Tim

Do they actually teach Geography in US schools? Or were you homeschooled?

Clue: If I chose to “pop over” to Paris for lunch, it would be a 22 hour drive with no breaks, or more plausibly, a 3 hour flight. I have done it by train, but that’s still a couple of overnight trains (one night to Vienna, one more to say Frankfurt or Brussels, and then a few more hours on to Paris.)

What you’re really whining about is “we surrendered all power to an electoral system that concentrates all the power somewhere thousands of miles away, and in the hands of a man elected by something so far from democracy it’s laughable”. Which is very much on you, not geography.

Yep, I set mine up last weekend.

Used a nice Racknex rackmount kit to put a Raspberry Pi with SDR in the rack, and a little LCD display on the front that cycles through the details of aircraft currently in range - so it also serves the important purpose of Blinkenlights.

I’m fortunate to live close to two international airports (one small, one big) and under a reasonably busy flight corridor as well, so plenty of planes to spot - light aircraft, helicopters and military all the way up to A380s.

Quite; I just set a (locally hosted) LLM off writing the tickets for implementing all the opcodes in a simple device emulator, based on grovelling through datasheets and documentation. Whether the tickets get implemented by an AI or a human, it’s a timesaver having the AI do it, and the tickets will be better written than I would have done.

Everyone railing against this also overlooks the reality of professional software development: professional software is developed 5% by skilled, trained Software Engineers, and 95% by code monkeys who shotgun copypasta from Stack Overflow until it works. Even if we extremely generously assume that the hardcore “never use AI” Lemmy brigade are in the 5% (and not, more likely the 95% drowning in their own Dunning Kruger,) the “but AIs produce unreadable code and make mistakes” threat isn’t putting off anyone who’s ever actually had to hire a significantly sized development team.

Upvoting mainly for the exotic sight of a diaeresis outside the New Yorker.

A definite touch of class. Bravo.

You can subnet logically with IPv4.

If you go IPv6 on the internal network you ‘win’ not having NAT, and exposing all your intrrnal services to the net (which… just why?), but lose the ability to do redundant ISPs/failover/loadbalancing, policy based routing, VPNs… Unless you do IPv6 address translation. Which puts you back to “IPv4+NAT, except more complicated.”

IPv6 inside the firewall is more or less entirely pointless.

I wouldn’t have an objection to paying them for that.

I did object them to them trying to charge me to stream from my server to my TV in the same house without touching any of Plex’s infrastructure at all, because their license-check is too dumb to understand some of us use things like “subnets”. (I objected even more that their “support” teams are evidently staffed by obnoxious jerks trained only to say “give us money”.)

Fortunately I found the switch to Jellyfin incredibly easy, and so far it’s actually been more reliable than Plex ever was.

Samsung launched DeX almost a decade ago (and it is genuinely useful, I use my tablet from time to time as a laptop replacement when I really want to travel light.)

Android finally came up with a desktop mode, what, a month ago?

One of the problems the anti-AI crowd have with protrsting this use case is that they don’t seem to appreciate that the enshittification happened long before AI.

Actual Software Engineers make up about 5% of the profession, the other 95% have been turning out slop that they don’t even understand themselves for years. In that environment, an AI that does the same but at least doesn’t complain when asked to do rework doesn’t seem so bad.

You really needed a better CS professor.

If you’re writing code that you don’t understand without treating it like a goddamned microbe in a petri dish, you are the slop coder.

I was contributing to Open Source almost certainly before you were born, so wind your neck in kid. But, even if we suppose you are right and the GPL somehow restricts the use of licensed works for AI training (although a quick refresh on the license shows no evidence that it does) - while GPL fanatics make the most noise, it is absolutely not the most popular open source license.

GPL variants covers roughly 20% of the licensed work on Github. The vast majority of such work is permissive open-source licensed, with the MIT license covering almost 50% alone. That’s because the vast majority of open source contributors are not in fact wannabe Citizen Smiths, but rather people who want, without restriction, to contribute to the advancement of computing.

Have you ever read an open source license? They gave away those rights, voluntarily.

If you have evidence that AI is being trained on world licensed to the contrary then by all means get exercised about those “workers” rights (right on, man,) but given the vast quantities of code released under permissive open source licenses, it’s not going to change anything.

How is it “stealing” if it’s open source?

I have sympathy with artists, authors and the like whose work was taken to train AIs. But software engineering - nah. We gave the training data away for free, neatly catalogued in bitesize chunks with explanations for every change - we don’t get to call “take backsies” now.

That seems unlikely; trust me, there are services running behind Cloudflare tunnels that are doing more requests per second than whatever you’re hosting does in a year.

The only times I’ve had performance problems with Cloudflare tunnels it’s been intermediate network kit that didn’t like IPv6 or didn’t like QUIC (or both). You can try disabling both in cloudflared to diagnose (at least, you used to be able to disable them/switch to HTTP/2+IPv4, it’s been a very long time since I’ve needed to so I’m just assuming it’s still an option.)

Thanks! (And I should say, it was a genuine question :-)). I’ll take a look at them; I don’t listen to any Spotify exclusives (yay!), but there are one or two that I subscribe to their supporter schemes and at the moment I do that through Spotify. I guess that’s my next task, work out if there’s a way to subscribe directly and use something like Antennapod.

New workers’-day-weekend project dropped…

Hmm. Sadly not available in my country yet (and while I’m sure I could pull some shenanigans to subscribe with a foreign address, I’m going to assume that also means none of our local music labels will be covered, so that’s a non starter.)

I’ll keep an eye on it. But in the meantime, I also gather it doesn’t do podcasts - anyone have any recommendations on where I could be migrating podcasts, from Spotify? Non-US companies only (which for avoidance of doubt, absolutely definitely excludes Apple).

Where are you getting that from? That’s not the case at all.

The New Yorker is still good for long-form journalism, if you’ve never given it a try it’s worth a look.

Did you miss the “of” part? Because that’s more or less exactly what OnlyFans is. (Ok, maybe it has better environmental credentials…)

This isn’t an AI story, it’s a “completely fucking idiotic sysadmins exist” story.

Treat an AI like the idiot intern without any references you just hired. Gave the idiot intern permission to delete your production database? That’s entirely on you, zero sympathy. (Actually, give any developer that power? You get what you deserve.)

Honestly, China is amazing, and well worth visiting (not just Shanghai though, which is far too westernized.) Fantastic people, too.

You wouldn’t get me in the US again at gunpoint, though.