How does it compare to their cost of living vs ours and our median income?

Arduino responded to this recent drama just a few days ago, saying "Our 20-year commitment to open-source is unwavering" with a good explanation of the new T&C.

https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/1...

I believe Arduino is sincere with their statement.

One man speaking with Adafruit's social media accounts seems to feel otherwise. He probably believes he's doing good by raising the alarm. Maybe some of the points have some merit? But the tone really looks like an attempt to stir up drama and harm Arduino's reputation.

Adafruit does have history with Arduino. In 2015 when Arduino had serious internal division and conflict, Adafruit was manufacturing brand name Arduino Uno under some sort of license deal. That arrangement ended sometime in 2016. Adafruit quickly launched a product line of essentially Arduino clone boards named "Metro". Does any of that matter? Maybe, maybe not. But when reading what really looks like an attack on Arduino's long-established reputation coming from official Adafruit channels, best to keep in mind those 2 companies have a history.

I also have some history with Arduino, having made an Arduino-compatible board and contributed code and help over the years. I've personally met the Arduino developers and Arduino leadership folks several times at conferences. They are genuinely good people who've poured a lot of effort into trying to good in the world.

Maybe Arduino change for the better or for the worse with Qualcomm. I don't have a crystal ball. But I'm trying to keep an open mind and not get caught up in fear over basically boilerplate legalese.

"researchers that found state-of-the-art large language models face complete performance collapse beyond certain complexity thresholds"

Humans also face complete performance collapse with cognitive tasks beyond certain complexity thresholds

What's the grift in this video? This is a backup of the one that was taken down: https://archive.org/details/li... Are tutorials using technology you didn't design and build yourself a form a grift?

Pretty sure it was snapd that drove this decision. It's truly horrible for real daily desktop usage, causing many seconds lag for app startup and certain operations like selecting files to attach to email in Thunderbird.

Snap / snapd is pretty much like Windows Vista when the world was so used to Windows XP.

FWIW, I've used various Linux distros for my main desktop machine since 1994. Never in all these years have I seen anything like snapd which makes a high end desktop feel so sluggish.

Have you ever seen the 2018 documentary Active Measures? It does a good job of chronicling Russian attempts to influence US politics.

I wonder if it can search its training data for inconsistencies/misidentified creatures?

People who financially benefit from a Ponzi scheme before it implodes tend to believe they are involved in legitimate work.

Whether Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, I don't know. But one thing I do know for certain is people who are making money almost always believe they are doing good, even with plenty of evidence is contrary.

Sorry, I'm going to revive the mid 1990s era and use the Chili Pepper font and lots of Earth tones. Maybe throw in a few swirls for buttons and draw a gecko somewhere.

And the recyclability of plastics is a big smokescreen from the plastics industry. Most of it is not recycled because it is not profitable. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/front...

And a lot of plastic is just not economically viable to recycle because it degrades. There's an excellent Frontline documentary on the plastics industry with actual plastics industry documents talking about it all. Even Oregon the country's biggest recycler barely recycles any of the plastics placed into bins.

Frontline made a documentary on the plastics industry that is pretty interesting. It provides interviews with people in the industry and documentation charting out their plan to market economically infeasible recyclables and guilt the consumer into having to do the legwork.

Documentary: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/front...

You can watch it on YouTube too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's also on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Plastic...

Transcript: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/front...

I would be very happy with an OLED TV that has all the great image features but with none of the smart home integrations or even apps or network connectivity.

The bot accounts probably do violate the ToS. But I bet the AI generated songs don't.

It's mid 2000s lolcat speak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...