That would be nice. People could turn them off at 2AM in the morning when there’s no one else on the roads. But I’m sure they wouldn’t.

I got an email couple of weeks ago with invitation to some paid study about AI. They were looking for programmers that would solve some tasks with and with AI help. I didn’t have time or felt like participating but if I did I would 100% work slower on task with AI just to help derail the pro-AI narrative. It’s not in my interest to help promote it. Just saying…

But do they make loud wroom wroom noises? If not half of motorcyclists will not be interested.

On one hand the only thing the document says is this:

“Commission will prioritise an assessment of the impact of data retention rules at EU level and the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption, to identify and assess technological solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.”

That’s it. “VPN” is not even mentioned anywhere. There are no proposals yet alone votes. We don’t know what politicians say, just some expert groups. Calling it “waging a war on encryption” is a bit much when nothing was done to weaken encryption in any way.

On the other hand, I get it that someone has to be vigilant and start protesting whenever someone even thinks about implementing backdoors. Personally I prefer factual discussion but I agree exaggeration and propaganda is sometimes a useful tool so if that’s what you want to do it’s fine.

EU is waging war on encryption? Are you taking about Chat Control 2.0 that specifically says encryption cannot be weakened in any way?

It’s more dramatic now because a lot of people switched when it was less dramatic. People switched more on a principle than out of need because they understood what Microsoft represented and didn’t want to support it in any way. They switched because they knew they don’t control the direction Windows is going and this exact scenario can happen. Without those people Linux would still be a niche OS and Mac would be the only real alternative. People talk about it like Linux just magically got better on its own, like it was some natural evolution that happened in a vacuum while everyone was using Windows out of convenience. It didn’t, we worked hard for it over the years. So yeah, a “thank you” would be nice.

I don’t know if it’s funny or frustrating that everything people are complaining about with Windows 11 are the exact same things we were complaining about with every previous version of Windows from 95 to 10: lack of control, limited configuration and bugs. Yes, Linux was super raw and difficult back then but we still switched and worked hard to make it better. I think all the articles encouraging people to switch today are missing simple “Thank you”.

Sometimes refactoring tools are not enough and you have to do the same change in couple of places. Boring, repetitive work. For example last thing I did is that I refactored some code and I had to change the way objects used in tests are initialized. Basically couple hundred lines of just constructors and setters. I knew exactly what needs to be created because tests where there so I feed the expected structure into a LLM and it generated the code. Saved me some boring work and I didn’t have to worry about mistakes because compiler and tests would pick it up.

I use LLMs mainly for “editing text”. Like if I have to refactor 100 lines of code and it can’t be easily done with a regexp replace I will use LLM to do it. When I have to actually modify some logic I find it easier and faster to just do it than to explain what needs to be done to a LLM and carefully check its response for subtle bugs.

What he’s talking about is teaching a person and watching them grow, become better engineer and move on to do great things not tweaking some settings in a tool so it works better. How do people not understand that?

They were looking at a hair and saying that they are sure it belongs to the suspect. It was before DNA. It was later discovered that the FBI lab that did this “analysis” would simply say that “yes, it’s a match”. No science behind it. Many people ended in jail because of it, some were executed and later exonerated by DNA tests. There was a big scandal about it couple of years ago.

And hair analysis. And fibers. All popularized in US to get more convictions but rejected in Europe as junk science.

And doctor appointments, and driving them to school and from school and standing next to them watching them stand there not doing anything just in case the fall down and hit their head on the floor and cooking 3 different breakfasts for them because they changed their mind 3 times and so on and so on. Yeah, it’s very rewarding for some, not that appealing for others.

There must be a reason people don’t want children.

Yeah, kids cry and shit a lot. You don’t need a reason not to want them, you need a reason to have them.

Why would this be The Onion?

MacOS’s UI is shit as always.

Do they ever cover the fact that they are now the only representatives of their “species” and will never be able to find a mate? Are there any episodes about it?

Secret to die young?

For usability the solution is using some custom ROM like Graphene OS or iode. They support AA now.

For privacy the solution is to use a very old car with no infotainment. Modern cars have telemetry and always on connectivity you can’t control. Even Linux phones will not help with that. We would need open source cars which will never happen.

Just don’t do bugs. How hard is that?