Remember clipart and wordart? It was colourful and flashy and easy, and everywhere in PowerPoint presentations and word documents and even online. For a few years. Then it vanished.

Turns out, easy and flashy doesn’t have a lot of staying power because when something is easy, it is ubiquitous, and when it is ubiquitous it stops being impressive.

AI slop is easy and flashy, and will probably run its course as people become tired of it.

There will still exist AI content, but it will not resemble the slop we see today.

You can make a chair using nothing but hand tools. That’s a wonderfully hobby, but you’re going to have a real hard time turning that into a business and putting food on the table. The hand-made chair is probably of even be better quality than the mass produced one. And that’s great for a few people, but most people probably want the cheapest chair that just barely gets the job done of staying together.

Not really. You can get manual pumps for PEX A which are about the same price as a tile cutter… They are fine. You only need those 500$ power tool expanders if you were doing plumbing all day every day.

Similarly, everyone benefits from roads, even if they don’t drive, even if they are a house hermit. What you thought you amazon package was just teleporting? Your life saving medicine? Your food?

Depending on where you are in the world, and how much of this is coming out of pocket, this is either really good or pretty bad.

If my laptop is offline can I just not use it because it can’t confirm my id?

Yes. The powers at be will stop at nothing to take more, and more, and more power away from you. This is human nature.

In a way, science is just a formal way of recording things, obvious or not, in a way that the crap can be vetted out. Would you prefer podcasts to be our recorded history?

Do nothing about school shootings. Destroy hobbies and manufacturing instead. America is rotting from the inside.

There are two ways to make a game that leads the industry in a genre: invent a new genre, or be the preeminent example of the genre. The GTA franchise has a reputation of consistently being in the latter category.

The dead give away is the warm smile. Trump never smiles, at least not in a phoney way.

I guess it depends what you run, and how the projects/containers are configured to handle updates and “breaking changes” in particular.

But also, I’m being a bit broad with the term “breaking changes”. Other kinds of “breaking changes” that aren’t strictly crashing the software, but that still cause work include projects that demand a manual database migration before being operational, a config change, or just a UI change that will confuse a user.

The point is, a lot of projects demand user attention which completely eclipses the effort required to execute a docker update.

Are you updating 1000’s of stacks every week? I update a couple critical things maybe once a month, and the other stuff maybe twice a year.

I don’t recommend auto updates, because updates break things and dealing with that is a lot of work.

Documentation is for onboarding other people. Why on earth would I need to onboard other people to something self-hosted?

Classic equality/equity debate.

The long and short of it is, having children is not merely a personal benefit to the parent, it’s a critical and necessary part of any functioning society. The proof is simply that you and everyone else owe your existence to your/their parents.

The burden of this task falls on the shoulders of parents. It’s about as much work as a full time job.

Think of it as paying it forward for your parents and your own childhood. Maybe put aside the individualism that is rotting modern society from the inside out.

You would be correct for a switch only, but not a router (serving multiple VLANS and/or hosts via a trunk port connected to a single switch or WAP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunking

Star Field is a great example of a game that has amazing, immersive visuals, but the crappiest gameplay imaginable. All style, no substance. In the end it makes for an overall still crappy experience.

I can’t think of a more fitting title to showcase this AI tech.

What are the odds it’s self sabotage in an attempt to force the ship to leave.

A combination of: the people in positions of power stand to benefit personally for decisions that are bad for everyone else, and a failure of the people to hold him to account (which is itself caused by a mix of apathy, ignorance, and hatred).

It’s only surprising if you have taken the competence and stability demonstrated over the last 70 years for granted.

How is the average person going to know that? If Joe blow can’t easily get to the distro they “should be using”, Linux ain’t happening for most people.

It all makes sense if we remember that the garden variety AI we have today (ChatGPT, etc) are nothing more than fancy models that predict which words typically appear one after the other in books and reddit posts.