interurbain1er @ interurbain1er @sh.itjust.works

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Millions of people smoke. That doesn't make it a smart life choice.

The argument "lots of people do it" is probably one of the worst possible to justify anything.

What I've learned is that using distro packages for dev always bites me in the ass at some point. Absolutely need v4.0.1 of something but your distro only has v4.0.0 ? Congrats you've entered upgrade dependency hell.

The best dev distro should be just be a kernel and sh. ;)

Air is good. Fixed port too so that's not something you have to deal with more than once.

Lack of imagination.

Mods can still dump 10k trash messages in a sub making it unusable. (Or smart messages in the case of most subreddit who are trash anyway).

Set-up automoderator with rules reventing anyone below 5 billions karma to participate.

Ban everyone.

I'm sure there are a lot of other options.

I thought it was a typo for "house".

Apple intelligence is their own project, with their own models. They bought a company specialized in AI at the edge (or on device). All the "AI" that will interact with user's data is Apple's.

Still waiting to see what the chat-gpt integration is exactly, but the more I read about the more it seems it just the usual writing assistant that we will soon find in every text and image editor and the hint that they will offer Gemini or other model as well really mean they haven't tied any real features to it.

I also doubt their Apple deal last 5 years,..

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14174843

I didn't expect it wouldn't even last 2 days. 😅

There's always a debate. That why there are court, judges and lawyers. They can sort that out.

It's been debated to death in the thread linked below. I tend to fall on the side of the nominative fair use, but that's for lawyer and judge to sort out because I'm neither.

A cursory check of law review tells me the US doesn't have a uniform nominative fair use test applicable to the resell of goods and that the supreme court has refused to endorse a test creating a lot of inconsistency between circuit court. So everyone in that thread probably right in a different circuit court.

The GPL doesn't say you have to contribute anything other than the changes you make. If automattic is not happy with the terms of the GPL they should have picked something else. But then the product wouldn't be so popular.

Honestly, I don't see the difference from buying managed service for a software from a random cloud provider. You can go anywhere and get a fully managed postgresql, kubernetes and so many others, most of them probably dont contribute much.

Everytime checked someone else's WP, the only thing that came to mind each time was a Jenga block tower. Bunch of themes and plugins that do god knows what and interact together in mysterious way. Touch anything and there's a very good chance everything comes crashing down.

I personally send people to Wix, but I guess Squarespace is fine.

It doesn't allow Dick from marketing to update the content without having to learn a skill.

Even though wordpress is an unsecure piece of shit, it's very good at doing a just good enough shitty job quickly and cheaply (most of the time by adding a metric crap ton of even shittier plugins). Hence it's massive popularity.

Nah. WordPress is GPL, they can't bitch about someone else reselling it. That would be like Linus Thorvalds blocking a company that sells linux distro because he doesn't like them.

And also wordpress is a piece of trash.

It is. Making anything easier to disassemble requires connectors which are a huge tradeoff in terms of space Vs features. Screws take a whole lot of space especially in something you want as thin as possible such as a watch.

Nowadays the direction is embedding of passive and even active components directly into the PCB layers and an increase of the number of layers. That means that if any of them fails there's nothing to be done, or at least not without equipments that cost way too much to be worthwhile to anyone.

In a few years, microelectronic systems will be mostly just one big custom die with the processing units and all accompanying mosfet, inductors, capacitors and resistors directly etched into a 25 layers PCB with barely any surface mounted components. Even lithium batteries can been embedded and most likely will.

If you want something totally serviceable you will have to sacrifice on size.

And my axe ! .... I meant firmwares.

That reminds me of work. I'm old, young me has been through the mistakes and the pain of wanting to control and self-host everything.

Now I manage a team of young idealists who have not yet been burned sufficiently hard by reality and I feel like I spend half of my time denying them permission to add new self-hosted services to our stack.

Just last month a young padawan was pissed at the spent on an external auth service and had been pushing hard for a self hosted OSS solution which he was convinced he could handle by himself (which was most likely true, from a purely technical standpoint).

Since he wouldn't let it go, I "punished" him by having him spend one day in excel and powerpoint to prepare a cost benefit analysis to present to the architecture review board, including server cost, backups, redundancy, security, monitoring, pen-testing, auditing, his time and all the bells and whistles we needed to be compliant with all the ISO-x we have to be. (we're in a banking related field).

Our estimated internal cost ended up about 6x the one of the SASS solutions and still wasn't as reliable.

Most people don't understand the amount of effort it requires to run a secure & reliable system and if I had a dollar for everytime I heard it's as simple as "docker run", I could retire early.

Swiss law allows for assisted suicide so long as the person takes his or her life with no "external assistance" and those who help the person do not do so for "any self-serving motive," according to a government website.

So you can get help or not?

I have this old & tiny b&w laser printer that someone gave me that is actually perfect for the 2 prints a year I need to do, by my calculation the toner it came with should last me roughly another 250 years.

Oh so a right wing president tried to push a right wing PM against a majority left leaning parliament disregarding the vote result and failed ?

You have weird notions of what makes good governance.

A few year back it wasn't rare to find company who were running two years behind windows update.

The fact that 90% of corporate stuff now runs in the browser has alleviated most of the upgrade issue.