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But at least France is holding its hand this time! 🙃

So we've reached the point where the web doesn't exist anymore in the general opinion, it's just wall gardened apps now ? 🙁 #web4.0

I hate 2024

I think you think too much, most people just want a browser that works and they have one preinstalled on their phone / computer. So when you arrive and recommend Firefox they just hear "Hey ! You have a browser that works, why won't you spend time installing this one that works just as fine, I swear".

Extensions and privacy might look like killer features but they are a bit too abstract to be adoption arguments (why would you even need extensions if your browser is so good).

I think the phone industry is trying very hard to look interesting but it's been a while since anybody cared? Or is it really just me?

Yeah, people who built those modern technologies are mostly over 50, I suppose.

I'm not surprised so many would buy it, but it surprised we reached this number before the first reviews. That a brand new line of product and I'm not even sure what people will use it for 😶

Well, "YOUR CODE IS GARBAGE" seems like flaming.

You, send the same message without this and it achieves exactly the same thing without the "taking it all out on someone" part 🤷

Although shaming newcomers for their distro choice is not a welcoming move 💢

And AI is a buzzword that englobes a variety statistical tools. Articles write AI to evoke generative tools in people minds, but very specialized tools are at work here.

I don't know about Poland but I know about France (I would guess we're not so far appart on this point).

While 95% of railways are electrified, those last 5% are not very worth it to invest in, because really low traffic and hard to operate (eg. in mountains). I've already heard of compromises, like hybrid locomotives that can run on battery for more than half the line and rely on diesel for the remaining.

To be honest, phishing emails are so bad that I don't see how any generational AI couldn't be better. Just making less than two typos per sentence would e enough.

Someone explained me that it may be intentional that phishing emails are so bad as it acts as a pre-filter, then you only spend time and ressources dealing with presumably very gullible people.

So next LTS might have to be resilient to the 2038 bug (32 bit signed timestamps overflow). I wonder how many softwares are vulnerable 🤔

And model 1 was even cheaper (but I guess these values should be indexed on inflation anyway)

Yeah, every debate about reducing the number of cars always ends at something like "too many jobs are involved in the car industry, so we need to preserve these jobs, and also people need cars to go work in these factories". I feel like there will hardly be a deep environmental breakthrough if it doesn't come with a deep social change.

I think it's been a long time since digital companies tried to solve actual problems.

Steam Input & double touchpad is also an insane feature. Right now my main game is Dofus : a turn based tactical MMORP. This game is probably one of the most keyboard+mouse I could have thought of, however it has A LOT of keyboard shortcut. I maybe spent one hour fine tuning my layout and now it feels almost better playing it in console mode.

Turning a PC game into a console game like this almost feels like magic, I really love this big boy and really hope it will have successors in the distant future.

And also this game is not even on steam, the global openness of Valve letting me do whatever the f**k I want with my device is very welcome.

And they increase roughly at the pace it should be decreasing 😰

If you subscribe for a whole year it only costs 599$ !

Maybe with zRAM and a bit of swap it could run quite ok 🤷

Maybe they want to suck part of the codebase into notion?

I have a friend who works with ex Zenly employees, and that's exactly what Snapchat did with them.

On a more positive note, Facebook and XFormerlyKnowAsTwitter are not essential parts of the internet. You can choose to not use or care about them. It is much harder to not use NTP, and it's great that it is an open and comprehensible standard 👌

How is "don't rely on content you have no right to use" litteraly impossible?

We teach to children that there is a Google filter to include only the CC images (that they should use for their presentations).

Also it's not like we are talking small companies here, a new billion-making industry is being born and it could totally afford contracts with big platforms that would allow to use their content.

Yeah, the fact that AI progress just relies on "we will make so much money that no lawsuit will consequently alter our growth" is really infuriating. The fact that general audience apparently doesn't care is even more infuriating.

I really hope they will continue maintaining it and release new versions 🤞

And it's not only about user data, it would also expose the website to content spoofing in public wifi, which would for example allow the attacker to inject fishing content in the website.

SSL encrypts the data you're sending but it also ensures that you're communicating only with who you think you are. Without SSL you can't be confident about any of that.

You're not an idiot, I had the same issue with last epoch and it took me a while to understand. Half rate shadering has no side effects on most games so I didn't see this coming 🙍‍♂️

To be fair anyone can already call me with my phone number. Although it's pretty anoying too.

Well, when good documentation is available it isn't necessary but good documentation is not always available. And it can still be helpful with niche issues 🤷

Are they selling back scrapped content? I thought it was only user behaviors through the ad network?

About cataloging at least it is opt-out though robot.txt 🤷

EDIT: plus, "we are already doing bad" is never a good argument to continue doing bad, if Google were to be in fault this could get the traction to slap their ass

This. I can't wait to test bazzite, a community alternative of steamos 3, which would never have been possible if the deck wasn't so open.

That's what saved me too but I'm still stuck with unpredictable crashes, 150GB of HDD / 8GB of RAM lost in the void and bullshit ads for copilot in the lock screen ...

I subscribed to a pack for "most streaming services in my country" because I earn enough money now and wanted to try being honest. But I will very probably not renew it, I pay 50€/month, but still use Plex almost as often :

1. The web apps suck, the mobile ones are often worse (laggy, contrast changes while watching, lack of features ...)
2. Some shows are not available in a decent quality : in France we have Kaamelott, owned by Canal+, they probably made an intern upload the episodes so it's only available at 360p
3. They try to control what you watch : the "continue watching" section of Netflix has been randomly placed between line 1 and 4 for a while now, seemingly just to push their bulshit recommendation algorithms that will me watch yet another cheap copycat
4. Some "premium" movies are not part of any subscription (eg. Puss In Boots 2)
5. Some show may not be available anywhere when shady exclusivity contracts expire (eg. "Au service de la France" was only available through piracy last time a friend tried to watch it) ...

Sooooo ... I was ok with the services sucking but I can't be okay with them so obviously not trying to improve.

It's also incredible how I was pirating everything else when I was a teenager (video games, books, audio, ...) and managed to stop almost immediately when I received my first salary.

Yeah, I don't understand how you could make installing vim simpler than pacman -S vim? Is it about "-S" being less obvious than "install"?

My FP3 hanged around in my pocket unprotected for 4 years and still has no scratch on its screen. I feel like the industry learned how to make basically indestructible glass for a while (except if you casually put diamonds in the same pocket).

Detecting crawlers can be easier said than done 🙁

I suppose the compression process looks like this :

• call the model to predict the most probable next tokens (this is deterministic)
• encode next tokens by with its ranking in model prediction

If the model is good at predicting what the next token is, I suppose you need only 2bits to encode each token (for any of the top 4 predictions).

They just talk about Steam games that were verified by Valve's process. So yeah, as you said, it's much larger for people who are willing to do a tiny bit of tinkering 👍

I'm relieved that the group I wanted to vote was against. I'm frightened that it was the only one against in France 😱

I suppose there are a lot of companies who would be glad to make you pay for their proprietary video standard, we would just pay for something formerly free 😟