Not sure why people don’t say, “let’s continue our conversation over here so we aren’t blocking a narrow passageway in a heavy traffic area so people can get past and stop giving us dirty looks.” Never occurs to these dodo birds for whatever reason.

When AWS had the major outage recently, my self-hosted services kept on running. The programs on my Linux machines and other devices I own were also not impacted. Thanks, Jeff, but I’ll stick with my “antiques”. Also, fuck you.

Our results challenge the common view that longevity is invariably associated with low cholesterol levels.

While single study like this is far from conclusive, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that a diet of mostly minimally processed plant oils and animal fats would result in better longevity than the typical Western diet comprised mostly of the “hateful 8”.

Forgejo actions are supposedly modeled after GHA, but I’ve not used it even though I’m self-hosting Forgejo. I’ve considered trying it out soon.

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I watch Rick Beato on YouTube. The guy loves music and appreciates every genre. When he reviews a lot of the newer top hits on Spotify, he genuinely wants to find something he can like, but a lot of it is unfortunately not at all original or musically interesting.

As a technologist, I genuinely want to like AI and give it a fair chance, despite how infuriating the tech bros pushing it are. For coding especially, it’s really hit and miss, though. Yesterday, for example, Claude did a pretty good job analyzing some C++ code and helping me make a Python UDP socket to consume its binary protocol, though the code is really messy and needed refactoring. Other times, though, it wastes my time generating hallucinated garbage. Also, if I get one more PR to review full of AI slop where someone didn’t do their due diligence, I could just scream.

You’re right that most of humanity doesn’t care, which is why the top hits on Spotify are mostly unoriginal and musically uninteresting background noise, and software quality is declining overall due to AI while companies continue to switch to subscription models to milk every last dime they can while most people go along with it. Humanity as a whole is a frustrating lot.

I don’t mind using they / them for non-binary people. It’s just that it takes a lot of mental energy to not embarrass myself by forgetting and using the gendered pronoun.

The Frame will probably cost more because it won’t be subsidized by surveillance capitalism. I’d rather pay more and actually own my hardware instead of paying a down payment in cash to take possession of a device Meta still owns, and then pay with my data indefinitely afterwards.

If that happened, I’m sure there would be more motivation to clean up a lot of the rough edges, which would benefit the community as a whole.

Openimagedenoise is included in Blender for denoising Cycles renders, and it works quite well for that, IMO.

A recent MIT report indicates that 95% of generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable returns on investment, highlighting significant challenges in successfully implementing AI in businesses

CEOs:

Oracle sees itself as an activist organization, one whose goal is the advancement of the Israeli colonization project. Safra Catz, the company’s Israeli-American CEO, bluntly explained that any employees uncomfortable with supporting a genocide should simply quit. “We are not flexible regarding our mission, and our commitment to Israel is second to none” (source)

Hmm, MySQL or PostgreSQL—how will we ever decide which one to pick.

Over the years in search of a daily driver, I’ve done Ubuntu > Pop > Kubuntu > Mint > more distro hopping > Mint.

It’s nice living on the beach. 😎

Blender is an example of open source that “makes money”, even though it’s not for profit. They get donations and the devs get paid a living wage. Nobody in the Blender foundation is making a killing, but if they couldn’t bring in funds to sustain it, Blender would wither away.

Well, I guess this puts it right about 30 years out now.

Thanks, haven’t tried it, but certainly will!

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Yeah, it’s great! Guess I’ll make this my daily driver instead of Brave now.

Meh, I’ll wait for the emulator. At this point, I mostly emulate the Switch games I own on my PC because it’s more convenient to have all my games in one place without bothering with cartridges and yet another machine. Switch pro controllers are also overpriced, so I’d rather use my existing XBox controllers, but that requires a dongle for every controller and the Switch dock doesn’t have many USB ports. The 8bitdo dongles also only work half the time and are frustrating to use. Then there are the mods. Emulation is just a better experience, and Nintendo’s lawyers have been real assholes about it. Which is why my 20+ Switch games are the last things I’ll ever buy from Nintendo.

There aren’t as many good options on iOS.

You’re right, guess I should’ve said “enshittify further”.