Over the weekend.

I don’t see small talk or whatever as a sign of a lack of interest in someone. Sometimes there’s nothing that deep going on to talk about.

The relevance for me personally is whether or not they can be useful for programming, and if they’re accessible to run locally. I’m not interested in feeding my data to a datacentre. My AMD GPU also doesn’t support ROCm so LLMs run slow as fuck for me. So, generally, I avoid them.

LLMs consistently produce lower quality, less correct, and less secure code than humans. However, they do seem to be getting better. I might be open to using them to generate unit tests if only they would run faster on my PC. I tried deepseek, llama3.1, and codellama; all take like an hour+ to answer a programming question given that they are just using my CPU, as my GPU doesn’t support ROCm. So really not feasible for anything.

Depending on what you count as AI, I think some of the long-existing predictive ML like autosuggestions based on learning your input patterns are fine and helpful. And maybe if I get a supported GPU I won’t mind using local LLMs for some things. But generally I’m not dying to use them. I can do things myself.

Thunderbird is a K-9 reskin. They’re the same app. People pick based on what icon and app name they want I guess.

I just cook normal meals and put them in tupperware and take them to work. Doesn’t work if you don’t have a microwave, but if you don’t have a microwave, I’m not sure what you could do other than sandwiches. So whatever you like to eat.

How’s the firmware support/availability? For things like graphics tablets, graphics drivers, etc?

I don’t think OpenBSD has binary compat with Linux but most Linux software should just need a recompile for BSDs—I’m discouraged from porting given that when it’s not a simple recompile I’d have much less idea what to do.

The reasons people use Linux are for qualities other than the ones affected by AI use. AI use has implications for code quality, correctness, and security. But none of those are why people use Linux. People use Linux over BSD or other Unixes because Linux supports the most hardware, has the biggest software ecosystem, and being a monolithic kernel is much easier to get up and running with lots of hardware without needing to install separate drivers. Those qualities still need to be addressed by BSDs or whatever alternatives before people will start migrating from Linux.

I say this as someone who regularly uses and enjoys an OpenBSD machine. I couldn’t use it as my main machine because it just doesn’t have the same software availability and plug-and-use hardware support as Linux. Porting software to a new target is not a trivial task for most users. I package a few things for the AUR and that’s much easier as the software already supports x86_64 Linux; I just have to write a script to install it. I think OpenBSD is a nice OS but I highly doubt Linux users will migrate any time soon. Think about how many people were clinging onto X11 because Wayland didn’t support their super specific workflow. And a migration to an entirely different OS would be worse.

Where did I say or imply that Mexico and Spain were the only countries?

Spain has a distinct accent if you are a Spanish speaker. If you don’t speak Spanish, it’s likely you wouldn’t know the difference between different Spanish language accents.

Sounds good. kwm and zrwm are on my shortlist. I’ve also seen tinyrwm and I’m heartened by how short the implementations are. I’ve been thinking about perhaps writing my own WM. I might take a read of tinyrwm to get an idea of what rolling my own might be like and give it a go.

Looks good! How is kwm? Especially curious compared to river-classic, and if you’ve tried any other River WMs. I’m still on river-classic and hoping to move to 0.4 soon, but I need to decide on a WM first. Probably want something close to river-classic but some more programmability/extensibility would be nice.

Sure. I personally read him as intended to convey that even the “good cops” are bastards. I’m personally of the philosophy that things don’t need to be handed to the player/reader/etc on a plate—depending on the degree to which you agree, one might think that Kim should’ve been more clearly/explicitly a bastard, but like, imo the game is from a cop’s pov and from the pov of a character who has a good relationship with Kim, and what the game does with writing him as a bastard whilst still being personally likeable from the pov of the protagonist is well-done.

Kim is meant to be a likeable character but he’s definitely not praise of the police. He’s written to be at least complicit in the various crimes of the police.

You’re in the US. Mexico is next door and speaks Spanish. A much higher proportion of Spanish speakers in the US are from Mexico than from Spain, which is across the ocean. If you were in France and identified as a Spanish speaker, many more people would think you were from Spain.

I know about Tailscale. I don’t use it because I want my VPS to be exposed to the internet; some of my services are supposed to be public. And those that aren’t, have their own authentication systems that are adequately secure for their purposes. I just don’t need Tailscale so I’ve not bothered with the setup.

As the other person said, a cis woman who uses the men’s out of expedience is much more likely to be let off the hook than a trans woman who uses the women’s because she’s a woman. They might want to enforce on the former out of misogyny anyway but an individual cis woman has a better chance of a sympathetic judge or jury.

Trans people who don’t pass, Black women, and other people who aren’t sufficiently gender-conforming for their liking will be made to prove their assigned gender in court.

I imagine it would be the same protocol for any other instance of a dead person having debt, in whatever jurisdiction you’re in. ie could be taken out of life insurance, their estate, whatever.

I just break it up with a (metal) chopstick. Works fine.

There’s a lot of hardware enshittification, eg removing a lot of commonly used ports from laptops. Also I don’t like the form factor of all these Macbook rip-offs.

I haven’t noticed similar issues with desktop computing, but for laptops, I do prefer older laptops.

Also, so many older devices go to e-waste when they’re perfectly usable. I like to salvage devices when other people don’t want them anymore.

I’ve had my VPS exposed to the internet for a while and never been pwned. No professional experience. Use SSH keys, not password authentication. Use FDE if physical access is in your threat model. Use a firewall to prevent connection on internal-only ports.

Vaultwarden will store your passwords encrypted (obviously) so even if your database does get stolen, the attacker shouldn’t be able to read your passwords without your master password.

Nothing, just using the latest FreeTube. Are you up to date? They’ve pushed out a few releases recently to get around new YouTube trickery. Your VPN server might also be blocked; I’ve had luck with Mullvad’s Swedish servers lately.