Off Topic: My crackpot theory is that Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) created an environment that allowed a lot of Not-Invented-Here programming to occur. (Sarcastically: “We here at Ackman shoes have realized a significant competitive advantage from developing our own in-house logging library.”)
This article is a rehash of a New York Post article that quotes Dr. Jared Horvarth who testified before Congress. His testimony [1] references PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS scores.
Edit: His testimony concludes:
> This is not a debate about rejecting technology. It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works.
> Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital
expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.
> Federal policy can restore balance by demanding evidence, protecting children’s
developmental needs, and ensuring that innovation serves learning rather than attention
capture.
> Our responsibility is not to maximize screen exposure, but to maximize the cognitive
capacity and long-term flourishing of the next generation.
There is a note in the bash script [2] that the local model needs MacOS for some reason:
install_local_model() {
echo ""
log "Junie is installed. Setting up the local model..."
if ! curl -fsSL "$LOCAL_MODEL_URL" | bash; then
# The local model is an optional extra on top of a finished Junie install,
# and it is the part most likely to be refused -- it needs macOS 26 on an
# Apple M5 or newer with 40 GB of RAM. Whatever went wrong here, Junie itself
# is installed, so say so plainly instead of leaving the run looking failed.
echo ""
log_error "The local model setup did not complete."
log "Junie itself is installed and ready to use -- run: junie"
log "To try the local model again: curl -fsSL $LOCAL_MODEL_URL | bash"
exit 1
fi
}
But the GitHub repo README for "local" [3] does have instructions for Linux though, and makes it seem like the --local flag will work. As a hardy Linux hacker, you should probably just try it and see what happens.
Edit: Interestingly, I got Junie CLI on my M4 Mac but did NOT get the local model installed, which t looks like iwas going to me Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit. (Needs a M5 GPU apparently.)
I did start Junie and it prompted me to connect to a local model, successfully detected Ollama and connected to that.
[1] Best as I can tell, the “local” version is the same as “CLI”, and “CLI” simply means using a cloud model, which you have to pay for. It also looks like JetBrains is hosting some models in their cloud which are free to use until December.
Another challenge is getting developers to stop assuming they know what the code does without reading it! Having AI “fact check” various documents against the source will help immensely.
Generally no. Some provinces officially operate in both English and French but some do not.
For a press release from a private company operating in Ontario there is no legal requirement to publish in both languages. Some companies might do so anyway if they have operations that are regulated by the federal government and/or they just want the goodwill.
Imported products have to meet Federal packaging laws, which do require both languages.
More specifically, just over 4% of the population:
> In 2021, 591,855 Ontarians (4.2% of the population) had French as one of their mother tongues. While this number varied little from 1991 to 2006 (+11,065 people), it increased steadily from 2006 to 2021 (+58,995 people).
- In 2021, 78.2% of these residents (463,120 people) had French as their only mother tongue, while 21.8% (128,740 people) had French along with other languages.
Typically the user gives a website their public passkey, which does not need to be kept secret since it’s public. If the website is hacked the attackers only get information that is already public.
You seem to be talking about a scenario where a user’s private keychain on their computer is compromised and the attacker is able to access other systems from that same machine without the user’s knowledge. (Note that the keychain data is itself encrypted so can’t be used from a different computer.)
It's not just the end user that you have to worry about, attacks are helped by the fact that websites suck at passkeys too
"...we developed PASSKEYS-ATTACKER. The tool allows for precise manipulation of WebAuthn messages at every step of the protocol and integrates 15 attack types of which 10 were not covered in previous work. Among them, 2 attack types have critical CVSS scores. We discovered them on 18 out of 103 evaluated websites. These attacks take over user accounts, delete their passkeys, or lock them out of their accounts. Nearly half of the tested sites (53) were vulnerable to at least one attack with a high CVSS score, exposing users to threats such as phishing and session fixation." https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity26/presentat...
Let me deliberately hijack this tread with what I think is a more realistic question: “How much economic damage, in USD, would be inflicted on global economies if 80% of the internet was down for a week?”
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