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by jzb 5mo ago
It's only "necessary" if one accepts that the current way is the only way. I'm not really sure what the point of encouraging new development is if the end result is "big company scoops it up and makes it shitty, but
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by jzb 5mo ago
This is amazing. Page says it works on RHEL 14.3, which doesn’t exist. Current RHEL is 10.x, this must’ve been done in a TARDIS.
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by jzb 5mo ago
“I'd like to know how to avoid it.” To paraphrase a popular quote from IBM: “Executives and MBAs can never be held accountable: therefore executives and MBAs must not be allowed to make decisions.” Slightly less flippant: The only way
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by jzb 6mo ago
In some ways it's as if the universe is conspiring to stop people traveling so much and burning so many fossil fuels. When COVID hit, we had severe curtailing of travel for a while. Now we have insanity fueling (heh) another disruption
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by jzb 6mo ago
To summarize: a far worse deal than what Obama had and Trump ripped up, and worse than the status quo that existed before Trump started illegally bombing Iran.
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by jzb 7mo ago
There’s a difference between intoxication and treating the chemical imbalance behind depression or anxiety. For one thing, treatments for anxiety only target the anxiety: they don’t impair the person the way that weed or alcohol does. (They
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by jzb 7mo ago
Which goes back to the shame thing, really. Few people are willing to stand up and advocate for common sense laws because they don’t want to be associated with anything regarding sex. Politicians, whom are not generally noted for being aver
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by jzb 7mo ago
"Nobody in the middle of an existential war threatens to attack more - they just attack with everything they've got." That sounds like a poor strategy. Expend all of your resources in one grand gesture rather than trying to p
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by jzb 7mo ago
"Iran has always lacked an ability to project power at a distance" I'm curious what you're basing this on, since Iran has been supplying Russia with drones, etc. for much of the war in Ukraine and so far has launched att
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by jzb 7mo ago
The article didn’t say it was wrong by my reading: it reported that it’s happening. That said: “benefits US companies” != good public policy for the US as a whole. It’s explicitly trying to interfere in how other countries govern themselves
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by jzb 8mo ago
Nothing beats humans with great music tastes and deep knowledge. I’ve yet to find any form of recommendation engine that has surprised and delighted me the way humans have. This tool might unearth something interesting, but I find it sus th
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by jzb 8mo ago
The AI doesn’t “know” anything. It’s a program. Destroying the bot would be analogous to burning a library or desecrating a work of art. Barring a bot from participating in development of a project is not wronging it, not in any way immoral
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by jzb 8mo ago
And it’s the employees that’ll be laid off if the strategy doesn’t succeed because they just didn’t copilot hard enough or something.
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by jzb 8mo ago
“No advertisements” seems extreme to me. I want to know when a good band is playing at a local venue, or has an album out. I like hearing about new books, or a restaurant near me. The absolutist position that “all ads are always bad” is a n
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by jzb 9mo ago
Not at the moment. It’s subsided for now.
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by jzb 9mo ago
"Aren't they required to obey chain-of-command?" If an order is legal, yes. Not if an order is illegal. If a superior officer orders a private to shoot unarmed civilians or commit some other war crime, the private is supposed
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by jzb 9mo ago
I imagine the people saying “it just works” are saying it because it does, at least for them. SteamOS is based on Arch, but customized and aimed at specific hardware configurations. It’d be interesting to know what hardware you’re using and
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by jzb 9mo ago
How would you sleep with those things on your head? Might work for people who sleep on their back, but not great for side sleepers.
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by jzb 10mo ago
I think it’s more accurate to say that Western policymakers sold that story to the public on behalf of the companies that bought, er, lobbied them.
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by jzb 10mo ago
Indeed. I grew up watching AitF, and I remember being totally floored when I realized he directed “When Harry Met Sally.” Really sad end to a great career and as far as I could tell, a decent human being.
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by jzb 10mo ago
“They could simply name their source(s) if they wanted to be taken as credible.” Not if they want sources again in the future. Assuming they have credible sources, it will prove them correct in due course. The vast majority of people aren’t
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by jzb 10mo ago
Musk is Justin Hammer.
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by jzb 11mo ago
I’m very very curious to know what it is you’re doing to experience this: I’ve used Debian and its derivatives for 25 years now. On desktops, laptops, and servers. x86, x86-64, and Arm 64. I have never had a segfault with APT. Not a singl
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by jzb 11mo ago
No, they’re designed to work worse with non-Apple products to keep people in the Apple ecosystem. Sure, if you’re not already in the ecosystem it does make sense to buy other products. But if you already own AirPods then you’re reluctant
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by jzb 11mo ago
This means that, possibly, I can sue if my data is misused: it does not prevent its misuse. It doesn’t offer any protection if the law changes, or any real protection against constant TOS changes, etc.
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by jzb 11mo ago
"What a time to be alive" s/a/an awful/ Some days I feel like everything peaked around mid-2000.
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by jzb 11mo ago
While I love Douglas Adams, and there's a hint of truth there, I don't think it works well here. By that logic, anything invented after 2005 would be abhorrent to me. Yet, there's tons of new tech invented since that I find&#
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by jzb 11mo ago
My first thought was that it looked like Isaac from The Orville.
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by jzb 11mo ago
I don't think that ship has sailed as far as you suggest: There are strong proponents of LLMs/GenAI, but not IMO many more than NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and other technologies that ultimately did not hit mainstream adoption. I don&
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by jzb 11mo ago
"but I don't think I can get angry at them for producing useful content the wrong way" What about plagiarism? If a person hacks together a blog post that is arguably useful but they plagiarized half of it from another person,

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