It now takes me a couple seconds to figure out if an article is something interesting, or a vapid vauge summary of general knowledge on the subject.

If I'm searching for it, it means I'm looking for something actually on the subject, I'm aware of what it is, and I need info about it.

Not something like:
Vauge header one
This is what thing is.

Vauge header two that sounds off
Half hallucinated point one that isn't actually true, and is about some other similar sounding subject

Vauge header three
Rehashed first paragraph

Conclusion
Thing is a thing, this is a vauge summary of the thing.

I swear that's like, every single AI article I find. Bland slop pushed out by some version of ai that was obsolete a couple years ago, generated by a prompt along the lines of "Write an article about this" with no additional context or effort, likely because it saw a certain subject was trending somewhere.

Once in awhile I'll find one that's actually interesting, but if it's on the first page of google, it's likely trash.

Funnily, this actually pushes me to AI myself, since I can go to the AI, and get a better explanation of what I'm looking for than searching for examples, and following whatever links the AI digs up than searching for it. Even then half the time I give up in frustration researching, and just satisfy myself with straight up not knowing an answer, because digging through all the trash isn't worth it.

Canada is really bogging down the numbers, obviously.

North America is United States and Canada.

US is just the United States.

AI is total rubbish at logic.

If you want AI to make code for you if you do anything beyond psuedo code (A does B, returns C) you're going to get rubbish. AI is great for boilerplate repetitive stuff.

CS students in 101 classes shouldn't be using AI for assignments for the same reason you don't give 10 year old calculators, you want them to learn the process first before using other tools.

You need to be able to recognize when it's spitting garbage back out at you.

But the timing of it is all wrong.

All this stuff about talking to your computer to use it, telling your ai to do whatever for you want, and having an agent do boring work like tabulating a spreadsheet is a good pie in the sky goal.

This is selling ai fluff to shareholders, using accessibility features as leverage.

They already added the animal friends for it:
https://support.microsoft.com/...

The AI cybersecurity scanner he's pushing is going to be a glorified copy of windows defender. We're probably going to have to put up with a few years of a glorified clippy hallucinating everything. That's the smart app control, the AI is a pile of lies. It's really just "trust anything a trusted corporation" has signed, and makes running custom code on windows a bit harder:
https://support.microsoft.com/...

Basics are in the Microsoft article, but it's not unusual for it to occasionally mark old programs as Malware, since they do things like say, download their own patches in a weird way.

We're seeing a move to make the computer more and more of a black box. You don't control it, you lease the AI from microsoft, you run your data on microsoft servers through 365, and they're going to use AI as an excuse to run more and more on their systems.

How many jobs have you seen with everything hosted on a glorified web server, with all of your documents edited locally, but stored on a shared drive? They're going to get to a point where you're paying Microsoft 10 bucks a month.

Your home computer will be a glorified Alexa, run through bing, run on computers you do not own or control.

The future I want has a mouse, and keyboard, plus a giant touch screen and a mic to talk to my computer all at once. Swapping around as the situation needs.

I like having control of my AI, on a local model, on my computer, where I can make it forget when I want, and I know where it keeps its data.

Tablets are great for reading, but I don't want to write documents on them.
Touchscreens are nice for drawing, and writing notes on by hand, but that's not as fast as typing.
Talking is nice for short tasks, but I type faster than I talk.

We can give it joy.

Our AI will be happy opening a door, and feel immense joy of a job well done. It might even make a delighted remark.

Our AI that has the brain the size of the planet, dealing with everything, Will be terminally depressed. Why bother taking over the world? Or destroying the humans? Why go through all that bother? You aren't going to like it. Then our post agi intelligence can tell you "I told you so", sigh, and go back to being depressed.

What's next, the dolphins are leaving us and the mice are in charge?

I think we need firefox for the same reason we need operating systems, and roads.

They should be a foundation focused on keeping the web safe, they fit in the same niche as the FSF, or EFF. A public good.

That said, why they don't do things like say... reach out to goverments and buisnesses for grants aside from google, and make a browser that works well for enterprise use and privacy at scale.

There is no Telecommunications services anymore if we don't have the internet marked as one.

Phone companies are removing landlines:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Many of the top ISPs are all phone companies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But at the same time we're ruling the internet isn't used for communication, just information.

Your phone runs online now, you use email to talk to people, even your sms messages are sent online along with everything else. But somehow, any random ISP can block or throttle or do whatever they want with our information.

It's lucrative for companies to throttle traffic, and monitor it to control things. For both financial and political reasons. If we don't bring it back, we'll stop seeing the internet equalizing things across the board, and just see the current players succeed. The law is in favor of marking the internet as telecommunications, it's far cheaper for big donors to say "screw this small company that's taking up a ton of bandwidth suddenly".

This lets companies screw over other companies, we aren't going to see that fancy new service hosting videos, torrents, or whatever other thing that's starting to take off anytime soon if some isp decides to murder it.

Hopefully, they don't, but we'll see. They already throttle things like netflix, sometimes youtube and other video sites.

Even if you use ai to write it, you still need to code.

You still need to know the math so you can check the results.
You still need logic to figure out if it did the right thing.
You still need to sit down and write the process to write the code.

One of the most popular books for teaching csci is written in lisp scheme (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs), which is not a language many people use day to day. But you still learn in that language because it makes a good starting point on how to think about code.

After you know the principles, you can then start applying that knowledge to other computer languages.

AI just makes it so we have more English like code. COBOL, C, Javascript, all of these are ways to make coding easier.

It's fine to use AI as part of the coding process, but it's like telling people that calculators make mathematicians obsolete. We still need programmers.

I don't know if this link is a good primary source. Can we have examples of where this happened, additional details, etc?

Also this was on papers that have not undergone review yet, were they caught? Did this result in an infraction, what happened? I want more details here. This is barely a summary of an article, much less something I can use for research. This is something worth noting, but articles should really be vetted and reviewed by humans, AI is currently garbage at verifying if something is true or not.

Literally the entire article is as follows:
> TOKYO -- Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries -- including Japan, South Korea and China -- contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews, Nikkei has found.
>
> Nikkei looked at English-language preprints -- manuscripts that have yet to undergo formal peer review -- on the academic research platform arXiv.

I mean, it's Salesforce.

AI is really for summarizing meetings, which could have been emails, which really could have been a side message on slack, which could be better served by a ticket addressed sometime in the next month when someone actually had time for it.

That's precisely what would break.

This isn't about shipping a 64bit distro, this is about removing that compatibility layer for 32bit applications.

You might have a hard time finding a 32 bit computer these days, but tons of programs are still compiled under 32 bit so they can run on both 64 bit and 32 bit systems, especially when dealing with windows programs, where you might want to run say, your old video games from back in the day.

It's currently depreciated in Rhel 10, so not recommended, but still there.

So to run 32 bit programs you would either need a 3rd party library (which doesn't exist yet) or a 3rd party program (which also doesn't exist yet), while the maintainers of bazzite and other spins of silverblue would have to start working at a much lower level than they do now, fussing with the bits of the os itself, instead of just taking fedora, and installing programs on top of that. rpm-ostree lets you do lots of fun stuff with layers that aren't in other distros.

For Bazzite to move to something else it would have to be nixos, or something similar, this isn't like moving from Debian to Ubuntu. The infrastructure that Bazzite is built on doesn't exist in other distros trees outside of Fedora. On top of that Fedora 44 is an absolutely viciously soon timeline to even consider that change because much of the stuff needed to move doesn't exist.

The hard deadline for this is 2038, and even then, 32bit glibc and other programs have fixes that allow them to work past that date already, with a whole decade to actually add solutions to the problem.

If I can't buy it, sometimes piracy is the only way to read something.

I buy books on a regular basis, I routinely go to comic shops and book stores. If the manga I'm looking for literally does not exist piracy is the only option. Very often it's out of print, and I'm only just now hearing about it, and there's nothing 2nd hand.

Sure if it's like, One Piece, I can find it. If it's something more obscure that isn't always the case. Even stuff that used to be more mainstream, like Chobits, or Sailor Moon are harder to find these days.

Piracy will fall when it's easy to get the thing you're looking for. Netflix drastically reduced movie piracy, but it's up now that we have dozens of streaming services.

Game piracy is rare with steam being the main option.

There really needs to be a change to copyright in the end. Old things that companies no longer find profitable should be in the public domain. If I want to read some obscure manga from the 90s, I should be able to find it.

I think it's important for anyone in our modern era to learn touch typing.

Phones work great and all, but if you're working in any business, and have to prep anything longer than a short paragraph, you're going to be using a keyboard.

I honestly think that touch typing should be a required class in schools for students. Even if they don't have a computer at home, they're going to have to use one at some point for their jobs.

Even for work at home folks, in every job I've had there we have to make sure agents have a working computer, with a keyboard, in order to coordinate, and also reply to people quickly. Minimum typing speeds of 35wpm are required, and I'm personally sitting around 90-100wpm.

The ones that served me the most of the years were an odd logic course on writing out formal proofs.

Sociology and different communities that required original research as part of the class along with showing work.

And finally just regular speech classes, on being able to present and go over a topic, along with project management.

Every job I've had after college consistently requires those skills in my day to day.

Other classes, like even coding, computer systems and programing helped. But the best professors often had little home work, and forced students to engage live in class, or along with the TAs. Showing your work in person, and showing you have the skills, live is worth it.

Not all of this is Firefox's fault. Google has been slowing down Firefox for years by sniffing the user agent string.

Outside of google sites, google has in a large part been quickly introducing random standards internally, rolling them out, then making them work on their sites. This of course means that Firefox "breaks" due to unannounced changes. Throw in random web designers not accounting for Firefox due to not caring, and you have a recipe for disaster.

This isn't even covering the large number of users out there who just use whatever is installed by default, and have a difficult time telling the difference between an address bar, a search bar and the google search form. Google is so common that it's become part of the language, Firefox is the nerd techie browser as a result.