Mastodawn

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Two thoughts on trusting AI:

a) We will(!) end up accepting that AI is better than human programmers in (soon) almost every respect - just like we already accepted high-level languages.
b) But who can guarantee that, along the way, nothing has slipped into our (future) toolchain? Something deeply embedded that nobody can fully remove anymore, and that could be triggered to do something unintended?

#trust #kenthompson #assemblylanguage #highlevellanguages #vibecoding #ai

hubertf Apr 25

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Reflections on Trusting AI:

A friend shared an interesting idea today: did we lose something when we moved from assembler to high-level languages? Probably not.

In that context, I recently revisited "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson, which I found quite compelling.

Two thoughts from that:

#trust #kenthompson #assemblylanguage #highlevellanguages #vibecoding #ai

donkey Feb 4

Happy birthday #KenThompson - 83 years young today!

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 2

#KenThompson Recalls #Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
Thompson's vivid recollection of rowdy roomful of geeks at #BellLabs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
What comes through is his gratefulness for people he’d worked with, and opportunity they’d had to all experiment together in an open environment to explore the limits of new and emerging technologies. It’s a tale of curiosity, a playful sense of serendipity and the enduring value of a community.
https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

Ken Thompson Recalls Unix's Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins

Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

The New Stack

Retrópolis Dec 18

UNIX Programmer Manual em PDF.

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/18/unix-programmer-manual-em-pdf/

#MundoRetro #DennisRitchie #Download #KenThompson #Livro #PDF #UNIX #UNIXProgrammersManual

UNIX Programmer Manual em PDF. - Retrópolis

Falamos sempre que podemos sobre o UNIX por aqui, até já fizemos episódios e lives a respeito... E em 1971, o Bell Labs soltou a primeira edição do Unix Programmer's Manual, de autoria de Ken Thompson e Dennis Ritchie. O perfil do Laboratório de Ciência da Computação e Inteligência Artificial (CSAIL) do MIT no X

Retrópolis - A cidade dos clássicos

ITs History!Nov 20

The large gap in #OShistory was almost closed when a tape labeled #UNIX Edition 4 was rediscovered at the #University of #Utah, #USA.
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

This #legendary #OS was the first Unix written in #C by #DennisRitchie with #KenThompson, but it got lost over years of digital memory shortages.
https://youtu.be/-xlq_MPWNKk

#IT #retrocomputing #illustration made in #SVG with #Inkscape #FOSS on #Linux

N-gated Hacker News Nov 16

🤔 Oh, Russ Cox, you've saved us from the cutting-edge topic of... 1983! 🕰️ Let's revisit a lecture old enough to vote, because who doesn't love reminiscing about supply chain security with Ken Thompson, the granddaddy of trust issues? 🎩🔧
https://research.swtch.com/nih #HackerNews #RussCox #SupplyChainSecurity #KenThompson #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler

Ecologistas en Acción Málaga Nov 16

Libro Filosofía ante la crisis ecológica, de Marta Tafalla (resumen)
https://blogsostenible.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/libro-filosofia-ante-la-crisis-ecologica-de-marta-tafalla-tafallamarta-resumen/
#Androcentrismo, #Animales, #Antropocentrismo, #CrisisAmbiental, #CrisisClimática, #Ecofeminismo, #EnfermedadZoonótica, #KenThompson, #Macrogranjas, #MartaTafalla, #Rewilding, #SolucionesALaCrisis, #ValPlumwood
@blogsostenible
#ProfesPorElFuturoRadio3

Libro Filosofía ante la crisis ecológica, de Marta Tafalla @TafallaMarta (resumen), Ed. @plazayvaldes

Un libro lleno de ciencia asequible y de inspiración desbordante. Esencial, de lectura cómoda y también urgente (Plaza y Valdés, 2022). Marta Tafalla —autora también del magnífico Ecoanimal— aporta…

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