Cethin

LLMs don’t have no utility. They just aren’t good for everything. This is a reasonable use for them. Actually giving accurate information, not so much. Definitely not doing that require intelligence or creativity either. They’re text prediction algorithms. Using it to find the right text is what it should be good at.

Discord has quite a few good features that IRC doesn’t. I will agree that it being used as a replacement for a forum, while also being unsearchable, is amazingly stupid. However, it’s used by almost everyone for a reason, and to ignore that (if you were to develop and alternative) ensures you won’t succeed. Yeah, we don’t need every feature from Discord, but easy voice/text/video chats, image/file sharing, and all the other useful things are required. Yeah, we can probably lose the emotes and crap and be fine.

The extensions should work still. It even still integrates with the same extention marketplace. It’s the same software, just the open source part without the MS stuff —which honestly, I have and do use both and I don’t know what the difference is.

It’s definitely worth checking out. If it doesn’t work for you then still nothing is lost except a small amount of time, but I’m willing to bet it does.

Can you choose to use VSCodium instead? It’s practically identical, but isn’t controlled by MS.

There’s other methods of preventing scraping rather than requiring us to give up our data to view the content. Maybe they’re perfect and it doesn’t get sold or abused, but how can we know that for every single site? Also, how to we know it’s secure forever, even when they enahitify in the future?

They don’t have to be evil or scamming people for this to be a shitty barrier that prevents people from viewing the information.

I’m not the person who brought git up. I was just stating that work is work. Sure, git is doing something useful with it. This is arguably useful without the work itself being important. Work is the thing you’re complaining about, not the proof.

This solution is designed to cost scrapers money; it does this by causing them to burn extra electricity. Unless it’s at scale, unless it costs them, unless it has an impact, it’s not going to deter them.

Yeah, but the effect it has on legitimate usage is trivial. It’s a cost to illegitimate scrapers. Them not paying this cost also has an impact on the environment. In fact, this theoretically doesn’t. They’ll spend the same time scraping either way. This way they get delayed and don’t gather anything useful for more time.

To use your salesman analogy, it’s similar to that, except their car is going to be running regardless. It just prevents them from reaching as many houses. They’re going to go to as many as possible. If you can stall them then they use the same amount of gas, they just reach fewer houses.

Compare this to endlessh. It also wastes hacker’s time, but only because it just responds very slowly with and endless stream of header characters. It’s making them wait, only they’re not running their car while they’re waiting.

This is probably wrong, because you’re using the salesman idea. Computers have threads. If they’re waiting for something then they can switch tasks to something else. It protects a site, but it doesn’t slow them down. It doesn’t actually really waste their time because they’re performing other tasks while they wait.

Let me make sure I understand you: AI is bad because it uses energy, so the solution is to make them use even more energy? And this benefits the environment how?

If they’re going to use the energy anyway, we might as well make them get less value. Eventually the cost may be more than the benefit. If it isn’t, they spend all the energy they have access to anyway. That part isn’t going to change.

Proof of work is just that, proof that it did work. What work it’s doing isn’t defined by that definition. Git doesn’t ask for proof, but it does do work. Presumably the proof part isn’t the thing you have an issue with. I agree it sucks that this isn’t being used to do something constructive, but as long as it’s kept to a minimum in user time scales, it shouldn’t be a big deal.

Crypto currencies are an issue because they do the work continuously, 24/7. This is a one-time operation per view (I assume per view and not once ever), which with human input times isn’t going to be much. AI garbage does consume massive amounts of power though, so damaging those is beneficial.

It could be infinitely wide too if they desired. It shouldn’t be that hard to do I wouldn’t think. I would suspect they limit the time a chain can use though to eventually escape out, though this still protects data because it obfuscates legitimate data that it wants. The goal isn’t to trap them forever. It’s to keep them from getting anything useful.

Yeah, at this point Blender is ahead in a lot of areas already. It’s just that companies are slow to change and also (I assume) they think it looks less professional to use the free software, regardless of the massive advantages like new employees already being familiar with it.

That probably ideal, but it should still be spread out so the “less important” projects still get something.

Donations add up. If everyone did what you’re proposing, many projects would likely get no donations. Ideally everyone would donate a small amount to every project they use, which would all add together to be a sizable amount for all projects that are frequently used.

We aren’t all one person. We don’t need to all act as if we’re one. We should act as if we’re a community, because we are. Support all projects, and they’ll all get support.

After putting my computer to sleep, it would immediately wake back up. Eventually found out it was my Logitech wireless dongle that was causing the issue. I had to create a script that disabled USB ports during sleep and a systemd service to make sure it activated on every boot.

Thanks for this. I’m going to look into it. This happens on my computer, but it’s been happening for years, which includes a long time on Windows. I had pretty much given up on it because I’ve tried unplugging just about everything and it still happens. It might be something else for me.

For the Nvidia issues, that hopefully shouldn’t be an issue soon after the open source drivers. The few mostly solvable issues with Linux are quickly dissolving.

They probably wouldn’t approve of this either, so what’s your point. If you’re using this you might as well just switch over. You can still run a Windows VM if you really need it, or dual boot if you absolutely have to.

All the best games sound like jobs when you describe them.

I think the university I went to phased out the EE requirements the year after me. Honestly, I think it should be required. Understanding how the computer “thinks” is such an important skill.

Anyone who thinks OP asking about Assembly with this meme should play the game Turing Complete. It’s great. You have to design a computer all the way from the most basic logic gates (I think you only get a NAND gate to start), designing an ALU and CPU, creating your own machine language, and writing your own programs in the language you designed, and it’s all simulated the whole time. Machine language is pretty advanced as far as things go.

Maybe Linamp, Lamp, or Gamp would be better? Kamp for a KDE version if the name isn’t already used.

Although it does mean that stupid people never say yes, so this is dumb to start with.

Even if that were perfect, you’d have to make sure to never make a mistake. One commit with the wrong account or not using whatever you’re using to mask where you’re from and you’re toast. Also there needs to be no other identifiers. It’s almost certainly not worth the risk for them.