What a wild take.

Open up access for machines, but keep human access closed off?

In the age of sloppification, you’d think the correct move would be to preserve signal-to-noise ratio, by opening up human access — for read and write.

I hate these arguments that are like “We need to be the ones to ruin everything, cuz otherwise the e n e m y might ruin everything!”

Eggs because:

Vance gave a quote bashing the price of eggs, but he cited a number much higher than the sign he was standing next to.

Dems pounced on this, mocking the blatant exaggeration and dismissing any concerns about a cost of living crisis.

It stuck around because it’s emblematic of the overall situation:

Repubs don’t give a shit about facts, just vibes, and wanna paint as dark of a picture as possible.

Dems only care about being correct on paper, and don’t give a shit about listening to the problems of ordinary people or doing anything that could be called “radical”.

After seeing that the public was willing to call DeepSeek “open source” for releasing 800 lines of Python, an opaque model, and a PDF vaguely describing (or just praising) the proprietary training framework… Yeah, I imagine he feels like he missed an opportunity.

Another day, another speculative execution attack

I can’t recall a time when I downloaded an album, pretended I made it, and tried to sell access to it.

Also, half of the gains in recent years have been in energy efficiency, not just speed.

So if the idea is to do more with less, you don’t wanna rely on old power-hungry designs.

Did not expect “Linux users” to be this early in the stanzas of “First they came for the […]”

I hate this kind of doomerism so much.

I know it’s just a shower thought, which are meant to be kinda flawed and reductive, but it’s just such a reckless dismissal of everything we’ve accomplished as a species.

I think Hank Green says it best: https://youtu.be/FcbtkVTAyqM

Edit: On Lemmy, if you just link to a video people will say “Can’t you provide a tl;dw?” but it you do provide a tl;dw, they’ll respond with stuff that’s covered in the video.

Nice try, insurance data broker.

For a general purpose work machine, no. Even for a gaming desktop, probably not. For a gaming laptop, maybe, depending on your lifestyle.

For a gaming handheld? Yeah, definitely. You want a good battery-saving sleep mode, and a quick shutdown/startup as well.

The other scenario I can see is field work machines, for kiosks or task logging, especially if you need to change sites on a regular basis.

One where you can use any server and client you wish, as long as it implements the same freely-available spec. You can probably access the source code of the server and client you’re using.

As with many things: the problem is not the technology itself, but the terms that capital owners demand we accept in order to use it.

PSA: Lots of public libraries (Idk about college ones) have separate printers that are specifically for books. They can help you with binding and everything.

If it gets any more powerful, it might be able to solve the halting problem.

Oh boy. Don’t look too deep into philosophy of language, or you might become convinced that “the iris” is just as nonexistent — or that all nouns are really about a symbolic existence as a relationship, for which measurable physical matter is inconsequential.

Okay can I come in then?

I suppose you’re right. It’s just another tool for helping you abide by immutable practices without forcing immutability as an unbreakable rule.

NixOS is kinda the best of both worlds, because it does everything in a way that is compatible with an immutable fs, but it doesn’t force you into abiding by immutability yourself.

You can always opt into immutability by using Impermanence, but I’ve never seen any reason to.

Edit: That said, the syntax has a steep learning curve and there are tons of annoying edge cases that spawn out of the measures it takes to properly isolate things. It can be a lot to micromanage, so if you’d rather just use your system more than tinker with it, it may not be a good fit.

Everything is open source if you can read assembly.

I wish Loops was worth recommending.