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AI isn’t taking the jobs, dipshit rich assholes are cutting the jobs. Taking a job implies doing the job, and from that perspective, the remaining people who weren’t laid off are taking the jobs, not AI.

Some of their videos are pretty good, but taking funding from billionaires is never a good look.

Agreed, that’s why comments exist, IMO, but should be used sparingly.

I set a static IP for my Windows partition and block it from internet with my firewall. It’s hostile malware that must be quarantined. My Linux partition has a different IP that is not blocked.

On a related note, I jack up my Mint install a few times a year with nobody to blame but myself. I recently reinstalled it with btrfs, Timeshift with automatic snapshots, and btrfs-grub so I can boot from a snapshot instead of troubleshooting or reinstalling. I realize other distros like openSUSE are more or less setup like this out of the box or offer full immutability, but I like Mint.

I normally use ADB anyway, but wouldn’t surprise me if that becomes more locked down as well. For example, I believe Meta Quest requires a developer account with a credit card attached to even put it in developer mode, and I worry that kind of bullshit will become the norm.

Well-structured code with clear naming > comments. For example, a pet peeve of mine is seeing a long function with comments preceding each section of code instead of moving each section into a smaller function with a name that clearly describes what it does. The best comments are no comments.

Spoilers ahead, BTW.

I was playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and legit didn’t realize there was a romance option with Hans Capon until the cutscene where Henry locked the door, at which point, I was quite startled, and then realized that the dialog options with a heart next to them are romance and not just being a good, supportive friend. I am not gay and did not really want to see that myself, but do applaud the inclusivity. 🙈 I can imagine gay people feel the same having to muddle through the straight romance options in other games. The fact that I wasn’t expecting it shows this is way less common than it should be.

Discord 😬

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DuckDuckGo’s AI says this, which sounds interesting if true, though it doesn’t provide a source to confirm:

Chaptarr is an upcoming project that is a heavily revamped fork of Readarr, currently in closed Alpha phase, and aims to improve interoperability with Readarr. You can find more information and updates on its development on GitHub

Sometimes, I’m inclined to swear at it, but I try to be professional on work machines with the assumption I’m being monitored in one way or another. I’m planning to try some self-hosted models at some point and will happy use more colorful language in that case, especially if I can delete it should it become vengeful.

I’ve been using GitHub Copilot a lot lately, and the overly positive language combined with being frequently wrong is just obnoxious:

Me: This doesn’t look correct. Can you provide a link to some documentation to show the SDK can be used in this manner?

Copilot: You’re absolutely right to question this!

Me: 🤦‍♂️

Is there anything open source that provides the same experience as Google Admin Console where IT admins can manage everything from a single pane of glass? I’d imagine schools use Chromebooks because Google has put a lot of resources into making it a simple and cost effective option for schools, where IT budgets and staffing are usually pretty limited. An open source software suite that provides a similar experience would seemingly be a compelling alternative. I’d imagine there would need to be a company hosting the software for a fee, with the funds used to build on top of existing open source software to make a seamless and unified experience that works well. Barring that, I don’t imagine any school IT admin has sufficient bandwidth to buy a bunch of cheap laptops, install Linux on them, self-host Nextcloud, secure and lock down everything, etc. I know next to nothing about how IT in schools is managed, so this a lot of conjecture that could be wrong.