AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto An ambitious company that claimed to make apps using AI has been exposed as hundreds of human workers based in India.

My what a large trenchcoat that must have been www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

There are true patriots, and there are "patriots", bowing to some malleable definition of the term that benefits the propagandist most

And now we gonna have "paytriots". Ugh.

The mmo problem of self sufficiency:

I need to be higher ilvl to do this thing
I can craft gear!
I need these raw mats
Oh and better crafting gear
And now I need to gather rare mats
And I need better gathering gear.

There is now no way I can do the thing I want in the time I have :(

a cartoon horse says no sir i dont like it Alt: a cartoon horse says no sir i dont like it

Gave Powershell another swing and

Linux is a living community and entity. Like any ecosystem, it is messy. But particularly this can be its greatest strength. It evolves.

If I do not like some component, I am free to write something better, publish it, and have it taken upstream.

Great example is pulseaudio and pipewire.

For instance, if MS decrees that my data is now to be harvested, or they will be running an AI service that will monitor me on that computer, the most right I have is to ask permission to refuse. Even an opt out option is something MS must implement into their product.

OTOH...

🧵Interesting POV. I will give powershell another try. But here is the thing

And maybe this comes from my past working on monolithic monsters from the past (AKA mainframes)

Windows is a product. The cohesion you like I see as a weakness. The powerful stakeholders can make terrible decisions.

Please, let me hear your case. I am interested and open to persuasion in either direction.

My current limited experience with Powershell hasn't been amazing, but nor has it been so terrible my dislike has become concrete.

I could probably be persuaded that Powershell was an intentional attempt to make a cli as frustrating and slow to use as a GUI 😂

While I am fine with a gui, I still find the command line to be a more concise & precise tool for interacting with a computer.

I am glad that linux and bsd have fully featured CLI environments

The other guys have poweshell too, I guess.

I honestly immediately heard the word as Wil Wheaton would narrate it. Perfection.

I feel like some distros for #linux are just about polished enough to fuel the year of the linux desktop. But how to channel new users to these distros best and away from the ones that are less user friendly?

(I named no distros in this post on purpose to illustrate how just linux isn't helpful.)

Norovirus is no joke

Will it load? Yeah. But you are gonna have a bad time most likely. Zfs gets ram hungry pretty fast and that 4gb will not stretch far. Also it runs noticeably better under 80% used, due to the COW block allocation algorithm. Noting because a toy system is often small.

Politics is not a team sport. Why do so many people seem to treat it like one?

Sometimes I like to think about resilient computing. How would one build a computational engine that would keep processing for longest amount of time possible?

Lasting a year is something an electronic computer can already do. But what about a decade? A millenia? A geological era?

YouTube video by Veritasium The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

Here's a quick video about analog computing. Fascinating stuff! m.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3...

For work, I build to www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/re.... It has them broke out :)

For home use, yeah I usually break out the filesystems. Generally because of dealing with full / in the past. When a less critical bit goes ro, it can be a much easier fix.

I do not entirely grok why studies keep trying to compare an analog, evolving network of interacting nodes that is in constant flux, to a digital computer. It just seems like nit the best frame to consider our skull sugar furnaces.

Btw, analog computers are dope and can graph perfect curves.

Pop!_os is pretty good for ease of gaming.

Maybe. See, when a system is an unbootable mess, it's easier to justify a wipe and restore. Doing /etc does plenty of damage, but leaves the system in a state where you have to think about the next step, and trying to repair it isn't simply impractical.

In some ways that is worse 😆

A quick way yo make your life a world of pain on #linux:

# chmod -R 000 /etc

Was done to me once. The prankster hasn't been back since...

What's your budget? If sky's the limit I would try a Herman Miller Embody or Aeron.

Going down the scale there is the Steelcase Gesture or the Ergohuman line of chairs.

I have used chairs from all three of those companies and can confirm they are comfy and durable.

If the they that should lose are the banks bringing the suit or the federal reserve bank? I have seen plenty of people bashing both in the past, so not sure which way you meant!

Anyone else remember when it was all about the blockchain and nfts? I just note the same company is reaping massive profits from the "AI" wave.

Which, coincidentally swelled just as people started twigging onto that crypto might not be entirely what it was sold as.

What do you call an adorable mammalian acquatic animal that wants to rule your country?

An Ottercrat

I am sorry but after the last few year's news about the Texas power grid, they have a LOT of work ahead of themselves to make an attractive offering.

Merry Christmas!