Brag about being an Arch user (BTW.)

It’s not Yo-“he”. It’s Yo-“she”. It’s right in the name.

(/s)

The DMCA is such bullshit. I mean, U.S. (and other WIPO countries) copyright law is bullshit in general, but it got 100 times worse when they passed the DMCA.

LLMs in medicine. What could go wrong?

Every time I see Missouri mentioned in a national news/politics forum, even before I’ve read the whole post title, I get a sense of dread. Because it’s never anything good.

~(I currently reside in Missouri.)~

New anxiety unlocked.

Thank you.

There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with LLMs.

Disagree.

LLMs should die in a fire.

Every time Harry does that, they just pull a Latent Image (5x11) on the computer.

Come to think of it, Harry was the one whose comment in the teaser set off all the events in Latent Image.

Fan theory: Harry has a sadistic erasing-intelligent-computer-programs’-memories fetish. “Erotic compuamnesophillia” if you will.

Not enough people are talking about the SFC v. Visio case currently being heard in California. Depending on the outcome of the case (and it’s looking fairly good for the Software Freedom Conservancy, not to get anyone’s hopes up), we might have fully-FOSS distros for existing consumer smart TVs sometime in the somewhat-not-too-distant future. Like we have OpenWRT and dd-wrt for routers and Graphine and LineageOS for smartphones. And there are potential implications for other types of consumer hardware devices.

Shit, is that being considered?

Add one more adapter to plug that 1/4" into a sound card, plug a printer into the other end, and then hire Abdul Alhazred to write a Cups driver.

I use dmenu_run because it’s ridiculously minimal, has zero dependencies, is very fast, and fits with the i3 aesthetic well.

It was just like a clueless captain to say “energize” as if that’s going to magically make it work. Like, I’m trying to invent a whole new field of engineering here, Kathryn. Maybe step off a bit if you want them back in one piece.

• Torres (later to Vorik over a mug of something replicated and syntheholic)

Did people think they meant something else? Or was it more that they didn’t really elaborate and folks didn’t know quite what they meant?

I can’t imagine it’s going to be very long before Elon’s hostile attitude toward basic safety results in a high-profile catastrophy involving human deaths under the ospices of Space X.

Honestly, this isn’t much of a hypothetical for me. At work, my choices are Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu. I’m quite happy with Ubuntu, though I’ve switched away from the default desktop environment to i3.

I use Arch (BTW) on my personal systems. And Ubuntu isn’t as bad as I worried it would be.

My main gripe is snaps. Firefox is practically unusable as a snap. And my employer forbids installing any software (save for a select list of exceptions) not via the officially-supported Ubuntu way of doing things. Chrome is available without snap, so I use it on my work machine. Which annoys me, but if I’m less efficient in my job as a result, it’s their own fault.

Hey, everyone, look at this meme I found:

It’s published under a CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license, according to Wikipedia. (Look at the “written works” section.)