Rioting Pacifist

I don’t have to love ChromeOS to acknowledge that it’s a sold OS that’s commercially viable and that’s only possible because of the solid Gentoo base it’s built on.

Gentoo is still a better distro, it underpins every ChromeOS device (they just do the compilation for you)

Spottube will play your music, but still depends on spotify-free to generate them

TBF they probably consider their most senior developers their best and at most companies the more senior you get the less code you write.

Another one? Isn’t GrowSF already this?

Smells like antitrust violations.

2^78 is large but computers can do an awful lot per second, so if only about some the pages contain attachments 2^40-55 is something you could bruteforce in weeks if you can do millions of attempts a second

What is securing those private channels?

Whatever vulnerability there is in that will basically give them root on your home sever right?

How big is N though?

What language? What does it do?

I’m no fan of GitHub but if you set up dependabot (or equivalent elsewhere), you can ramp maintaince down to running PRs through tests every few months (assuming it’s not software with a large attack surface)

Ships already sailed but shouldn’t AI generated things just be considered derivative of their training set?

I don’t know how that works for images/video, but for code that means if it’s trained on GPL code the resulting code would have to be GPL and the liability is on the people distiributing AI generated code.

This also makes commerical use of AI generated anything complicated while allowing personal use under the current state of non-enforceablity.

AI could help editors translate from other languages, but beyond that, it’s an inefficient mess that Wikipedia doesn’t need, plus given how much of AI is just regurgitating Wikipedia, It’ll give itself mad cow AI disease.

That’s a real issue, but the article uses it as a jumping of point to get for AI slop.

Wake up Lemmy, it’s time for your daily, Wikipedia should have more AI slop article.

Let’s make it 1400 words this time, and make sure to mention that younger generations watch Ticktok, but ignore that most TickTok slop is just people summerizing Wikipedia articles.

This sounds a lot like every framework, 20 years ago you could have written that about rails.

Which IMO makes sense because if code isn’t solving anything interesting then you can dynamically generate it relatively easily, and it’s easy to get demos up and running, but neither can help you solve interesting problems.

Which isn’t to say it won’t have a major impact on software for decades, especially low-effort apps.

I sometimes wonder if Qmail had had a clear license, if Gmail would have destroyed the self-hosted mail ecosystem so thoroughly.

I think a lot of engineers underestimate the amount of non-technical effort that goes into running platforms with users.

It’s a shame I think there are some really interesting problems that a less profit driven dating app but currently anything without a big marketing budget isn’t going to have the userbase to support it.

Sounds like stuff Stalman wrote about 45 years ago, are windows users really that far behind?

This has been true for a long time, CPU sockets don’t last long enough to make upgrades worth it, unless you are constantly upgrading. Whenever i’ve built a “futureproof” desktop with a mid-high end GPU, by the time I hit performance problems I needed a new motherboard to fit the new CPU anyway. Only really upgradable components are storage and ram, but you can do that in your laptop too.

The main advantage of Desktops is still that you get much more performance for your money and can decide where it goes if you build it yourself.

Modular computing always seems to fall victim to Moore’s law/similar, everything core get so much better every 5 years, that by the time you want to refresh anything, it’s usually time to upgrade the whole thing.

Periferals are nice but USB is already a multivendor connector standard and if the choice is 3d printing cases or trusting a vendor to exist in 10 years I’m betting on 3d printers for now.

Hope I’m wrong but this isn’t the first time I’ve seen a project like this.

At the end of the day the n900 was the ultimate portable Linux machine, but it died because within 10 years you could do all of that on an android device AND have a decent phone too.