I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines
lest we feel superior in *our* ability to clock LLM garbage, this disaster among elites is a microcosm of something even worse that LLMs and their sister technologies of shitcoins and spambots are harbingers of: we *all* have heuristics that we need to use to make sense of the world, and heuristics work because of an implicit presumption of good faith in many interactions. most presumptions can be hacked if some significant plurality of actors in a system are always seeking maximum advantage
Huh what? So now it's no longer one time purchase for features, I have to subscribe? IIRC I have Mona pro, I got the features, no idea how much it was back then but it was fine. But no way I'm subscribing just to use features of such an app. One time purchase, or even pay for big upgrades, fine. But USD per month to, browse Mastodon? Thanks that I'm on Android at this point and Pachli is free and OSS.
Už jsem tady psal o tomhle klenotu ve vedlejším městě přes který každý den jezdím do Londýna. Napadla mě ještě jedna zajímavost. Jak vidíte, té to vlastně jeden velký kruhový objezd vytvořený pěti malými kruháči. Ale všimli jste si, že ačkoli ty krajní, malé objezdy jsou tradiční a jezdí se po směru hodinových ručiček, ten vnitřní je opačně - proti směru 😁 Už se vám točí šošolka?
Since this seems to come up a lot, especially now with Windows being replaced by Copilot and Tim Apple being a frequent guest at the White House, I thought I'd write up my quick and objective guide to choosing Linux distros:
I just want something stable and easy to install that's still being maintained next century: Fedora.
I want a carefully hand crafted desktop experience curated for me by people who know what they're doing: KaOS.
I want to carefully hand craft my own desktop experience from scratch, I don't care how many wikis I have to read: Arch.
I think I'm somewhere in between those two extremes: Manjaro.
I'm a gamer: Bazzite.
I'm a Mac: Elementary.
I'm a Haskell weenie: NixOS.
I think rms made some good points: Debian.
I think Tommy Robinson made some good points: Omarchy.
FX Radio is back online. Still have no idea why this thing hard crashes about once a month. Hardware failure? Reading the kernel log didn't tell me anything interesting.
Some criticism of people using AI is just mean. Just saw a post that said:
> Instead of using AI images to illustrate your blogpost or presentation, why not go deep into the forest, lie down in a pile of autumn leaves and allow the earth to consume your body
Seriously? You know, not everyone is as immersed in all of the things that are wrong with AI as we are. Some people are just trying to get by in the system of incentives that they didn't create.
People just hate because something that took them 15 years to figure out is now doable by the press of a button in mere minutes. I don't get it. Its literally convenience why not use it? As long as you fact check your research and test things that you're having it code, why not?
@threlm4280 Yes, there are probably people who hate AI for the reason you described. I want to push back on this point though:
> I don't get it. Its literally convenience why not use it?
There are in fact better criticisms of current AI products. They're trained on basically all of the work of all humanity (or as much as the AI companies could get their hands on), without the consent of the people who did the work, for the explicit purpose of replacing labor. Worth thinking about.
I suppose there is validity in that. I don't think about it too much though because stealing the work of others has been a thing for ages even before AI came along to the stage. So to me, that's just finding a reason to criticise for the sake of it. Using the work of others in a modified fassion is not even remotely new.
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
The #chatmail #rust core is the base infrastructure library used by all apps and bots. It contains all networking, encryption, email processing and implements all the relevant IETF email standards. It's a single central development place with which the whole ecosystem of clients and bots can upgrade consistently.
We are constantly trying to remove code, and to cleanup things. That's a must to keep a 8-year long evolved code base agile and adaptable. Key insight: The best code is no code ;)
two other things that can't be stressed enough for maintaining development long-term:
- Avoid superflous abstractions. Premature abstractions are the root of all ... complexity. If you have a second and third case, you can introduce an abstraction, but even then: don't over-abstract!
- write tests for everything, especially for the API that you want to guarantee to others. The chatmail core library just passed 1000 automated tests. The users of your API, and their users will thank you.
"The problem is, right now, talking to Copilot in Windows 11 is an exercise in pure frustration — a stark reminder that the reality of AI is nowhere close to the hype.
I spent a week with Copilot, asking it the same questions Microsoft has in its ads, and tried to get help with tasks I’d find useful. And time after time, Copilot got things wrong, made stuff up, and spoke to me like I was a child.
Copilot Vision scans what’s on your screen and tries to assist you with voice prompts. Invoking Copilot requires you to share your screen like you’re on a Teams call, by hitting okay Every. Single. Time. After it gets your permission, it’s excruciatingly slow to respond, and it addressed me by name every time I asked it anything. Like other AI assistants and LLMs, it’s here to please, even when it’s totally misguided."
Microsoft is advertising its Windows Copilot AI as “the computer you can talk to.” How does that hold up to testing, and how does it track with CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitions?
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew up with the first home computers and fondly ...
It's fascinating how my mood can shift from crap, to relatively OK, to quite depressed with suicidal thoughts within about a 1.5 minute span of time. I recommend it to everyone. /s
I'm always bothered by this kind of thing because on one hand, we obviously need to meet users where they are. On the other hand, apparently a lot of users only really know how to use the tab key and that's just such an efficiency brick wall! Trading off between those two things is very sad.
I agree. I also think some amount of learning curve is OK. Learning that you can (or should) navigate Tabs/toolbars with the Arrow keys instead of the Tab key feels like a low bar. Though I can’t back that up with any data.
Je pokrytí železnice mobilním datovým signálem nějaký principiální technický problém, anebo je to akorát nízko v seznamu priorit? Když teď České dráhy plánují nasazení Skylinku, je to technicky významně lepší než třeba běžné 5G?
Ja si to myslim, kdyz jsem to pred lety zkoumal, tak na mape pokryti se to kryje pouze s populaci a jeji hustotou. Zadna infrastruktura tam zanesena neni. Z toho usuzuju, ze pokryti 9x% lidi je zasadni (a mozna jedina) metrika v tom algoritmu planovani site.
We're sorry. The box making all the noises has experienced it's apparently now standard one month crash. There will be no noises or FX Radio for a while. The stupid idiot running this stuff didn't include a remote restart device, because he's a worthless piece of shit. That's right, a worthless, fucking, piece, of, shit! Get it? Got it? GOOD!
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(also in Canada we don't have black friday, it's imported from the South without tarrifs)