I care because the last update to my pixel 7 and Google Fi completely FUCKED the contacts pane in the phone app. It no longer shows a list of all your contacts on the phone app "home" screen, just recent calls. Nor does the CONTACTS TAB show you all of your contacts, only contacts with a recent call / text history.

Nope, right under the fucking tabs is a small "view contacts" button oh so conveniently placed that you can fat finger hit the tabs buttons when going for it. So convenient, why would you want to see your full contact list when looking at the contacts tab...

It's almost as convenient as having biometrics that randomly force you to put in your PIN to unlock the phone every day or two. Because I guess your face / fingerprint isn't good enough to unlock your god damn phone THAT particular time.

>Your theoretical Debian distro might be fine for general purpose use, but there may be people who want a distro for games, or a wide range of hardware compatibility.

So your installer installs a custom compiled and signed kernel, proton packages, and whatever else needed for gaming on the base install? Just like every full distro does for updates... You know you can have multiple kernels and have them be selectable - with one default selected through grub-setup - at boot time, yes?

>and a distro bundled with certain desktop GUIs and applications.

That's what package managers are for. You don't NEED to install some super special distro just to install "supercleandestop" which is a meta package that just install all the crap it needs to run, including the actual packages that install the desktop. You could even have it set up as a task in Debian based systems so users can install it with tasksel. I don't know WHY you would want to do that, as just installing the metapackage is 10,000X easier, but you could. Especially since versioning is ( fairly ) clean in Linux, and you can have multiple versions of the same library installed if needed.

>there is no one way that would make everyone happy - no matter what changes you add on top of it.

As a matter of fact, especially for 99% of the people making the specialized desktop / workstation / specialized for X distros, having a standard base to install on to would cut down on their work SIGNIFICANTLY, allowing them to work more on the special bits they want to have people use. No more need to repeat work over and over again compiling and making ISO's that are 99% identical to every other ISO out there. Just make sure your package is compatible the the ONE base version, and it can go into basically any repository and be used. As an added bonus, they wouldn't have to compile different versions for different distros that have differing package names / version numbers either. Anyone could build a SINGLE PACKAGE that will run on a specific version number of the base.

That's what Snap / Flatpack / Appimage are trying to do for devs, but it comes with extra costs compared to bare metal running your program.

Ahh yes, "Stupid Opinion". People don't want to think the same way as you so they must be stupid, right?

Or the fact that electric doesn't cut it for a BUNCH of people. Mostly for those of us who actually WORK in our daily lives. And know what a "tow" receiver is, and not a "toe hitch". Or even those of us who DO actually tow things more than once a year. Amazing how many trailers you see behind people when your head isn't up your own ass.

But yeah, let me just buy something like 4-5 more trucks to always have enough charge when towing stuff around farms all day. Then I can have three on charge, one in use, and one on standby when the one in use towing 5-10K pounds around between farms runs out of range in 80 miles. Or construction site. Or non-route delivery.

There's a very good reason why most farm work is done with diesel pickups, or at least gas pickups that are older than dirt and easily replaceable. Can't afford the downtime on a farm, and it takes five minutes to swap out a dead ICE for a non-broken spare that's parked out in a field for most of its retirement.

Guess I should be required to buy an electric, and perma lease an ICE - everyone LOVES those subscription models these days right? Nah, miss me with that crap.

Same way humans get ingested. A lot of air moving will vacuum anything it can lift. Happened, AGAIN, a few years ago.

https://www.aviationpros.com/a...

>bitching about a working fusion reactor specifically designed to make specific isotopes instead of power for your permanently attached phone that you are addicted to

What's next, gonna complain that your bulldozer isn't winning the indy500?

It's even worse than that. They are talking about risk chances. It's literally clickbait, and I'm not convinced the journalists these days even understand how they are fucking up and misleading. It may actually be stupidity and not malice...

So say it IS an 11 percent risk increase for X. Eating that occasional hot dog then makes your original risk for X increase BY 11% not an 11% risk.

Say for the heart attack: at your age group lets just say your baseline risk is 0.35% of you having a heart attack and kicking the bucket per year. Increase that original 0.35% by 11% and you get.... a 0.388% chance.

Pretty sure a delicious belly burner every once in a while is worth a whole lot more than the 0.03% higher chance of you blowing a heart valve at 60.

Let's see:

Hmm. All of them. They require the user to have more than two brain cells to rub together to spark a thought, but there are tons of options. Some are integrated to Desktops / Package Managers and can be turned on to do automatic work too.

1: BTRFS / ZFS snapshots.
2: DD images
3: Simple tarballs
4: Haven't found a non-embedded Linux yet that doesn't support disk / partition cloning software, especially sparse file disk cloning so you clone only the actual data.
5: Did I mention FS snapshots yet? They are made specifically for this. And some are Enterprise Ready level of support.
6: Some package managers can be set up to be able to revert changes to pre update / install states too.

Any / all of these ways can be used with ANY age. Haven't changed much on that ZFS cold storage volume that you just fat fingered changing the permissions on? Who the fuck cares if the snapshot is 180 days old? Take a new snapshot, restore the old snapshot, and compare file differences sorted by something other than the fucked up perms... It's not rocket surgery.

Or store a snapshot just before you do any major changes like perms. Then it's an easy rollback to 5 mins ago. But you still have the option to use the 180 day old snapshot too.

Funny, haven't seen an ad in 11 Pro. Same install since I got and tossed new parts in this PC... just after 11 came out. I can also turn updates completely off, or to only notify me when they are available. Kind of like I have absolute control over the "hidden" settings. Like GPE. Or the Registry.

It's almost like the "I'm a cheap bastard and buy the absolute cheapest shit I can" (maybe, haven't seen it myself in Home on my dads laptop I have to admin), and "free" versions get ads.

URL and QR code that takes you somewhere remotely relevant? I wish. Shit sold "Solar Ready", with QR codes that take you to the manufacturers site to try and sell you their Solar Garbage, but you only get the wiring and install instruction if you buy THEIR overpriced garbage. Otherwise fuck you, plebian, figure it out yourself. Just give me a fucking PDF of the wiring you pre-dropped for fucks sake, I ALREADY gave you money, and you already spent the fucking time and wires...

The "owners manual" of a brand new camper I had to work on recently was more than useless. Practically anything you looked up didn't have any actual information, it was just a list of the 6 or so manufacturers that could be installed in YOUR particular camper - with the caveat that it could also be something not listed. And better hope they remembered to toss the paperwork into the messy drawer full of crap. Not that the paperwork actually told you anything, but...

Then the "inverted outlets" that were all labeled really nicely and literally say "inverter powered outlet" that they don't tell you is only actually inverted if you buy an inverter and install it. Not even in the owners manual. The manual literally says the outlets are inverted, but NONE of the damn things come from the factory with an inverter.

At least they could toss the damn manual in anything they built, it could probably cover every damn model since it didn't even remotely focus on one.

LLM's also aren't the only AI. They just so happen to be the most PUBLICLY KNOWN forms of current AI. And LLM's are specifically designed that they aren't going for direct intelligence. Some are building their own interesting internal "views" of what is is happening, but those are side effects of what they were designed to do.

There are tons of other trained Neural Networks that aren't directly public facing that are completely different. Like the medical imaging AI that is better than most doctors at reading X-rays.

And yes, they've found some issues with the training, sometimes from lack of data, sometimes from some unthought of other tells in the data. But who here can write a first draft so well that it can be submitted as a final draft with zero changes? No one, that's who.

What most people can't seem to wrap their heads around is the difference between AI, which just shows decision making intelligence, and AGI which will show GENERAL ( AKA "thinking" ) intelligence.

>But we want reports that are valuable, coherent and that actually tell us what's wrong so we csn fix it

You don't get that now 98% of the time. It's going to be difficult for the AI reports to be WORSE than almost all of the reports I've had to read through on the projects I follow.

It's just plain fact that the vast majority of bug reports suck ass, even from the users that bother to report shit back instead of just saying "it dun werk, this thing sucks" and use something else. If AI can help guide / ask questions about the issue / put everything together coherently, it can only help.

Jesus fucking christ...

Devs whine that users don't fill out bug reports with enough info. Some are downright hostile to the people ATTEMPTING to fill out reports properly, even who ask how to even get the info that would help the devs out.

Devs ALSO whine "we are anti-AI... for uh reasons" like the Thailand meme guy, even though it's designed to, oh I don't know, get the fucking information the fuckers need for a good bug report. Or at least present the information better than bubba's basic "It dun werk" filled out 50 times in the mandatory reporting template.

I mean god damn, this is one of the things that AI is a perfect fit for doing - taking the average moron, and making them intelligible in a useful way to people much smarter than them.

>for that you would have to claim that the LLM has personhood (and some other things).

If corporations have fucking personhood, so should the LLM owned by them.

>But those exceptions exist, and any speech carries the burden of respecting those restrictions. How does an LLM do that?

That is what the judge should have said in the ruling. Hmmmmm. Kinda absent in the sources I've seen so far. I'm not going to be bothered enough to read the actual court documents though.

>It doesn't matter, software does not have personhood. "Speech" as it was used, means "protected speech". LLM produce token sequences in response to input token sequences, that is not protected speech.

And you produce drivel in response to comments on every story on slashdot. Guess that addendum they have of all comments being the property of the commenter shouldn't apply eh?

"Maybe, possibly, could", there is also a chance that slashdot will post something that isn't a dupe and is also edited properly by the end of 2025. Doubtful, but it could happen.

It's the same old farts saying the same old shit as before.

"The typewriter is killing penmanship, letters and words now have no soul and feeling to them."

"Word processors are making people dumber, at least with a typewriter you had to think about what you wanted to say because you can't just delete whole sentences or paragraphs."

"Digital artwork is is killing REAL art like painting since you can just undo brush strokes."

"Digital photography is soulless and takes away from the REAL skill of setting every little thing on your camera and these youngster won't even know how to use a darkroom."

"Post processing digital camera pictures is cheating since you can push the image even further from what was really there than by using filters and specific films, or darkroom manipulations."

And that's just shit from the last 100-150 years. Knowing humans, Ug and Grog were probably bitching about those young caveman kids using that new fangled wheel thing, as they are now lazy and won't be as strong if they don't have to actually CARRY anything...