Why are you trying to contribute to Reddit by posting / voting? While I still use Reddit (after Lemmy) I make a point to never vote or comment or contribute in any way whatsoever. They rely on contributors to power their network, so don’t contribute.

Compared to i3 it is, but I admit that’s not a fair comparison as i3 is going for a very specific style that is cheap to implement.

As an Arch user I hate these memes. Guys, the only difference between distros is effectively the versions of packages you’re getting, and what the default packages and configs are. In Ubuntu you are completely free to have a very minimal i3 setup (I did for several years!) while in Arch you can use some bloated Gnome UI. This “Arch is fast and Ubuntu is slow” really isn’t true if you compare Arch-Gnome vs Ubuntu-Gnome, or Arch-i3 vs Ubuntu-i3.

Pretty sure MS would name theirs “Internet Manager 6 Extreme Copilot”.

Ehh, there’s actually good risk reasons why funds, like the Canada Pension Plan, should be investing worldwide. Basically, if a crisis hits us in particular and all your investments are here, then then all your investments suffer. Meanwhile, because the economy is suffering, some people may opt to retire early so your withdrawals also increase. Whereas if your investments are distributed worldwide then you’re less exposed to any individual crisis. Canada’s economy might suffer as the US kills free trade, etc. but your investment in Australia continues generating returns.

I would also be worried about cronyism & connections interfering with the funds if your investments are more local. I imagine business leaders in Canada would have better success in influencing a local fund to make an unfair investment (good for the business, bad for the pensioners) than foreign business leaders might have. Plus it’s a lot easier to say ‘no’ to a bad investment the more options you have.

While prison is expensive, you’re not accounting that the risk of prison can be effective at disincentivizing future crimes which also have a cost to society. So yeah, confining this scammer in prison is expensive, but if it scares off others from scamming then prison could end up net beneficial.

I will add that I’m not at all against programs trying to rehabilitate criminals, especially as those programs can both help the prisoner and society (by reducing repeat crimes); but I do believe that there is value in making the punishment for crime unpleasant for the criminal, which I don’t think house arrest accomplishes.

That’s fair. I wouldn’t reject money from Google but instead build up an endowment with it for when it eventually disappears. If you can recover your market share (maybe by investing in your browser - the peformance is lagging) then you can also demand more money from Google to set them as default. Finally, Mozilla is a non-profit and I wouldn’t be opposed to them just asking for donations, like most non-profits.

I had an ad in my Firefox settings for “Solo AI Website Creator”. It’s a product from Mozilla for using AI to build your website. Note that it’s not open source, and you must rely on them to host your website (no export functionality, and recurring fees outside a basic free tier).

I agree with you, I wish Mozilla would focus solely on their mission instead of trying to build all these side projects people don’t want.

Economic - Because of shipping costs & distance it would be harder to buy / sell with European based firms, so there’d be less benefits to the economic single market.

Social - Because of distance and time zones it would be more costly to move, both in terms of $ (can’t drive to Europe), and in terms of social costs due to huge timezone shift from friends and family.

Political - Some benefits, but also Europe’s needs / wants aren’t as aligned with ours. For example, due to geography it’s in our best interests to maintain a good trading relationship with the Americans (which isn’t ideal, but it’s the reality). The Europeans aren’t as incentivized to ensure we have the best trade agreement if it hurts their interests - remember that any member can block some of these treaties.

It’s probably best for us to get as close as we can so long as it doesn’t interfere with us negotiating our own trade ties with other nations (particularly the US). That’s really the one item where it could be a net-negative.

Wasn’t MS just saying that they were going to work to de-shittify Windows? Evidently the same decision makers for the previous shit are still in charge.

I’m annoyed because I only saw it on my feed today. Luckily I was about 2 sentences in before I checked the date.

Every day

I can imagine future TVs refusing to work without an always-on internet connection.

And then they can sue the hosting company Valve uses for distributing the assets without a license, and the ISPs that transmit the assets without a license, and the speaker manufacturers for playing the assets without a license, and …

I would be curious to see how often people actually upgrade their frameworks.

For me, I’ve upgraded my mainboard to a newer CPU generation for better integrated graphics (old one is in a case as a home server) and I upgraded to their matte screen when they released those.

Other people have good points, but even if you don’t care at all about open source or MS, Github’s reliability lately has been really bad. I think they’ve had 3 outages this month already? It’s been disruptive at my workplace and we have concerns about how we’d deploy a fix if we had an outage at the same time (since our deploys are automated using GH Actions).

They don’t need to; most developers rely on Github.

I never understood why people use Tailscale

I use it for the NAT busting and direct connections. This means that my devices can talk directly to each other, even when there’s NAT and dynamic IPs sitting between the devices with no port forwarding. This is not possible with Wireguard alone; usually you end up with a hub and spoke network model.

As for them man-in-the-middling, the client is open source (for Android and Linux at least) and traffic is end-to-end encrypted. If you don’t want to trust them with distributing the keys (completely valid concern) then it’s possible to configure things such that you must sign the keys of clients yourself for your devices to trust them (see Tailnet Lock).

In my case, because I like self-hosting, I self-host an open-source coordination server called Headscale. So in at least my circumstance I really am only using my infrastructure and open-source code.

I think you missed the point of his post. His issue is that the numeric operations the phone executes to run the LLM is producing garbage. Arguably this could break all kinds of neural networks, such as voice transcription. He’s not complaining that the LLMs are themselves unable to properly perform math.

Do they sleep inside the house? Like, are they housepets jumping up on your table and bed?