The costs have ballooned too much. When seasons were 18 episodes and it costs $100k per episode, it made sense to serialize. Often they were written as they were filmed. Now every episode costs $10 million and preproduction takes a year before the first scene can be filmed with massive post production. No one has really cracked the formula for making TV formats work well on streaming services. The all at once for binge watching only works if you already have a massive archive of shows to expose. The one episode a week for short boutique series that run a season every 3 years is not working well either.

Yeah, it’s going the be a whole ordeal. I will have to block an afternoon for the migration. Definitely not a “never breaks anymore” scenario. Everything can be broken, there’s no perfectly stable software.

Comparing code bugs to cholera. Nice way to be utterly disconnected from reality and what really matters in life. Let’s burn the planet down and waste all of our clean water because of code review.

Funny enough I had to rollback, since it doesn’t start in the latest version in my setup. I have to make a conscious effort to keep it one or two subversions behind. It is not the first time an upgrade breaks my install. It will probably be a whole thing when I decide to actually upgrade it again.

Right now, the latest update doesn’t run in my otherwise until now perfectly working environment. It’s frustrating because there’s no easy way to downgrade it in my setup.

That’s a lot of words just to reiterate what OC said. None of your examples disagree with the fact that these companies are using AI for a ton of stuff they’re not good at. And the stuff it is good at are not bottlenecks. If you removed LLMs from the face of the planet today, code quality will not suffer significantly. Sure, doing code review en masse is good. But that is not what was holding back computer programming. It’s existence is not progressing software in any significant way either. It’s a nice to have, not a must have. Code was fine for four decades without LLMs. Indeed it makes me wonder, if a machine learning model was purpose made to do code review, instead of general purpose LLMs doing it, how much better it could be, if we actually leveraged what they’re good at.

“old time good! new time bad!”

Classical old people afraid of death and irrelevance.

I meant as a means of corporate sabotage.

They loved it too much and now it costs more than paying a living wage to a human being. The end goal of AI was always to cut cost and layoff people. The best sabotage right now is to setup a script that constantly prompts an LLM for something useless. I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water. But it would send a message. AI is not cheaper, it never was. Even with today’s outrageous token prices, LLM companies are still bleeding money per user. It will only get more expensive as data center contracts fall through and the investment craze fizzles out.

BTW, how is starship, or whatever the exploding giant dildo is called, doing?

Still massively behind schedule, costs keep ballooning out of control. This year’s test also blew up. Still can’t even reach orbit. Still promising orbital refueling for a ship that barely even flies.

It’s precisely the reason why many other licenses exists, and that are used for those who want to offer OSS as a service. It is still open, but the service is sold as a guarantee.

But never mind that. Because when you look at stuff like Microslop, Apple, and pretty much any other commercial proprietary software developer. They do so the same way. Games are not sold, they are licensed, with no guarantees of functionality either, just to put one example. It’s a mar of software as an industry, not exclusive to FOSS and definitely not created by the ideological underpinnings of FOSS.

Like, MS offers guarantees of quality and offer liability on their ToS for corporate contracts, but not for the version people can acquire for their home PC. Even then, the liabilities are very limited and cautiously defined. Essentially, unless MS is doing IT directly for your company, you are on your fucking own. And then, support channels for corporate service are very limited on what they do and do not offer. The average Joe buying a Mac or any other PC with Windows essentially get the same “software is provided ‘as is’ and we don’t care if it doesn’t work." It’s not associated to FOSS exclusively.

Victim blaming is never a good take.

Main point being …

that don’t invade the privacy of others

Meta or not, this concern doesn’t disappear.

Yeah, there’s potential use for AR glasses, but not as a consumer item for personal ownership. They fit more in industrial settings or in specialized roles. Fuck Meta.

Most of the uses for a HUD-IRL do not require personal ownership of the device. Like, the Louvre rented 3DSs to visitors for AR and guided visits for years. Guides and pop up info are appropriate on industrial settings, for personal hobbies it is overkill. Now, name tags and relationship data on people you interact with? weird and creepy. You mean like, for use by healthcare professionals? maybe, still no need to personally own one, and there are gigantic ethical issues to solve by having cameras constantly on during people’s most vulnerable moments. For disability support, IDK, it might have uses, but it is still weird creepy and invasive, due to constant camera on and facial recognition active. You would have to trust 100% on the tech company behind it, and Meta is not exactly the most trustworthy corporation, by far.

Yeah, and the dork glasses will most definitely won’t give any weird vibes.

Anyway, on an entirely different topic, have you ever heard the term glasshole?

Brick ovens can go there, doesn’t mean that you should cook the pizza at that unless you’re one who likes charcoal as a topping.

madthumbs lost a hard drive to a bad Red Hat installation over 20 years ago, and that made them really, really, really, really, really…really, really salty about Linux and FOSS. They like to talk in royal we, but the community of LinuxSUCKS is literally just them deleting and banning everyone who even tangentially disagrees with their deranged memes.

They are not very put together, but they do know how to hold a grudge eternally.

They have repeatedly gone on record saying they always underestimated demand for their hardware. They said it for the Deck, for both controllers, and now for the Steam Machine. I wonder how much of that is due to being burned so badly by the original steam machines program and some sort of collective PTSD, or do they genuinely suck so much at marketing that they have no idea that people want real hardware competition in the gaming space. I know that market analysis is the hardest part of marketing. But underestimating demand for a decade straight? something’s is off. It gives me flashbacks to when the Orange Box came out and it was sold out almost immediately to become one of PC game most culturally influential contribution to the internet. Yet they were so slow to order reprints (they were knee deep in rolling out Steam Store). It’s like they have zero confidence on their own products.

Burn the chip’s cartel.