Also: “By everything holy, buy some bleach and clean your mold-ass room!”
(Never buys it)
General nerd, programmer and sci-fi reader and writer. Neurodivergent, ADHD.
She/her.
Also: “By everything holy, buy some bleach and clean your mold-ass room!”
(Never buys it)
I understand devs being busy. What I can’t stand is their fan club who keep shitting on every user asking questions or not having the time to do a deep search on every single solution and the problems that come with it.
Maybe this is news for you, but FOSS communities are incredibly toxic. Every single suggestion or legitimate complaint is taken as a personal attack.
Then they wonder why people don’t pay enough attention to Linux and Open Source Software in general.
Perhaps they should realize there’s too many assholes in the community who keep driving people away. Normal folks have a limit. They just leave and hope their Windows doesn’t crash away, which is less frustrating than having to personally deal not only with tech issues but the shitty attitude of peple who are knowledgeable enough.
Worse, when you want to point out a flaw, you need to build an exhaustive list of reddit posts, archive org pages and so on and face trial because unless you give every single piece of evidence then your complaint is invalid. And I’m sorry but normal people just don’t have time for this shit.
Remember that joke? Ask for help and you get no response; Say linux sucks because you can’t do X and you get dozens of apologetic posts explaining step by step how to do stuff.
Turns out there’s some truth behind that joke.
There’s few things that can inspire as much fear in the population as the phrase “gone rogue” applied to AI.
Example. (HZD spoilers)
Ah yes, end users have no right to point out a software’s flaws unless they’re better than the developers who made it.
Don’t tell me you forgot what a “non technical end user” is?
Users can’t even add a feature request because they’re met with a storm of insults and snobbery.
Well, I have some news for you: You can’t hope for the year of the Linux desktop and keep treating end users like shit.
Planned obsolescence.
If it’s still so buggy then that’s even worse!
And please don’t call me bro.
Oh hey I might switch to Mint, Canonical pushing things on me is making me uneasy…
Linux Mint is killing its KDE Edition
(sigh) Never mind.
Wayland is still too immature. I couldn’t get it to work on my Kubuntu distro.
And then there’s this list of problems with Wayland.
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
BEGIN RANT
“Move fast and break things” may be fine for software gurus who love to experiment and have no problem hitting their head against the wall every few days while believing in the promise of a free-to-fix future, but this isn’t true for poor or busy people who are NOT middle class folks living in their own house in a suburb with a garage full of computer parts. There are single parents, caregivers with disabled and/or elderly, folks who need a reliable computer for their studies, and in general people who simply need something that JUST WORKS.
I’m a caregiver, and unfortunate I’m poor enough that I don’t have money to buy a commercial OS. Heck, I wish Windows just worked instead of making old versions obsolete. I was perfectly fine with Windows 7 ten years ago until Microsoft started doing planned obsolescence bullshit with their forced updates. I had to switch to Linux because Windows became very unreliable and I needed a stable platform that wouldn’t ruin my work.
(So if you’re one of the persons who reply to “Help my Linux is having problems” with “well you should know Linux is like that, you should have thought it twice before switching”, then you’re part of the problem because that’s a very, very shitty answer to give to a non technical end user with limited time and resources)
The year of the Linux desktop will never arrive if developers keep pushing incomplete and buggy software to the end users instead of actually fixing bugs and delivering their stuff ONLY when they’re ready.
Wayland is NOT ready for the end user.
END RANT.
For Google, hosting an app is just a matter of keeping an entry in a database and its data in storage. It’s not about the difficulty.
Furthermore, that app COST MONEY to the user. Here Google is not only removing the app from the store, they’re also UNINSTALLING it from the user’s device, without warning them, and without compensating them financially for this.
To make things even worse, their malware detection algorithm is prone to false positives. There’s not even a degree of certainty, like “there’s a 20% chance we could be making a mistake.” A binary without tolerance means they are removing things only on the SUSPICION they could be malware.
I had a very useful open source app - that I installed WITHOUT Google play store - removed from my phone. It was never submitted to Google and neither the author nor I EVER agreed to their app store remove third party software from my phone.
Google have become control freaks over our phones. The only solution I see is to install a third party OS, like Lineage or Graphene. I might even have to buy a new phone for this, but I don’t care. I don’t want Google to assume the role of Nanny and take away control of MY devices that I bought with my own fucking money.
If UBI isn’t implemented first then we’re fucked. Companies will just use AI to cut costs and discard labor.
No; without unions putting a stop to corporations that idealistic future will never arrive. And that’s pretty simple to prove. Why do corporations do the shitty stuff that they do? Because they can.
GenAI is a bubble; it will crash sooner of later when companies realize how much money they’ll have to spend on the infrastructure.
The hard part is making sure you don’t lose your job while clueless execs are still enchanted by the bullshit.
Doubt it. GenAI requires a shitton of resources, both in storage and for processing. Training a GenAI requires clusters upon clusters of NPUs and/or GPUs, even more than crypto miners and 3D renderers. The full storage requirements are proportional to the amount of training data you give, so expect them at least to be dozens of gigabytes long.
I doubt AI companies do it “for science” (yeah, right) so if they’re shit down by a court of law they’ll just shut the thing down. They can upload the code somewhere, but without training data their engine is useless.
Adam explains it. Enjoy.
I got a solution guys.
Hear me out…
Prison ceilings. 🤯
A: "Gee, I wonder what we could do "
B: “Make the streets bike and pedestrian friendly!”
A: “We really need a high tech solution.”
B: “Bring back public transport!”
A: “If there was someone to show us the way…”
B: “Reform building regulations!”
A: “Oh, I know! Let’s use AI!”
B: 🤦
It’s delusiona to think you can beat the nazis on their own terrain. Say anything uncomfortable and suddenly you’re banned.
Twitter has removed efficient moderation and practically given carte blanche to bots and trolls.
Do you see ay infosec people on Twitter anymore? No, they all moved to Mastodon. In fact they were the first to move. Orgs are starting to move. So did Mozilla. So did LibreOffice.
Money can buy influence, but if you gather enough people and move away, the platform will sowly fall into irrelevancy. The only thing you accomplish by staying there is giving them legitimacy.
It’s the nazi bar analogy. If the owner is a Nazi, leftists shouldn’t stay there in the first place.
Previously named OpenTF, OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform…
🤭 LOL @ the name change.
Good callout. Even Twitter images shouldn’t be hot linked but copied and pasted for preservation purposes; if a copyright takedown happens, then it happens. But at least we don’t risk having access cut because of a corporate killswitch.
Since when do CEOs do things because they’re actually useful and not because they want to cut costs at the expense of the workers and even the public?