My opening prompt was: "Chat-GPT, look up the news on Venezuela, -- and then we'll keep talking."

&Chat, look up the news on Venezuela, -- and then we'll keep talking.

I talked with Chat-GPT with zero difficulty about the topic, and this is how i opened. That was within a couple hours of first learning about it the other day on the news.

And when your workmate says, "The next meeting is at quarter to three," what do you do?

Atlantic staff writer Jake Lundberg, who shops at the Granger, Indiana location, describes the stores as spaces of "cooperation, courtesy, and grown-ups mostly acting like grown-ups." Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone.

Maybe in Granger, Indiana. Every one I've visited in a major metropolitan area (whether coastal or heartland) has been a cacophony of chaos with, at best, oblivious shoppers looking at everything except where they're going and who is around them, and at worst people who actively jockey for position, rushing to pass one another, only to stop short and block the person they just passed. It's insanity, and I avoid going there as much as possible except to take someone else.

So, let's get this right: You can steal an iPhone, double click the side button and flip through the wallet contents to spend all your victim's money? Cool!

Somehow the lawyers will get the majority of the settlements.

This is bad news if the Pixels are now eSIM only.

GrapheneOS only supports pixels and many of its users prefer a permissionless SIM.

Maybe they'll add support for some other device, perhaps one of the privacy phones.

Whatâ(TM)s interesting here is that as a professional musician, this guy is a public figure and the âoeactual maliceâ standard for defamation applies â" a standard that was designed when defamation could only be done by a human being.

This requires the defendant to make a defamatory statement either (1) knowing it is untrue or (2) with reckless disregard for the truth.

Neither condition applies to the LLM itself; it has no conception of truth, only linguistic probability. But the LLM isnâ(TM)t the defendant here. Itâ(TM)s the company offering it as a service. Here the company is not even aware of the defamatory statement being made. But it is fully aware of their modelâ(TM)s capacity to hallucinate defamatory âoefactsâ.

I think that because the tort is based in the common law concept of a duty of care, we may well see the company held liable in some way for this kind of thing. But itâ(TM)s new law; it could go the other way.

I can only hope the job requirements include :

- Ability to be nearby in our data center with a large bucket of salt water ready to take action if the "safe word" is sounded.

ah, I will check out memory hole on some of my systems.

At least on 6.1 you have to be below 50% RAM usage too.

I found this in a RHEL doc that pointed to a kernel README that looked old af but said the same thing.

I have a few systems that run an app on solar during the day at 80% RAM and I had to stop the service before suspend to get it to work.

Yet it worked for a couple months in disk hibernate but then stopped and only memory sleep would work. On a Debian Bookworm stable kernel, so who the heck knows what broke (wasn't me!).

Battery usage overnight is different enough with many machines that I wish hibernate to disk worked reliably.

Anyway if I have 16GB RAM and a 36GB swap it seems bonkers to me that it is by design only working if less than 8GB of RAM is committed.

The subsystem is quite brittle and everybody seems to know.

Most package management systems require us to figure out which card we have, figure out which package supports it, and install that.

Really we wanted "install the package that supports my card".

Apparently this current problem highlights this disconnect when a package no longer does what it used to but the package system blindly updates it anyway.

Being 2025, surely somebody in the past 30 years has floated a meta package management system to handle this mapping? Or an apt plugin? Anybody here know that history?

I mean, we even have nvidia-detect for their cards to do the actual probing work.

Granted arch is rolling and rolling gonna roll, but we can have software that makes this work correctly.

Why not? That worked for the Soviet Union, didn't it? Remember Andropov?

The Dead Sea Scrolls would like a word.

The laborious, linear interface is of course another limitation of all kinds of tapes -- digital or analog. But getting rid of this also changes human behavior. People don't listen as much to long form collections; they don't even necesssarily listen to entire songs.

A mix tape is essentially a long format program manually and personally curated for you by another human being, unmediated and indeed untracked by any third corporate party. Losing the mix tape was a real cultural loss. Sure they didn't sound great, but they didn't have to.

I suppose every technological advance is potentially double edged. When people get books and literacy, verbal storytelling declines. That doesn't make books bad. the technical limitations of verbal stories -- say limited repeatbility -- are real limitations, but that doesn't mean something wasn't lost.

"Oh, okay. You don't want to be known for your body. Very well then. Just act, and we'll put an AI body that we own, over your body, which (for now) does the acting."