I initially disagreed but after actually reading the post, I’m with you. If it was only the article’s text that was generated and not the data or graphs then I don’t see why the whole thing would be written off. I mean, it’s really sad seeing people offload their writing to AI but I still found it interesting.

It was about 4 months out of date at code freeze from my understanding and 6 months out of date on release which is honestly better than I’d expect normally for packages in official repos

+1 to Garage being great! I used it for a personal project and it worked really well. A lot of S3 data browsing clients also support it natively or just through API compatibility too

Software needs users to fund development and most users find the software via word of mouth and there’s no way I’m telling a friend that they should try POOP for their next art project

I’d love to hear what your solution would be? They freeze everything two months out to allow for thorough testing and unless your answer to the problem is switching to a rolling release cycle (which is exactly the opposite of what its supposed to be), then I don’t think there’s anything to be done

This sort of distro is and always has prioritised stability over having the latest of everything and that’s a good thing. I use CachyOS on my desktop but it’s the absolute last thing I’d put on a server, let alone a production one.

Just use Docker if you need something newer

Yeah, I’ve never even thought about using PW BIOS protection since someone could always just pop out the drive and do whatever with it. I guess if it’s a soldered drive it makes slightly more sense but still easily overcome by anyone who’s determined enough

Full disk encryption is what you want really

The state or computer science right now is soul crushing

The support was forgiveable to me initially with the assunption that they didn’t know but they doubled down on it and I can’t forgive that. I like the company a lot but I’m not going to knowingly indirectly fund hate by buying their stuff.

It’s really sad how right wing the tech industry is now where even the objectively left wing open source/right to repair/privacy space is dominated by bigots. Like even Proton’s CEO is a MAGA

I’ll admit I didn’t know what the shadow from the TV was until I read the comments. I went back to change my downvote to an upvote

I’ve actually not heard of a single Canadian (ignoring those who sold out and moved to the US) who’s been on the list but someone can correct me if I just missed an article or something

I’d like to think that maybe it means we’re just better people but given the way the world is, our ultra rich probably just have their own snow-tinted Epstein who’s still alive and active

what

I hate this sort of meme/joke because it just perpetuates the idea that people’s skin colour affects their actions rather than their upbringing and personality which is pretty fucking racist but with a “progressive” tint.

It’s such a weird American thing

What features out of curiosity? I haven’t used Nova since like Android 7

black market would then only be supported by irredeemable vape haters

The black market is easily available to those who use something that can only be bought through it. You can only be introduced to something by someone who already has a connection and once you have that one connection, you often find more.

Sometimes the black market can actually even be more convenient than regulated shops, like soon people in the UK will have their local tobacco dude who’ll drop your stuff off at your doorstep

lmao, they remove it when they *find* it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.

Yeah, I don’t use IG but my wife has reported explicitly nazi glorification content before but because the account would say “for historical purposes only”, they just say they didn’t find anything wrong with the posts. Fuck Meta

Hard unnuanced bans on vices never work and it’s insane that people think that this time it will.

You say that it’ll cut down on healthcare costs but how much will now be spent on enforcement? Tobacco use was already out of style and smoking seen as obnoxious and uncool but now it’ll be seen as a mysterious and forbidden thing. Look at cannabis use among youth in Canada after legalisation if you want an example. People will continue to smoke tobacco but now that tobacco will all be unregulated black market stuff bought from some sketchy guy who can offer you any number of other unregulated, untested and more dangerous drugs

You can say the same for any fascist and warmongering country. Sub in Russia, Nazi Germany, etc. It doesn’t change a thing

Looks like Amazon.ca still lets you see all reviews thankfully

Nah, I don’t feel bad for the people committing war crimes in a pointless, illegal, and unjustified “special military operation” against a country just as I don’t feel bad for any of the non conscripted* soldiers in Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

*I do feel for anyone who was basically forced at gunpoint into the meatgrinder

Would they actually be able to afford it? Investors have been throwing endless amounts of money onto the fire but in OpenAI’s case at least, it was all essentially bought like “I’ll pay you later, trust me”, right?

I’d assume convincing companies twice that you’re trustworthy enough to buy the world’s supply of RAM with an IOU wouldn’t be possible but I guess I thought the same thing for the first time as well

edit: either way, I’d take a longer period of expensive RAM if it meant a giant “fuck you” to the AI companies