jbzfn

jbzfn, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

💾 'I'll be here for as long as people want': Meet the world’s last bulk seller of floppy disks
➥ @euronews
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/10/21/ill-be-here-for-as-long-as-people-want-meet-the-worlds-last-bulk-seller-of-floppy-disks

#FloppyDisks #Retrocomputing

jbzfn, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

🦁 Do Not Use Brave Browser
➥ Kevin Muldoon

#Brave #Browser #Privacy #Creepto https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/do-not-use-brave-browser/

jbzfn, 10 months ago to apple

🧑‍💻 @collin writes:

"Looking at all of this together, yeah, the Lisa and Macintosh took a lot from Xerox. But, they also added a lot. The Smalltalk environment was a revolutionary GUI, but it was still a system you would have had to have been a computer operator or something to really use. It’s not a personal computer at all."

#Smalltalk #Apple #Retrocomputing
https://collindonnell.com/the-xerox-smalltalk-80-gui-was-weird

jbzfn, 11 months ago to opensource

"Additionally, it’s unclear at the moment if Xfce will transition to GTK4 or not. GTK4 has been around for two years now and GTK5 is on the road, so the team needs to act quickly if they plan to transition, or they will have to skip a GTK version."
➥ @fosspost

#Xfce #GTK4 #GTK5 #Opensource
https://fosspost.org/xfce-4-18-future-of-xfce/

jbzfn, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) to opensource

"In 2020, the community discovered that GitHub has a for-profit software services contract with the USA Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Activists, including some GitHub employees, have been calling on GitHub for two years to cancel that contract. GitHub's primary reply has been that their parent company, Microsoft, has sold Microsoft Word for years to ICE without any public complaints"
➥ @conservancy

#Github #Git #Opensource #ICE
https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

jbzfn, 6 months ago to Israel

🇮🇱 Exporting militarism: how Israeli companies market repression in Latin America

「 In the favelas in Brazil, the militarised police unit BOPE (Special Police Operations Unit) cooperates with ISDS, and the methods of repression in the favelas and in Palestine are very similar. BOPE occupies the rooftops of homes to control and kill people, just as the Israeli military does in Palestinian cities 」

https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2019/exporting-militarism-how-israeli-companies-market-repression-latin-america

#Israel #Brazil #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality

jbzfn, 8 months ago to azure

A client asked me if it was a good idea to move to GCP, told him that regardless of the costs, he'll have a better chance of getting the Pope on the phone than meaningful support from Google.

The cloud equivalent of buying a used car. You're pretty much on your own. Plus very few professionals in our region are getting certified on it.

Most get some Azure | AWS | OCI certs.

GCP is a joke, even down here.

#cloud #gcp #azure #aws #oci

jbzfn, 1 year ago to programming

「 Most of us, if we found ourselves trudging up 21 flights of stairs, would just get pissed off and leave it there. But Hoare decided to do something about it. He opened his laptop and began designing a new computer language, one that he hoped would make it possible to write small, fast code without memory bugs. He named it Rust, after a group of remarkably hardy fungi that are, he says, “over-engineered for survival.” 」
— @techreview

#Rust
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language

jbzfn, 11 months ago to tesla

⚠️ Prospect.org writes:
"... those systems, particularly FSD, are associated with dramatically more crashes than previously thought. Thanks to a 2021 regulation, automakers must disclose data about crashes involving self-driving or driver assistance technology. Since that time, Tesla has racked up at least 736 such crashes, causing 17 fatalities."
#FSD
#Tesla
#Musk
https://prospect.org/justice/06-13-2023-elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-bloodbath/

jbzfn, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

"The worse Google’s search results are, the more they depend on being the default search (because no one would actively choose a search engine with unreliable, spammy results). The more they spend on being the default, the sweatier and more desperate their money-grabbing tactics become, and the worse the search results get, and the more they need to spend to keep you locked in"
➥ @pluralistic

#GoogleSearch #Privacy #Antitrust
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299

jbzfn, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Went to a local meetup about AI and legal chatbots, since it's something I know about I thought it would be interesting to see their approach.

They're smarter and younger than me, I was sure that the new tools and techniques available now would give them a greater advantage.

I was appalled, not by their lack of technical knowledge, but by their blind faith and careless approach to a social problem too.

Domain knowledge when it comes to legal and health issues aren't a "nice to have".

jbzfn, 11 months ago to opensource

Fossbrodon bent the knee, the one instance I expected to refuse without hesitation, just on principles.

Meanwhile turns out that .art is leading the fight for privacy and user rights.

Hearing the slurs and insults at the "loud minority" reminds me how toxic and full of corporate shills the #opensource community really is.

#Meta #Fediverse #DefederateMeta

jbzfn, 11 months ago to internet

"Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations"
➥ Techdirt

#Musk #Twitter
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/22/apparently-elon-doesnt-think-he-needs-to-pay-rent-because-sf-is-a-shithole-so-why-should-we-pay-for-twitter/

jbzfn, 1 year ago to random

「 In the end NeXT failed as a business, its computers were only bought in small quantities and its giant automated factory, capable of making thousands of machines a month, frequently was manufacturing fewer than 100. Although its status as a revolutionary system with a strong cool factor was undisputed, few people bought the computers or used the software 」
— Another Boring Topic

#NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing
https://anotherboringtopic.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-next-computer

jbzfn, 10 months ago to privacy

Since the fossbros are too busy defending IBM and Meta, I'll do my fair share of being annoying by kindly asking people not to use Google Forms for online surveys.

#Privacy #Opensource

jbzfn, 10 months ago to mastodon

Anyone here deploying #Mastodon on #FreeBSD?

I need some links with full walkthroughs.
#AskFedi

I don't wanna deal with linux servers if I don't have too.

jbzfn, 1 year ago to linux

「 How is that possible,” Young said, “that one of the world’s biggest technology companies, on this strategically critical product, loses the product of the year to a company with 50 employees in the tobacco fields of North Carolina? 」
— Newsobserver.com

#RedHat #Linux #Opensource
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article274616566.html

jbzfn, 5 months ago to random Spanish

"Ya no podrán robarnos si todo estará en crypto"

y yo acá leyendo el golpe del día en @web3isgreat

jbzfn, 2 months ago to llm

☠️Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
— arxiv.org

"By employing results from learning theory, we show that LLMs cannot learn all of the computable functions and will therefore always hallucinate. Since the formal world is a part of the real world which is much more complicated, hallucinations are also inevitable for real world LLMs"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

#llm #ai #hallucination

jbzfn, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to RedHat

"Since #RedHat has no control over #RockyLinux or #AlmaLinux, it appears the company is taking aim at them by restricting #RHEL source code access to #CentOS Stream. This will make it more difficult for Rocky and Alma to maintain the 1:1 compatibility they currently have with RHEL.

Red Hat has certainly been making waves in the #Linux community. In addition to its widely criticized CentOS decisions, the company recently laid off #Fedora Program Manager Ben Cotton"

https://www.webpronews.com/red-hat-takes-aim-at-rocky-linux-almalinux-restricts-rhel-code-access/

jbzfn, 9 months ago to random

Requested a ride sharing service and I didn't have the energy to ask the driver to turn off his hostis humani generis reggaeton, just grabbed my IEMs and avoided the hassle.

Returned on a Taxi because of that, the driver saw my #PinkFloyd T-shirt and we started talking about how young people are proud of having shit taste.

The older I get the more 70s t-shirts I must wear to get good conversation starters. I'll try #Sepultura next time. I'm overstock on DSOTM t-shirts for some reason.

jbzfn, 7 months ago to FreeBSD

🚀 FreeBSD 14.0-RC1 Now Available
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2023-October/001547.html

#FreeBSD #BSD #Opensource

jbzfn, 7 months ago to random

🤬 Stop saying "ethnic cleansing"

It's GENOCIDE, all caps, don't use soft/safe language.

That's the word we use for Hitler's horrors.

We're about to watch the another Holocaust while #VoteBlue people keep asking for votes and donations for #Biden2024.

jbzfn, 4 months ago to llm

🎯 LLM generated code is like particleboard
ᐅ @booniepepper

「 LLM-generated code is for creating software quickly and cheaply. It's for mass-producing parts of software that can be assembled into something working good enough. If and when it breaks, you don't spring for an expensive repair job (like you might for a family heirloom) you just generate a replacement; the equivalent of going to IKEA and buying another $13 end table 」

https://so.dang.cool/blog/2023-12-30-llm-generated-code-is-like-particleboard.html

#AICoding #CoPilot #LLM

jbzfn, 3 months ago to random

🌊 The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops
— The Register

"You could argue that macOS, based on the multi-threaded, multi-processing microkernel operating system Mach, BSD Unix, and the open source Darwin, is the most successful of all Unix operating systems."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/opinion_column/

#Unix #BSD #ComputingHistory