Shit like this will continue to happen until governments start enforcing interoperable open standards and resume enforcing antitrust laws, which were, in practice, suspended for a long time, for whatever reason.

For me, it’s MySpace and before. MySpace was the last step before modern social media. It didn’t have a feed. Everyone had their own corner of the internet.

Yeah. I stopped watching her long ago. But I really like Penrose, so I watched that video for him.

He is a really interesting case. He is a real, actual, published theoretical physicist. But his popular science persona made him a bit weird. For example, in this video, alongside Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder, he looks like a sci-fi hype-man.

I needed a quick python script for something simple. Gemini put type annotations everywhere. I told him they were unnecessary for such a small, one-off script and it shouldn’t use type annotations during this session. It said “I’m sorry but it is best practice. I will keep using type annotations”.

Looks nice but what kind of license is that?

I got a virus only once and it was a boot sector virus on a floppy disk. 💾 👴🏼

You have likely been using “local AI” or machine learning on your laptop battery for quite some time without being explicitly aware of it.

But to be upset about this specific instance seems arbitrary to me.

I am upset because I am aware of this one. How can I be upset about something I am not even aware of?

why would Chrome need additional consent to download/update one of many external components?

The user should be informed about what they are getting. By that logic Chrome csn also install and run a crypto miner.

The problem, mostly, is that it is installed without informing the user or asking for content and it reinstalls even if you delete it, which is what a malware does. I may not want a local AI work on my laptop on battery while I am working and browsing the internet.

I am also just a hobbyist, so that was a genuine question. Thanks for the answer.

Am I doing something wrong? All my services are grouped in docker compose files. Containers that have to communicate internally - a server and it’s db for example - are on their own private docker network. A reverse proxy has its ports 80 and 443 open and it is on an external docker network. Services that I need to access from the outside are on this network and they do not have any ports open. Except for the torrent client, which has a UDP port open.

So 28-77 for me… I’d prefer +/-7

I love this story:

A division of AppleComputer started having developers report LinesOfCode written as a ProductivityMetric. The guru, BillAtkinson, happened to be refactoring and tuning a graphics library at the time, and ended up with a six-fold speedup and a much smaller library. When asked to fill in the form, he wrote in NegativeLinesOfCode. Management got the point and stopped using those forms soon afterwards.

We have been doing that for centuries.

NSFW AI bros doing their thing.

HOA in USA is insane. I just can’t believe they are real.

You wouldn’t be able to get close enough to them.

Hmmm… 🤔

I want this on a t-shirt.