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Unfortunately, development is essentially dead afaik. Pico-8, originally just a prototype/development playground for Voxatron, became an instant hit and totally eclipsed Voxatron and now gets all the development hours, now shared with Picotron, which is an even newer product detracting from Voxatron. It's a total shame too, because I'd seen lots of demos of it on volumetric displays[1] which look amazing.
I don't understand what this is doing. Can't you sideload any ebook onto a kobo anyway? Never had an issue on my Clara
I wonder if the real problem isn't being able to write efficient queries, but that developers struggle to add (yet another) programming language. Just use AWK, just use SQL, just use jq, just use xyz. It's a lot of overhead. I would be OK to lose whatever fractional speed difference to be able to write my queries in a different scripting language. If I ever scaled so much that I needed to shave microseconds off my queries, there are already tons of DBs available, maybe just using a different tool or, even better, compile the DB with(out) different scripting support.
I unfortunately had the infuriating experience dealing with a (government, of course) site that did this. To add to the experience, not only did it silently truncate at registration, but it did NOT truncate on the login fields. And of course, it has a lockout after several failed attempts. UX gore at it's finest.
It's almost like the big companies are playing by a totally different set of rules. How else could Sam, Zuck and co, just blatantly rip pirated, copyrighted, copylefted material and just call whatever repercussions they do (or don't) receive the "cost of doing business". I'm not "anti-AI", I think it's incredible what can be done, but HOW it was produced, and how it's being used is wrong on so many levels.
Spotify is running ads for a design "thing", that's basically a generative AI logo creator. Isn't that one of the few instances that's already been clearly put into law - that you can't copyright AI generated stuff? How can you create a business that's selling uncopyrightable logos (which definitely would need/want to be copyrighted/trademarked)? It's the Wild, Wild West out here.
Ethically, selling code or programs built on other peoples code without consent is wrong.
Legally, it's probably also unlawful, unless you believe that smoke they're selling that it was trained on code that was open licensed or in the public domain.
Professionally, it's a poor choice to ship code that wasn't produced with human care and consideration or even thorough oversight or understanding based on recent trends.
Software developers like to call themselves "engineers", but more and more they're showing they're more than happy to be configurators of black boxes of modular software. Whether that means pulling random NPM packages with thousands of other random packages as dependencies (none of which are even browsed or licenses checked), or "vibe coding" slop the LLM spits out.
When the main problem was people assembling random packages, I always likened it to "sandwich artists" at Subway. They just stand behind the counter and configure the product of random combinations of ingredients (someone else's NPM packages). Now it's like they can't even see the selection of ingredients, they just grab handfuls and shove it together until they get something sandwich shaped. Bad times in software.
The amount of cigarette glazing on the internet in the past 1-2 years is crazy to me. On Reddit, there are very thinly-veiled promotional content popping up more and more often like "taste test" videos comparing brands, and one that was a supposedly viral "come smoke with me at the park and I'll give you a free cigarette" thing. Gen Z and hopefully Gen Alpha have some of the lowest smoking rates (idk how vaping factors in or muddles those numbers), but it seems like Big Tobacco has discovered they can get around smoking advertising bans by using social marketing similar to how vape companies were sponsoring tons of influencers on tiktok. I hate it. Why are we letting them advertise this stuff that whole generations know is actually deadly and addictive. Even in this thread, there is a suspicious feeling of canvassers among the comments. Do not like...
How are people handling AI generated code these days? Seems like everyone is using some sort of coding assistant. You can't just ship AI generated (or assisted) code to clients as if it were you're to (sub)license, can you? You don't even hold license to do so, I'd imagine
I've been a very happy user of firefox container tabs, but this is the first I'd heard of container proxies. Any resources on them you can share?
Only thing that comes to mind off the top of the head is that JGL has been very outspoken against AI and the dangers of kids using it.
I'm curious to see if this will embolden game corps to continue mistreating consumers or if they will acknowledge consumers are aware of that ethereal state of their "ownership" of games and start selling more complete products instead of "clients" to servers that can be rug-pulled at any time. I think we all can guess the answer as consumers continue to buy, unfortunately, but this movement is at least a step in the right direction.
Any examples? I guess I only know of his public/FOSS works.
Phivolcs literally gets hugged to death after almost every significant event. Really unfortunate considering the subject matter.
I'm fully ready to drink the "just let systemd do all the things" kool-aid, but I would love to see some sort of introductory/tutorial info into some of the things it can do other than services - i.e. containers and timers. I know man pages exist, but it would be nice if there was more scannable intro out there.
I don't think we should blame the LLMs, frameworks and the libraries necessarily. In my own experience, it feels like the real problem is a lot of companies (especially start ups) like to talk about "rapid prototyping", but are quite keen to just keep the prototype as the final product. Bootstrap, Rails, Tailwind, Nextjs and now LLM generated code... great for getting something up quickly with a semi-polished look to demo a thing. The real problem is that we're selling prototypes as products.
I get why the government is keen to do this, but what sane citizen wants to live anywhere near those factories they want to bring back? Nothing like contaminated drinking water, poor air quality, acid rain that ruins your cars paint, noise and light pollution etc, etc, etc. Not to mention they'd surely be built with automation in mind to rug pull and wishful thinking about job creation. No thanks.
Can you detail the transition? What were the pain points? I feel like you lose a lot of the selling point of OpenBSD as soon as you start pulling from ports, but how could you do anything productive without it
What gets me is when this was brought up, they said "requiring explicit permission will kill the AI industry"[1]. No shit! Why do you think all the rest of us didn't build a business/"industry" around stealing shit? They could have done it at a slower pace while respecting copyright laws, but they were too greedy to be first to market and secure a hold.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artist...
I feel like Windows 11 was literally JUST in the headlines for bricking PCs with one of their forced updates. I get that *nix is not for everyone, but it is VERY rare that you hit an issue with one of the more popular distros that hasn't already been hit and with a documented answer on a reputable forum with an easy search. When I've had issues with Windows stuff, you have less information to go on usually, just some BSoD or similar and the forum posts seem to be heavily moderated (post chains read like a generic tech support call - have you tried restarting etc etc) and hard to find an answer. Just my anec-data. You usually get a very verbose error message when Linux issues arise and pasting the error message into a search will usually point you right where you need to be.
Maybe it should return a 303 See Other response
Since it came out that they're being operated remotely, via Filipino remote workers, you'd think the whole defense that they're driverless should be moot, and some people should be catching charges for fraud or something. Facilitating drivers operating motor vehicles without a US driver's license, for hire no less. Not like startups ever get charged for blatantly breaking laws under the guise of "disruption", though.
Outages aside, I have not put any serious work (of mine) on Github since it came out that they trained CoPilot on everyone's code without any sort of opt-in or details about how licenses were honored. I moved all my code, and I stopped doing the Hacktoberfests as I realized their incentive to have us all do it. All the good will I felt participating in FOSS was lost almost instantly. I still make FOSS and still participate in other's projects where I can, but I host my own stuff elsewhere.
What sweeteners are you leaning toward these days? I try to stick to stevia/monk fruit/allulose, but if you're not preparing food yourself, it's hard to find things that aren't using the sugar alcohols, maltodextrin, etc
I always wondered how NES games, which were notoriously low memory, could have game simulation on the start screens. Think Super Mario Bros, but there are many others. If no input is received at the start menu, the game starts playing a demo run. You always see videos and posts about how developers were dissecting sprites and swapping color pallets to work around the small memory, so how in the heck did they manage having the gameplay demos?
Spotify arbitrarily gatekeeps even basic function like accessing your Liked songs on the PWA
Age checks certainly won't be restricted only to porn sites. Tons of sites have 13+ ToS like Facebook & the various other social sites, Discord too iirc. The reason people are so adamantly against this proposal is that it ties the machine to a particular identity. So how does a public computer work? If age verification is implemented at the OS level, can we even have public terminals? All those interfaces in stores that are just a website in kiosk mode? Would they be illegally representing end users if it's set as an adult on a master account/login? This proposal is so stupid and poorly thought out it's alarming.
I wonder how things like computers at the library will work. This whole thing is just so stupid and intrusive. I can't imagine anyone will benefit from this except advertisers, doxxers and Big Brother.
When you review code, do you spend 2 minutes per line? That seems like a huge exaggeration of effort required
It WOULD be nice if it only got used appropriately. But in 2026 its just one more metric to narrow down your profile for advertisers. Wouldn't it be convenient if you could just opt-out of tracking with a convenient API like the literal "do not track" header in browsers? It exists, but none of the people who SHOULD use it pay it any attention except as, ironically, another metric used to track people.
Not to mention that computing is a global thing, and in order for this to be useful it would definitely have to be providing more specific information than just a bool. Maybe chats require 13+, but pornography requires 18+. Maybe those ages are different based on location. All advertisers would need to do is ping the various different checks to get your actual or at least very approximate age.
This kind of thing is a slippery slope, and its ripe for abuse by doxxers, advertisers and big brother himself. Burn this with fire. I'm totally in agreement with the others that suggest stuff like this should b just get banned from getting introduced and reintroduced constantly trying to sneak it in as a rider or hidden provision. The people DON'T want it.
This was my thought as well. I'm surprised people are so easy to forgive and forget
Edit: a link[1] for those that aren't familiar
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...