• A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the leaked version of Claude Code.  (Adversa)
  
  If you've used Claude Code, you've noticed that it loves running shell commands to examine your codebase, rather than, say, reading it.  Or having simple fixed-function code built into the software to do it on your computer.
  
  And it also loves to ask you for permission to run those shell commands.
  
  The vulnerability comes into play when a very long string of shell commands are run together.  For the first fifty commands it will check - manually if needed, and in its history of permitted and denied commands if it's in there already.
  
  And on the fifty-first command, it rests.  And executes it regardless.
  
  So if someone triggers a long string of commands and the first fifty are innocuous, after that they can take full control of your computer - because Claude Code runs on your computer, and just communicates with the Claude AI service as needed.
  
  The particularly lovely thing here is that Anthropic already fixed this.
  
  But both versions are present inside Claude Code and it using the broken one.
  
  
  
• The cult of vibe coding is insane.  (Bram Cohen)
  
  Claude Code is the preeminent vibe coding tool.
  
  Guess how it was coded?  Guess how that horrible bug stayed in, even how it was fixed.
  
  You'll never guess.
  
  Oh, you guessed.

• Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail.  (Reddit)
  
  It's a war zone in that thread, between the crusty old hardboiled engineers and the idiots vibe coders no, idiots.
  
  
  
• Intel's Bartlett Lake CPUs are here - sort of - and the top of the line 12 core model competes with AMD's 9900X3D and Intel's own 13900K.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Bartlett Lake has up to 12 performance cores, the most of any mainstream Intel processor.  Except that while it runs on common Socket 1700 motherboards, it's not a mainstream processor and only sells to industrial users, and is not supported by common Socket 1700 motherboard BIOSes.
  
  Except it turns out that by changing one digit in the BIOS and reflashing it, it works fine.
  
  
  
• OpenAI is once again calling for public funds to clean up the mess it is creating.  (Business Insider)
  
  The best time for a Butlerian Jihad is now.
  
  
  
• What various Nova Lake models bring to the table.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Anything from 6 cores at 15W to 52 cores at 200W.
  
  Base TDP.  Intel's peak TDP can be several times higher.
  
  
  

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• Samsung has raised its contract memory prices by another 30%.  (Notebook Check)
  
  That's after doubling their prices in the first quarter, and whatever they did in the previous quarter.
  
  Best time to buy 128GB of RAM was a year ago.  Which I did.
  
  Second best time was New Year's Eve during a short-lived sale of Corsair modules on Amazon.  Which I also did.
  
  So I'm set for now.
  
  
  
• Ubuntu has quietly increased the memory requirements for the upcoming 26.04 release.  (OMGUbuntu)
  
  To be fair, they increased the requirement from 4GB for 18.04 to 6GB.  And that's for a full client install with the Gnome UI; you can install a server with a quarter of that.

• Apple continues to roll out device-level age verification.  (9to5Mac)
  
  First Britain, now Singapore and South Korea.  Though they do use the age of your Apple / iTunes account to calculate that, and mine is at least 14 years old, and you have to be 13 to have an Apple account, making me 27.
  
  Good to know.
  
  Also, this is only if you want to download "mature content" through Apple services, and why the hell would anyone do that?
  
  
  
• Apple has just approved drivers to let users attach external GPUs to Macs.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Given that there are now zero Macs that support internal GPUs, this is kind of a big deal.
  
  Because the alternative would be to just install the driver without Apple's approval.
  
  
  
• Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold.  (Jeffrey Snover)
  
  Charles Petzold wrote the seminal book Programming Windows.
  
  In 1988.
  
  
  
• The XFX Swift Radeon RX 9060 XT OC Gaming Edition is $460 on Amazon.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's a 16GB model, so the MSRP is $350.  Given the clusterfrog of current hardware prices, that might not seem too bad.
  
  But in Australia right now, you can pick up that exact model on Amazon for the equivalent of $310 before tax.  I have to pay that tax (10% GST), but you don't.
  
  Not sure if you can order from Amazon Australia in the US, or if it just laughs in your face and redirects you.
  

• North Korea used a supply-chain attack to gain access to widely-used open-source web client package Axios.  (Axios)
  
  
  
• And here's a version you can actually read.  (CNN)
  
  The name is just a coincidence.
  
  
  
• And here's a version you can read which actually explains what happened.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The state of the technical media today is a microcosm of the state of the mainstream media, which is to say, it would be a good name for a rock band.
  
  But this story highlights a huge problem: Common "wisdom" involves constantly downloading fresh copies of all the dependencies of your software, building it unattended, and deploying it to production likewise.
  
  Sticking with known-good versions?  Old hat.  Manual review?  Out the window.
  
  So as soon as one key component is compromised this way, the infection spreads like wildfire.
  
  Everyone with any experience knew this was a bad idea, but we were ignored.

• Microsoft has pulled a faulty Windows 11 update that was breaking installs.  (Tech Republic)
  
  I think this is the same one I reported on the other day.  Might be a new one.  Who knows?
  
  
  
• Microsoft is moving Windows 11 24H2 into hospice care and forcing all users to update to 25H2.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Did you ask for that?  No.
  
  Does Microsoft care what you want?  Also no.
  
  
  
• Can you install Windows 3.1 from 1992 natively on a Ryzen 9900X system from 2024 and forget about all the complexity of modern systems?  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Shockingly, yes.  It does depend on a couple of open-source drivers to run smoothly on modern motherboards and video and sound cards, but it loads and runs even without that in 286 compatibility mode.
  
  Bring your own floppy drive.
  
  
  
• There is no cloud, there's just someone else's computer, which just got hit by an Iranian missile.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If you were running in Amazon's datacenters in Bahrain or Dubai, you no longer are.
  
  Likely the power systems were affected rather than the servers themselves - and storage in Amazon's cloud is duplicated and physically distributed so not subject to easy destruction - but Amazon did not provide much detail or a timeframe for restoration of services.
  
  
  
• There is no cloud, there's just someone else's computer, which just got sold to an AI company.  (PC World)
  
  Oh, were you using that?  Too bad.
  
  
  
• Linux 7.0, due to arrive in distributions like Ubuntu 26.04 this month, can cut your database performance in half.  (Phoronix)
  
  Specifically if you're running PostgreSQL on Amazon's Arm CPUs, but if it happens there it could happen anywhere.
  
  
  
• How many products does Microsoft have named Copilot?  (Tey Bannerman)
  
  75.
  
  But they all have one thing in common: They're all named Copilot.
  
  
  
• AI can make anyone a 10x programmer.  (The Register)
  
  It just requires 10x the effort.
  
  
  
• Intel's upcoming 42-core Nova Lake S processors will have 44 cores.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Basically, there are four models we know of.  They all have 4 low-power cores that live on the I/O die, plus one or two CPU dies each with 8 performance cores and 12 or 16 efficiency cores, for a total between 24 and 52 cores, and up to 320MB of cache.
  
  That's the good news.
  
  The bad news?  From information that has leaked so far, these will have a peak power consumption of 350W...  For the models with one CPU die.  For the high end models, 700W.

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• Half of planned US datacenter builds have been delayed or canceled.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Unfortunately this does not represent a collapse in the AI industry - not yet, anyway - but a shortage in key electrical distribution components thanks to the ongoing trade war with China, something that will be resolved relatively quickly as other countries gleefully pick China's bones clean.  Metaphorically.
  
  
  

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• High-end OLED gaming monitors from Asus are arriving broken thanks to shoddy environmentally friendly packaging.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You'll own nothing, and what you do own will arrive broken.
  
  
  
• Arm will power 90% of AI servers based on Arm processors in 2029, says Arm.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They say "custom processors", but they mean Arm.
  
  
  
• Microsoft is telling business and retail customers alike not to rely on its Copilot AI products for anything that matters.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  But they still want you to keep handing them your money.
  
  
  
• First time as farce, second time also as farce: Don't go looking for Claude Code on GitHub.  Not now.  You'll just find yourself downloading malware.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The authentic copies have been taken down by Anthropic leaving only an army of leprous zombie clone corpses.
  
  
  
• But security researchers already got a chance to look at the code and see what Anthropic knows about you from the files you feed to Claude Code.  (The Register)
  
  And the answer is, everything.
  
  
  
• PC makers have figured out how to keep making money with the price of key components headed into cislunar orbit: Stop marketing to the filthy poors.  (WCCFTech)
  
  If you have computer, treat it like the one remaining intact moa egg.  Not like other formerly remaining intact moa egg, which someone took out of its case and dropped.
  
  
  
• For the rest of us, Google is shipping a $3 USB drive containing a bootable image of ChromeOS that will breathe new life into superannuated Windows hardware.  (Liliputing)
  
  Or you could just install any other flavour of Linux.  But ChromeOS is good for non-technical users.
  
  
  
• The project at work that has been consuming all my waking hours for the past two months is done, just in time for the Easter long weekend here.  I am sleep.

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• houston@nasa.gov, we have a problem.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The crew of the Artemis II mission - basically retreading the path of Apollo 10, 97 years ago - ran into an issue that didn't happen last time: The spacecraft's computer has two instances of Microsoft Outlook running, and neither one works.
  
  At least that's better than unidentified floating poop (though we may yet come to that) or a Main B Bus Undervolt.
  
  
  
• Speaking of things not working those new LG-made 1Hz laptop display panels have been put to the test and they don't.  Don't not work, that is.  They work exceptionally well.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These displays are designed to automatically lower the refresh rate to as little as 1Hz (from a maximum of 120Hz) when the user is looking at a static screen, since the constant refresh cycle is a major power draw.
  
  Tested in Dell's latest XPS 14 model (which I think is the first laptop shipping with these panels) a battery life test simulating simple web browsing with the screen brightness set to 150 nits saw the laptop lasting 43 hours.  That's three times longer than Apple's M5 MacBook Air running with the same settings.
  
  Apple's CPUs are more power-efficient than Intel's so heaver workloads handed the win to the Air, but the new display panel certainly proved itself.

• OpenAI has acquired "popular" tech podcast TBPN, which I have never heard of and as far as I can tell nobody else has either.  (CNBC)
  
  Gotta burn through that latest $122 billion somehow, and buying a fawning press is one way.
  
  And yes, Sam Altman has appeared multiple time on the show.  I checked and the comments were...  Not generous.
  
  
  
• A group pushing for age verification legislation to be forced upon AI turns out to be funded by...  OpenAI.  (Gizmodo)
  
  Regulatory capture is back, baby!
  
  
  
• How Microsoft vaporised a trillion dollars.  (Substack)
  
  A six part article by a former Azure team member recounting the remarkable levels of dysfunction within that organisation.
  
  It's amazing anything works at all.
  
  
  
• Everyone's not doing it: Delve, the compliance startup embroiled in endless allegations of not actually doing what they claim to do, is embroiled in further allegations of...  Not actually doing what they claimed to do but related to something different this time.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  At question here was Delve's software offering Pathways which looked remarkably like open-source solution SimStudio with the numbers filed off.  Delve disputed the allegations...  And then scrubbed all mention of Pathways from its website.
  
  
  
• If you weren't planning to buy an iPhone, congratulations, now you are.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Apple is reportedly buying all the RAM available at inflated prices to force its competitors out of the market.
  
  Samsung's mobile division tried to sign a long-term supply contract with Samsung's memory division last year - and was rebuffed in favour of putting the screws to Apple.  A move that reportedly succeeded splendidly...  For Samsung's memory division, which is now getting paid twice as much per gigabyte.  Not for the rest of us.
  
  
  
• A look at Maxsun's Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Intel's Arc Pro B60 is a professional-level graphics card using the same chip as the company's B580 consumer card, but with twice the memory - 24GB rather than 12GB.
  
  Maxsun's iteration of this puts two B60s on a single card, and it acts...  Exactly like two B60s.  Exactly like two B60s, because the B60 only uses 8 lanes of PCIe 5.0 (not really a constraint given its healthy allotment of RAM), and this card requires your motherboard to set that slot in x8/x8 bifurcation mode so that the two units on the card are addressed independently.
  
  (If you have something else sharing bandwidth on that slot so that it's already in x8 mode, only half of this card will work.)
  
  Not sure exactly how it performs - the reviewer ran multiple benchmarks but doesn't provide direct comparisons to anything else.  But for gaming, it performs exactly like a B580, because games only see one of the two GPUs on the card.

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• Anthropic has filed DMCA takedown requests against - so far - more than eight thousand online copies of their leaked Claude Code source code.  (Yahoo)
  
  Paging King Canute and Barbra Streisand.  Would King Canute and Barbra Streisand please come to the discourtesy phone.
  
  
  

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• AI can clone open source software in minutes - and that's a problem.  (TechSpot)
  
  Open source software is protected by copyright law, and that depends on the exact expression of the code.  It's easy for an AI to make sufficient changes to dodge copyright law while keeping functionality intact.
  
  Or mostly intact.  In my experience even performing straightforward changes like that you still end up with some breakage.
  
  And of course this was possible before AI as well; it just took a little more effort.
  
  
  
• ONLYOFFICE has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after the latter forked its product to create Euro-Office, targeting weenies.  (Neowin)
  
  Or you can just do that, I guess.
  
  
  
• Cloudflare has announced EmDash, a "spiritual successor" to WordPress created following Matt Mullenweg's spiral into insanity.  (Phoronix)
  
  Or that too.  More work than just stealing stuff outright though.
  
  
  
• Sweden has moved away from computers in the classroom and back to books and paper following a long term decline in student test results.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Sounds good as long as I don't have to write term papers longhand.
  
  
  
• Artemis II is off on its way almost to the moon.  (NASA)
  
  Missed it by that much.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has filed for an IPO. targeting a valuation of $1.75 trillion.  (Reuters)
  
  Which...  Is still a lot.
  
  
  
• Tech startup R3 Bio is creating brainless clones for organ harvesting.  (MIT Technology Review)
  
  Hey, I've seen this one!  It's a classic!
  
  
  
• The CEO of America's largest public hospital system says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI.  (Radiology Business)
  
  Let a thousand lawsuits bloom.
  
  
  
• DRAM prices are expected to jump 63% in Q2, and NAND flash for SSDs by 75%.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Panic buying before the worst of the price increases hit looks like it was a good move.  I have enough memory and storage to keep going for years.
  
  
  
• On the other hand, if you're in the market for a new mid-range graphics card, look out for discounted 16GB XFX Radeon 9060 XTs.  I bought one early this year as part of my panic attack, and they have very much bucked the trend by cutting the price by 20% since then.
  
  That's in Australia but the price here would be equivalent to $310, against an MSRP of $350.
  
  Not a high-end card but fast and capable and not overly power-hungry.
  
  
  
• Guess what also costs around $310?  The 16GB Raspberry Pi.  (Jeff Geerling)
  
  I was thinking of buying one - actually the Pi 500+, which is the model built in to a mechanical keyboard - but passed on it because at the time only the keyboard itself was available and not the bundled desktop kit with a matching mouse and cables and power supply.
  
  That model is the worst affected, but even the 4GB Pi 5 has increased in price by 75%.
  
  
  
• Microsoft says you can avoid viruses in messages by never reading your messages.  (The Register)
  
  This is true.
  
  
  
• Nova Lake HX - the laptop range for Intel's next generation - will come with up to 28 cores.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's only a minor change, though.  Existing Intel laptop chips have up to 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores.  Nova Lake HX adds four low-power cores to that.
  
  Also, as with the current Panther Lake family, there will models with the advanced integrated graphics (branded as B390), but then you get half as many CPU cores.  You can't have both.

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• Anthropic's Claude Code developer tool leaked.  (Dev.To)
  
  Which...  Well, so what?  You can download it.  Countless thousands of people have.  I have.  Anyone who wanted to put in the effort to pick it apart could have done so.
  
  Anthropic left a debug option set it one release and that made all the source files visible, but that just made it easier.
  
  The real brains - Anthropic's AI models like Sonnet and Opus - run safely on their servers and haven't leaked anywhere.
  
  If you're interested though it's available on GitHub.
  
  
  
• If you want to run your own LLM and not just local tools that talk to a remote server somewhere Bonsai from PrismML might be of interest.  (PrismML)
  
  Because the 1.7 billion parameter model runs in 240MB of memory - yes, M, not G - and churns through 130 tokens per second on an iPhone 17.
  
  Which uses noticeably less power than a rack full of high-end graphics cards.
  
  Bonsai 8B uses 1.15GB of RAM.
  
  While it doesn't lead in test scores, it's being tested against 16GB models, which require an entirely different class of hardware.  It would be interesting to see how a 70 billion parameter model would perform on the same tests if it's possible to perform the same trick - quantising the model down from half-precision (16 bits) per parameter to 1 bit with error correction.

• The IRGC has issued threats not just against the US and Israel and the Arab world - that's old hat - but now against Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Cisco, and Tesla.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Gotta warn you guys, Tesla has a friend with a global lock on orbital space lasers.  Might want to tread carefully.
  
  
  
• Fujitsu is developing a new AI processor - an NPU - aimed at the upcoming 1.4nm process node.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's not the interesting part.
  
  The interesting part is that this will be manufactured at the Rapidus plant in Hokkaido.  With Rapidus ramping up production Japan has leapt directly from 40nm chip fabrication to 2nm, largely catching up with Taiwan, Korea, and the United States, and leaving China trailing behind.
  
  
  
• Looks like we won't be rid of OpenAI just yet.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  They just raised $122 billion.  Apparently from wealthy masochists.
  
  
  
• GMKtec's new Evo T2 mini-PC is now shipping with Intel's Panther Lake CPU and its class-leading graphics performance coupled with 64GB of soldered RAM.  (Liliputing)
  
  Just two problems: First, it costs $1899, and the Minisforum model I bought around Christmas cost about $600.  Sure, the integrated graphics on that model are a lot slower than Panther Lake, but not that much slower.  (This site suggests the difference is around 25%.)
  
  Second, it's out of stock.
  
  
  

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• Bluesky announced a new AI tool named Attie to help inmates create their own social feeds.  It did not go well.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  In three days Attie has accumulated 1500 followers - and been blocked by 125,000 users, which is to say all of them.
  
  That's more blocks than even the ICE account, suggesting that while the inmates are clinically insane they are not entirely stupid.
  
  
  

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• Life with AI is frying human brains.  (France24)
  
  It's like managing a hundred toddlers that never sleep.
  
  
  
• Restoring old photos with AI is a fundamentally broken concept.  (Petapixel)
  
  It works for movies, because movies have massive amounts of redundant information - most of each frame is identical to the previous, with just some elements shifted.
  
  With photos all you have is the photo.
  
  
  
• Or not even that: Sony has shut down almost its entire memory card business.  (Petapixel)
  
  Only a few models survived the mass cancellations which hit capacities from a lowly 64GB to a hefty 2TB.  AI taketh away, and AI taketh away some more.
  
  
  
• The latest Windows 11 update isn't.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Microsoft has pulled the update entirely because it didn't work.  At all.
  
  
  
• AMD's Zen 6 server CPUs have shown up in test results.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These are engineering samples and probably not running even close to full speed, but they are already competitive with Zen 5.
  
  Interesting point: The high-end models have 24 or 32 cores per chip (and up to 8 chips on the CPU).  That's expected for server Zen 6c models (AMD's efficiency cores), but if they're not efficiency cores that's a big surprise.
  
  
  
• You can get a 2TB Crucial P310 for $215 on Amazon.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Yay.
  
  I ordered two of these on sale for around $150 each on New Year's Eve.
  
  Amazon lost them.

• Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh isn't even on store shelves yet and it's already had a price increase.  (WCCFTech)
  
  10% officially and up to 25% in online listings.  Still decent value if it weren't for all the other headwinds Intel is facing here.
  
  Sailing straight into an F5 tornado.
  
  
  
• But you can save a lot of money on audiophile-grade cables.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Mostly by not buying them.  Once again, there is no detectable difference between $4000 cables and a $7 pair from the Amazon Basics range.

• Microplastics are glove contamination.  (University of Michigan)
  
  The researchers are sure that once they rule out the omnipresent glove particles they will have the truth and not a big fat ball of nothing.
  
  
  
• One day after Microsoft announced a new focus on security, the company had to release an emergency security patch.  (Computer Weekly)
  
  For a bug created by the March Windows update.
  
  
  
• M4 and M5 Macs can't run external 4k monitors at native resolution in HiDPI mode.  (S McLeod)
  
  You might wonder how people didn't notice.
  
  People did.
  
  But Apple doesn't sell a 4k monitor - only 5k and 6k models - so they didn't care.
  
  
  
  

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• DDR5 RAM prices have dipped slightly following Google's TurboQuant announcement that allows AI models to run in a fraction of the amount of memory.  (Notebook Check)
  
  While TurboQuant is real and does substantially reduce the amount of memory taken up for quantized vector database used to store LLM weights while - and this is the trick - not noticeably increasing noise in the models, any connection with commodity DDR5 memory pricing is best expressed in the polar co-ordinate system that TurboQuant is built on.
  
  By which I mean it is imaginary.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the third horseshoe of the Tech Apocalypse has dropped with SSD pricing headed into orbit.  (YouTube)
  
  Thanks Steve.
  
  This has been expected since DRAM prices headed the same way starting in November, but it was delayed by the large volume of devices already in the retail channel.
  
  Now reality has hit, hard, with prices doubling and further increases likely.  The video notes that spot prices have increased ninefold, though that doesn't mean that drive prices will increase by the same amount.
  
  What it does mean is that the smaller manufacturers who didn't have existing long-term contracts have just been wiped out, while the companies making the NAND flash chips - Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix, again, plus Western Digital, Kioxia, and China's YTMC, can set whatever prices they choose.
  
  (The second horseshoe was the graphics card market, though that has been muted so far unless you were looking to buy an RTX 5070 Ti or higher.  Prices of AMD and Intel cards have increased a little, but nothing like the devastation that has hit the memory market.)

• What if the bubble bursts?  (Financial Times)  (archive site)
  
  That would be bad for OpenAI which is 100% bubble and good for Apple which is close to 0% bubble.
  
  As for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, they'll survive either way, and Anthropic and xAI will likely do fine on a smaller scale than they had hoped.
  
  
  
• The latest ClickFix attack on MacOS installs Python malware compiled using Nuitka.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  ClickFix is an anagram which means "I'm too lazy to hack you myself but I think you're dumb enough do do the work for me".  As the article shows, it presents a page telling users to open a terminal session and execute a command that will download and install the malware in question.
  
  Where upon it steals all your passwords and the contents of any crypto wallets while laughing so hard it makes itself sick.
  
  
  

• The guy who put age verification in systemd is whining that people pointed out that this obviously bad idea was in fact a bad idea.  (It's FOSS)
  
  Let them drink whine.
  
  
  
• AI chatbots won't slap you upside the head and tell you you're an imbecile no matter how badly you need it.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Which for many users is very badly indeed.