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The person suggesting FreeBSD is a FreeBSD developer (Colin Percival - actually according to Wikipedia FreeBSD engineering lead), would be weird for him to suggest openbsd.

Yep but it’s entirely expected from the Openclaw project, the entire thing is a vibe coded mess waiting to explode.

*criterion. criterium is not even a typo, it’s an actual word but it doesn’t mean what you think it means, unless you’re planning to use your laptop while bicycling.

Same, but they are a bit expensive. I assume if TFA put himself through the pain of a Chromebook in the first place, it’s because cost was a significant factor.

Good Lord, what next? “I switched from Mac to Windows and you can too”?

Might make sense if the Chromebook can be degoogled and set up with a clean Linux distro. Barring that, a regular laptop with Linux may be an option.

This article seemed mildly interesting to perhaps kill 5 minutes. I clicked through only to be slapped by a cookie consent and a newsletter signup pop up, together they entirely obscure the content on mobile. Too much friction, so I decided to just close it, this saved me from wasting 5 minutes of my life reading, which I instead proceeded to use cleaning a toilet. All in all, a good outcome I would say.

Rhetorical argument is rhetorical?

Strawberries are not the size of fists. Ever wonder what they put in those?

Funny, when I take a picture of a ticket I can still see all those things.

Does just taking a pic of the QR code not work just as well?

You’re kind of an outlier - nobody wants AI but Actions are core for tons of workflows and deployment pipelines. Everyone bought into the “only robots can deploy” mantra (correctly IMO, it’s a huge time and friction saver) only to be bit in the ass by the platform being so u reliable they can be stuck for days without deploys.

It does! Thanks so much!

No, it’s a small corp biting the dust.

I don’t like “dark mode”. It’s blurry, makes me have to squint and hurts my eyes.

I’m answering a direct question posed by the parent post. What’s your excuse?

“Interactive obituary - 22 min”

Ugh is there a regular text version I can read at my own pace?

Also why light text on black background? Hurts my eyes and is very difficult to read.

Guess I’ll wait for someone with more patience and better eyesight to maybe provide a summary or something :)

I care.

Right - sorry, my pattern suggests 2-dimensional thinking.

> perpendicularly misaligned

Um. Perpendicular lines intersect at some point.

Parallel lines never touch, maybe that’s a better geometric analogy.

Of course, for most people things that are “parallel” would seem to be in close agreement.

> A car being driven autonomously doesn't imply much about the quality of that driving

Only that’s not what they’re selling us - they say autonomous cars are safer than humans, fewer accidents per mile driven, faster reaction times yadda yadda. I think this implies quality and not respecting speed limits is not something that sounds very high-quality. At least not while they have to share the road with humans.

By that logic it’s ok if the car slams itself against a concrete wall - just because it failed to stop in time doesn’t mean it wasn’t driving itself.

Self driving cars are supposed to obey the same rules as human drivers.

They don’t. Hence why it’s shutting down.

If you have a mirror configured, you likely won’t be prevented from downloading upgrades.

Some Ubuntu repository urls may live in the affected Canonical infrastructure and those would be affected, but you can switch your apt sources list file to, for example, a country mirror and you’ll be mostly ok.

Mostly for students in settings that may disallow either smartphones or calculators with specific advanced features (schools, SAT exams etc)

Also I don’t know about you but these days I welcome stuff that allows me to stay away from the damn phone.

Which cloud provider? Unless things have changed, Canonical runs their own servers by leasing racks in data centres. Since one of their main offerings is managed Openstack, they favor running things on their in-house openstack deployment instead of using a public cloud (AWS etc).

Systemd was NOT Canonical’s “fault”. They pushed upstart until Debian chose systemd, at that point it made no sense to resist assimilation like all other distros.

https://status.canonical.com/ exists.

Also discourse.ubuntu.com is still up.

Even with the best of faiths, this is at the very least a shoddily vibe coded “detect and low-key block attempts to use Claude for Openclaw” - it decided to look for specific strings wrapped in json without realizing this doesn’t always imply it’s an actual payload for Openclaw itself. And the human driving it was too dumb to review/catch this bad inplementation.

So maybe not malice, but certainly a level of ineptitude I don’t expect from a crucial vendor from a tool that’s become essential for many developers.

(I don’t care, I do just fine when Claude is down or refuses to help me (it has happened) though)

> Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime.

So, at least better than GitHub, right? :)

Joining a select club that includes GitHub and Anthropic yay