Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)
I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.
Yeah. And, in fairness, as a non-pirate, I read along here for tips and tricks to get a non-shit streaming experience out of my home hosted hardware.
If I could still pay for a non-shit streaming experience, I would just do that.
That sounds like a good approach. If you can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.
Well sure.
But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?
Acting like it’s imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn’t have very reliable advisors, or they just don’t care about the truth.
There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.
Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.
If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.
It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.
This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.
ISBN Search is a non-monopolist source of the same information.
Yeah. The Cardassian cases are the most headache-inducing. My mind-canon for those is just “Gul Dukat thought it would be funny.”
Edit: With an occasional splash of “Garak the Simple Tailor messed with the system and no one was willing to admit they didn’t know how to fix it.” Which doesn’t hold up on DS9, where Odo would have, but works for various Cardassian locations.
The camera thing drives me nuts, because we all know it’s generally just going to be what’s drives the plot for this story. Which is okay.
But as a privacy nerd, my brain immediately concocts some deeply weird privacy law to explain why main engineering is monitored 24/7 and the front door is somehow not. Then my brain starts trying to come up with the relevant moments in the fictional history why the laws are so broken…
But it shows a problem; in most sci-fi not only are all the aliens 1.8 meters tall with five fingers and a larynx that can mimic human speech, they all come from world’s with a 24 hour day.
Yeah! Lamp-shading this trend is one of the ways that Farscape shines.
While Farscape is still frequently guilty of this trope, it’s fun that at least the human main character is often scolded by peers for his human-anatomy-centric biases.
All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.
That’s what resonates for me.
We don’t have email instances, and email providers similarly block un-desired content, but there’s not a big fuss about missing out on specific types of spam. Lol.
Similarly Internet service providers actually also block big blocks of malware providing domains, and accidentally sometimes block some great piracy resources. People who care learn to use a VPN or switch providers. Everyone else doesn’t have to think about it.
I’ll argue that The Fediverse also carries extremely similar switching cost as an email or Internet provider. For an average user, “Let folks you care to inform know where you moved, and maybe copy over some favorite bookmarks.”
Sure, different providers do try to bring different lenses on the same federated content, but most people aren’t served well by thinking about it on day one.
I think shifting to the term provider is a lot more honest to the user about what to expect.
That’s fantastic. Provider avoids the mostly baseless FOMO (fear of missing out) that instance can invoke.
I think provider more clearly communicates that the majority of the desirable content is going to be available the same through any provider.
There’s a timeline where I’m not automatically alarmed by something just because Elon supports it.
This isn’t that timeline. Where’s the grift?
Open source projects aren’t doomed to lousy UX forever.
Shoves GNUImp behind a desk with a foot.
Just look at recent releases of Gnome and KDE. We can have nice things, it just takes time.
You’ve nailed it. That’s the key bit that organizations of all kinds are going to figure out.
Any profit goes back to employees and paying users.
You just described a normal non-profit, but doomed. Lol.
Organizational committment to remaining non-profit seems to be critical to the recipe.
I don’t follow either closely enough to make a rank list or anything.
In the same ballpark as some moments that Torvalds has apologized for. Milder than Torvald’s worst, but also unrepentant, as far as I’ve seen.
its lead dev is a bit socially awkward
Heh. You’re being gentle, and that’s good. But that’s maybe understating it a bit.
I’ve seen the GrapheneOS official Mastodon account being an antisocial uncollegial mess.
It’s okay to acknowledge that we wish some of our open source contributors were better community members.
“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”