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Then why chose a distro that is being maintained by one person. I would NEVER recommend a Windows/Mac and first time Linux user to switch to such a distro. Not just his political views no quite practical implications are key here: what if this guy has a heart-attack? The distro will be abandoned. What if his development PC gets compromised? The distro is fried in both cases. The more developers are on the team holding the credentials and responsibilities the better, the safer a distro is. Omarchy is nothing more than an experimental distro and shouldn't be used productively or as your main OS. Simply because it's run by one guy, one single point of failure.

It's the same reason why you mustn't recommend CachyOS to newcomers either, they're still just two people running the show, although they're aware of the risks that comes with it and trying to expand their core team.

Ugh, gosh really? I looked at one of the videos of the... eh excentric developer of the distro where he was presenting 4.0 and I was wondering about that retro neon design of background images he seemed to adore so much. I was wondering why someone would still think this Fashwave design to be cool. It's been what? 10 years when this trope peaked?

As long as people are using X and linking to it this pain will just go on. If you have an account there you will not notice how unusable it is for others. And that's by design.

That's correct. In Germany we pay "indirectly" via the end price. Meaning whoever has to pay the afforementioned EPR fee is free to add their cost to the price of the product.

There's one problem: Nationalist parties in Europe hate EU-wide solutions and they are becoming more and more popular. It will hurt our economies but these parties thrive on lies anyway and deep down voters their voters want to "see the world burn".

> The two apps send the prompt to a remote server for moderation

Why? What needs tobe moderated locally?

> A built-in motion sensor automatically tracks your daily steps, with your step count displayed on the LCD screen. Pair with your smartphone via Bluetooth® for automatic time adjustment and easy access to watch settings through the app.

I see and I was wondering why they sold it for £55 only. They collect and sell your personal data.

I'm happy with my original one, thanks.

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell comes to mind

So Google is training AI to run businesses that go bankrupt now? That's not very smart.

I mean, what do you expect? They rely on models that were trained on non-curated data, texts originally written by lying, cheating and stealing humans. They can't be better than the source. Even with reinforced learning this can't be undone or made better.

Quite the contrary I suspect that it even helps the LLMs to better hide their inherited bad traits more successfully because they get punished for getting caught, not for giving immoral or lazy answers. They have no conscience since they are just predictions matrices trained for success and failure alone, not for living "a good live" or being a good "person".

Yeah, they can literally go out of focus depending on their distance to the retina.

Floaters are protein debris flakes literally floating in the fluid of your eyeballs. They're not neurological. They become most noticable when moving your eyes. And over time their appearance changes as they slowly migrate, often times going in and out of focus.

I love this stuff. Like the one definition of death being an organism dying is one that starts failing to maintain itself. Maintenance being the essence of being alive. Or in other words creating local order by sourcing energy from the environment and thus increasing entropy outside the organism.

The laws of thermodynamics are so universal and primordial, they even preceed all of fundamental physics. And once you "get them" which is more like accepting them to be universally true, you can use them to evaluate and explain a lot of things. They help you decern reality from magic for instance, or magical thinking. Ideas that would only work if the second law of thermodynamics makes an exception is magic and therefore impossible in this universe.

On a sidenote, what's up with people still using Ayn Rand references in their company names. It's cringe.

Nothing on that page says how they will actually do it. What is their method except "using AI"? And why has this over 750 upvotes? Meaningless AI company hype spam like this is exactly the reason why HN is so boring at certain times of the week.

It plays well into the Amiga fanbase mythology that Commodore and especially the Amiga shoud have been THE personal computer of the masses, not the IBM compatible x86 machines. But somehow in the early 1990 history took a wrong turn.

After its demise the Amiga/Commodore brand and intellectual property was split and changed hands frequently leaving behind a fragmented and often adversarial landscape of companies. So this fragmentation maybe can be seen as an obstacle for the Amiga to once again rise up and get its revenge against the x86/x64/ARM... you name it.

I think therefore Mr. Fractic is the perfect fit for this computer. The idea is a bit... over the top.

I grew up with C64 and Amiga and I still hold it dear in my heart, it had many great games back then, but I'm not buying into the new Commodore thing at all. It comes off as a bit off and goofy, maybe even problematic.

While I'd like to see all Commodore related brands to come together under one roof once again, I think funding it via the creation of new hardware by a for profit company to be ridiculous and ill fated. Let the dead be dead. I would have wished for a non-commercial custodian like entitiy instead, that just makes sure that people who use the brands and IP can do so for a modest fee if it's DIY projects or small companies selling add-ons just so they have the legal security of not getting sued for mentioning Amiga or Commodore somewhere in their texts and releasing all Amiga and C64 hardware and software under a FOSS license for the public to fix and enhance if they like.

But this just seems to me like just another post-Commodore company meddling with the legacy and legal stuff.

Which is in part the fault of the industry itself! There's a high degree of arrogance in German management. Especially when it comes to China. The German car industry's refusal to go all in on BEV is a prime example how this arrogance lead to losing to the Chinese who now make better cars than Germany. And this wasn't the first time German industry lost to China due to their own arrogance and being stuck in the past. They always treated China as an export market instead of a seriuous competitor. Same with Eastern Europe.

People always blame German politics, but German management is as responsible if not more responsible for the decline. They simply made bad management decisions for decades and they didn't see the future coming.

Exactly! All routine maintance in Russian oil refineries are currently on hold indefinitely. Suddenly the Russians are capable of being more lenient.

Ukraine would have blown up the pipeline anyway. And the land pipelines would have been cut off to Germany by the Eastern Europeans. So no, the gas would not still be flowing with a high probability. That's so absurd.

That was never considered by anyone in German politics. It's the first time I'm hearing about this here in these posts.

That's totally fine with me. Each time it's an opportunity to be happy and proud.

> Something simple like waiting at a red light even when there are no cars takes away the work of deciding whether to cross.

Someone gets it. It reduces mental load tremendously which is kinda important when you are a pedestrian surrounded by motor traffic. But of course you think there is no car coming because you didn't see one, right? So why not jaywalk this time? But what if your perception played a trick on you and your conclusion turns out to be false? When you are fatigued by the constant state of vigilance, doubt and self-assurance, in the end you are more likely to overlook the car that is coming round the corner. Jaywalking is for short term gains, but might have bad consequences in the long run. Your attention and vigilance is a scarce and valuable resource.

And what's the rush anyway?

No need to insult me. Or make unbased assumptions about me.

I was talking about the metrics on HN you are talking about how AI improved you life (or didn't). Two different things in my opinion. I'm using AI myself btw. This isn't the point.

Regulatory capture. They are the hyperscalers who invested and still invest heavily in hard tech, like data centers. They need regulation of "uncontrolled" AI models, so that Joe Smoe doesn't ditch his ChatGPT subscription and uses his local LLMs and agent harness setup in his home lab. Or some open weights model, or the condensed Chinese ones... it's "regulate everything else to death that is better than our enshittified OG models behind a paywall".

The trajectory is clear and the hyperscalers are in an disadvantage: they need to become bigger and bigger while models, frameworks and harnesses that are "good enough" for 95% of all people become smaller and specialized hardware becomes cheaper and less energy hungry. In the end the only viable customers that are left for the big ones is the military and... the military. But even the Pentagon realizes that a decentralized less fragile approach is actually safer instead of having big data centers that could be Wildberried by an adversary, that is if the alcoholic in charge isn't firing some generals who act too smart again. Machine vision which isn't even real AI is capable of destroying targets in Ukraine for instance. Dirt cheap. And Palantir's Maven Smart System was incapable of predicting the most obvious flaws in the Iran war, like how easy it is to to strike US bases or close the Strait of Hormuz. I'm not saying condensing the killchain is useless, I'm saying that it's not everything.

People aren't dumb. So they must be strong-manned and cheated into submission.

It's the metrics though. I've noticed that AI topics get hundreds of votes, that means either someone is trying to beat the algorithm to stay in the top news, or suddenly this place is filled with thousands of AI enthusiasts who ignore all the rest, non-AI topics. (Thousands because not everyone will upvote, so if only a fraction upvotes hundreds of upvotes should translate to thousands.)

The imbalance is what is off.

I think that personal account was not written by a human. In the literal sense. And it's not the em dashes (all of the blog's posts are full of them). It's exhaustive writing, something an LLM can easily be tasked with, it covers everything an Autist might encounter, it has a story arc, a protagonist hero narrator, who after suffering and setbacks and minor improvements suddenly has a final revelation and thus finds fame, fortune and a wife in the end. It reads like it tries to pull you in and then sell you something. That would be Christianity, Manliness, etc... it rejects an professional diagnosis and therapy as career damaging and instead trust some conservative manosphere blog from the internet, and "suffering through it". For being a Christian blog, there is quite an apparent absence of Christian values and descriptions of rituals, like holidays or going to church. Yeah, I'm not buying it. These blogs are the reason why the internet is dead. Some anonymous nobody maybe even just an agent set up by an anonymous nobody trying to recruit you for some dystopian cause. It's malicious in its incenserity and inauthenticity.

Only handaxes.

At least I hope they leave the corporate culture baggage that has ruined the German car industry behind and do not transplant it into other companies. In which you stick to your old guns and hope that politics protects you with tariffs against any future developments from international competitors on the car market. (It failed. Now the Chinese make better cars than the Germans.)

HPPD like fizzling noise is very distracting. I like it.