Even if you didn’t play his levels, you will certainly have played levels inspired by his flow.

Pioneers in computing and gaming have left a hell of a legacy.

Windows still dominates the market,

What market?

Desktops? Sure.

Servers? Definitely not.

Supercomputers? Like, none of them.

I’ve used gpslogger for a very long time (Currently for Traccar and a daily gpx to gdrive, but have used it for other things over the years), and it’s possibly the most tweakable app of its type.

Settings, Performance is the place to adjust for battery life.

My settings are below, it’s a fair balance for what I want. Basic rule is - fewer fixes and sends, the less battery is used. using the GPS uses battery, so does sending data somewhere. Reducing that frequency and the battery will last longer.

Log GPS locations - yes. Choose best accuracy in duration - yes Rest of toggles turned off.

Logging interval: 15s Distance 3m Accuracy filter 40m Duration to match 20s Absolute time to fix, 20s

Thanks for the tldr; As a semantic argument I agree with the first commenter in the article, it goes too far.

Managers sometimes refer to their employees as tools, and they don’t fully control them either. Plenty of more cleanly defined tools (explosives, guns, chemicals) can have unintended consequences if used without proper controls, training or care.

I used the term “AI is a tool” at a meeting yesterday, and I will again.

(Minor grumble: Eww, Linkedin. Having visited the site again I know I’ll get a bunch more spam and targetted adverts for a few weeks)

Given what Jai Tan did, surely it would have been better if they’d done nothing /but/ touch grass, and stayed away from computers altogether?

(Whilst nobody knows for sure, it’s possible JT was a state actor rather than an individual)

That confirms it, Omarchy is the official operating system of bigots.

One of the few stories around that paints Anthropic in a good light. Looks like they did what they were required to and potentially saved lives.

How many flaws does this add?

Good shout. I do much the same - in fact /just/ created a step by step markdown list to replace a shower pump in my home.

No good for bigger projects, gantts etc, but for small stuff it’s ideal. Also means you’ve got a permanent and portable archive that’s easily searchable.

Are you ok, mate?

I had a report for AI slop today. 1m LOC in 3 months.

I don’t understand this, is it human slop?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

AI is here and not going away. Almost every programmer I know, professionally and hobby, uses it to a greater or lesser extent.

We have plenty of crap software in foss that was authored by people, always have, even when it was called public domain. I’ve certainly shared crap code going back over three decades and I don’t need a clanker to make it bad.

Bad software gets rejected or unused because it’s not very good. Why can’t those same standards apply whoever or whatever created it?

The only thing I think is important, is to be honest.

Omarchy is Hannah Montana Linux for bigots.

OP doesn’t say they bought it, only it’s coming to them.

I suspect it’s entirely grift motivated. There’s obviously going to be a takedown so owner is likely going to earn what they can and then bail the second X’s lawyers send a cease and desist. I can’t see any honest or altruistic motivation to do this.

Absolutely - anything can have more than one objective. But when money is an objective, the one constant is that it changes what it affects. Sometimes better in some ways, sometimes worse.

Sport is a good analogy here, I think. Amateur sport has little impact beyond those directly involved. Adding money increases exposure of those sports, better facilities, lots of scope for good - and yet big money sports are also very often mired in corruption and greed. (FIFA being a timely example) Those base human behaviours never go away.

“Make the best software we can” vs “Make the most money we can”

If this affects European users then the GDPR does make it a crime.

Same.

Clickbait article seems to be (poorly) written about people who are unhappy rather than people in IT. Some overlap doesn’t equate to totality, and you’ll find the same in every profession.

Um, do you? I don’t seem to need to, never had except for major release updates and changing sources.

Just now;

root@backups:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.5

Then “apt update” and “apt upgrade” followed by “reboot” and

root@backups:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.6

(My history)

 497  apt update
  498  cat /etc/os-release
  499  apt upgrade
  500  reboot
  501  uname -a
  502  cat /etc/os-release
  503  history