I've seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it's a lot
not sure I'd say it's unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that in my comment: drop PIA. Never touch anything owned by PIA or Kape. Ever.
GPUs: not even once
I am in the same boat, except all of the software I’ve ever written has been TeX
I'm sorry
giving contrived examples to undergrads to demonstrate why
dp[i][j]is a shit table name or why∞is better thanfloat('inf')orMAX_INTin pseudocode
that sound you can hear is my despairing screaming[0]
VPN client where ... jump through the hoops of learning a new shitty client
(not a pitch, but multiple commercial references) I really liked how simple tunnelbear made this for a lot, and also quite like how slick the wireguard desktop-style handling is (you can see this for example with fly.io's integration to that). I think there's long context here, and if you buy me a beer I could rant in detail
PS: There is Goldwarden
oh good, it's in Go, my other code allergy
shitposting aside, re the password manager thing: @self and I have co-ranted in dms, and about similar gripes.
so, by way of idea, loose laundry list for foundations/design: modern crypto (jfc why is so much still going "yeah gpg is fine"), crdt sync, a sane fucking language to build everything on, own-devices friendly (in the "you can sync device to device peer-wise" sense, vs the "there's a remote server broker" sense), and pretty okay(tm) interfaces for client building/extensibility
alas: my main workstation is (non-slate) macos, and it's unchangeable for the foreseeable future
good to know those (already) exist as options, though. if I can find some spoons I'll try look around and see if there's maybe something similar I can hack up/agglutinate from what's around
Their desktop app is a bit shit anyway
I haven't even tried it yet because I'm real "ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh" about even the idea of a js-/ts-based gui client for my password manager. largely because I've met too many js/ts devs and I outright don't trust their competence and processes. so your post is definite motivation for me to eyeball some of the other clients too
this is such a mess, holy shit
and only on .com? I have some very pointed questions about the maturity of the verification program/design
also, how are you liking bitwarden?
I really need to kill off my current password manager and bitwarden's looking like the least worst of current options (esp. when paired with something like vaultwarden instead of running a fucking nodejs sync server on the internet), but also some of it seems quite stunted[0]
it's gotten so bad that I've started pondering writing my own, because good god does basically every option out there depress me
[0] - no global hotkeys? the fuck
last time it came up, tuta was the least worst of the mail options. it's not the same offering as proton's in-garden encrypted, but nothing is afaik. rest of it is pretty okay (I have some (not all[0]) domains on there)
the rest of the things I don't have a direct recommendation in part because [0] and in part because I don't use computers entirely like how a lot of people do. that said
storage: backblaze storage pricing is not bad. they might have a desktop app thing? calendar: caldav is a dark art beyond my ken - I haven't even got that shit playing nice on my own things[3]. fuck knows who does this well. vpn: mullvad[1] (has quite recently had another full assessment published). maybe njalla[2]?
[0] - I'm one of those crotchety fuckers that still has a whole pile of self-hosted things that have been going 15~20y
[1] - seems okay and to have their head on straight. haven't used myself.
[2] - also haven't used it myself, comes from some of the folks of the TPB gang
[3] - admittedly I haven't tried that hard because I don't need it much, but it is extremely goddamn annoying to debug from clients
maybe that’s how the moon got mad - annoying goddamn chatbots flying in its view the whole time
mild guess: "golden boys, with the the 30+ years required to look Politically Evolved"? and of course the selection factors involved from even just getting to that point and the stylist/image handling that that involves
there's also an element of the system does as designed, and there's an element of self-reinforcing delivery/production of these ghouls
yep I think so too. as I think I posted here a while back:
25068 + Oct 12 GitHub ( 20K) Your free GitHub Copilot access is ending soon
and now suddenly it's Launched Again! but with limits. gotta whet those appetites just a bit more! sales will totes follow soon!
are they allergic to water? I may have a solution if they're allergic to water
ah but did you tell them in CP437 or something fancy (like any text encoding after 1996)? 🤨🤨🥹
I fucking love how goddamn structured kym is ito semiotics and symbolism
it's an amazing confluence that might not have happened if persons unknown didn't care, but they did. and thus we have it! phenomenal
"I just want to be a cog in the machiiiiiiine why are you bringing up these things that make me think?! ew ethics and integrity are so hard"
I actually had to doublecheck context on this but rofldamn this is savage
brava
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OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after more than six years.
> “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”
yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..
one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on
/PRNewswire/ -- K1 Investment Management, LLC ("K1"), one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies, today announced the completion...
I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike a…
saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage
> IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator
ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.
imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this
> Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.
ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the same company that runs a worlds-apart platform with a control grip so strong it makes larry ellison check if they're infringing on anything actionable...
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People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.
there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark
this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!
there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize
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And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.
It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts
Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”
Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?
The surge in venture funding and public excitement has DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis thinking about crypto parallels.
Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either
Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit
how one little joke can get so, so out of hand
Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it
I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space
GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.
will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:
it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet
flipside, I guess, is that we'll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can't scale