Not knowing yourself; it’s a lot like dating in that there’s big dreams and ideas but the reality of what is needed on the daily often doesn’t mesh. I find it helps to talk to other employees and ask about their job and roles to get an envelope of what the company actually needs vs. what they say they need.

Can’t really so that with dating though!

AI is not healthy. Our mental health is nowhere near good enough to handle even this level of machine intelligence.

Great move for Facebook. It’ll let them claim they’re doing something to curb horrid content on the platform without actually doing anything.

It’s hard because it doesn’t care.

I like this idea because it speaks to two different but related concepts in one statement. Linux doesn’t care how you use it, and in that sense you are free because it’s happy to place deep system internals in your hands. But at the same time, it also doesn’t care for you. Not much emphasis is placed on fit and finish beyond a handful of people who just want to make their DE, their app, their audio system work great for their needs. There’s not really a “barrier to output” and dumb decisions/broken code gets shipped all the time, although, I think this is becoming increasingly commonplace on the commercial side of things too.

Linux is a beast of its own. No one is exercising unilateral control over the software ecosystem, and that comes with great power and great responsibilities.

Could be accident, edgelord, or they think somehow this will train a nonexistent social media algorithm into showing them fewer wholesome posts and more news.

I wonder why. I didn’t notice the reason in the article.

If you’re willing to donate bandwidth, I suggest I2P or a public SyncThing node. My server chews through a terabyte of bandwidth helping people securely access their files. I also run Tor’s Snowflake proxy which helps users reach the network.

I2P is Java. SyncThing and Snowflake are written in Go which means you can’t pull off typical memory corruption attacks in these relatively safe languages, and it’s fairly easy to run them in a container.

I don’t feel like it makes a huge difference for me and I run quite a few servers. It’s mainly the cooling costs in the summer months that run up the bill.

BOINC is great. In its day, you could get an enormous amount of computing power on a shoestring budget thanks to volunteers. It also helped the volunteers feel like they were more a part of something, because they were! I used to have a small server farm crunching numbers for science.

Unfortunately, the landscape has changed. Some projects are still around, but many of the big players have left. Computing power is a lot more accessible now, and the main limitation is time spent analyzing the data rather than the computation itself. Cloud computing can make just about any computation happen fast for a reasonable price without having to own all of that hardware. GPUs have exploded in computation capacity. Just, a lot of factors came together where the need isn’t as great.

With that said, I still run it on one mini PC, but the payoff for having to write your application in a distributed fashion doesn’t have the return on investment that it used to.

You don’t want anything that advertises next generation encryption. You want tried and true encryption. You want boring encryption.

Hey! My assembler is actually quite neat and compartmentalized.

A decentralized social media has 2 problems: How to store the entire world’s data on a blockchain

Stopped reading right there. I can’t take this project seriously. Even the description uses weasel words that focus more on broad concepts rather than technical clarity. I struggle to find a new idea being presented here that actually provides concrete and material benefits over other ways to put power in the hands of users.

To me this looks exactly like an academic project that was done in school and quickly forgotten. It’s great for writing papers, however.

Oh my God I didn’t see what community this was. If this was supposed to be a joke, it was quite the long one. But yeah it’s a joke project it looks like. That’s a fair comparison.

It’s almost like they want the hinges to break after six months.

In that case it wouldn’t be news.

I’ve actually found C# quite pleasant to develop with, so long as I didn’t have to worry about targeting non-Windows platforms.

Ah, 2024. so this mostly doesn’t include Trump’s work this year. Seems vastly overestimating the US.

If your website only works with Chrome, it’s not a website. It’s a Chrome site.

You didn’t design for the web. You designed for Chrome.

You’re not an idiot. You’re using tools that don’t really do what they claim because it wasn’t considered an important use case.

IPv6 is great, but we haven’t seen enough pain yet to really drive adoption on the home LAN.

My solution uses the ISP box to deliver stateless auto conf, and bridging a consumer router. I can’t open ports but at least I get an IP.

I’m not using it because by and large it’s not implemented properly on consumer hardware, and my ISP doesn’t care if their IPv6 network is broken.

Arm:

Somehow, the kernel has been loaded and we have transferred control into it.