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namingthingsiseasy

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  • Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

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  • Really fascinating how this is happening in coordination all of a sudden. I'm practically certain that this is all coming from a small group of investors (maybe even just a couple) who are trying to influence companies as hard as they can into making everyone to start using it.

  • Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony

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  • He's clearly letting his guests know that they mean as much to him as his employees.

  • [French] Goodbye Windows: Lyon (3rd biggest city in France) abandons Microsoft to strengthen its "digital sovereignty"

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  • The dominoes are falling. Windows is nothing but a legacy burden at this point. Soon we will be rid of this worthless operating system.

  • Carney says Trump is no longer interested in annexing Canada

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  • Staying quiet because it will make daddy angry to talk about it is still abuse.

    Okay, fair point. What I mean is, don't bring it up unless the toddler starts talking about it again. Stupid of CNN to bring it up again for no reason.

  • Awwww that's too bad

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  • Maybe New England should declare independence. That would solve the problem. Until then, federal agents are free to operate within their borders.

  • Carney says Trump is no longer interested in annexing Canada

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  • It's a little stupid to bring this up. You have to treat the Trump administration like toddlers, ie. when they ask for something, you just have to be firm, ignore it, and wait for it to go away. Raising the topic again will just make your toddler throw another tantrum.

    I get that he was asked this by a member of the media, but nobody should be talking about this. You just have to change the topic - again, exactly the same way you deal with toddlers.

  • Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

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  • This would be a stunning own goal by Red Hat (and let's face it, they are the largest driving force behind Fedora, if not in complete and total control of the project). Steam and gaming have brought so many new users to Linux - maybe even doubled the entire userbase - that if anything, they should be doing all they can to support it even better if they really want to increase the size of the userbase.

    Even if flatpak is still an option, it will still drive a lot of new and existing users to use non Fedora-based distros, which would be sad for the project. I myself have never been a Fedora user, but I'm really grateful to see a lot of the positive things they do for the Linux community, so this would be a very sad step in my opinion. On the other hand, it would make me even happier if we see more users switching to Debian-based distros instead.

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  • Really? That's interesting. But the group membership list must be persisted somewhere, no? Otherwise, you wouldn't know where to send and receive messages. So where is it persisted then?

    And also, how would you add someone to a group? When you add a new user to a group, would he be able to view all previous messages? Is it possible for this to scale to, say, a thousand or a million users?

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  • But they must still have your phone number and associate it with your username. So it would still be easy for a government organization to force Signal to give up the identities of all people who join a group.

  • German car companies lobby to oppose the EU's 2035 ban on the sale of combustion engines cars.

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  • The effect is very similar though. Ultimately, lobbying is most beneficial for interests that are entrenched and/or extremely wealthy. The only difference is the way that they approach it. Bribery is a very narrow means to supporting your cause, but lobbying is much more vague and difficult to define.

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  • Wikipedia is quite resilient - you can even put it on a USB drive. As long as you have a free operating system, there will always be ways to access it.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • Agreed. People just think the first tool that they learned is the easiest to use. I've been a longtime Gimp user and find it pretty easy to do what I want.* The few times someone asked me to do something in Photoshop, I was pretty helpless. Of course, I'm a pretty basic user - I wouldn't dispute that Photoshop is more powerful, but which one is easier to use is very subjective and the vast majority of the time, it just boils down to which one you use more often.

    I've seen the same with people who grew up on Libreoffice and then started smashing their computer when they were asked to use MSOffice.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • To add to subignition's point, there is a value in learning useful software. More complicated software means that there is a learning curve - so while you are less productive while learning how to use it, once you gain more experience, you ultimately become more productive. On the other hand, if you want the software to be useful to everyone regardless of his level of experience, you ultimately have to eliminate more complex functionality that makes the software more useful.

    Software is increasingly being distilled down to more and more basic elements, and ultimately, I think that means that people are able to get less done with them these days. This is just my opinion, but in general I have seen computer literacy dropping and people's productivity likewise decreasing, at least from what I've observed from the 1990s up until today. Especially at work, the Linux users that I see are much more knowledgeable and productive than Apple users.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • But without Microsoft’s “PC on every desktop” vision for the '90s, we may not have seen such an increased demand for server infrastructure which is all running the Linux kernel now.

    Debatable, in my opinion. There were lots of other companies trying to build personal computers back in those times (IBM being the most prominent). If Microsoft had never existed (or gone about things in a different way), things would have been different, no doubt, but they would still be very important and popular devices. The business-use aspect alone had a great draw and from there, I suspect that adoption at homes, schools, etc. would still follow in a very strong way.

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  • Whatever. The next generation will have to learn to trust whether the material is true or not by using sources like Wikipedia or books by well-regarded authors.

    The other thing that he doesn't understand (and most "AI" advocates don't either) is that LLMs have nothing to do with facts or information. They're just probabilistic models that pick the next word(s) based on context. Anyone trying to address the facts and information produced by these models is completely missing the point.

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • The handbook is outstanding. Read as much of it as you can. Even if you're not a Void user, you'll learn so much!

    https://docs.voidlinux.org/

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • It's really annoying. It no different from people who go into Linux forums and talk about how much they love Windows.

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • Void Linux uses runit, for example. Here's the documentation they provide on how to use it: https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html

    It only takes 5-10 minutes to read and understand how to manage all your services and write your own. Simple and fast. If only systemd were this easy!

  • [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

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  • The lesson learned (in my opinion) is that if you're going to design a language where errors need to be handled explicitly, you need to design the language from the ground up to support monadic error handling syntax. At this point, it seems too late to add it to Golang. What a shame - it could have been so much better of a language without this flaw.