My bank used to complain that my browser was out of date. I wrote an email to customer service explaining to them that:
A) debian’s “out of date” browser actually includes all up to date security patches. B) simply reading the browser agent isnt really security. I had simply been spoofing my browser agent to get around their silly browser “security” policy
They removed the browser check 2 weeks later. Not sure if it was because of me
Oops, i was confused. They have a risc-v tablet but shown with a keyboard accessory so it looks like a laptop
Not sure how much this will be but pine64 already has a risc-v development laptop available for a long time
Edit: not a laptop but a tablet
Unfortunately, its their platform and their rules… And not even rules… Their whims.
I dont know why people expect corporations to support anything other than profit. You want free speech? For-profit, non-free platforms aren’t the place to do it
They cant. Its an addiction or stockholm syndrome
“product” that doesn’t really work, and which they can’t make any better
LLMs “dont work” because people are promising idiotic things and being used recklessly for things they are not good at. This is like saying a chainsaw is a failed product because it’s not good at slicing sushi
It was obvious from day 1 how useful the Internet would be. Email alone was revolutionary
Hindsight 20/20. There were a lot of people smarter than you and i predicting that the internet was just a fad
I hate the AI hype right now, but to say the entire thing should fail is short sighted.
Imagine people saying the following: “The internet is just hype. I get too much spam emails. I hope the entire thing is a catastrophic failure.”
Imagine we just shut down the entire internet because the dotcom bubble was full of scams and overhyped…
Private ISPs are already highly subsidized by taxes… Just take away those subsidies and give us a public option.
That dynamic would mean reddit is full of people who sound very very confident in the joke position
A lot of the time people on reddit/lemmy/the internet are very confident in their non-joking position. Not sure if the same community exists here, but we had /r/confidentlyincorrect over on reddit
Short arm…
I hit big once when it dropped to $40, but i’ve been losing big ever since
Its maybe a small thing, but being packaged in linux repos would be huge for me
Being able to type
$sudo apt install winamp
Would be so cool
Some people think this is a desireable feature
I personally hate having 96kbps “live” recordings from someone’s cell phone suddenly injectef into my stream. But i havent used youtube music since shortly after they became youtube music
RIP google play music
Yeah, i hate how LLMs are getting lumped into actually useful machine learning stuff that has been in development for years without all the hype and idiot CEOs trying to use it to layoff useful employees
Can it outrun a kenyan in a marathon?
Or the real question is if a battery can be made small enough to fit in a human sizef robot that can keep it running over 42km
Eventually it will have to become a paid subscription or ad supported or both.
The 3rd option is FOSS with donations… But everyone expects everything on the internet to be free (as in beer) these days
Nothing is truly free/gratis…
For most programs, manpage or -h is more than a whole screen of text… 99% of the time i’m just looking for a common usuage example in one line. Tldr provides that very quickly
I cant believe i only learned about tldr two weeks ago…
It’s been a total gamechanger for me. I have such shitty memory for options flags. I’m pretty comfortable with the terminal and i’ve been full time linux for 15 years now
But i STILL cant remember common options for basic stuff like tar and curl…
curl output to file… -O or -o??? Have to look it up every time
Probably the same types of guardrails chatGPT has when you ask it to tell you how to cook meth or build a dirty bomb
And maybe Data was distributing jailbroken holodeck programs for pervs on the ship
I’m surprised some marketing genius at the intel/amd hasnt started using the bigger numbers