the end of the can might be broken in a not-obvious way. If air can get in, bacteria can start to grow inside.
Oh yeah, good point, avoid any cans that look bent, dented or expanded.
Meat/eggs/dairy, definitely.
Vegetables, maybe, depending on what else they’ve touched.
Dry/canned goods, probably not unless they’re wet (e.g if it’s in a cardboard box or paper package and it’s damp, it’s not worth the risk - if we’re talking about grocery store waste then for all you know that was water used to wash the butcher’s work station or mop the floor).
Bacterial contamination is your primary concern, and after that mold. Salmonella could just end your life.
So, here’s a problem: food logistics is a massive, complicated morass of infrastructure. Getting food from the area where it’s produced to the area where there are people who want to eat it is difficult. A lot of individual steps have to go right for a bell pepper grown in Coahuila to show up in a grocery store in Tokyo, unspoilt and ready to eat.
The timing of when the pepper is picked, how fast it will ripen and how long until it spoils is built into the steps of the supply chain. The cost of the logistics system for distributing food, and the overhead for managing and containing the chaos, is probably substantially higher than the cost of actually producing the food.
The point being, when the bell pepper is at the store it is now ready for consumption. It will be there 2, maybe 3 days, and then if it is unsold it is at least halfway to rotten. Now at this point you want to try to redistribute it, which will require another supply chain, but there isn’t time to figure out where to send an overripe bell pepper or who would want to eat it, or to pack it and ship it and then unpack it and hopefully use it before it’s completely rotten.
Refrigeration is a wonderful technology that has brought massive reduction of food waste, but it has limits. You can’t un-ripen a fruit. Trying to re-ship food at this point would not be worth the cost, and ultimately would create environmental harms that would outweigh any benefit.
Always buy local, as much as you can!
when you read/listen/watch about inventors from the industrialisation period, they were often—if not always—motivated by profit and not philanthropy.
Because they also wanted to eat.
Hmm, OK could be interesting…
O… K…
Um…
Yeah… that makes sense…
That’s intended behavior, right? Let me guess, you used the project to vibe code the web page?
Good show mate, off to a brilliant start.
No, we’re talking about companies scraping hundreds of millions if not billions of labor hours of output to train their models for the sake of developing software products which they then sell for profit.
Every model that was trained on legally acquired free public data and open source code should be freely publicly available and open source.
Every model that was trained on not legally acquired public data (e.g. Meta’s models) should be taken out of production until all of the lawsuits are concluded, and hopefully the parties responsible are put out of business.
I’m not talking about future, potential labor that AI might replace. I’m talking about the labor which was stolen to produce these models in the first place.
But, please use AI.
Please identify the issues with the LLM generated code.
Why would the issues be obvious and easy to point out? Most issues with code aren’t. If they were, we wouldn’t have Patch Tuesday, a direct code review would prevent issues from shipping in the first place.
Throwing this out as if it means LLM code is acceptable and ends the argument is ridiculous. Do you have any grasp of how software vulnerabilities are discovered at all?
There are serious and skilled people out there who use LLMs responsibly.
There is no “responsible use” for a platform built on the largest form of labor theft ever devised.
You must accept the mountain of garbage, because the mountain has grown so very high, and we can’t figure out how to shut down the garbage generator. We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas. Just learn to live in garbage.
Common currency and measurement standards can and do arise without the imposition of state fiat.
This was not the argument. You are moving the goalpost. The argument was:
the fundamental functioning of people does not require ordering to be viable.
Self-ordering is still ordering. Whether a government is involved in enforcing it or not is irrelevant, there will be enforcement of agreements even if the only ones conducting the enforcement are the concerned parties. That is order.
No grand plan has to be drawn up by any central authority
Sure, they don’t have to be planned and regulated in advance, but eventually common agreements will produce a regulating group with enforcement authority because organizing in this way is more efficient for the market overall.
That group doesn’t have to be a government per se, but it will have regulatory authority.
Yes, I always form my socioeconomic conclusions based on television sitcoms, they’re the best source of opinions.
Sarcasm aside, the idea presented here doesn’t work for any more complex form of cooperative labor (e.g. public water systems, telecommunications infrastructure, hospital services, large research projects, bridge construction, etc). Someone has to perform administrative duties to organize the work being done and ensure that the needed materials and experienced personnel show up at the right places at the right times.
Like, try telling the head surgeon of an OR that the staff can be left to figure things out for themselves, and all the operations will get done correctly as scheduled without killing any patients. They’d laugh you out of the building. The surgery schedule would be chaos by the end of a single shift.
Hmm, are markets self-ordering?
I think in the purest sense, just having some form of common currency would be considered “order” - unless you’re suggesting that only pure barter is necessary for a functional society - but then even that requires some broad agreement on weights & measures in order to function (e.g. how long is a board-foot? how much flour is 1 kilogram?). Collectively the market must agree on some standards in order to function.
Also, unregulated markets always end in monopolies, with or without a capitalist economy. Sooner or later someone will try to establish themselves as the sole supplier of some good or service. Only active oversight and regulatory enforcement can prevent it.
One thing I think people forget, or were never taught in school, is that there was a time period (like, hundreds of years) when European imperialist nations went to war every summer. After the winter cold passed, and the ground dried up from the spring rains and snow melt, the armies marched. Mercenaries were a part of every serious national military, it was a common profession, alongside regularly practiced conscription. Destruction and death was an annual event for civilians, basically from the end of the Pax Romana until the end of the Napoleonic wars.
Capitalism (coupled to industrialism) tied the wealth of nations to their productivity more than hoarded treasures or even land. Destroying a nation’s infrastructure, and killing its people, damaged its value, possibly irreparably. Going to war became expensive, and less rewarding.
Reality is more complicated, of course, and there were a lot of other factors. The global market also created other avenues for the wealthy and powerful to exercise greed. Economic conquest was a practical substitute for military conquest. The relatively long periods without widespread international warfare are a historical anomaly.
All of that sounds like I’m praising capitalism, and that’s not the point. My point is, I agree, capitalism was an improvement over the way things were before, maybe moreso than people realize in the present. Capitalism isn’t good, but it was a step on the path out of rampant violence - but only a step, not the end of the path.