As long as this work. I’m using that, because it gives me actual, useful results most of the time, but there’s always a chance that google pulls the plug on that someday.

but at least you get the option to turn it off

That’s also an option with google, you know.

Would you look at that. They kept pushing layoff all the time for fake reasons to increase immediate profit, and now they’ll have another fake reason to do mass layoffs for maximum immediate profit.

What? AI? Who cares about that at this point. It’s like a pretty ribbon on a big gift box to shareholders.

They’ll fight, until the thing becomes Law, then they’ll stop fighting it because it would mean end of business. And ultimately, killing your business is not a good business decision, it turns out.

Some people making datacenter looks into way to recycle the extra heat, some uses it to heat local area (willingly). But all of this costs more than just, dumping it out, I guess.

This will help fighting the global colding we’ve had going on… wait, something’s off. Am I reading the charts upside down again?

Advising people to have safe backup of their work is not being a shill for anyone, it’s basic common sense.

It’s not an idol, it’s just a gold-looking representation of something a large group of people fervently honor and pray to, and according to their own chit-chat, hold in higher respect than jesus or god. And nothing more.

Yeah, it’s illegal, but the premises where a bit murky too, so it cancels out.

If there’s a company policy against, who knows, sending any company’s IP to a random third party known for shitting on both license terms and their own ToS, having your work marked like this is a big red flag. And since it “accidentally” happened to everyone, either you dismiss all the suspected bogus entries and let the rats in, or you have to carefully review everything.

It’s big trouble either way.

no one is jumping to Vim

I’m seriously thinking about going back to VIM. At this point the only thing holding me back is that I like the file tree view of GUI tools. It’s not much.

I looked into “lightweight” alternative, but their PR and “features” make them seems almost worst than vscode. Zed in particular; people praise it for being “simple”, but the biggest upside seems to be “GPU accelerated” and “not as sluggish as vscode” which, ok, I guess, but I don’t think an IDE needs to be GPU accelerated and vscode don’t feel sluggish at all even on my modest first gen NUC so…

While I understand the sentiment, this have nothing to do with vscode, which you can perfectly use on Linux and with whatever cvs you want.

Article talk about pushing a large model on people’s computer. You minimize this by going about McDonalds, Shell, BP. Do you even know what “whataboutism” mean? Your first sentence is “what about McDonald, Shell, BP”.

Oh, some whataboutism. Great.

Also great to know you don’t have to pay to get storage in your devices, otherwise you’d be quite unhappy to see it taken out of your control for no feature (Chrome still relies on cloud services for most AI features).

The AI model we’re talking about here is not used for most of the AI features, which instead relies on cloud services. Those 4GB are there only for a fringe feature most people don’t know/don’t care about, hidden behind hoops you’ll have to jump through to get.

If they start looking into your stuff for any reason, and suspect that a user connected to your site through a VPN, you’re in.

It doesn’t have to be true to begin with. And it doesn’t have to be enforced at scale, only when needed.

Even worse, that would not necessarily help. If someone’s accessing your website through a VPN that’s not located in that state, you would not block it… then become liable.

Better block everything at this point -_-

Irrelevant. The end goal is they can say “you connected to a site without going through our checkpoint, you’re liable”. Then the fun begins.

The teshnikully… discussions are useless against this. Heck, given how some networks operate, I would not be surprised if some people would fall into this without even knowing.

Remember when we told people “they’ll make it illegal to use a VPN” and we got snarky replies like “it’s not enforceable LOL”.

The fuck it isn’t. Traffic coming from a VPN? That’s a paddlin’, kiddo.

They’re not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they’re still trying to masquerade as a “think of the children!” measure. Those fuckers.

1. Have a project works well
2. Amass a massive community with lots of goodwill
3. Project gets bought/merged/under new management
4. new management destroy everything that attracted the community and goodwill
5. ???
6. Somehow, not profit

I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?