(Pulling my pants up so the belt is at chest level)

Back in my day, when my daughter was a kid, it was easier to keep tabs on what she was doing and who she was talking to. There were no iPads or smartphones. Our single computer was in the living room, so it was easy to keep tabs on what she was doing. ...Although half the time she wanted me helping her with whatever she was doing anyway. I got pretty good at those Disney games like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.

Well, the humans who are doing the laying off are themselves "blaming" AI, so...

They probably wanted a scripting language that wasn't a total dog when it comes to speed.

Microsoft's apps were bloated pigs long before Electron was a thing. I'm old enough to remember hearing these sorts of complaints regarding Office 2000... and even earlier.

"You don't really need to take pictures anyway - let our AI create any image you want!"

I'm glad Rivian won, even though I'm unlikely to spend that kind of money on a car.

I've bought multiple cars over the past several decades. Buying cars from a dealership SUCKS. The only halfway-decent buying experience I've ever had was with CarMax.

... then that project is really can't be described as open source anymore.

Screw the solar-panel-deploying robots... it sounds like what we really need are Dyson-sphere-building robots!

This doesn't seem like particularly new tech, just a tweak on what the automotive industry has been using for several dacades. I'd also be curious if that "twice as fast" calculation takes into account the time necessary for setting up the necessary rails etc. required for the Maximo robots to operate.

Sam Altman is a big Steve Miller fan.

Ah, yes, fiddling around with NDISWrapper. Nowadays NDIS is our national disability insurance scheme...

Back in the dialup era, I had a 'soft' modem that only worked with a particular kernel.

But today, I battle with DVI over USB with DisplayLink.

Just reading that - "ChatGPT's Erotic Mode" - felt slimy and gross.

This is another 404 Media pay-for-placement post here on Slashdot. They're pretty much all low-quality hide-your-blogpost-behind-a-paywall drivel.

I think one of the problems Asahi runs into is that macOS can already be used for almost everything a Linux box can be used for - so it's harder to get excited about working on it.

My work-provided laptop is an M3 MacBook Air. I use it to admin ~ 100 Linux servers and workstations, and I can't say I've yet run into a situation where I said "darn it, that apparently doesn't work on a Mac". There are some command-line switches that are different between the two, but I think that mostly comes down to the difference between BSD vs. Mac. And I can (and do) install the Gnu tools.

The families of the dead servicemen and servicewomen are certainly crying, although if you asked them I don't know that they'd mention "winning" as a reason for it.