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Diesel... electric. Now remove the word diesel.

It reduces the carbon footprint considerably if you don't have to fill up your trains with carbon.


I use ZFS and do off site backups using rsync.net.

Not true, this very site has no ads.

HN is an ad!

https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

It's a talent acquisition ploy.


Uh, yes it does? HN has tons of "[some YC startup] is hiring a [something]". Not sure if they're paid though.

The "plans" were never used though. This whole affair is conducted by imbeciles.

This is what you get when you hire a TV personality who cares more about soldiers looking masculine (and white) than anything else and launch an illegal war for no reason other than "those guys make me angry."

We are governed by people who think the very idea of expertise is dumb. A system of pure id and grievance. Like children playing war in the bath tub.


Why wouldn't it be feasible for Apple, with an unlimited war chest, to go after Asahi? I am not saying they will, but it is certainly possible for them.

Because if it's feasible for any company with a war chest to start a court case about a competitor maybe having a matching line of code to theirs via an LLM, then basically every single company with a warchest would be at war with eachother, because they're all using LLMs.

Business and code production would grind to a halt whilst basically every big tech company shares it's entire codebase with every other tech company for discovery. It's basically MAD.

And if it was feasible, given we've had a couple of years of all the big tech companies heavily using LLMs, there should be some notable court cases by now, surely?


Heh, sounds like it'd be along the same lines as the SCO Unix kerfuffle back in the day.

Mutually assured destruction is what keeps everyone quiet at the moment.

These are very good observations indeed.

So why do it then? Just to sabotage their own country? That makes no sense.

It makes more sense that this is a continent wide action taken by Russia, considering the similar event in France just a few days ago.


there is no "becoming", it has been a fact for long time, and expect it to get a lot worse.

This may sound stupid to a predominantly GNU/Linux audience, but as a FreeBSD user(and Linux user!), when a daemon is not available for FreeBSD, it's a very bad sign.

"Because Snikket is designed natively as a tightly integrated suite of Docker containers built around the Prosody XMPP server, running it natively on FreeBSD is complex."

Holy shit


FWIW I'm the founder of both the Snikket and Prosody projects. If you're a FreeBSD user, or even an experienced hands-on Linux sysadmin, I'd probably recommend going with Prosody, unless docker is your thing.

Snikket aimed to fill the gap for people who wanted an "out of the box" XMPP distribution kind of thing, and it's good at that. But shipping a bunch of software components with opinionated configurations doesn't really mesh well with distribution-level package management, and only really works with a container kind of ecosystem.

Both routes exist and are equally viable. Prosody has ports available for all the popular BSDs, and installing it should be a breeze. Just be prepared to then also set up a TURN server if you want calls, and potentially some web server stuff to if you want some of those features. After installing Prosody you can run 'prosodyctl check features' and it will tell you if you're missing any of the common stuff people want in a modern messaging app.

Hope this helps :)


You don't have to do it all the time as your primary interface. My wife asks Siri questions all the time while she's busy. "Siri, what's the time?", "Siri what will the temperature be in four hours?" etc. It's not "terrible", it's pretty smart.

No, that is not "common knowledge". You are supposed to be able to disable that unwanted feature.

I have no inside information, but I always assume the tickboxes that "disable ____ data" from Google/Facebook/OpenAI just disconnects it from your own account, not hides it from the provider.

The checkbox has an actual statement associated with it about what it does. You don’t need to assume anything.

There's no independent verification of what that checkbox actually does. The company can say anything, and you are unable to verify that they actually do it.

The only verification you could do so far is GDPR-style data export, and also the adherence to GDPR regulations (and even those might get skirted if they aren't operating in europe).


Aren’t they usually phrased very specifically as “we collect this data and use it to show you relevant ads, you can opt out of us showing you relevant ads”?

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