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When people ask me why I don't have any Windows machine at home, I say "for health reasons". It really raises my blood pressure and at some point I realised it's not worth it risking my health over it. You could use the same to get away from Copilot.

They will never open source it. For the same reason Pylance etc. aren't open source and MS tries hard to prevent them to be used in VSCodium. Every one of their open sourced projects contains a closed source plug that MS can pull at any time that is one of the features that gives the project its unique selling points.

> Do you remember Karateka, Lode Runner, and Cross Fire on the Apple ][?

> Our Neo6502kbd brings it all back — an all-in-one retro computer with a real 6502 processor that can emulate the Apple ][ and Oric Atmos, letting you play all those classic games on your modern DVI/HDMI screen or TV.

It's for retrogaming apparently

If you look at all the threat vectors of a browser from a user perspective, a rogue extension is well at the lower end.

If you look at the threat vectors for the revenue of a company like Google, extensions that aren't limited by the browser are pretty much number one.

This should tell you everything you need about the matter.

How else can you keep ahead of the bots and their em-dashes other than by the use of pointless condescension and subtle misspellings? I mean, you've got to find a niche somehow.

I see no contradiction. GPT as synonym for AI and llama as symbol for open weights models. The original comment said llama had set something off in the open weights community. And I say you see that with llama.cpp, llamaindex, r/localllama. No one bothered to update them to qwen.cpp or qwenindex. And they were never localgpt or gpt.cpp.

Culture and language use says a lot about importance of ideas. Regardless of what was first or what some scholar sees as historically more important.

And yet it's not called eleuther.cpp or bert.cpp. And the famous subreddit isn't called r/localbert but r/locallama.

The modern German equivalent would probably be "Sommerloch" [1], describing the time when most politics is on hold because of summer vacations and news outlets try to fill the void with whatever story they find. The usual writers and editors being on vacation too during this time doesn't help.

- [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerloch (links to "silly season")

But you trust Anthropic not do that?!

> [...] probably until we have AGI that can replace employees, maybe even a bit after.

Is this what you are looking forward to?

Where did you read up on it? Any good sources you can recommend?

Sorry to pop your bubble, but the moment you add any IP connectivity it will be eventually used to mandate internet access. The devices you have now might not yet demand it, but you will have to replace them at some point or extend your setup in the future. We've seen this play out so many times now, it's baffling people still think this time will be different.

There's a saying: If you set up a trough, the pigs will come.

Thank you very much for making me aware of this wonderful artist.

This sounds like an abandoned Async ad for the backrooms.

In Germany and France it was established in the early 1800s. That was when the degree wasn't just a license to teach but you also had to prove you could contribute to research. Oxford was just late to the game. Whether Oxford participated, however, was more irrelevant than not to those other places I'd guess. The US was apparently also late to it, leading to an influx of American PhD students to Germany mid 19th century.

> PhDs only were adopted universally in 1917

In Oxford. That hardly counts as universal.

The quote uses "some" and "a few". You're the only one talking about "many" and "most". On quantity, your post and the quote actually agree.

> - "Add these domains with these mailboxes to an SMTP server running on my homelab, forward all incoming and outgoing via mxroute"

I laughed reading this. Have you actually tried it? I recently tried to get Claude (Opus) to give me a setup for a simple SMTP relay with Postfix. I had to constantly fight it not to include completely unnecessary components and configurations like Dovecot or just override my requirements. Even Claude is nothing but a semi-competent tutorial clicker.

To someone who never did anything like this themselves the result might seem fantastic. They might not battle Claude on details like I did because "hey, it works, doesn't it".

Don't get me wrong, I agree in general that LLMs are a significant milestone. But I would like to add, especially because of your tone, that perception of how much of a leap it is, is very likely a matter of individual competence. So your enthusiasm might say more about yourself than about the tool.

This is why I like Zigbee and am very uncertain about Matter that basically allows (or maybe one day requires) internet access.

I see every version as a remix of the original material, each done with their own take and philosophy. They're not remakes or reboots.

The only version that didn't add anything new was the Hollywood movie, which was an entertaining but shallow derivative of Oshii's animes and not based on the manga at all.

I think the original material provides enough ideas to continue spinning off new remixes. It hasn't even been outdated by the recent advancements in AI. Quite the opposite.

What kind of history will a totalitarian prison planet write, I wonder.

> get people using that ungodly cheap AI on Chinese servers.

These open weights models are also hosted outside of the US and China. That's a very important difference.

> AI proliferation is more dangerous than nukes proliferation

This statement is utter nonsense. And if you think about it, it's in exactly the same spirit as calling for a wide ban on science books or education.

It barely made the news inside the US.

Maybe legally banning minors from smartphones instead of from arbitrary websites is the better idea.

Just because you have a reason to agree with something doesn't mean there's no other intention for it.

Actually, the more emotionally invested you are in it, the less likely it is for you to question the motives behind it.

A lot of developers (and thereby most on HN, I guess) see Microsoft only from the perspective of a private consumer. From the perspective of a normal non-technical company though, Microsoft is this giant that has spread its products throughout your organisation like a cancer and you can never free yourself from it. For Microsoft's main business it's irrelevant if VSCode is mostly open source or not. That is why these gestures never meant anything in the first place.

It doesn't matter if some Microsoft trinkets are open sourced while AD is not and while you still can't connect your open source DNS and DHCP server to a Microsoft domain controller. Or have your open source email client be 100% compatible with the proprietary Exchange protocol.

They did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32007955

In ten years of using Macs, I have never encountered this behaviour. I've never heard this from anyone else either. Is this new in Tahoe? I haven't upgraded yet, but your link seems to be from before Tahoe was released.

There was a time when OSS was the only option and ALSA was rarely supported by software. ALSA's dmix also didn't exist from the start.

Around 2000 I was only able to play sound from different apps because my soundcard exposed two sound devices /dev/dsp0 and /dev/dsp1