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> your project
there's a very good chance there's no human involvement at all in this
The trackpoint of old is my favorite input method for laptops. But the trackpoint of new is not like the trackpoint of old. I still prefer it to the trackpad personally, just because it's so ingrained in me, but I no longer try to convince friends and family. It's on its way out, culturally, because of said enshittification.
But Ubuntu is not the embodiment of "open source". It's a business. With managers...
That's just the thing; these devices aren't meant to be -good-, they're meant to check boxes.
> The Epistemology of the Black Box: Engineering Sovereignty Before the Machines Write the Rules
The title of this article is very unclear.
I mean. So would looking through cardboard tubes. In this context, cardboard tubes are at least as cool.
> Contributors: Claude Code
Sorry mate, this here is disposable software.
The mechanical drive has probably failed. If you put the iPod in a freezer bag and get it very cold, it may spin up long enough for you to make a backup. But make sure it is in a freezer bag or something otherwise airtight or the condensation will brick it worse. The cold shrinks the metal enough to mitigate the initial friction of the drive spinning up.
From there, you can mod it to work from a micro SD card.
So this will end tech support scams, then?
Also. I regularly remove malware from people's android phones pro bono in and around my community. It all comes from the play store.
every new technology thing just looks like poorly disguised weapons now
coding the next big thing -- fleets of fleets of agents
Then we'll automate the founders.
No, it means some billionaires catch strays and have to sell one of their yachts out of their fleet, or cut dividends. The collapse of the current Google/Microsoft security and management duopoly would be less impactful on the average computer user than the death of flash player.
None of this is for you; it's for money. It's someone else's empire. Cybersecurity is a farce, and western culture would quickly recover from a complete collapse, and be better off for it.
Yesterday, I received a lifetime ban from r/MiSTerFPGA for simply replying to a post showcasing an AI-generated core with the text "ai poison"
Two words, no warning - Lifetime ban
Regardless as to whichever side of the camp you're on on this issue, the hysteria is clear. Everyone's so edgy and reactionary. You could probably say the same about my comment.
wasn't LLaMa only open source because it had already leaked anyways? And they wanted to spin it in a positive light for their stakeholders.
Absolutely. Pickles taste kiki. Pumpkin pie tastes bouba. All sensory inputs can be mapped as waveform.
> The incredible engineering in the hardware is prized above software quality.
then let me root and customize the software to my liking
they call it "market basket" inflation. If eggs go up 20% and steak goes up 3%, inflation is recorded as 3% because obviously people will choose steak over eggs this year. Then next year, if steak goes up by 20% and eggs go up by 3%, inflation is recorded as 3% because obviously people will choose eggs over steak this year. This way, inflation is recorded as 6% even though everything costs 25% more; the governace gets to pat themselves on the back in the Bahamas with their piles of cash while the proles are left dumbfounded and starving.
yes but perhaps we should improve society somewhat
Intriguing. Thanks for the writeup!
Probably more like 80%. I know even some normies who go far out of their way to refuse Comcast's hardware.
> Google said in a statement "Whadd'ya gonna do about it, little worm? Gonna vote for someone who will stop us? HAHAHAHA"
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functionmouse on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:28PM
from the self-post dept.
In all discussion of the modern image formats JXL and WebP, it has been mentioned that the formats support both lossless and lossy encoding, as if this is some sort of breakthrough feature. I think, at the very least, lossless and lossy image formats ought to use a different container, or file extension, so that -I- can differentiate them. As long as there is this sort of ambiguity, and unless...
didn't that just turn out to be basically a plagiarised copy of an existing long term open source project that the AI stole?
What makes you so confident in the results of that website?