Tons. I think if people read my opinions on AI they likely see me as a luddite.

My concerns are not about whether it’s useful. It’s that if the 1% use it to replace most actual workers, the lack of input will make future models actually worse than current ones, and at the very least would stifle innovation.

I’m very concerned about models built on the IP (voluntarily given or not) of people, being used to replace those same people.

I’m very concerned with where we go as a society if we do go down the route of losing so many jobs.

I’m concerned about the race to get the best model, using so much energy and natural resources.

But do I think AI is and can be a very powerful tool, to enhance productivity? Without a doubt it can.

I mean I updated my servers and some of them on LTS releases that were not the very latest one were still vulnerable after a reboot. Hence I disabled the module on those servers. So it’s worth checking your version definitely has a fix available.

Just to note, if you are on an LTS version (which many people running servers will be), it’s likely an upgrade will not solve this. In which case you should check your installed version and if not yet corrected, disable that module. For most people it is not used anyway.

Well it’s also. Windows XP. There’s updates. Install them when you want to. Windows 10: There’s updates, install them soon unless it’s pro then install them when you want. Windows 11: Please install your updates, you have twenty seconds to comply. Windows 12: What’s that, you were in the middle of editing a file with 8 hours worth of edits? Tough I’m rebooting now bitch.

Strawberry jam, when you want marmalade.

Oh, it’s the same here. Well, I do know what I’m doing, but I used to tinker with multiple linux distros in the 90s/2000s. I used gentoo “before it was cool”, when you would literally leave it building your initial install for a whole weekend.

I cannot do that now. I went through the process of installing Arch, and it’s been pretty good for me with not exploding completely on me (like Manjaro did). I honestly don’t have the time to sit and diagnose why I’m stuck at a text only console without internet suddenly any more. Which is exactly what happened with Manjaro.

At this point remaining a windows user voluntarily has to be considered Stockholm syndrome.

Oh glad I’m not the only one.

I misread nfts as ntfs and spent far too long wondering why that was in the list.

Enjoy it while you can. The age of enshittification will be upon us. With fully locked bootloaders and the only way to install true FOSS mobile OS is to pay 3x the price for half the capabilities of a normal Android phone.

The thing is. Any year can be the year of IPv6. Google is on ipv6, youtube is on ipv6, facebook is on ipv6. Pretty much every datacentre I’ve used (OK limited to Europe) give you IPv6 for free by default. Deploying a web site to be IPv4 and IPv6 is trivial and people that use automation should be able to quite easily apply ipv6 to those scripts.

It’s really just the ISPs (more so in the US as I understand it), lazy IT people and the FUD myths holding us back at this point.

Basically if number goes up, then that doesn’t really effect your company’s finances and they cannot afford a pay rise. If number goes down, they’re sorry but they need to lay you off.

Yeah, but the problem is… You need to leave home to be a serial killer. Well, no wait. I mean to be a good one. I think if you kept inviting people to your house and killing them, it would be a bit of an easy trail to follow. So, being a successful serial killer is too much work.

I’ll do it tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow.

I’m based in the UK. But my instance only actually has single digits of actual active users. So, it’s not bothering me too much.

The moment I get a letter from OFCOM, or I see they’re enforcing against smaller federated sites, I’ll just remove non login readable capability and make it entirely invite only (which won’t be a problem, the only people joining for ages were bots and when I added the AI blocking/cloudflare protection they’ve stopped coming too). Until then I am assuming they’re going after the actual social media companies.

I work from home (and did long before covid). I used to joke that apparently something serious is going on, but I hadn’t noticed.

Wait this is still a thing? I remember writing a DCC download bot in arexx on the amiga, back in the mid 90s.

Peter Backman, CEO of theDelivery.World, said the practice was only misleading if customers were purposely trying to support independent restaurants and takeaways.

That’s some high grade bullshit. There is going to be a subset of people (and I’d argue it’s a growing number) that want to support local businesses and so yes it’s misleading to all those people.

But more than that. A corporate/franchise brand has such a huge value they will sue you if you use it without permission. So if they’re choosing not to use a brand they paid good money to use, it can only be because they want to deceive.

No. It’s just reached the point that they can no longer remain diplomatic about it. Which I suspect was similarly the case in the 1930s.

I’m going to give the fifa peace prize the same amount of respect I’d give a Nobel football world cup. Less even.

Well I mean it’s true if you also belive trigger’s broom in only fools and horses is still the same broom.

Probably only older people from the UK will get the reference. Sorry.