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I've been working with Linux on desktops, laptops, and servers for a decade.

Use Mint or Fedora for distribution. Use Cinnamon or KDE for GUI. Everything pretty much just works, man.

Games work -- Steam, Battle.net, Lutris, and others I am sure. Sleep works -- just as well as it does on Windows anyway. Network works -- better and easier than Windows IMO. Updates work and waaaaay better than Windows. Backups work. LibreOffice works. Browsers work. Tools work. USB thumb drives work. External USB enclosures work. CD/DVD drives work. I haven't tried blu-ray but I imagine that works too.

The only things that don't work are the things that lock you in to Microsoft. Those are vanishingly small numbers of things outside of business, and in business it's mostly because of inertia.
Maybe you did not really want to be one in the first place.
I never understood this line of reasoning, because it presumes that everyone should have access to the same opportunities. It's clearly silly once you throw a few counter examples: should a Private in the military be able to skip the ranks and be promoted straight to General? Should a new grad software dev be able to be promoted to lead engineer without getting any experience?

Clearly there are reasons why opportunities are gated.

> This idea that you can just get huge audiences and investments due to raw talent, keeps a lot of people coming to Hollywood and Silicon Valley to “make it” and living on ramen. But even just coming there proves the point — a talented rando elsewhere in the world wouldn’t even have access to the capital and big boys networks.

All those people start somewhere though. Excluding nepotism, which is tangential point, all those people started somewhere and then grew through execution and further opening of opportunity. But it's not like they all got to where they are in one-shot. Taking your Ashton Kutcher example - yes he had a head start on twitter followers, but that's because he executed for years before on his career. Why would it make sense for some rando to rack up a million followers before he did?

Talent will earn you opportunities, but it's not going to open the highest door until you've put in the time and work.

Of course, it's not to say inequity or unequal access to opportunities doesn't exist in the world. Of course it does. But even in an ideal, perfectly equitable world, not everyone would have the same access to opportunities.

So yes, it makes perfect sense that someone would give Ilya $1B instead of some smart 18 year old, even if that 18 year old was Ilya from the past.
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Pouring more water isn't required, only the permission to pour more water is required. And that was granted in this scenario.

As the old saying can go, "It depends on what the meaning of 'can' can be."
cheers i missed that
Why do something annoying once when you can do it twice for twice the outrage?
I modified my original comment to replace "people" with "environmentalist" in the first sentence to clarify what I meant—you probably read it before I did that. Sorry.
Where is the evidence? Retail business earn minuscule profit margins (this is public info via SEC filings). Walmart famously demands its suppliers to sell to it at near breakeven price, and Walmart’s vendors complain that Walmart pushes them to the brink.

The much simpler and likelier explanation is that the demand for safety razors does not justify the shelf space. And it’s 2024, information is everywhere. If people wanted safety razors, they would get them.
One can hope the AI hype train will have derailed in 5-10 years and Microsoft will have moved on to pushing some other nonsense that nobody actually wants.
> the more that it becomes clear that LLMs really are just "fancy autocomplete", even if it's really really fancy autocomplete

I also don't really see AGI emerging from LLMs any time soon, but it could be argued that human intelligence is also just 'fancy autocomplete'.
> I can select a PDF and ask for facts from it and page numbers where the information is

You can already do this, press ctrl-f and search. Boom, done.

LLMs don't solve new problems much - rather they give you a new INTERFACE into a solution. Natural language.

Before you'd use commands, specific software, processes, formats, configuration. Now you can use natural language (maybe sometimes). To me, this isn't a break through.
because the claim “quantum effects do not apply to large objects” is not the same as “large objects behave classically in expectation”. the former claim is flat false
I did the same (installing Slack from floppies in 1996...and failing) and I've been running Linux as my main and only desktop first and laptop then operating system for... 23 years now. Windows Millennium was the last straw for me.

My family is Ubuntu-only since 10 years ago, and I have 2 daughters that only know Unity as the graphical UI for a desktop PC (well, the big one is unfortunately starting to see Windows at school).
The customers of that particular bastion have LTSC, and enough capital to twist Microsoft's arm into including or excluding whatever features they prefer.
Poorly designed for general use?
Are you the Recall PM? ;)

Windows is good for one thing these days: Playing games via Steam. That's about it, and Linux is getting pretty good at that too - but not yet perfect. That's why I have to stick to Windows for my gaming PC for the time being.

> If you don't want Copilot, why can't you just buy another computer and let Microsoft customers enjoy their vertical integration?

Why doesn't Microsoft simply let me uninstall it? That would be the consumer friendly thing to do.
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Wait until you learn about Anesthesia!
That is what Rye is for.
There's no way they'll make it to this year. It took them a year to get A5X2 from prototype design to "shipping in September".

For those not in the know, here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/rxddxj/some_info...
Well, isn't that what they are going to respond right? You're assuming it will give wrong answers. Why not check?
For those wondering, the RWKV architecture is an alternative to a transformer arch, and has the nice property of allowing very long inputs. Speculation here that it might be for code assistance would make sense. Early versions of RWKV that I played with took a long time to tokenize input strings, but generation was quick. I could imagine engineering finding a good fit with a codebase that’s going to be mostly static while an engineer is editing only parts of it.
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
Not into astrophysics, but I guess "faster asteroids experience higher forces when going through the atmosphere, therefore burning faster". Another explanation could be "most of asteroid's speed comes from Earth's gravity, not from it's initial state".

These are just random guesses though, so I could be completely wrong.
QuickBooks is now mostly a website, we ditched the client-side app a few years ago.

But yeah, SolidWorks is notoriously flaky. It doesn't even work OK in a Windows VM. Or on any modern Laptop with discrete GPU.
> other being the geopolitical issues that arise from negotiating flight paths over various country's air space

Overture targets ICAO Stage 5 noise levels, the most stringent international noise standard [1].

[1] https://hmmh.com/resources/news-insights/blog/stage-5-aircra...
It's not clear to me how this model can be meaningfully replicated. For instance corporations naturally minimize their labor costs according to the relative economic leverage of the participants often to the point of poverty vs those with little leverage whereas a cooperative would seem to be inclined towards decency at the cost of maximal profit.

This difference in profit is invested back into the company in terms of capital investment and lower prices allowing more capitalist exploitive corporations to out compete and ultimately buy or destroy coops.

Coops that exist in very small not very profitable niches may survive in the form of small businesses that make enough to survive but not to thrive its hard to see how this has any effect on the other 99.99% of the economy where most people are obligated to live.
> As soon as you use a Dockerfile you have reproducible builds

That is extremely optimistic. As soon as you do anything involving an update - `apt-get update` or similar - it's not reproducible any more, and of course you do need to do those things in most images.
And if you don't need to do that, you can probably avoid doing the whole Dockerfile thing in the first place (although that may not be so easy if you're not set up for it).
Pretty common here too, esp. in threads about Windows or Tesla, lol. And China.

After a while it's easy to see common themes in the replies. Many are coming from established accounts with lots of one-liners, often to discussions that are a couple days old and that get little attention -- slick.

Suck up all of the existing answers, GPT-them into something that matches the common threads, and then post it to build credibility.
Very much book-by-book in my experience :\

Historically I would've recommended O'Reilly, but they've been absolutely trashing their brand by publishing everything under the sun without decent editing (bad english, outrageously clear flaws in code, entire missing paragraphs, you name it - editing matters). Manning has some real gems too, but I've flipped through enough mediocre ones that I can't make any broad claims (beyond "buyer beware" but it's worth checking anyway).

Which is not particularly useful advice, I know. It's hard to judge quality before you know what quality looks like, at which point you're probably done with the book and maybe much further.

So concretely I can really only recommend:

0) Hit a bookstore or library, browse through the books a bit.

1) Don't buy any giant books (unless you like them). They usually waste absurd amounts of space on stuff that won't remain true in the long run (e.g. individual libraries), and the sheer size means people tend to churn out and not read enough of it to get much of a benefit. Larger also often means worse editing, more mistakes per page, etc because it costs more to check more :\

If you want a physical reference for stuff the book covers, then it can be worth it, but otherwise no. Reference-like material is generally available online, but more up to date.

2) Actually try to build things the book guides you through. Then change it. Break it, debug it, fix it, etc. Make 100% sure what you wrote and why it broke makes sense, not that the book has convinced you that what they wrote is reasonable, which are very different things. The latter is just a sign of good writing, and is useless otherwise.

3) The more-detailed first-party docs in ~all popular languages are at least as good as most books (and sometimes much better), are more likely to be up to date, and are absolutely worth reading. Read the language spec, read the technical blog articles and guides, they're generally truly excellent. Even if you don't understand it all yet, it's exposure to quality code and patterns and concerns you haven't seen, from what are almost always literal experts + edited by literal experts.
Going back to the French Revolution wasn’t it the right wing that supported the king and existing elites and the left wing that tried to tear them down?

I always, with Chomsky, thought the NYT was basically right-wing in that it didn’t fundamentally question power relationships in society. The op-ed page was up in arms about “cancel culture” long before it became a “right-wing” talking point because Dave Brooks and the rest of them make a ton of money giving college commencement addresses and such and didn’t want to see that endangered. This is what I heard from younger journalists who were not on that gravy chain.

Now true, the NYT is basically in favor of social democracy and expresses some contrition over the state of black people but it rarely wants anyone in power to loose their privilege.
If I can remove it, I can trust that it won't get used behind my back. If I can only disable it, I can't have that trust.
There are a few serial trolls who frequently create new accounts to post like that. We ban them and then they create new accounts—such is the cycle of TrollLife. It's best to abide by ancient wisdom and not feed them by replying.
Excellent article. The key take-away for me is:

> The ugly truth is that security is hard. It’s tedious. Unpleasant. And requires a lot of work to get right.

I use Red Hat-based distributions at work and Debian/Ubuntu in my personal life. A few years ago, I bit the bullet and learned enough of SELinux to run my workstation and all my servers in enforcing mode. The author of this article is right to credit Red Hat for all the work they’ve done to provide users with default SELinux policies that work out of the box. At one time, I considered installing SELinux on my Debian system and modifying Red Hat’s policies to work with the Debian packages. I realised how much work would be involved so I chose the path of least resistance: AppArmor (which does the job).
At this point it’s FUD about themselves though. That’s what’s so strange.
Tesla can detect the vehicle being towed. They could provide an option to wipe the USB drive locked in the vehicle's glovebox if this event is detected. This would make police attempts to tow potentially not worth the effort.
Look at high end German cars on the road- Porsche, BMW, Mercedes and see what portion are missing the badges, because they all offer a "badge delete" factory option. I'd say it's roughly 10-20% that opt in.

It's considered sort of a cool thing with car enthusiasts and often makes the used model slightly more desirable and unique. I suppose it means that you care more about driving and not impressing other people, or you care about trying to impress other car nerds with the implication.
The article notes "The attack requires physical access to the secure element (few local electromagnetic side-channel acquisitions, i.e. few minutes, are enough) in order to extract the ECDSA secret key." (emphasis added)

evil maid?
Sure, you're clearly the expert. If we're measuring experience based on the age of ancient software then I guess you win because I only started with RedHat 5.1 from a CD.

But in 2024 you clearly are still the true expert and arbiter of what constitutes a working desktop OS. I mean I only use Linux on a desktop and a laptop every single day, so I probably don't really get it.

But truly, Linux gives me significantly less "broken in weird ways" issues, as you say, in daily use than Windows 10 does on the same hardware. Both sometimes do stupid things, and both sometimes require stupid incantations when things go wrong (please don't pretend windows doesn't, because it absolutely does).
The problem is most users don't even know it is happening.
If you look at the detail pages, you’ll see that “not yet assigned” doesn’t mean that a fix hasn’t been implemented yet. But you are right that not all CVEs get fixed as quickly as I claimed. However, my experience has been that high-profile ones that surface in tech news usually are.
I don't think this is accurate - I have multiple MFA devices associated with all my AWS IAM users on multiple accounts of various ages.

AWS documentation specifies that users are allowed upto eight MFA devices each:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credenti...
What part of GDPR does it infringe?
Per the source article, the features themselves are opt-in (ie not automatically enabled). I believe Apple is rolling out Apple Intelligence pretty much the same way yet it did not set off a firestorm of criticism.
Your theory doesn't support the case of people with bipolar/schizophrenia psychosis with no trauma.
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To my ears, it's more like a ambitious pharma project.

There's plenty of players going for the same goal. R&D is wildly expensive. No guarantee they'll reach the goal, first or even at all.
Markets finding the price which balances supply and demand is not price gouging. Demand went up because it was suppressed during the pandemic and there was also extra savings in the economy (due to saving during the pandemic + stimulus and overall increase in money supply).
I hear a lot about podman online, but I've never seen anyone using seen.
Once we know it can be done, there is much higher chance somebody will look really hard into it and with a bit of luct, they will come up with a practical algorithm. Or at least good one for some edge cases.
A couple years ago I wanted to try something simple for a daily driver and gave it a shot but it didn’t take long before its inadequacies became unbearable and I switched back; but they’ve been improving, so hopefully it’s much better now.
Wow regs must be lax.

15ish years ago my states gaming commission would literally pull EEPROMS, stick em in a box, and make sure the Hashes corresponded to 'audited and approved' code (while also checking that win rates were set within regulations).
What makes a bureaucrat any less corrupt than a congressman, or the president who give orders to the bureaucrat?
And that's not a PopOS issue, that's an issue with CUPS... it seems CUPS was forked by the original developer after his time with Apple.

https://openprinting.github.io/cups/
That’s just hand waving away all the interesting details so you can claim everything is the same though?
Does a Tesla owner (I am not) have any control over the video data? In other words, can an owner configure the vehicle to only retain the last 60 seconds of video data - something like that? Does an owner have any access to the video data? For example, can an owner view the video data from past, like with a Ring camera? Just curious. Thanks.
This is an interesting take, the article touches on it too.

> “Physicists are much less concerned than mathematicians about rigorous proofs,” says Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at the Collège de France and a Fields Medal winner. Sometimes, he says, that “allows physicists to explore mathematical terrain more quickly than mathematicians.”

GP is right that the currently observed physical laws go far beyond our ability to observe them in reality because of the cost of observations. International effort over decades is required to create facilities capable of making helpful new observations: think of LHC, LIGO, James Webb, etc.

On the other hand, once the facilities are built and ground-breaking observations appear, we suddenly have a debt of theoretical and simulated exploration to understand all their implications. The low cost of computation greatly extends the value we can take from every truly new observation of reality.

In order to observe something new, we must be able differentiate it from something already understood. It seems like the physics and math communities are currently in a season of increasing our understanding of the existing models well enough to motivate trying to break them.
The range of mass is typically much larger than the range of velocities. There is an upper bound to the speed for the vast majority of things which are dangerous (escape velocity of the solar system). However there are orders of magnitude differences in mass.

Velocity is important though.
The base LLM models that cost millions to train are also shovels.
I see this is your first rodeo.
> Anyway... we all know disabling security or not implementing it in the first place can really save you a lot of time. At least in the short run.

The way I put it to my clients, and staff, is simply that security comes at the cost of convenience.
If you just want to maintain or operate what's already there on a RHEL (clone): https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

If you want to dive deeper: "SELinux System Administration" by Sven Vermeulen.
There is no objective difference between finding the balance of supply and demand and price gouging.
And log delivery using smtp (attaching files) from the nodes at the border to the central servers
That was then, this is now. Everyone abandoned Digg because of a level of censorship that modern reddit makes look benign.
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Which we have to thank for Linux Desktop market share hitting all time highs this year.

My decision to switch to a Fedora Desktop earlier this year after 25 years of Windows gets reinforced with every new "Windows Feature".

It's been a refreshing change, native versions of JetBrains IDEs, Docker and most Daily Apps (e.g. VS Code, Discord, GitHub Desktop, Obsidian, etc) were available on Day 1, surprisingly all my flagship Windows Steam Games I tried also just worked, there's also a lot more developer tools and command line enhancements available for Linux without the weird uncanny valley context switching I used to live with when using WSL.

Linux Desktop is in great shape if you're thinking of switching away from Windows.
This should be happening right now.
Both, but in practice the coverage of dangerous sized objects is pretty good already and when the Vera Rubin Observatory goes online it will get an order of magnitude better.
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'Nuclear clock' breakthrough paves the way for super-precise timekeeping
I remember one action game on the Apple II that played music during gameplay: Microwave. But the sound was made on purpose to sound kind of choppy (a bit like voice fry), so that there was some leeway to fit graphics updates and calculations. I never disassembled it but I can imagine the pain it must have been to keep the game loop close to constant time.
Security folks usually are detached from the actual reality, unfortunately.

Yes, people/sysadmins should take their time to properly configure SELinux when things don't work, instead of just disabling it completely for good. I tried for a whole year in a place where we used CentOS, and then finally I gave up, too many hours wasted in finding the right conf for this new program or configurations etc.
The current stochastic curve reaches it's maximum rate of change in some 15 years. At 25% of the computers.

Linux has been following it very well.