Plus, only fans can only do so much, if you really need cooling an air conditioner helps.

I think they’re more upset AI companies scraped 'em and they didn’t get paid.

Re: bad with large code – that’s been something I’ve been noticing as well. A project I’ve been working on for work has gotten larger now and it seems more often that it makes goofy mistakes. Like removing something somewhere but leaving something related somewhere else. My best guess is that it’s all context window stuff. As humans, we can learn a lot and keep it all in our heads. But an AI model, if it’s not something from its training set and it’s not in its context window, then it just straight up does not know it exists. I’m guessing because context windows have gotten bigger that ai coding has gotten more impressive. But we’ll see if they’re able to keep scaling that. I imagine at some point it’s gonna hit a soft wall (or at least a price wall lol).

I’ll preface this by saying I’m not trying to sound like a tech bro. I’m really trying to give a level and measured response.

Over the past year, AI coding has gotten very good. It can catch weird mistakes that are not obvious. But it can also just totally miss obvious things and get caught up in shit that doesn’t matter. The best way to describe it is like an extremely eager and very smart junior developer. They get easily distracted. They get easily caught up in edge cases that don’t matter. That can easily miss extremely critical things.

The biggest thing is that it’s fast.

We’ll see how cheap it is long term when companies need to be profitable and run out of investors to convince.

Then stop calling the button purchase and call it rent.

Yes. Rancher desktop exists, btw. Just an fyi.

Edit: An open source alternative to Docker Desktop. It has most of the same features. Occasionally I’ve run into something that doesn’t work, but for the most part it’s just peachy.

How exactly is it using four orders of magnitude more space? Did you look what the files?

Arch and derivatives expect you to check the news file before upgrading, but do not integrate this into the upgrade tool. I have not personally ran into a problem this way, but it’s frustrating that pacman doesn’t have any capability to do this if you’re expected to.

I don’t believe arbitration agreements should be legal at all, but with how conservative US courts are right now, I doubt we’ll see it overturned.

I would be careful calling this “de-flock” because one of the more prominent groups against Flock is called Deflock and they already get lies from police calling them a terrorist organization despite never advocating for anything like tearing them down. If I really was putting on my tin foil hat, I’d say this was an intentional false flag operation called “de-flock” to further muddy the waters with regards to the Deflock organization. That’s a bit much, though.

Note that I’m not saying folks shouldn’t be participating, I’m only saying a different name for the activity would be prudent.

Rhys Darby did a bit somewhat similar to this at a standup. About a Roomba and a Cyber Truck. I don’t remember the specifics. But it was about the Roomba wanting to see the world. He’s very funny, if you ever have the chance to see him live, I highly recommend it.

you have recourse when stupid shit happens like them stealing your hardware

Just as an aside, you didn’t directly say it but may have inadvertently implied it, but the post says BestBuy sent back the extra 32 GB they removed with the laptop. They didn’t steal it.

Yes, there are multiple moments where they have to get to a landline to get out. if they could extract via cellphone then there wouldn’t be any tension around them needing to extract.

Reread the post. They never leave the matrix through cellphones, only landlines.

Hmmm, could be numbers k such that phi(k) divides k+1, where phi is Euler’s totient function or perhaps numbers k such that every base-4 digit of k is a base-6 digit of k? Quite the puzzler.

https://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C3%2C15&language=english&go=Search

Beeeg

Evil Chinese company as opposed to an evil American one?

And yet many Chromium forks are following suit and disabling Manifest v2 support. The idea that these things “don’t need support” is silly when we’re talking about the Herculean effort of maintaining a browser. Yes, anyone can but when the vast majority of browsers are Chromium forks instead of individually created and maintained ones, how much effort do you think those organizations have?

It’s good that browsers like Brave have an alternative means of ad blocking, and Firefox even has Brave’s exact same blocker built in now, but the idea that “you can just fork and block” is missing the point.

Google has effectively won. They are the de facto controller of web standards now that the majority of browsers use Chromium. When they began dropping support for Manifest v2 in 2019 it was the same year they said ad blockers were a major threat to their revenue in their publicly filed shareholder statements. This isn’t some conspiracy theory either, you can literally go look that up. They dropped v2 because ad blocking was too powerful and gutted it in v3. They know that the ecosystem of browser forks they helped create depends on their dev effort and won’t keep v2.

Even if v2 and ad blocking stay around, people still need to get the fuck off of Chromium. It’s ads today, but could be something else tomorrow. The problem is Google getting to easily control what like >80% of browsers see and do all because they control Chromium. Even if Google was suddenly like “you know what, we’re turning v2 back on,” I’d still be practically begging everyone to stay the fuck off of Chromium and get into something Firefox based. This is about so much more than just ads.

Ghostery blocks trackers then sells data about your tracking blocking habits. It was the first tracker blocker I heard of but Privacy Badger is the better one nowadays.

it still boggles my mind that Microsoft developed Edge as a standalone browser as a replacement for IE then just said “nah, let’s just use Chromium.”