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Given xAI's gross disregard for environmental regulations in building Colossus, the reason for building datacenters in space seems obvious: there's no EPA in space.

The meaning of kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc. are unambiguous: SI prefixes defined as powers of 10, not 2. 1 TB is 10*12 bytes, not 2*40 bytes.

The misuse of those prefixes as powers of 1024, while useful as shorthand for computer memory where binary addressing means, is still exactly that: a misuse of SI prefixes.

There's now a separate set of base-2 prefixes to solve this, and people need to update their language accordingly.

It's because Microsoft isn't a software company. They're a marketing company that happens to make software and a few other bits.

We're now on the back end of that, where Microsoft must again make products with independent substance, but are instead drowning in their own infrastructural muck.

Install the Youtube Control Panel extension by soitis. It's available for all desktop and mobile browsers, and does a lot to restore sanity on YouTube.

If you want something lighter for Firefox Android. There is also the Background Video Player extension.

Put on a good show, offer something novel, and people will gleefully march right off a cliff while admiring their shiny new purchase.

the only place i have one is a grocery store where their loyalty program price is listed on the shelf tag and is lower, often by quite a bit (a third to half off is common). even then, i use one of the meme phone numbers (local area code + 867-5309, 678-999-8212, 281-330-8004, etc.).

Maybe a nit, but this isn't piracy. Windows has been officially free to download and install since Windows XP. That was when Microsoft switched to their Product Activation DRM, and the license key became the bit you paid for.

Tangent: I miss MSDN AA

It's the private equity era. Much like how legislative behaviour is now dictated by the wealthy even to the point of contradicting the will/desire of informed voters, corporate behaviour is now dictated by private equity investment to the point of contradicting the demand from informed user/consumers.

Speaking strictly about ZFS internal operations, the free space requirement is closer to 5% on current ZFS versions. That allows for CoW and block reallocations in real-world pools. Heavy churn and very large files will increase that margin.

I think it's more that AI is the final straw for many. Social media exhaustion. Everything needing an account or (worse) subscription. The stupidity of smart devices/appliances. Software and media not being ownable anymore. Constant data breeches.

Chatbots are just the latest in a long line of everything digital being little more than a rent-seeking, ad-riddled, privacy-invading scam.

The work required to protect yourself from it all is an arms race, and LLMs only dialed up the cost.

"Full" "Self"-"Driving" ("Supervised")

In this case, static text without the highlighter would have been better. Because the timing is so far off, the highlighter interferes with reading the captions for hearing assistance.

The caption highlight timing is very inaccurate. It looks like it just steps through each word on a fixed timer, rather than using timing information from the TTS engine?

and art. there are still a lot of artists on X. no, i don't mean the kind that autostarts HR cases.

You hire such people to introduce you to ideas and projects. You try some stuff, see what sticks.

It's something you can do when you have money and time but no ideas.

Then why did he go back to Google /s

I really don't buy his explanation. Here's one of the world's smartest guys, with more money than Smaug, and he really couldn't come up with anything better than going back to Google to work on Gemini?

What's the point of all that money if you won't even hire someone to help you find hobbies.

So many STEM universities have online courses. The art world froths itself mad over smart people with stupid money. Local projects beg for angels like him.

Hell even just doing the AI schtick but for free open source or as a pet startup.

My mind reels with ideas. Why didn't his?

But if my git hashes are indivisible, how will people fork my repo? /s

Anyone read that thinking they're claiming the Autoped was an e-scooter? It used a petrol engine.

It had a novel idea of pushing/pulling the handbars to engage the clutch/apply the brake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped

News like this reminds me of what Linus Torvalds said on LTT when the topic of LoC metrics came up

Ya my router has to do tagged PPPoE through the ONT even though I pay for a static /28. At least I don't have to also do RIP for the subnet like Xfinity requires.

Interestingly, if I pay for their IPTV service the internet side becomes a bare ethernet port over which I can do DHCP for the upstream interface and number the downstream subnet out of my /28.

I have debated paying for TV service as a sanity fee.

CenturyLink, an ILEC, only offers IPv6 using 6rd gateways. The IPv6 throughput is a fraction of IPv4 and has much higher latency. During peak times, the 6rd gateway saturates, forcing me to stop advertising the prefix to restore internet access. It has been this way for years.

It is also impossible to report IPv6-specific outages. CenturyLink technical support is the worst of the worst, with agents utterly incapable of doing more than pushing a "check ONT" button on their end and scheduling a technician visit with a multiday window. If you ask them for the 6rd configuration information, they act like you're speaking an alien language.

Even among their technicians, IPv6 knowledge is rare. Imagine the guy installing hundreds of dollars of gigabit fibre equipment at your demarc staring you like an idiot because you spoke two extra syllables between "IP" and "address". I'd think the term "IPv6" is chatbot poison if it weren't for the fact it's a human physically in front of me.

The result is their service is effectively IPv4-only.

Even better, the reboot wasn't needed as the kernel didn't get bumped on this one. Just restart the rtsold service if you're using it and sanity check your resolv.conf and resolvconf.conf.

As for noticing it quickly, add `freebsd-update cron` to crontab and it will email you the fetch summary when updates are available

As long as I can deploy a pkg with the AI features completely disabled administratively, I'm fine with it.

I'd like it a lot more if it was strictly opt-in, and they made non-AI LTS releases, but I understand that's at odds with eyeball acquisition

Three of the banks I use have their websites/apps go through CloudFlare. So does the electronic records and messaging system used by my doctor. A lawyer friend uses a secure documents transfer service that is protect by guess who.

Who needs to let CF directly onto their network when they already sit between client and provider for critically-private, privileged communications and records access?

Consider this - what is the likelihood of every certificate authority on the Internet having their private keys compromised simultaneously?

Considering that CloudFlare has managed to MitM a huge part of the internet, I'd say that probability is not just non-zero, but greater than by a worrying margin.

It doesn't handle backspace correctly. The character is erased visually, but not removed from the buffer, so when you type the next character, the erased character reappears. Make one typo and you have to reload the page.

The World Wide Web is not the Internet.

As I was writing it out, I knew someone was going to complain.

It's an abridged timeline. Brevity because the point is the date, not the fine detail.

But since I don't care to argue on the internet... edited.

"we have been open-source long before it was fashionable"

An abridged timeline:

1960s to 1980s: hobbyist and academic/research computing create thriving public domain software ecosystems (literally the birth of FOSS)

1983: The GNU Project begins

1989: The World Wide Web is created

1991: Linus Torvalds posts the first Linux kernel to USENET

1992: 386BSD is released; Slackware is created

1993: NetBSD is forked; Debian is created

1994: FreeBSD 2 is released

1995: Red Hat is created

[a decade of FOSS and the internet changing computing and research forever]

2005: A collection of low-cost microcontroller education tools, benefiting from half a century of FOSS, is formalized into something called "Arduino"