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Depends. I'm a huge fan of Eclipse (yes, that one) and use it heavily for my C++ and Python projects, yet I have no problems with hitting a couple of more keys to run some named tests when required (i.e. Go).

When I'm in my flow state, I find reaching for a pointing device is taking longer than typing something in, BTW. Keyboard driven interfaces and terminals are underrated.

You can run any number of named tests, from what I understood?

The pricing got very complicated, that part is true. On the other hand, service quality didn’t go down. They added many small features which makes things easier, on the other hand.

I use a bunch of additional services they offer. They work well, make me spend less money and save my time (e.g.: send, transcription, advanced sharing controls).

We’re about the same age, probably. On this side of the pond, all of this stuff was rooted in inability to get something legally first, and if it was possible to get, it was prohibitively expensive to buy for us. So we got it for “free”. The thing is we were not using the software to earn money, so companies don’t care (this what I heard from a couple of companies directly). Music was in a similar position.

It was a righteous moral stand because we wanted to get things relatively affordable for us.

I for one prefer to buy my software and music nowadays, because it’s affordable and I can get it at the quality I want.

For your other question, the answer is probably 1800s, because the current model was not entrenched everywhere and creators had sane rights for what they created. So creators had to get what they made out to masses to show it, but lost their rights in relatively shorter times, so things were free to use for everyone. So you can’t excessively milk something till proverbial eternity.

The problem is not Taylor Swift is being "inspired" from other artists. We have tons of examples this throughout history.

The problem is, replacing Taylor Swift with its AI counterpart, and to use Taylor's own material to do that without getting her permission or compensating her.

This is not about Taylor even. It's about everyone, you and me, and Taylor and Haggard and Blind Guardian and Sia, etc...

We hated RIAA because they prevented us from listening to the music while trying to get it was hard and expensive. In short, we were not angry because they wanted compensation, but because they have cut the supply without giving us a solution. Now we have iTunes Store and Bandcamp for DRM free music, and nobody is against musicians getting their fair share. As a side note, I used to make music, I know what it entails.

Hacker ethos has ethics. It has do experiment but don't cause harm embedded all over it. It's about experiment and discovery. Not about ripping people off for their own profit (unless you're a black hat of course), and getting things were free was part of sending a message, not monetary gain.

Why more and more stories from "Pump Six and Other Stories" are becoming real step by step?

Like trickle down economics?

We all experience the substance which is trickling down.

I don't think I'm detached from what a normal user uses, because I don't expect that list to be representative of anyone but me.

For a regular user, macOS can be very practical and non-obtrusive OS, yet for me, it's not as useful as a Linux system with KDE installed.

Currently I'm writing this comment from my KDE system, and I see more clearly why I prefer to use it much more. Because it allows me to have much more screen real estate with much faster multi-desktop management capabilities to begin with. However, my point still stands. In short, KDE provides the features I use daily (esp. in the file management department) in a much more capable and integrated manner than macOS out of the box. I have to think about which tools I need to get to handle something on macOS, and on KDE, the tools are always integrated to the tool I already holding. My work just flows on KDE, yet on macOS I need to setup something before being able to flow.

Ripping audio CDs without even thinking is a bonus.

We do this wicked sin called having fun once in a blue moon here.

Slashdot's spirit shall live somewhere, no? Rent is all-time high and it can only afford here, for now.

Genuinely, why?

That's actually a magnificent observation. This is not only an indication of a keen eye, but a trained brilliant mind as well.

From top of my head:

File renaming. What Forklift or other dedicated file renamer comes as a standard with both Dolphin and KRename. Latter can drive circles around what's available in macOS, in any form.

AudioCD ripping: kio:// protocol has a native ripper. Just drag and drop. Settings are integrated to system settings directly. Which format do you want? Yes.

Remote connections: While finder can connect to servers, but FTP read access and SFTP requires external apps. IOW, what Cyberduck provides is already available in Dolphin, again.

KDE's standard window management capabilities need Magnet or something more advanced in macOS.

Git/SVN/CVS needs external tools in macOS. Dolphin can detect these repositories and let you work on them on the spot.

KRunner is arguably more Capable than spotlight in some cases. Needs another fair shake though.

If you add your mail accounts and calendars to KDE via KMail or something else, they become available system-wide. macOS is good in that regard, but KDE is betterer. If you use KMail, your mail will sync at the background even though your mail client is not running.

You need to buy another application to be able to edit id3 tags of audio files, but KDE has kid3. I even use its macOS version because it's that good.

I'll not get into customization capabilities, because they are fundamentally different and worlds apart, but this is due to their philosophy.

Keyboard shortcut management are equally powerful in both, AFAICS. macOS used to lag there.

K3b is infinitely more capable than macOS optical media authoring tools.

These are what I can remember with my tired brain, away from my KDE system for the day. The thing is, both side by side, I mostly prefer KDE because I can work way faster on that one, and it's not I'm hating macOS or anything, and as I said, using both for a very long time.

The apps I have given as examples are KDE's default apps and maintained by KDE project themselves. They are part of the default installation.

Using macOS and KDE for almost the same time (~20 years), I still find that I need yet another app on macOS for a standard KDE feature.

Interesting observation, that is.

Sometimes you're confident about what you're doing and show how you work to the world.

Keeping the garage door open, or at least making the door translucent. It's always cool.

Generally, the information in our country is checked via multiple ways: NFC + Biometric data (checked against the data inside the ID card) (+ photo of the ID in some cases), or any combination of those.

Before deepfakes were dime a dozen, I remember my bank starting a video-call with me and required me to show my ID to them via camera. This was after a multi-factor check that I passed.

Making any of these factors more trustworthy is a win in my perspective, so having a trusted sensor is always better even if you do multi-factor authentication.

Our ID cards have a private-public key pair inside them, and it allows us to sign things amongst other things. Renewing your ID card for any reason revokes the digital signature of the previous one, so scanning it via NFC probably enough to check whether it's revoked. Same with photo (since machine readable part contains serial and check digits and such).

For information retrieval and collation related tasks (reading lists, deep dives on subjects, etc.), Gemini is way better w.r.t. other models in my experience.

This difference is probably due to Google's web knowledge and free pass to YouTube. However, I'm happy what I got from it so far.

When I ask the question once in a blue moon, it can generally one-shot the answer, even.

Being an Associate Country (or Associate State) doesn't guarantee visa-free travel (ask how we know), yet I'm sure that Canadians will get it served on a silver platter.

At the end of the day, a sandbox is a slice/cgroup. i.e.: Kernel's ability to create a complete bubble around a process or set of processes.

My beef is not with immutable OSes or sandboxes or else. They all have use cases and reasons.

My primary beef is being locked out of my own system without my consent. I want to own my personal (esp. Linux) systems, that's all. I'm also against erosion of Free Software ecosystem for something looking open, yet non-buildable or modifiable by the end user. This is why I don't like permissive licenses and essential software to be licensed-washed from Free to Open.

For a certain population smaller than n, Earth also has effectively infinite resources.

So again, it's a relativity, not a certainty.

System is unavailable every 2nd Tuesday?

Was ist das Betriebssystem des Servers? Windows?!?

Don't forget law enforcement, customs or any high(ish) stakes sector which needs to be able to trust the images they show as evidence as well.

Back in the day Canon and Nikon tried this with embedded private keys on their cameras, and with Sandisk's WORM SD cards. Then, somebody extracted the keys and it was game over.

While my iPhone 17 can't match a full frame mirrorless camera, it can take pretty impressive photos, so they are already more than adequate in detail and clarity department. So making these images trusted is a huge win for them.

Some banks needs photos of machine readable IDs to verify user details to fight fraud. These IDs can be passports or NFC enabled EU (and compatible) ID cards.

This will allow banks to trust these cameras more on the long run, allowing higher security ID checks.

How do you plan to replace the sensor of your phone's main camera (with a device you need), and let it authenticated by the OS, and then create authenticated photographs with it?

Apple/iOS already have part authentication pipeline on its security sensitive devices (TouchID/FaceID). How can camera sensor can't be considered one of those and needs attestation before enabling?

From the document:

> Apple Reference Image leverages custom-designed image sensors in iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max to ensure reliable capture of image data, and relies on Private Cloud Compute, which provides a computational environment for secure photographic processing that cannot be subverted even in the case of device compromise. (emphasis mine)

> In general space has practically infinite everything - land, resources, energy, and more. It has the potential to enable, in turn, infinite expansion of humanity.

Love the (sorry, but greedy) take. Maybe we shouldn't expand infinitely. I don't see our species as that special. Maybe we should stay a bit modest, and errm, down to the earth in our ambitions.

Both humans and resources can't be in infinite number at the same time. Something can be infinite relative to other, and I like the current balance, thanks.

For me, it's not a reactionary snark. I'm just fed-up with people lying, and my default mode has switched from trust to distrust for these people.

Am I guilty of not trusting people who have a habit of lying, or is this their own problem? Or as another example, do the villagers did wrong to the boy who cried wolf?

Amutable. Building an immutable and image based system which even the installer can't modify, a-la macOS.

One systemd patch at a time.

An airline has a weather radar which shows the same thing for the same thing of weather event ahead. So, for similar weather phenomena, radar shows a similar thing.

For that thing, procedures and regulations are built. So regulations fit into a well understood phenomena, incl. "return back because that thing is way powerful for us".

For the same prompt, an AI model can return two completely different outputs, incl. but not limited to content, length, formatting and tiny details. What you get is a single instance. So, regulating an AI model for safety or any other property is not as easy as regulating air travel. Moreover, you have much stronger motivations for regulating airlines. Otherwise people die in a visible and gruesome way.

With AI, it's easy to whitewash problems. Somebody committed suicide? "They were already unstable". AI told something wrong and created problems? "The tech can’t guarantee truth because it's not alive, it can't understand right and wrong". It did something good? "It's probably a sentient being, we shall respect them".

I'm for regulating these things. They are dangerous as they are useful (sometimes), but the forces and motivations for regulating it is not the same.

I see.

Somebody said that lowering the bar is not good. Somebody else asked for examples, and I provided an example. So, if you want to be pedantic, that doesn't track well, because what I answered was not about mathematics.

If you want something about mathematics, computation is mathematics, as software is. So, my example tracks the same way in mathematics.

Finding solutions without understanding its parts or the path is equally detrimental to mathematics as it is detrimental to software.

Maybe you need to read a bit slower and think along the way. Using AI too much blunts critical thinking skills in some, as I read.

What was the end of the proof thing you mathematicians use, was it "Q.E.D."?

Q.E.D.

> The stochastic factor doesn't change the fact that companies have to be accountable for the harms their software causes. That's just basic liability law.

We're on the same page. What I'm saying that certifying them as safe is harder than certifying a drill as safe, and we shall be more cautious about AI related technology and be more stringent about the can of worms it opens without hesitation.

We're in agreement, then. :)