So “as a compliment to web search” is a great example. We had really good we search based off deterministic algorithms. Now we have enshittified web search, so you boost it with AI that was significantly more expensive to train, significantly more expensive to run inference on, and can confidently return false “facts”.

We’re not using it because it’s better. We’re using it because the alternative got worse.

They’re novelties for sure, but I see nothing but toy uses or things that be achieved by other, less wasteful, techniques.

I assume by crypto you mean cryptocurrencies rather than any cryptography, because there’s lots of valid uses for private communication.

Ludicrous amounts of money being pumped into a technology that has no practical purpose.

I think people who dislike flatpaks or similar aren’t having “problems”. They work, but they’re using using a sledgehammer to drive a nail.

…and it’s turned them into the state with the highest standard of living in the US…right?

So I think, but I’m not sure, this is for group chats. Group chats are only encrypted to/from the server because the server broadcasts the message to each recipient. As the messages are unencrypted on the server, they can feed them to LLMs.

This is different to Signal. On Signal it’s your phone encrypting each copy of the message before sending to each recipient individually.

I’m quite impressed Arch comes out on top

…the ruling stopped short of ordering the government to recover past messages that may already have been lost.

How would somebody be meant to comply with an order to recover a message that has been deleted? Or is that the point? Can’t comply and you’re in contempt of court.

I e got an i3 one of these on order and should turn up next month. I need to buy RAM and an SSD, but I think it’ll end up around £750 all in. Will replace my 11yo MacBook Air 11 inch. Mac OS just went in the wrong direction under Cook.

Mone might even had been a Cyrix too. Honestly I struggle to remember. My dad bought straight Intels and I bought the clones (cheaper) I can’t remember which one I first started on, but both got it eventually.

Will that include busses? …because those are some fairly major bus routes. About 5-6 daytime routes and the same at night.

Edit: I guess so

Detailed traffic proposals to reroute buses and ban all traffic will be released and consulted on later this year.

Complete with cow-print box?

I think my lowest was a 33 MHz 486sx (maybe DX) with 8MB of RAM.

I wouldn’t want to try it today though.

Agreed, which is why it’s important to have articles out in the wild that show the shortcomings of AI. If all people read is all the positive crap coming out of companies like OpenAI then they will make stupid decisions.

It does

If that was actually their expenditure I don’t think they’d have their budget cut.

Your problem isn’t Arch. It’s the fact that the Weyland experience is still under development and so not stable release to release.

This will be true on any distro.

If your solution is to freeze your distro in a certain point in time, don’t type pacman anymore.

mascot is a furry face in a black leather mask

That’s what you see?

I think a few Rorschach tests might be in your future.

Bum bags.

…but nobody wears them since a very brief stint in the 80s.

I always assumed you called them thongs because the bit that goes between your toes looks like the underwear going up a butt-crack.