LLM crawlers are understandable these days, but who on earth is actively trying to take the FSF down?

A bunch of heathen VIM users trying to stop people from accessing EMACS? What the heck?

Let's say you actually managed to take down the FSF website. Who would even notice or care? How would that help your hacker rep in any way? You'd be a laughingstock for making the attempt.

The first thing I do on windows 11 is configure the task bar to put the start menu and application icons back over the left. It's stupid to default to the middle like it does but at least you can change it.

You can run explorer.exe from the task manager and that should relaunch the start menu. Just FYI.

Yes AI may be generating a lot of code now. But you need someone to find where what was generated was weak, or inefficient.

Over time the quality of generated stuff will improve, but since so many companies are generating a lot of code today that is a LOT of technical debt that is building up rapidly.

I especially agree that now is the time to round out your skills - as stated, study design, study platforms you connect to but do not develop on. Study AI tools, find out when they work for things you work on and know well - and when they do not.

Good luck out there everyone!

Or the book burnings in 1930s Germany by the Nazi party. The historical parallels with 1930s Germany and the fall of the Wiemar Republic are quite striking.

Not everything was actually repair-able in the past either. My beloved HP 48G calculator is starting to have problems after 30 years, but fixing it right is very difficult if not impossible. I think iFixit rated the HP-48 calculators as the worst they'd ever seen for repair-ability. And they've looked at a lot of products over the years. Apple looks good by comparison. Everything is plastic welded shut. If you do manage to open it (I have managed to do this without destroying anything or pealing off the metal front), you have to break every one of the plastic heat stakes. And the keyboard itself is held in by about 20 little heat stakes. For a premium product of the day they sure made the thing as cheap as they could. And that was HP of 30 years ago when they actually built quality printers.

As far as I know recipes aren't copyright-able. Plus most of them are not original creations anyway. They are variations on hundreds-of-years old recipes passed down in families. I have some sympathy for bloggers wanting to make a few pennies from advertising, but there are easier ways to get rich.

Absolutely. I even hate it that people post STLs only on sites like thingiverse. Often I find myself manually recreating the object from the STL just to have a modifiable solid to work with. It's astounding to me how many people use mesh mixers to mixup STLs. I simultaneously cringe and admire them.

Occasionally electronics component makers release STEP files with their data sheets. For things like electrical plugs this is awesome to make sure you really are getting what you think you are. And I've been known to 3D print them in a pinch to make up a quick and dirty connector.

Guess I should have just looked. There are a whole host of add-ons to quickly extract recipes from common recipe sites. I'll have to give it a try!

A hundred times this. I'd have welcomed Google's feature. Maybe there's a firefox add-on to remove the cruft and just show the recipe plus the basic instructions. If I want the cooking channel experience I'll watch the cooking channel.

If it does get made into a movie finally I don't have very high hopes. The entire story revolves around nothing but the thrill of exploration and mystery behind Rama which is left unknown in the book. Fantastic story, fantastic read. A product of the time. Not sure it would make a popular movie though. No doubt they'd have to add pointless interpersonal conflict like they did in the later Rama books, which weren't nearly as good. Also as the explanation behind Rama was revealed in the books, it was kind of a disappointment to me. I remember the first book fondly. The second and third books I hardly remember at all.

Man this Superman marketing budget must be crazy. Or possibly it's an F4 promo? But then it would be a little late.

When you combine continuing layoffs by profitable companies over the last few years, AI displacing workers, and this beautiful spending bill that cuts services to millions while codifying tax breaks for the 1% and increasing the deficit by 4 trillion, the future looks bright indeed.

They sell access to an online service that lets you mock up and prototype user interfaces, such as a phone or tablet. I assume they can also prototype desktop-type UI layouts. I think they were one of the earliest on-line, web-delivered tools of this type. Now there are quite a few others. And there are even some open source ones.