If you don’t like Signal, SimpleX is also an option.

Why yes I do, Mike Tyson. Thanks for asking

Nice! Just in time for the release of PC 2

140 TB is a whole heck of a lot of movies and TV shows

Thank you! Should be a breeze once I get through this weekend 🙂

Yeah, I may do that. I’m cooped up for the weekend for a knee surgery I had this morning.

I need to watch this movie still. I’ve been wanting to watch it since it was brought up in a infotainment video I watched on YouTube. Now’s the perfect time to watch I guess.

Usually something savory, followed by something sweet to contrast the savory snack, but then something savory again, and then sweet again. My snacking habits require great levels of impulse control lol so in reality I mostly don’t snack much.

would you subscribe to get access?

For the current quality of information? No. If the quality improves then maybe $5/mo. Purchase lifetime access with a guaranteed open source copy if they were to go bankrupt? Yeah. But for now, I get free access to ChatGPT for Teachers until like 2027.

But even as of right now there’s plenty of open sourced AI models. I just don’t have the hardware to run complicated models efficiently. I don’t game on a PC so my current setup is just an Intel 14100 and 32GB of ram. So if OpenAI decides to inject ads or force subscription on me, I’ll just upgrade to a 14600F and get a 3060. Then its just a matter of deciding which open source LLM I like best.

Well I’m the other side of the learning curve from you, I need detailed answers to complicated technical questions and AI fails to provide a correct answer 9 times out of 10 and worse is misleading in its answers with basic mistakes or out of date information which would trip up inexperienced users

Sounds like you’re probably doing that for a job and in which case I would strongly advise against AI reliance for work tasks. At least not without training it on your personal work or technical knowledge.

It’s only useful in giving me a direction to start, I still have to go to the likes of stack exchange and read and understand the primary sources it was trained on to get a useful answer and understanding.

That’s best practice when using AI output for more technical projects anyway. It probably isn’t saving you much time because you’re already proficient. In my case, it saved months of work. I see it as a tool that lowers the barrier of entry to a ton hobbies or areas of knowledge.

That’s just fine. Don’t worry yourself too much. I don’t know about everyone else, but I only want the people open to making a switch here. If you’re so put off by trying something new that you aren’t willing to give it a chance, then I’m not going to be begging for you to join my community.

No and no. The barrier to entry would have been too high. I don’t have hundreds of hours to track down the answers I was looking for. It’s not that I’m incapable of finding the information I was looking for in forums. It’s that its such basic knowledge to most tech forum users that I probably would have been seen as a leech. Have you been to tech forums lately? Its a bunch up people telling you to be a better programmer and calling you a fucking idiot. That’s why stack exchange is failing.

Access to information should be free. That’s partially why we’re all here. Everything that we post could be scraped by an LLM and used for free. When it becomes an issue is when AI crawlers quadruple server load.

I went from Windows laptop and Netflix and Hulu to a Linux desktop for a home server running Immich, Mealie, Jellyfin, and the Arr suite in docker containers. All proxied on Cloudflare for remote access. I would never have been able to do that without the use of ChatGPT. I had no knowledge of software development, Linux, networking, etc at all. If you know how to query, AI can be a huge aid in learning. It’s helping me brush up on my Italian right now too since I haven’t spoken it in 5 years.

In android; there is also a ‘lockdown’ mode you can quickly activate from the power off screen, that disables Biometrics until next unlock with a pin/pattern, but doesn’t fully shutdown so you can still quickly access things like the camera. This has to be explicitly enabled in settings first and will not offer much protection from various lockscreen bypass software available to law enforcement.

2 things. Unless I accidentally enabled this setting, it’s on by default. And what do you mean by lockscreen bypass software. What would be the point of lockdown if its not effective against law enforcement trying to brute force your privacy?

No, I see comments just fine, but the community is blocked

Sorry, but that’s wrong. WBGT takes radiative heat into effect when it’s calculated. The sun and shade effectively have two different WBGT readings. That’s why its measured with a black globe. Protocol is to measure ~2 meters heigh in direct sunlight away from structures that block wind so you get the worse case scenario. Like any whether reading, its localized.

I mean yes, but maybe if you can interview in good faith, that’s not what becomes part of the job.

“I saw here that the use of AI is required. I’m willing to compromise and use AI for some workflows, but I’m skeptical of wide scale adoption. I think its potentially bad for the long term code base maintenance and stability, which is what GOG is founded on. If I find that it’s truly helpful in code writing, then I’ll continue to work it into my larger workload, but do keep in mind that the Linux community as a whole is more technical than other OS consumers and this will be bad PR.”

I think its mostly because of lurkers, but also, I first joined on midwest.social then something broke the feed and caused a bunch of federation issues. Now this is my “alt” but I can’t see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now

It took me until the 3rd paragraph to realize this was cap

My wife and I use SimpleX. I don’t know why its not discussed more. Perfect use case for attending protests and such. Get swept up in illegal arrests and they want you to open the app? Enter the self-destruct code. It opens the app normally while destroying any info it contained so they would be none the wiser. It just looks like an empty chat.

Anyone that wants to buy them on the open market. Since there would be a massive drop in demand for US bond markets, the bonds being sold would drop in price. It’s tough to say how far it would fall because you don’t know how many investors would be willing to buy what percentage of that $8 trillion. Any smart investor would know that amount of a selloff would take a considerable amount of time to recover from and also put the government in a really tight position. So why buy high? There’s always going to be people with more dollars than sense, so some will buy right away but large portfolios would wait and buy after an arbitrary drop. Say 30%. That would harm the dollar and would hurt the United States’ ability to sell new bonds to borrow money.

As for the one time sale part, europe would then look to other markets to reinvest the money in the short term. They wouldn’t want to hold that amount of cash unless they wanted to fund a massive infrastructure project(interstate system, rail network, military, housing, green energy, etc.) So I would guess that they’d look to the east and buy bonds in Southeast Asia/China. Its the only other market big enough. Then if you have trillions in foreign currency, you’ll want to invest in development to keep that investment safe. New trade deals would probably be discussed and foreign investment in developing technologies would help spur innovation. Suddenly the US would look much less attractive as a trade partner and investment test bed. The US could try to pull back similar investments but we invested heavily into non liquid assets. Manufacturing being a major one during the post war boom after WWII. It’d be very difficult to pull those assets quickly. Then to wrap this all up, Europe acquired those bonds by buying them. If they wanted to slowly sell off other investments and go back to buying US bonds, they could do so. Probably on the cheap. They make their money back and more as the US market would presumably recover…if we are able to depose regressive politics after an economic collapse.