They probably have RAS syndrome

Finally! Someone said it! My company changed my work laptop to a Mac. It’s been a couple of months, and I still haven’t got used to the desktop environment. Navigating between open windows with regular mouse/keyboard is a pain.

I find window grouping very annoying (this is also true for Gnome). What makes it even worse, is that the tilde is next to the left shift, instead of being above Tab. I think that’s because we have British keyboard.

No, we need massive data centers for LLMs and data analysis for targeted ads /s

Unless you run a custom ROM, like LineageOS or GrapheneOS, you most probably have some Meta apps installed at system level.

This is Meta Services, as a system app which can only be disabled, on my work Samsung.

Last year I wasted 1.3 bln, by accidentally starting the construction of a dyson sphere

Your therapist can’t even have a phone in the room?

I would prefer my psychological issues to not be turned into marketing campaigns. If you still don’t understand what I am talking about, you should probably check the Privacy Policy of Google and Meta.

To save you some time: Google and Meta are monitoring the conversations using the device’s microphone, to better understand what products you may be interested in. You have noticed, that ads are often related to the topics that you discuss face to face.

I had visited an ophthalmologist who used Apple Notes to keep track of his patients. He had no idea about the privacy implications of his choices.

However, my most nerve racking experience was talking to my therapist, while their stock Android was right next to them. Even when I mentioned my privacy concerns, they didn’t bother to get rid of it.

I use private, because I am a tab hoarder

Sorry for your “| || || |_”

It was the last remaining exam before my deletion from university. I wish I could attend the lectures, but, due to work, it was impossible. Also, my degree is not fully related to my work field. I work as a software developer, and my degree is about electronics engineering. I just need a degree to get promoted.

What models have you tried? I used local Llama 3.1 to help me with university math.

It seemed capable of solving differential equations and doing LaPlace transform. It did some mistakes during the calculations, like a math professor in a hurry.

What I found best, was getting a solution from Llama, and validating each step using WolframAlpha.

Don’t such satellites have a major flaw, that they revolve? Considering that earth is spherical, those satellites can only monitor some half of the earth each moment, given their sensors have such high FOV.

It’s the first time I see the concept of bootstrappability in the context of security.

Is it really worth the effort?

There are multiple ways to run a supply chain attack. With bootstrappability, one can be sure that the compiler is trusted, but what about the code that the compiler compiles? There was this recent attack to XZ utils, which shows that more attention is needed on the code being merged and compiled.

I think that this just creates a false sense of security.

Contrary to that, I had read about a BSD team (I think FreeBSD) that reviews all the code before each release. This way they have achieved ~5 RCE exploits throughout their entire history.

I don’t have any experience with guix, so I will not express any opinions towards that.

However, regarding NixOS:

• Yes, as a person with experience in the Nix language, I can confirm it’s awful
• The documentation of NixOS is a known issue, and there are currently efforts to improve it
• Talking about the trustability of binaries, by doing a quick search, I read that Guix builds are reproducible. This is true for NixOS as well. All upstreamed packages must have their version and the hash of the code (or artifact), to allow verification
• The community of NixOS is opting to maintaining flakes, because:
  • Some applications can simply not be built following the Nix guidelines. Examples are some electron apps (like Falkor) and apps that have weird toolchains (like bubblejail)
  • The reviewing process takes way too long, and PRs for upstreaming are often ignored. This forces a lot of people to just PR a flake.nix to the application, or maintain their own overlays (overlays are like overriding the available packages, while flakes are more like distributing Nix code in general)

I quickly went through the article, and I have a question: Why not Docker (or Podman) on NixOS?

NixOS has much larger community (although a bit toxic) and provides native tooling for managing OCI containers through Docker and Podman.

This guy is also a DJ. There is a Traktor console at the left.

In the search results, I think, the first file is Python (.py) and the other is React Typescript (.tsx)

What would happen if all users start using adblockers, or the value of ads starts to fall?

I do not support the current, ad-driven, model of the internet. However, since the costs of subscriptions are increasing, while salaries are going downhill, it is apparent that ads is (seemingly) the only viable choice for now.

In the economy we currently live in, all of world’s wealth is slowly moving to ad networks.

Even donation driven models are currently straggling. Just look at the fediverse. The people donating to their instances are not enough to sustain them.

Capitalism has absolutely destroyed everything. The greed of stakeholders has milked most people. At some point people will stop buying the useless things or services promoted via advertisements, just because they will not be able to afford them. Then, no subscriptions, no point of advertising, no donators, no people hosting fediverse instances, just world hunger.

NewPipe or Piped

Judging by the colors, this is a new photo. It’s not yellow.