- pferdeI deleted my account the day Microsoft acquisition was confirmed. If more people did that, maybe we wouldn't be here.
- The former is a cause, the latter an effect of it.
- The two examples the grandparent post mentioned are not really evolution, but rather making everything sound bombastic and sensationalist. The end game for that trend is the cigarette brand ad billboard in Idiocracy, where a half-naked muscular man glares at you angrily and going "If you do not smoke our brand, f* you!"
Sounds more like de-volution to me.
- No, you can not. Without understanding the technology, at best you can "vibe-review" it, and determine that it "kinda sorta looks like it's doing what it's supposed to do, maybe?".
- Hopefully something ForgeFed-powered, so that we can all re-decentralize, as is right and proper.
- There is always Patreon and other sites in that style. I support several content creators, both technical and nontechnical, with small monthly payments there.
- That's not a fair criticism. Of course you need to expose the server to the network clients are going to be connecting from. Whether that is Internet or just a LAN, that's orthogonal to the protocol.
I've also had an intra-company Matrix server running completely on a company internal LAN, with no Internet access, so there is no inherent need for it to be on The Internet.
- Regarding the "Requires federation" section, that is not true. I've been running a small family-only homeserver for several years now, and had federation disabled on it from the very beginning, and there have been exactly zero issues related to (lack of) federation with it.
- If that took "several rounds of clarification", then the support they're paying for is worthless. Getting version of the application should be among the first bits of information collected, possibly even required for opening the ticket.
- I've been playing games on Debian Stable for many years now, and although there were some issues back when the Linux Steam client first came out, in past five or so years, I noticed that I tend to forget to even check whether a game works with Proton before buying, and I haven't had any issues playing all sorts of games.
Of course, I don't play AAA slop that's essentially rootkits with a game attached on the side, but even more reasonable AAA titles tend to work just fine.
What I'm trying to say is that this "debian stable is from previous century" confusion needs to die. They had one or two slightly longer periods between two stable releases, many years in the past, but that seems to be all people remember.
- I remember Gentoo Linux had all its official documentation in a system just like that, maybe 15-20 years ago. It was written and stored as XML, XSLT-processed and rendered into HTML on the webservers.
They moved everything into a wiki later.
EDIT: Oh, their developers' manual is still done like that: https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual into https://devmanual.gentoo.org/
- Use a good adblocker. I'd never do anything illegal, of course, but a friend of my friend has been successfully using all sorts of pirated content sites for years, and swears he barely sees any ads.
Or, you know, don't. The less popular these sites are, the longer they stay around.
- And they have a RSS feed, although it's a bit tricky to figure out, since the relevant header tag for that is set up incorrectly, pointing to a useless empty "comments" feed even from their main page. The actual feed for articles is https://www.quantamagazine.org/feed/
- Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.
- Thing is, with big corporations, cynical takes are usually the correct ones.
- They still make "dumbphones", you know. You could get one of those. I did.
- Ok, that's pretty cool. I didn't know that, thanks!
- > "We don't fully understand how a bird works, and thus: "wind tunnel" is useless, Wright brothers are utter fools, what their crude mechanical contraptions are doing isn't actually flight, and heavier than air flight is obviously unattainable."
Completely false equivalency. We did in fact back then completely understand "how a bird works", how the physics of flight work. The problem getting man-made flying vehicles off the ground was mostly about not having good enough materials to build one (plus some economics-related issues).
Whereas in case of AI, we are very far from even slightly understanding how our brains work, how the actual thinking happens.
- The parent post did.