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F to a Legend and titan.

actually been like that for ages but people notice it a lot now and have a way to talk about it openly. mid 2000s CNN was really bad about this kind of thing. headline sounds shocking but once you got to paragraph 4 or so the story starts to change. then when you get to the bottom paragraphs the truth starts to come out - in stark contrast to the headline. not sure how they are these days.

ya i cant believe im seeing this again

obama talked tough about the border repeatedly. including during a state of the union.

obama deported tons of people.

obama did the 'kids in cages' thing.

do you recall any protest? mass media outrage about fascism and racism?

hillary, bernie, etc, all talked tough about immigration back in the day. no one cared.

I have ~3 lower/mid range Linux laptops and 1x mid/high range windows gaming laptop. It's amazing how slow the windows machine is despite being an absolute beast compared to the linux machines, which have way worse specs.

His actions at DOGE literally caused the deaths of thousands.

you mean that part where the US spends billions of dollars helping other countries and they hate us for our troubles?

"price adjustment" isnt 2x+ price adjustment is like 5% or 10%

btw if you turn the iphone calc into landscape mode and switch you scientific calc it does Ramanujan's constant without rounding, but stops after the twelve 9s.

My favorite was ChatGPT, and I still use it often, but it becomes way too 'hair splitting' argumentative too often over very minor non controversial topics. Like it's always going out of its way to "well actually..."

Grok used to be really really bad ~8 months ago or so, but it's gotten better.

ChatGPT team needs to turn down the 'disagree just because' factor by a lot.

im failing to see the connection

standard pixel tracking, linked to meta (js , web)

Meta exploited Android's localhost (os level)

The conversation from the core devs ran through the pattern that one gets used to seeing when one runs into SystemD bugs that are caused by extremely complex unanticipated interactions between parts of the project

SystemD contains an enormous -and ever-growing- amount of accidental complexity, and has a set of core maintainers who are generally disinterested in either documenting the places where one or more complex systems bind together to cause stop-the-world problems or fixing the systems involved so that they don't bind up.

excellent comment. thx for the long form. im sure it was fueled by excessive frustration.

imagine my surprise to learn that Systemd was causing my long standing frustration with changing my dns settings. and further surprise to learn that server admins have this same issue and many switch away from using systemd-resolved.

btw that xz hack only effect systemd distros

Grok is trained to have a bias

Oh and the others arent? You cant really be that niave right?

I like ChatGPT a lot but it is always trying to debate and disagree when you ask it simple non-controversial questions. Trying to turn everything into a debate session instead of just answering the question.

"making economic resources available to EU-sanctioned entities."

this is very vague

!!!I see no reason not to go with a rolling release distro!!! for personal servers. Run all the services in containers and !!!have the base OS auto-update itself as often as it needs.!!!

you do not belong in IT

Everyone knows stores have security cameras. But if you called them up and said 'I saw you pick up the chips' they wouldnt have a good feeling.

Everyone understands websites use analytics and tracking, but people dont want to be reminded of it. Which is why people hate those FB ads which exactly match what you searched for 24 hours ago.

claude ads hot off the presses.

Digital Ocean. I should add going into the whole situation I had a positive feelings about Hetzner and negative feelings about Digital Ocean. It's why I tried Hetzner first. I didnt like D.O. or want to use them. But in the end their interface was way easier to work with.

it must be rad to be a scientist and get paid to do a bunch of BS that doesnt really matter and most people wont even double check your work and then if anyone questions your work hordes of Internet Hero's will defend your Expert Honor

they want a popular thing, then that thing falls under the control of Big Business Meeting Thinking , and suffers the expected fate

Companies are making a trillion dollars on Open Source free code then maybe donate 50k to that project. People are spending huge amounts of time , stress, their lives, to help these projects. Companies have proved themselves to be very self centered. CEOs getting 2x yatchs and 5x houses while Open Source guys are trying to figure out which grocery store has the cheapest food items.

Hetzner has the most unintuitive UI out of any host I've ever used in 20+ yrs of using different web host. Spending hours trying to do basic things, and even AI couldnt help. Switched to one of their competitors after 2(!) days of trouble shooting and got the same basic task done in ~10 mins.

The cost of producing code has collapsed. AI tools can generate functional, adequate, perfectly average code at a speed and cost that would have been unimaginable even five years ago. And like the outsourcing wave of the early 2000s, the economics are real and rational. Nobody is wrong for using these tools. The code they produce is often fine. It works. It passes tests. It might ship as-is.

After using AI for months (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) it is extremely rare for their code to work 'as is' first shot and almost always requires several iterations and cleaning up edge-cases.

When it does work 'first shot' it's usually when it's transferring existing working code to a new project which is slightly different.

i will never work for one of these mega big tech companies. making tons of $$$ then fire you. have a nice day.

not good when the power goes out / grid goes down which has happened repeatedly in the past 40 yrs

but also how "ready" is "ready enough"?

good question but too often what we find is "not ready at all".

Governments have gotten in the bad habit of acting like nothing will ever go wrong. Living paycheck-to-paycheck, so to speak. Cali not the only one suffering this fate. It doesnt matter if it's Trump's fault or not. Lets just say it is. Bad things happen. You have to be ready.

because it's really well developed and Just Works

"Claude Code is basically magic" spam hit the hardest. Temporarily side lined by GH status post. Maybe Claude Advertising is in a lull right now.