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Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:17AM (#50285919)
Bleak? Assuming AI will be what this text assumes it will, there is no chance of most people continuing to live more or less normal lives where they'd be at a place where they would ever get to worry about something like this.

It's assuming there will be UBI schemes and benevolent billionaires. It's not bleak, it's fantastical.

More PR bs from unscrupulous people. Until you've cured an actual disease for actual people, please shut up.
Re:LLMs may have immensely helped my RSI on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:03AM (#49989713)
> I set up a custom keyboard in software years ago and it’s much better than the terrible European layout family for coding. So I can type all code comfortably. I can also type all the special characters that I want comfortably. All those “typographic” characters that make technical people go “that must be LLM, 95% confidence”.

Been doing this for years as well, "in software" being a custom layout in xkb in my case. Though for me the concern was limited to making it easy and quick to type []{}|<>. The only downside I've ran into more frequently than you would expect is that I feel more than a little lost without the xkb config.

Still suffer from RSI but I have to assume that it would be a lot worse with the Swedish/Finnish layout I'd be using otherwise. The placement of AltGr practically ensures that typing say [ is torturous, and RSI etc. aside, for sure this has to have had at least some sort of economical impact over the years across Europe.

They're actively rummaging through your inputs so the damned-if-you-don't case doesn't really exist; no one expects Anthropic to not notify law enforcement once they learn of something like this. What you might have expected was some privacy in the first place though, where Anthropic would never have learned of this in the first place and where the damned-if-you-do case wasn't a thing.
Suggests? How bold.
Since we're on Immich, please let me vent out my frustrations after having looked at it recently.

Why the love affair with forcing absolutely everything into strict temporal constraints? Is there a single view in Immich that isn't peppered with date headings?

And I genuinely do not understand what the sharing feature is even for. What are you sharing? It can't be albums because an album would be a series of photos you yourself arranged, independent of when the photos were taken, and this seems a completely foreign concept in Immich land.

> AI is not good in x=Finance because models were not RL trained heavily on x=Finance capabilities yet.

Not sure what the "financial queries" here amounted to but I find it hard to believe LLMs will ever be to finance what they are to programming. Past a point, information related to the former is gatekeeped behind private institutions with special government granted privileges, while information related to the latter is freely available and open to anyone.

Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:40AM (#49696715)
Must have chafed him some this went unsolved for the rest of his time. On the other hand, if it wasn't going to get solved during my lifetime, then I definitely would have liked to have thought it will take centuries and a non-human form of intelligence.
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:28AM (#49696523)
Now that programming is solved, math is solved, and this is solved, can we solve Alzheimer's next please?
Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @04:50PM (#49677052)
> I think Dario is genuinely afraid of the inevitability of AI turning into internet slime mold: consuming the environment, turning it into its own playground, and eventually manipulating human culture along with it.

Personally, I see Dario as a semi crook asshat with very little credibility on any of this. I'd rather we just let it rip and see what happens than have these people be the ones steering any potential laws and regulations.

> That said, if slowing this down were possible, I think it would have happened by now. [...] The fundamental problem is simpler: no one will slow down because no one trusts anyone else to slow down.

Frontier labs would heed laws with real teeth, it doesn't matter who they do or don't trust. I would imagine the trust issue definitely coming into play between nations though since you can't exactly spot a training run via a satellite.

More importantly though, that you would get any sensible legislation on this in the current political environment is as laughable as the idea of solving this with a pinky promise between the frontier labs and some third party evaluators.

I haven't seen that. Where is that from?
Re:GIMP Development Update on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:23PM (#49333581)
Alright, got it. Thanks
Re:GIMP Development Update on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:46AM (#49330786)
Am I reading this right in that I should avoid doing it myself then?
Re:GIMP Development Update on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:42AM (#49330711)
> Anyone enlighten me on actual usability problems

The latest one I can recall is the canvas losing focus when you click anywhere outside it. So, to continue working after you interact with the layers panel e.g., you'll need to go through the extra step of reactivating the canvas.

Re:GIMP Development Update on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:32AM (#49330561)
Thoughts on posting a UX and/or workflow related Issue under Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux that would pretty much just recite an existing Issue from GNOME/gimp?
> Do we need 40 people saying the same thing about how they don't feel bad and it serves them right and all that surface level stuff on every single one of these?

Apparently we do, given that we've got govt officials wasting time, money, and effort on whining about this now.

This is interesting and all but is ultimately just an aside. Are the law enforcement actions on display here legal in Denmark? If not, surely there's prison sentences in store for anyone involved. Right?
I'm sure the actual management interface is a separate thing but still, this website is unreal. Feels like a repurposed, half baked WordPress theme.
Re:The Claude Code Leak on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:16AM (#47611026)
>­ I actually wrote this piece myself on my phone while I was out for a walk this morning.

Apropos of nothing, this is astonishing me to no end. The ergonomics of 1) using a phone keyboard for anything but a word or two and 2) doing so while walking pretty much guarantee that I'd probably need a half a day to recover if I attempted the same.

This is technically true I guess but assuming the YT comment I just read represented it truthfully, it was an LLM that wrote it.
Hah! I don't believe this for a second. No, you need the 8k, a business entity (at the very least), five different licenses of some sort, and then some form of accreditation.
Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 on Sunday September 07, 2025 @09:56AM (#45158183)
> It is so elegant and common that even though it is not part of a standard ...

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss seems valid ISO 8601 to me, isn't it? Neither the "T" nor the timezone are required as far as I recall.

EDIT: The site says ISO 8601-1:2019 requires a T for datetimes, and that even though previous editions allowed for no T, a space was never allowed. This is shocking news to me.

Re:Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @07:23AM (#40984684)
Funnily enough, the linked page shows The Lounge IRC channel among the ten most populous on Libera. (The Lounge is similar to IRCCloud but self-hosted.)

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

You are missing the point. Nothing in Gimp I haven't managed to do when I've decided it's important enough to put up with it but not so important I'd renew an Adobe subscription and boot Windows. The UX is simply so bad I'd rather avoid it at all costs if possible, and I get zero enjoyment from using it.

Blender being harder to learn has pretty much zero to do with how great or poor the experience of using it is. On top of missing the point, you're also missing the connection between the lack "troll posts" and what the user experience is like.

But since you're muttering to yourself about troll posts and how it's really just a skills issue, I might as well go and mutter to myself about how great Gimp could be if it had users who had standards instead of being chronic enablers who just cheerfully whistle through the wart fair it is.

I've had my yearly share of discussing Gimp I think. I'll just keep to my routine: see an update, install it in hopes of finding it has changed, and quit it ten minutes later kicking myself for being dumb enough to allow myself to hope.

> Sounds like a you problem.

It's a me problem alright, but I'm in no way unique in refusing to put up with the mountain of grief that the Gimp UX is.

­> I've been using it productively for photo editing and web design for two decades+.

I know Gimp must have its share of long term users but they're a miracle to me and I don't know what to say to that. I suppose it's good people reading these threads who are open to giving Gimp a go see there are users for whom it's working out.

Even the features it does have are behind UX so bad you'd rather cram scattered glass down your urethra than use it. Just yesterday I gave Gimp a go again to do some very basic exposure blending and rage quit 10 minutes later. It's impossible to work with comfortably or with any sort of fluidity, everything is either a fight or a drag.
Re:Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:10AM (#40560374)
> A way less marketed version of this is htmx

Can I come live in whatever bizarro world you're in? I've never heard of Hotwire before but I'm up to my ears with htmx this and htmx that. It's impossible to spend a minute on Youtube without seeing programmer influencers with their moronic thumbnails featuring their face twerks next to htmx.

> The article doesn't have enough details to form an opinion!

It does, unless your interest is in justifying the breaking of law and abuse of powers.

These people were granted amazing powers, are paid from taxes, and yet somehow it's too much to expect that they'd have an ounce of respect for the law and the privacy of their supposed fellow citizens. Unscrupulous individuals who work overtime to figure out ways to abuse their powers.

And it really is unfathomable to me how it's possible for someone to be an agent of government, knowing you're responsible for being that for which no one nowhere should trust their government with any powers, and somehow still being able to go about your daily activities without your conscience tearing you into pieces. Impossible to say enough bad things about these specimens.

Re:Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:35PM (#38956575)
> ...past releases and alternate SSH implementations...

Absolutely not faulting the devs in any way for wanting to rid themselves of having to maintain the DSA bits, but this idea of "just" using past releases seems theoretical. I'd be surprised if I managed to compile an OpenSSH release from even just a couple of years ago. There'd be some glibc incompatibility or something equally gnarly.

Re:The $55M saga of the Netflix series nobody will never see on Saturday November 25, 2023 @08:00AM (#38413216)
> ... the return to torrents is inevitable.

The only reason I ever paid for Netflix, HBO and Prime was because I felt less bad about never leaving in the first place.

The UIs are atrocious, yes, but the absolute worst part of them all is that you have zero control. Content is there one day, gone the next.

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