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Re:I refuse to let SPICE die on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:38PM (#49674899)
The major challenge is not keep it building and compatible. The major challenge is to keep up with security issues.

I wish op all the best, it's a tough journey

Re:A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:20PM (#49666197)
I'm teaching async calls in makearcade to my 10yo son, to bypass a platform bug. He said he doesn't get it. My answer was: Don't worry, adults don't get it either.
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I don't know if they will never go public,but their business is clearly not profitable as it is today.

I'm a heavy user but the moment they stop subsidizing I will pick something else because I know how damn expensive it actually is (my usage is ~4k usd/month, but paying 200 in their max plan).

I guess lot of people will do the same.

Interesting how that whole conversation about "AGI tomorrow" completely disappeared and it's all about making money now.

I'm a fan of claude and I have been using their top tier plans because it's so damn cheap comparing to my real usage. They will have to stop subsidizing this at some point, and people (include me) will flee. What they are gonna do?

Interesting times we live in.

Re:Kobo can run apps now on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:48PM (#49393009)
"confubabulating.... You're definetely right"
Re:Mario Meets Pareto on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:05PM (#49200156)
Shame it isn't Luis Pareto.
A historical reminder: the Nazis were highly effective at persecuting Jews in the Netherlands precisely because of the country's meticulous population registry.

You never know who will be in power tomorrow. The convenience of a centralized system today does not outweigh the catastrophic danger of that system in the wrong hands in the future. Specially nowadays.

Not everything runs on paid models. Claude and Codex are frontier models, but some people have much higher usage needs and finite budgets that force them to self-host. And if you're self-hosting, you're very likely running a Chinese model
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:03PM (#48970315)
I think there's more to it.

China will always benefit from a broader adoption of their models as hidden propaganda machines.

Eventually with several services relying in those tools, their answers will always be more friendly to China.

Re:AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:56AM (#48965105)
Interesting how op describes his own experience and then assume that every other company around the globe experience exactly the same.

He generalizes CEO's behavior but provides no evidence. Cool.

Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:41PM (#48724115)
I can't find a 3090 for less than 2k CADs (or 1200 eur). Is this the average price in Germany? It's pretty cheap.
Re:Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images on Saturday June 06, 2026 @11:16AM (#48425873)
Can you talk more about it? So an issue during shutdown running from the external drive destroyed a partition of a internal drive?

I can see power issues corrupting the external drive (and I can live with that), but I'm wondering what went wrong in your case.

I'm not sure running the whole thing from a live-boot (which is kind of the point of the topic, different from a external installation which is what I use) would have prevented anything.

Re:Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:31PM (#48407597)
Installing plain fedora in an external nvme drive and boot from there works pretty nicely.

Luks, uefi, fstrim, everything works fine. I boot it from my desktop, laptops or from virt-manager when I need a quick change.

The only thing I couldn't make it work was the proprietary nvidia drivers.

There's an open-source wahjam btw.
I'm an atheist, but I have to admit the previous guy was pretty dope.
It might take years. Once it's solved, Smith, Trump and the americans financing this BS might be gone.
Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @08:18PM (#48201424)
Given your pelican is very famous now, don't you think they are adding instructions to beat this benchmark those days?
Re:Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:04AM (#48177933)
Well, not photoshop yet, but if you're in the scene of raw photo editing, you know there are several small "new players" clearly coded in a couple of weeks that are pretty promising.

It's true that we're not there yet for very complex software, but corporations don't place bets on today's market. They are placing bets on how the market is going to look like 2, 3 years from now.

Re:Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES on Sunday May 10, 2026 @02:51PM (#48086666)
This week has been tough. Is it the begging of CVEgeddon?
Not mine. My kerbin's ocean is full of them now.
Re:ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:36PM (#47943604)
You are absolutely right!
Looks like someone needs to learn how to sandbox their agents properly.
I always avoid apps if I can.

But yeah, that comment is a bit disconnected to majority of the population.

Re:DeepSeek v4 on Friday April 24, 2026 @06:55PM (#47896811)
Is your house's heating system based on H100s?
I look into my perfect workable Samsung Tab S7+ and remember that it has been an year since the last security update.

Now I rely on a few random individuals who, for all I know could be state agents or a ransomware organization to provide unofficial versions of Lineage so I can keep using it.

Battery isn't the only problem to avoid e-waste, but it's a start.

I'm a Darktable user and Affinity mobile user. I was pretty happy with both.

I was using Affinity for quick edits. I happily paid for their software as it's worth what they were charging for and not subscription based.

Then it was bought and Canvas decided to release it for free. What sounds like good news, for me it's concerning: Companies need to make money. If users are not paying, well, they might actually be the product the company sells: either with ads or intelligence. I hate ads as much as I hate my data being harvested, so I'm out now.

A couple of weeks ago I found what seems to work for me now: I bought a tablet capable of running Fedora and Darktable, and that's what am using now.

There’s a joke that in a couple of years, after spending trillions of dollars, burning mountains of coal to run country-sized datacenters and boiling all the oceans, we finally achieve AGI.

Then the first question we ask it is: 'How do we fix climate change?' And it answers: 'you can start by unplugging me'

Re:Slop Cop on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:10AM (#47813531)
I've heard this theory in the past:

In a couple of years, the corporative communication will work like this:

You write a bunch of bullet points and feed them to an AI to create a beautiful and well written email. Your reader will feed that email into his own AI and he will generate bullet points to read.

Re:Migrating to the EU on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:36PM (#47497215)
A couple of years ago someone raised evidence that pcloud was processing documents stored in their servers.

They created that "paid cryptography addon" later, but it's hard to trust at this point.

Re:You Are Not Your Job on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:37PM (#47491817)
Nah,

All around the world, even people in the lower income brakets take vacation. Sometimes they travel if they can, sometimes they don't.

Working until you wear off is mostly a US thing.

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