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  Well, they might want that save-data-and-clean-shutdown functionality. I mean, I don’t personally care all that much for my use case, but it’s a legit want. Like, say you have a USB flash drive plugged into your machine. Those normally ship formatted with exFAT, a Microsoft filesystem derived from the elderly FAT16 filesystem, and most people use them like that, as pretty much every OS out there can read FAT. FAT can become corrupt in the event of power loss. Or say you’ve been working on s...

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  I was reading a homelab discussion about NUTs (Network UPS Tools) that left me scratching my head and wondering "…why? Is complexity for complexities sake part of homelabs? Isn’t this a huge overkill for one machine? Just…use a UPS? " So, you don’t need to run any software at all on a host. You don’t need NUT or anything similar. You can just plug a PC into a UPS. However, traditionally, the purpose of a UPS isn’t “just power a machine through an extended outage”. It’s to provi...

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  > White House correspondent Katie Rogers — whom Trump recently called "ugly, both inside and out" for writing a story about his age — chimed in to ask, "Psychologically important to you or to the United States?" > >“Psychologically important for me," Trump answered. "Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything." *These were hard times for The Onion staff.*

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  >Children and young people want spaces for social interaction without adult supervision. They will in any case find other places to interact, and companies will develop new services that do not formally fall under the category of “social media”. The alternatives are not necessarily better. I mean, I've made the "there are fundamental enforceability issues" point myself, but I suppose that for some politicians, if there's enough public demand for censorship, it's easier...

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  > A Kuala Lumpur-bound AirAsia flight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirAsia > AirAsia X Berhad (MYX: 5238), operating as AirAsia, is a Malaysian multinational low-cost airline headquartered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I mean, you're on a budget Malaysian airline flying to Malaysia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia >National language (official): Malay[a][b][c] >Recognised languages: English[c]

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  I think that if you aspire to regulate the political positions that AIs should recommend, you...okay, I think that that's probably not a great idea, but setting that aside, it seems pretty odd that you'd want to do that, but *not* regulate the political positions of webpages that search engines return or the political positions that news media may take, which would be what I'd consider alternate information sources.

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  https://futurism.com/the-byte/camera-cars-detects-drinking > A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle. > >But the project isn’t quite ready for wide use with only 75 percent accuracy, according to the researchers out of Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, who had presented this camera project at a computer vision conference earlier this year. Should be interesting.

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  >“My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft distinguished engineer Galen Hunt wrote in a recent LinkedIn post. > > “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’” Well, I expect it'll be exciting, one way or another.

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  > Musk sued Altman and OpenAI in 2024, claiming the artificial intelligence company that he helped start almost a decade earlier “assiduously manipulated” and “deceived” him into donating $38 million, based on promises that the entity would remain a nonprofi >Musk’s attorneys previously said, in a January filing, that their client should receive up to $134 billion in damages That seems a little disproportionate.

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  Early_riser, if you want your next post to be "How did you feel when you heard that tal won the lottery?" I'm okay with that. 

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  I don't have a YouTube account, and have no interest in getting one. I hid shorts with this browser add-on: https://github.com/Vulpelo/hide-youtube-shorts

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  I mean, it's probably a good idea to have them higher, given that if someone wants to use it with some typical out-of-the-box desktop settings, that's not unreasonable, but while I haven't looked at the Ubuntu installer for a while, I strongly suspect that it permits you to do a minimal install, and that all the software in the Debian family is also there, so you can do a lightweight desktop based on Ubuntu. My current desktop environment has sway, blueman-applet, waybar, and swaync...

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  > but it was far less convenient to navigate unfamiliar places without a Siri-enabled smart phone I use OSMAnd and download and render my maps locally.

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  For those who, like myself, have never heard of Session prior to now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_(software) > Session is an Australian, currently Switzerland-based, cross-platform end-to-end encrypted instant messaging application emphasizing user confidentiality and anonymity. Developed and maintained by the non-profit The Session Technology Foundation,[3] it employs a blockchain-based decentralized network for transmission. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, includin...

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  > Donenfeld, the WireGuard developer, told TechCrunch in an email: “If there were a critical vulnerability to fix right now — there isn’t! I just mean hypothetically — then users would be totally exposed.” Well, the Windows users would. I assume that they'd still release builds for the other platforms.