Yeah they should stick to politics where they belong.

Before I went to a laptop with somewhat shakey suspend power consumption my desktop PC was going on 18 months uptime. The reason it was only 18 months was that we had a power outage. Unfortunately Debian became a bit boring so now I use Arch BTW. So many of the problems I deal with are caused by the insistence we use Windows “because it just works”. Worst part is 95% of my workflow is browser based. Its only bloody stinking Outlook that means I couldn’t use Linux to do everything.

My first thought was that there is a gulf of difference between display, and display respectfully… But seriously how does anyone take their religion so seriously when it’s so obviously a fragile veneer, if your beliefs are that brittle maybe time to start challenging some assumptions.

Oh when I see AI shilling I see them as tools.

Oh please spare me the self justifying bullshit. You use the coding slop tool to make the slop code, it doesn’t make you some amazing developer. If it’s still around in a year it might be worth looking at. These sorts of things have a habit of self destructing, it’s why so many people avoid them. My car wasn’t made on the stolen data of humanity. I do my best to limit the use of LLM garbage, disabled the AI shit features on my phone. I use decent Operating Systems that have AI policies written with community consultation, I do what I can to shield myself from the cognito hazard. Just because heaps of people have herpes doesn’t mean we all have to embrace it you fucking sheep. The sooner this fucking AI bubble bursts the sooner people like you will stop throwing these projects into the world like unwanted puppies on Christmas Day destined for the pound a week after the novelty wears off. Now I am done with you, have your LLM write all the vaguely condescending dude bro comments in response to me you want, I can’t be bothered reading them.

Here you go then, feature suggestion: Disclose the use of LLMs to develop the project loudly and enthusiastically without evangelism. People who want to take a punt can, people who want to avoid it can, everyone is happy. If someone wants to let you know your project is the programming equivalent of a sweatshop, built on exploitation of other peoples hard work and contributing nothing but misery to the world, then having your LLM write a response won’t convince them otherwise.

That’s the way you want to code that’s your call. There is no ethical LLM, without exception they are all the result of a corporations theft, cheating and lies. We keep on finding proof that they have a negative impact on cognition and capability and that they shift the “cost” of projects. Used to be that to get a project off the ground the first step was to identify the problem you were tackling and then build out a minimum viable product, hopefully you would attract external talent to critique and or contribute.

These days, vibe code the fuck out of it and slap it on github that afternoon. Of course without that period to grow internally the whole project is on shakey foundations, and a lot of things that should have died off in the early stages get released to the public before anyone realises they will never catch up on the technical debt.

Look all of this is a long winded way of saying chuck your slop code disclaim out front. The people who want to engage with it will, the people who want to wait a year to see if the project explodes, implodes, or withers on the vine can do so. Also the people who choose not to actively engage with the corporate theft machine can just move along without feeling a compulsion to look at the code and comment on how the project is slop.

Yeah, maybe. Different pathways to the same end I guess still gets you to the same end… In Germany.

That’s the garden variety censorship though, right? Your government deciding no one should be allowed access, not just restricting access behind mandatory state sanctioned identity theft like some of the more “Enlightened” countries have.

I think the normies just find the niche hard to appreciate. People don’t think about things like ownership and DRM until they are forced to.

Luckily GOG isn’t affected at this stage.

Yep I can see them in search but I’m an Australian with no credit card, that’s all I can see.

I always thought the decision was made a lot earlier than that. Wasn’t it largely due to Westinghouse that America settled on 60hz 110v? Where AEG pushed 50hz 220v in Europe? That was late 1800s early 1900s from memory. World war 2 may have resulted in some rebuilding but they rebuilt along lines that were already established, the bump up to 230-240v with time and gained efficiencies is mirrored in the US with the move towards 120v at least that’s what I recall, but I must admit that outside of some Technology Connections videos I haven’t delved too deeply in recent years (and yes I know Alec would say the US technically already sends 240v but that’s not what your general appliances are rated to).

Yeah the list of agents related files in .gitignore was the final confirmation, but it had the stank on it.

Yeah protecting their customers is definitely Apple’s prime motivation… Wouldn’t be about hoovering up even more of their data than the rat finks already do. There is no world in which any of this is pro consumer, it’s governments and corporations teaming up to gang rape consumers under the thin veneer of public safety and there are enough apologists out there trying to find some way of reinterpreting this as anything other than what it is. It doesn’t make children safe; it gets them accustomed to mass surveillance and data insecurity, it doesn’t force porn to become better; it just forces it and its consumers underground, it doesn’t stop criminal activities; it just forces them to become more sophisticated. Actual authoritarian governments have struggled to make this shit work, what makes you think governments as bumbling and inept as the US, UK or Australia are going to be able to succeed where they failed?

On the flip side if the goal is to set up direct feeds for the bulk of the population to have their real identity and banking details associated with every online interaction so it’s all accessible to the various organisations that want to spy on people, well they are smashing that out of the park.

Anecdotally here in Australia less than 10% of my kids year 8 class lost their social media access, the majority lost it for less than a day… Something like 40-50% of their parents loaded their ID onto various verification sites, which part of our age verification laws do you think were important based on that?

Is there some suggestion that Apple is going to do ID attestation or are they just harvesting ID? Either way the whole thing is slimy. They are a private company choosing to exceed their legal requirements, does anyone think this is for the good of their customers?

Takes a couple of litres of water before we get hot water. I have filled the kettle twice before the water was too hot to hold my hand under before. That’s roughly 3.5 litres of water just to get to the hot stuff. Luckily boiling water was a key consideration in our voltage level (actually that’s something I made up on the spot 😜) but more power equals good so… Its weird that this is a field that the US apparently just decided to let a large portion of the world be more “powerful” almost expect that if there were parts of the world settling on 240v the US would arbitarily decide they needed 500v.

Different country and all, but both are 240v in my neck of the woods, and since I live on tank water with mains water supply as a back up. Coupled with what I believe may be the most circuitous route from hot water cylinder to kitchen tap on earth (3 meters point to point yet seeming out to the local post office and back based on how long it takes to get hot water out of the tap) we use the Dishwasher to heat our water.

Which is all a very verbose way of saying “It depends on your circumstance…”

How much money does her dead husband spend on staying at Trump hotels and buying Trump cryptocurrency. Cause I think she will find that Donald J Trump is loyal… To the people paying him… For exactly as long as it takes to get paid…

Solution is clear Love. If you want Trump to hold the Saudis accountable you need to be more valuable than they are.

Oh I can see the lay of the land quite clearly. Have done since a long time ago. I opted out of the Digital Health records for exactly that reason. On day one. The government would fall into that Swiss cheese security model I mentioned before. We as a nation need to be asking the government who is going to pay for all the fallout from these policies, because as I said when I discussed this with the eSafety commissioners office, I would not like to be on record as the politician pushing this if we had to spend tax payer money on rehabilitating society if we have a data leak that causes a million people to need compensatory damages paid to make them whole. Several million people and we are talking GDP levels of financial impact to pay for some politicians brain fart. They are lining up the dominos for a single data breach to cost our economy every cent. All so ASD, AFP and ASIO can spy on us more efficiently, but I’m sure that all the foreign governments we are continually leaking data to appreciate our sacrifice.