The TIOBE index is bullshit. We go over this EVERY fucking time the list gets updated.

Its entirely based on "how many results does Google claim exist?" - which is not an accurate metric to begin with for a multitude of reasons, the largest of which is that Google only uses an estimate for the number of results. But as you traverse the results for a given query, the max quantity reported will dramatically shift around as it hits different servers w/ a different view of the estimated total.

And let's not even get into the fact that number of pages on the internet != popularity of a language. It instead represent the quality of documentation for a language, as languages with the best docs need fewer external tutorials/explanations on how to get shit done w/ the language, therefor they rank "lower" based on this bullshit metric.

Why not just take the DirectX vendor agnostic path and make DirectAI, a universal interface to AI shit so we as consumers can pick our own slop!?

Its called Science.

You don't trust a single simulation. You test, validate, re-test, re-validate, rinse and repeat over again with different variables tweeked to ensure validity.

"That Anthropic later bought a copy of a book it earlier stole off the internet will not absolve it of liability for the theft but it may affect the extent of statutory damages" - The Judge in the case

$3000/book is hardly "big time" - that's only 1 month (maybe 2-3 if you're super scrappy) of rent/bills in most large cities in this country.

Seattle and Chicago have almost identical annual rainfall totals. Seattle just gets a slow mist (not even rain most days) vs Chicago getting it all in 30 seconds.

Seattle has extreme weather...? That's news to me!

The answer is simple: Threads is directly integrated (tho shittily) into Instagram, so you see Threads posts and some messages on Instagram. And IG most certainly does have the userbase. I believe FACEBOOK (erm, i mean, Meta) is using this to inflate their numbers.

These "AI" tools are simply the next level of "autocomplete"

We started with basics like tab completion of symbols
Eventually moving to full code analysis to figure out what symbols could be tab completed
Then we moved on to function/method parameter completion
From there we got code sniplets that an IDE could inject into our code
And now we have those sniplets being dynamically modified based on parameters that we're giving it

Its never been complete, its never been perfect, but if we look at "AI" in the way I just described and use it accordingly, it most certainly does speed up development.

I recently used ChatGPT to write some code for an RP2040 to create an emulated network card for the Apple IIe. It knew nothing of the actual protocol or bus, but I was able to feed it enough information on the spec to get about 80-90% there. From that, I just filled in the rest of the code to ensure it worked correctly.

For a notice, AI most certainly can hamper the troubleshooting and learning aspects of programming. For a seasoned professional, it definitely can speed up the process of producing specific types of library code.

It really isn't at the point where it is making full applications, not even close. But for algos/libraries it is doing a pretty damn good job right now.

the "P" in HIPAA is "portability" - the law actually mandates this level of portability and sharing among medical organizations, not prevents it.

I do photography as a side thing. I've got about 10TB worth of content between RAW and PSD/PSB files. That's just one part of things. Other family members do the same, or record videos. We also sync our phones automatically to our self-hosted solutions through apps like Nextcloud. We're also going back historically and scanning in film/slides dating as far back as a century ago. Its a family archive, something better than a traditional print photo album in that we have searchability, portability, and sharability. The archive isn't just for one person, its for a whole group of people to enjoy whenever they want.

I'm running a VaultWarden cluster replicated across multiple sites, with BitWarden front-end. BitWarden themselves offers a paid hosting solution, or you can do it yourself for "free" (cost of time/hardware/resources). It integrates perfectly to every major browser, including Firefox (typing on that right now). It works beautifully on Android too to provide in-app passwords. No copy/pasting, its full on integration on all platforms. I have the browser client running on Windows, MacOS, and FreeBSD. For the rare time I want the web interface, its available, otherwise everything works great from just the browser plugins.

So shit like this pisses me off for a different reason.

Why?

Because Microsoft ALREADY did this in 2007, nearly TWO DECADES AGO, and then canned the tech and threw it away. We ALREADY had a full 3D model of Notre-Dame. It was cool. It was awesome. It was interactive. And it was entirely dynamically generated just from photographs on Flickr.

The technology was called PhotoSynth. But you already KNOW they're gonna shove some fucked up bullshit "AI" marketing behind this, its going to take longer to produce results, and the results are going to be shittier than we already had.

https://www.ted.com/talks/blai...

Articles like this always limit it to "for Linux" - but its just a general F/OSS piece of software which works on a number of platforms, including Windows itself, FreeBSD, and more.

I've been experimenting more and more lately w/ FreeBSD as a desktop OS on a number of machines.

You know what FreeBSD has natively and used by default? OpenZFS.

Do you know how many years worth of ZFS snapshots I have on some of my machines? Many MANY years worth. They're created when -I- want them. They're destroyed when -I- want that to happen. I can inspect their state and contents at will. I'm in total and complete control over MY storage.