There are numerous outlets that feature investigative journalists who don’t trigger my red flag alarms every other time I see them. He has uncovered some good stuff, but it feels like he’s trying to manufacture a steady stream of outrage when 2/3 of the stories are more in the realm of yeah, that’s not ideal, but it fucking scans.

If you like him definitely watch him. Just keep some salt at the ready.

Bad news! They’re taking it so far the other way it’s even worse!

He’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I’m delighted he’s intent on unearthing things, but watching his stuff is work to me. He’s a bit of a rabble-rouser, he doesn’t make much of an attempt to stay balanced on a subject. It’s the ‘calls it as he sees it’ kind of thing that I tend to stay away from. When he starts going off on speculation, you have to keep an eye out for other explanations. I think he needs to add a good dose of Hanlon’s razor to his reporting. It’s great that he unearths things, but i’d rather get his findings filtered through another party that has the time to question his findings before they’re presented to me.

And lest I get accused of being an LTT fanboy, they suck in the opposite way. When GN and LTT got in their ‘fight’ I stopped watching them both.

You need a torrent handler.

Rust is fucking culture war

I’ve worked with a lot of devs. I’ve seen a group of devs invent a new language to keep from having to learn a new off-the-shelf language.

I’ve seen devops rip out entire working systems and work on replacement python for months rather than coming up to speed on existing stuff.

It honestly think a lot of it comes from the poor perception of starting over from scratch on someone else’s code vs on your own code.

Over placeholders? Jesus.

I at least understand it if they were actual final assets. Is the worry that they weren’t really placeholders?

Next up, if you used photoshop you’re out because it has AI features that you might have used.

They didn’t just rewrite it, they rewrote it in feces React

https://winaero.com/windows-11-start-menu-revealed-as-resource-heavy-react-native-app-sparks-performance-concerns/

The future is in making a laptop that doesn’t appear to be encrypted. AI-powered steganography will be the only way to communicate reasonably at some point. The only thing that’ll give it away is that there are more than the usual number of poorly cropped and unique memes.

Maybe.

I think the pushback stems from a bunch of different things.

It’s genuinely bad at some things. asking it to make a clock out of CSS and HTML is mostly awful.

Historically, it’s been really bad at everything. So if someone hasn’t done a serious dive on it recently, they’re going to have the impression that it’s even worse than it really is.

A lot of people don’t understand how to use it, a lot of times it’s like working with a monkey’s paw. You’ve got to pre-guess all the things that could go wrong and keep adding detail until it has no choice but to do it right. And even then, you have to come back and do iterations sometimes.

It’s making a bunch of oligarchs extremely wealthy, for no good reason, on the backs of the working class, while we can barely buy RAM. At the same time, they’re burning through a hell of a lot of natural resources.

They’re shoving options and features down our throats and making us pay for them even if we don’t want to use them.

Some people are genuinely scared that corporations will use it to replace skiled labor with unskilled labor, which they are.

I have seen advanced versions rewrite an entire cross-platform basic interpreter in a couple of tries.

I lost a rather complicated Python program I wrote to manage projectors for my Halloween display. I had it make a framework. I went through all of my different options and modes one at a time and explained exactly how they needed to work. I recreated a couple of weeks of work in a couple of hours and added a significant number of features.

It’s crap like make that admin page look good on a cell phone that’s absolutely bananas. That’s a feature I would never have the time to sit down and work on because it’s not that big of a deal. But it would literally be a day of trial and error on multiple test devices for me to write it myself.

Would it be better received if it were marketed differently? Probably a little bit. But not beyond the things that I wrote about. It would be a subtle improvement in visibility I feel.

A lot of the industry artists are at the very least using AI to screw around with concept art for references. The kind of stuff where they used to use google to search. One of my friends fed a service a fairly raw hand-sketched drawing, told it how to finish it off, then asked it to put it in different poses at different angles, then used that to hand-make the character into 3D.

There are, of course, many artists who wouldn’t touch any of it with a 10-foot pole.

I run a pi-hole on a pi 3 and another in a container in docker. Something rarely goes wrong with both and I have a script that sync them.

I replaced their google with searxng, but in the end, they needed ads for their free to play games, so I had to turn it off for them.

First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.

That’s a good idea to put first. Of course, like do no evil, priorities change, so we’ll need to keep a close eye on this.

Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.

Transparent is good, but if he things he’s going to add value to monetization, he’s smoking crack. There’s nothing we want from a browser that’s not already provided by a plugin.

Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

Nobody wants that. We already had all we wanted from them in trusted software.

I pulled down some random ass pop song, and it ended up being some guy noodling on a keyboard playing a half assed version of the cantina song from Star Wars. I set it to my phone’s ringtone. No idea when that mp3 was long, it was a LONG time ago

I’m up to 45TB of actual used storage. I just want another tape analog. I want inexpensive, slow, long-term storage I can move off-site easily. This paying double to keep disks around and then moving them in boxes is just bad, and online storage is stupid expensive at those sizes.

Was running on Backblaze for years until they screwed around with my client enough that I can’t backup my NAS reliably. I’m not a company, I’m not going to pay the cost of my disks every year to store the content of my disks.

I’ve been considering for a few years standing up a 2u box in colocation.

Shit’s getting extra shitty everywhere. Its like a couple of countries went a little fash and every politician across the globe went FUCK YEAH, LET US IN ON THAT SHIT!!!

wow, sign me up for a couple of dozen terabytes of that!

I also remember people burning pitts on scotch tape, then rolling it up and reading it in 3d :)

Even if the cats are out of the bag, i’d like to remove as many privacy leaks as possible.

this is really no different.

For some, yeah. But with the way things are running in politics, we’re 6 inches away from Sony demanding to see our viewing logs to make sure we’re not pirating.

Today’s data collection is tomorrow’s felony conviction.

Hmm… What’s eating Windows’ lunch? Oh “Unknown” and “Other”. Cool.

If the data is coming from statcounter, it’s kind of vague where they’re pulling it.

It’s strange to see IOS and not Android, maybe because it’s fractured into so many sources

It could also be anti ad/tracker stuff.

They’re in order in this highlighted column:

• Windows (at the top)
• OSX
• Unknown
• Linux
• Chrome
• IOS
• Other (dotted)