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New comment by rockenman1234 in "Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm"

rockenman1234 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:16:42 +0000

Both! ;-)

RMS is free to speak his mind, everyone else is free to ask him anything so long as it’s during our Q&A session. We will not be charging any fees for attending the event, space is first come first served.

New comment by rockenman1234 in "Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm"

rockenman1234 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:22:48 +0000

Dr. Stallman has received 15 honorary doctorates (see: https://www.stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html). After a certain point, the consistency of such recognition speaks for itself. TBH after like 5 I would start seeing the point of calling myself 'doctor'. Georgia Tech also awards honorary doctorates through the statewide university system, and as such, there is no institutional policy dictating how individuals are to address one another.

I appreciate the concern and agree that RMS has been extraordinarily influential in the field of computing. We will be posting videos of the event afterward, so if you’re interested in hearing what he has to say in 2025, please keep an eye out!

New comment by rockenman1234 in "Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm"

rockenman1234 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:17:00 +0000

Thank you! I agree - it’s an honor to host RMS for a talk! We will be posting video recordings of the event online afterward, so please keep an eye out if you’re interested in hearing what he has to say in 2025.

> It is an honor and achievement of a society that Richard Stallman may speak and say what he chooses to say, in 2025.

Georgia Tech, as a public institution, takes the First Amendment very seriously (see: https://provost.gatech.edu/academic-freedom-and-freedom-expr...). Our student organization has worked hard with the College of Computing and other members of the administration to ensure that all of RMS's requests have been met.

New comment by rockenman1234 in "Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm"

rockenman1234 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:01:36 +0000

The event is free and open to the public. This will be Dr. Stallman’s first talk at a U.S. college since his cancer diagnosis and successful recovery in 2019. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that we will be accepting cash-only donations for our fundraiser at the event.

If you’ll be in Atlanta that week - or simply want the opportunity to see and meet Dr. Stallman - this is a rare chance you won’t want to miss!

Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm

rockenman1234 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:59:28 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/gatech/comments/1prm6if/free_event_meet_dr_richard_stallman_creator_of/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346716

Points: 82

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Linux Laptop Vendor Malibal Attempting to Pursue Made-in-USA Laptops

rockenman1234 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:11:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MALIBAL-Made-In-US-Laptops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364722

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: AI Fundamentals – A textbook on AI with a math and programming approach

rockenman1234 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:54:15 +0000

Written through a collaborative effort by faculty and researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, AI Fundamentals explores AI from 1925 to 2025, covering major topics in depth. This course teaches AI — not just API calls. You'll use Python to build your own AI systems from the ground up!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574572

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted from the Linux Kernel

rockenman1234 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:57:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Deleted-Linux-6.13

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207425

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

US Government considering cash infusions, AMD merger to help struggling Intel

rockenman1234 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:08:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomsguide.com/tech/us-government-considering-cash-infusions-amd-merger-to-help-struggling-intel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42061714

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by rockenman1234 in "Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially Unix"

rockenman1234 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:09:41 +0000

How is macOS certified as 'Unix' but the modern BSD's aren't? Didn't they all come from the same codebase?

New comment by rockenman1234 in "Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code"

rockenman1234 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:47:59 +0000

I'm a undergrad studying CompE at a US University. I just got done with a group project, and I can confidently say that my opinion of AI generated code has changed a lot since I started. 3 of our 5 members had zero idea what their code did, they just had ChatGPT generate whatever they needed. The amount of bugs they introduced with each pull request was insane - this is definitely going to be a much bigger issue going forward as more IDE's start implementing LLM's in their UI.

I'm not going to act like I don't use ChatGPT, but I use it to understand things I don't know - like documenting code, helping fix bugs, etc. Never to just write code blindly, I'm just thankful I don't need to maintain the project once I'm done.

The only way I can see this being fixed moving forward is either a breakthrough in coding focused LLM's, or just banning AI generated code entierly (which I'm not even sure how to do).

New comment by rockenman1234 in "OpenBSD added initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day"

rockenman1234 — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:05:52 +0000

It's crazy how well supported most hardware is on BSD compared to other *Nix OS's. The fact NetBSD can boot on hardware that is 25+ years old, running on an architecture that no longer exists, is insane to me. The BSD communities are a different breed entirely.

Vibe Transcribe – A FOSS local LLM front end for macOS, Windows and *Nix

rockenman1234 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:31:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721284

Points: 2

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New comment by rockenman1234 in "Lynn Conway has died"

rockenman1234 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:20:56 +0000

May she rest in peace, her achievements and contributions to the field of computing are unfortunately unknown to those outside of the field - but impacted so much more than just computing.