There are lot of synonyms, people just choose some words in different contexts based on how they sound. Why use the word “begin” when the word “start” exists?

Damn, would’ve been obvious from from the username and post history. If I’d bothered to look at that. Thanks for your comment.

Jucky

Much of it might be freely available data, but there’s a huge difference between you accessing a website for data and an LLM doing the same thing. We’ve had bots scraping websites since the 90’s, it’s not a new thing. And since scraping bots have existed we’ve developed a standard on the web to deal with it, called “robots.txt”. A text file telling bots what they are allowed to do on websites and how they should behave.

LLM’s are notorious for disrespecting this, leading to situations where small companies and organisations will have their websites scraped so thoroughly and frequently that they can’t even stay online anymore, as well as skyrocketing their operational costs. In the last few years we’ve had to develop ways just to protect ourselves against this. See the “Anubis” project.

Hence, it’s much more important that LLM’s follow the rules than you and me doing so on an individual level.

It’s the difference between you killing a couple of bees in your home versus an industry specialising in exterminating bees at scale. The efficiency is a big factor.

Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago. When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I’ve ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I’ve not tried Nemo in years.

IDK guys, do you think a web browser should be a “broader ecosystem of trusted software” or a web browser?

It’s absolutely not true either. Just because an authoritarian has the power to act “quickly”, you think that they will always act in the right way to handle a crisis? An authoritarian will act in any way they themselves see fit to “handle” a crisis, without any or much need for approval.

Do you think that the Roman empire always acted in the correct way to handle the problems it faced, even when the imperator had full control over the senate? This is only true if you define “effective” as “authoritarian”, like Russia seems to do here.

My absolute favourite thing about them is that they allow me to play games designed for mouse and keyboard from my bed! Like any old PC games (fallout, wasteland, baldurs gate, etc).

I don’t play enough “first person” games to have any valuable input, but when I’ve played things like Elder Scrolls I’ve honestly preferred using the track pads for controlling the camera.

Indeed. I very much liked the original steam controller in concept, but the execution left a lot to be desired. Like not using the most “plastic” feeling controller I’ve ever touched…

Yeah I love that I can play old PC games from my couch! I recently played through Fallout 1 (partly) on the Steam Deck. Amazing times.

I used to think XBox controllers were the best controllers on the market. I still think they’re very good. That changed when I held the Steam Deck for the first time. The feel is better overall, and in my opinion the track pads are such an obvious and great improvement on the traditional controller design.

Nowadays when I use other controllers, they just feel “bare bones” and like they’re missing something.

GIMP is actually pronounced guh-imp

I use, and love, KDE, but this is not one of the reasons I use it… What

I’m from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb

Oh, alright! I didn’t know that. Thank you for the info, that’s handy to know.

Maybe because it’s not an obviously wanted feature? But I’m just guessing. You should request it and see what happens, maybe more people want it. I’ve never even thought about it, since in the case of Podman/docker it’s so “obvious” and easy to just mount network shares to the host first. And in the case of Kubernetes you can just mount NFS shares directly into pods.

Ubuntu doesn’t allow pip to install system wide stuff anymore. You can solve that by installing everything in a pyhton virtual environment.

But for real, use Docker/Podman instead. It’s a lot easier, especially if you’re managing several applications!