The argument makes sebse for some things but not for others.

Take water bottles. Or mugs. Having 15 of them collecting dust in a drawer is suboptimal. Therefore no one should own one and rent it from a muglord.

There’s a balance to be found, and I’d say RAM is more of a commodity than cars are. The fact it’s not 99.999% utilized, unlike a certain someone’s wishes is a feature of life and not a bug of capitalism not yet being post late stage.

Yeah, let’s make a super smart AI to detect AI. That’ll fix all our Linux maintenance problem. Any AI taints the kernel, so using it is inadmissible in every instance.

Take away your ability to install apps that aren’t stamped approved.

Oh wait, one did it over a decade ago and the other is about to start enforcing it.

Oh, and there’s pretty much only the two of them.

Open source is all about moving fast. Much, much more innovations happen in the oss space than in proprietary land.

Linux is a serious project.

As such, it has serious quality control.

Torvals already allowed AI-helped commits. And Linux didn’t break over it.

Bad pull requests rutinely get thrown out. And unfortunately for thode categorically against AI as a thing that exists, AI use doesn’t automatically make every PR bad. In the right hands it’s a great tool with a lot of potential.

And if Torvalds feels Linux is a project too big to be brought down by an onslaught of bad PRs made by wannabe script kiddies, so be it.

If that does become a crippling problem, the policy can be undone as easily as it was made. If not, competent contributors are free to use AI responsibly as a tool and not a magic wand.

A hard “no AI anywhere in any way, shape or form” stance is like the ostrich digging its head into the ground. Not trying a softer approach beforehand which allows responsible use (may also mean using approved environmentally friendly setups and open-weight models) is a bad idea for everyone involved.

Technology moves forward and we as individuals can choose to move with it or not. That being said, the foss moral imperative is: democratize any tech you can. This is especially true of when it’s a dangerous technology, which LLM-powered chatbots are.

If you instead move fast to burrow your head like an ostrich and deny the reality of the predator growing right beside you, the little lion cub that play hunted you just a while ago may very well soon grow into the lion that will devour you whole.

The only innovative thing most companies’ R&D budgets support is making stuff spy on you using either WiFi or GPS. And old solutions are a no-go, of course. They’re people with standards, you see.

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Gasoline-laced wooden beam catches fire, leaves OSHA Pro shocked

Not necessarily.

I remember this very good charging cable from a premium phone I bought way back when. Truly felt premium in the hands with a matte finish and soft to the touch.

Lo and behold, after 6 months of regular use the cable started staining, and cleaning only made worse. Then after a year it frayed. 6 more months and I’m sure it would have looked like the one in the picture.

Moral of the story: there are good and bad products in all price categories and no, not every single product design is foolproof. No matter how universal and genericized the category it’s in is, as innovation sometimes also breaks stuff.

Bad stuff’s also on the market.

My personal pick is Thunder. Probably has less bells and whistles than some other choices, but it still has everything I need and then some. Looks pretty nice as well and follows the revised Material aesthetic so it should fit in nicely with the rest of the Graphene UI.

And as a cherry on top it’s both libre and gratis!

You’d be wrong. I had the great opportunity of figuring out one store I know sets the “removable scanned item without supervisor input” at 3. For a cashier-operated register, mind you. The limitis for the shift lead to override for the cashiers and not for the person standing around the self checkout isle for customers.

And you’d think this meant 3 items on the bill regardless of their amounts. Nope. 3 items.

You can imagine how the rest of the business’s operations looked like. I have to say, I’m impressed they somehow just… chug along just fine. A multinational chain in Europe.

Hmm…

I’d wager KYC applies either way (anyone placing a bet should be known, not just who ends up winning) and not paying out wins is a clear breach of contract.

So very clearly doubly illegal. First they let any rando gamble, and then they don’t pay out wins.

Why not?

End of life care is different from “normal” care. Hell, it’s a specialization with its own name: palliative care.

And you know the most likely outcome is the person going through the same torturous ordeal again, switching over to palliative is a reasonable decision grounded in medical ethics.

Had this happened in any other way the police would be called and the perpetrators put in prison, which is improbable in this case for obvious reasons. And this wouldn’t be possible in a non-backwards society.

The sudden death stuff sounds pretty wild. I wonder under what explanation regulators just accept 1 in 10000 patients will just randomly die from the drug.

The fact any computer can mimic any other computer (given enough computing power) is a mathematical fact of life. Said like this, it does sound pretty surreal.

I sincerely doubt that. So much critical infrastructure is running on antiquated hardware and requires human involvement, not just supervision.

How is AI supposed to function when it kills the data center power grid people making sure the data center hosting it runs smoothly?

There’s not a chance of an awakened ai genocide happening in the next 20 years. And anything short of a genocidal awakening will most definitely not kill all humans.

I have little against the local translation feature, especially given the fact it isn’t bundled but a seperate download.

That being said, there are higher priorities, like better history and bookmarks, because the current sidebars are 20+ years old and it shows. Chrome has had it figured out for 10 years straight now.

The right way for AI features would be to partner with outside orgs and projects. As you said, they’re a waste of development time. And given how much low hanging fruit there is, there’s no justification for following AI trends instead of doing basic UX hygiene.

As long as it’s profit, not revenue, even 50% is little.

Once it’s revenue and they’re in the red will the fine be more than a regular business expense.

Of course they din’t call you fantastic, because you’re not drinking Fantast.

Since you drink Fanta, you’re fantaic.

I’d say it just means socially worse for those folks, because a bad social net clearly corresponds 1:1 with corporate friendliness.

The alarm is fucking stupid on some models.

I will not put on my seatbelt when I take the car out of the garage for a wash 2 feet in front of it.

I would also like the car to be “smart” enough not to beep that it’s in reverse before I had the chance to change it out of reverse myself. And of course, the tone is a 120hz sine wave and way too loud. Great to calm the nerves right before work or a long road trip.

And you know what’s the bonus point? The headlight on alarm is quiet like a fucking lullaby. Of course my battery died once.

I can guarantee the tones being as loud and obnoxious as they are is the reason people turn them off or buy those clamps to fake wearing a seatbelt.

Even when people use them, they do, they annoy and distract. Which causes accidents.

I’m not going to claim that they cause more accidents than they prevent, but I will claim that these are the most preventable accidents as they are actively caused by literal safety features!

I have quite a few issues with modern cars. Most I’ve had the opportunity to be in are asinine.

Important, rare warnings get lullaby tones, while the most common ones sound like someone’s actively dying on life support.

One had the genius behavior of showing a large ice detected message that took up the entire dashboard and hid away all the dials.

Most also show a tutorial for how to start the damn thing, as if it in any way differs from any other car. And as if you don’t need to pass a practical exam before driving it.