The image header appears to be an AI-generated and certainly doesn't look like Ellison, despite the image's name.

It doesn't bode well for the rest of the article.

Yep, aside from the fact that photography isn't allowed in US Federal Court, the most obvious sign is that she and the microphone are facing away from the judge - the positioning makes no sense.

That's the classic AI photo issue where "man looking at the moon" is a man looking at the camera with the moon behind him.

I ran some analysis on the source image — this is almost certainly AI-generated. In addition to the visual markers others noted (no photography in federal court, nonsensical positioning), here's what comes up in the original image:

  Filename: ..._simple_compose_01kdcxamjmekery2m9tay43szn.png
    - "simple_compose" + LSB common (e.g ideogram) output 

  Resolution: 1536x1024
    - Exact native output of GPT-image-1, Gemini/Imagen, Flux models

  PNG encoder fingerprint: 0x78 0xDA | single IDAT | 94.7% Average filter
    - Matches PIL/Pillow with optimize=True

  Steganographic watermark:
    - LSB entropy: 3.0/3.0 (maximum)
    - Bits 0-3 of RGB channels filled with encrypted payload
    - ~1.77 MB of pseudorandom data embedded

Thanks for letting us know what your chatgpt told you

The analysis and tools were most definitely ai-aided, but this was done with homegrown forensics tooling, and about an hour of labor that involved cc, gemini (to check for synthid), chatgpt + a lot more. I also signed up for ideogram and generated more images to try and replicate the output: - e.g: https://ideogram.ai/g/fcqp-qTlQV-moS-OuhebhQ/1 (although I refused to pay for ideogram so I could not get a png output, only jpg)

Could be, but I’m sure the past few years have aged her pretty severely. She’s 31 now and the later ones are city miles.

It's a minor point of your post, but this is obligatory reading about judging productivity by lines of code:

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

I would not be putting up with Python if not for uv. It’s that good.

Before uv came along I was starting to write stuff in Go that I’d normally write in Python.

Coming from a mostly Java guy (since around 2001), I've been away from Python for a while and my two most recent work projects have been in Python and both switched to uv around the time I joined. Such a huge difference in time and pain - I'm with you here.

Python's always been a pretty nice language to work in, and uv makes it one of the most pleasant to deal with.

I don't even like Python as a language (it's growing on me, but only a little).

It's just so useful: uv is great and there are decent quality packages for everything imaginable.

1. Visit unicorn's rubygems.org page. -> https://rubygems.org/gems/unicorn/versions/5.1.0

2. Click on the homepage link in the lower right of the page.

3. Click the README and scroll down to Contact section. Or look at the ISSUES file:

https://yhbt.net/unicorn/ISSUES.html#label-Issues

Thanks! I already emailed unicorn-public@yhbt.net.

My message is in the public archive here: https://yhbt.net/unicorn-public/20251227071714.D9328160070@m...

This is my shining moment! I just happened to setup a new Dell. It was far more cumbersome than dealing with a new Mac.

Here's some of the stuff I had to do on my new Dell, from memory:

- Uninstall all the bloatware apps that come installed with Windows 11. They nag and beg you not to uninstall them, but after several prompts, they mostly seem uninstalled?

- Remove the trial offers from the Start menu.

- Remove the third-party stub apps from the Start menu (eg. TikTok).

- Remove the O365 stub apps.

- Remove the McAfee antivirus payware.

- Remove Dell SupportAssist from the laptop.

- Then, just reinstall Windows 11 from scratch, because of all the remaining detritus left after performing the above steps. And uninstalling SupportAssist caused some instability and weird errors upon login.

- Uninstall all the bloatware apps the come installed with Windows 11 again.

- Remove the trial offers from the Start menu.

- Remove the third-party stub apps from the Start menu (eg. TikTok).

- Remove the O365 stub apps.

Compared to on my Mac:

- Remove apps from the Dock

- Go into /Applications and uninstall about 6 Apple apps I don't use.

I haven't used Windows in years, but surely a clean install addresses some of that? I don't think I've ever used whatever default OS was preinstalled on a laptop or PC that I bought.

Or is the default Windows 11 just that full of shite?

Home edition comes with a few offers.

> Remove the third-party stub apps from the Start menu (eg. TikTok).

It comes with... TikTok?!?

> Here's some of the stuff I had to do on my new Dell, from memory:

Or, you know, just format the disk and install Linux.

If it were my choice…

How is it you could reinstall Windows, but not Linux? Or is it just mandatory to run Windows, but nobody cares if you reinstall it? My wife’s Windows laptop won’t allow me to even run Logitech Connect Utility, to reconnect some devices (pair a keyboard to the mouse). It surely won’t allow the full reinstall, it’s locked entirely. Hence, I’m curious what’s up with your work (I assume) laptop.

Mandatory to run Windows for this device as it was going to a C-level person.

I doubt anyone operating the AI vacuum would pay attention or care about your licensing.

They’d happily vacuum it up knowing that they have a much larger litigation budget than you do.

This was my last straw that caused me to disable Spotlight:

Typing something into Spotlight, having it pull up the right result and highlight it, and me hitting the Enter key, and the search results suddenly updating after and highlighting some new result and then opening that instead.

It’s not just Liquid Glass. It’s bugs like these where I realized Apple software was truly rotten to the core. Whomever is running the show (Craig) can’t do their job.

I’m now noticing the same bug in the latest versions of Windows 11 when I hit the start button and run a search.

This was a solved computer science problem.

Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to see that seems to be going away.

It seems to be that these things never last, as company culture inevitably changes.

The updating input locations under your cursor in particular is so f*ing frustrating.

To be fair, it's not just macOS, but many webpages which load dynamic content as well.

That laggy behavior plus indexing not appearing to find some obvious files made me switch to Raycast.

Raycast looks really cool, thanks

Same. It’s closed source and has a subscription fee, but I’m all in on Raycast.

Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU

The bushy eyed fellow is Bill Budge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Budge

Wozniak and the Macintosh team in there, as well.

Link to the actual project license, since it hasn't been referenced yet:

https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp/blob/main/LICENSE

Between this and the model's license, it seems like one is stuck with using this for personal use?

There's a lot of irony in this rant. Rob was instrumental in developing distributed computing and cloud technologies that directly contributed to the advent of AI.

I wish he had written something with more substance. I would have been able to understand his points better than a series of "F bombs". I've looked up to Rob for decades. I think he has a lot of wisdom he could impart, but this wasn't it.

You have zero idea about his state of mind when he got this stupid useless email.

Not to mention, this is a tweet. He wasn't writing a long form text. It's ridiculous that you jumped the gun and got "disappointed" for the cheapest form of communication some random idiot did to someone as important as him.

And not to mention, I AM YET to see A SINGLE DAMN MIT License text or BSD-2/3 license text they should have posted if these LLMs respected OSS licenses and it's code. So as someone who's life's work dragged through the mud only to send a cheap email using the said tech which abused your code... It's absolutely a worthy response IMO.

Sometimes you just have had enough and need to get some expletives out.