It’s the same thing it’s always been. Since the early 2010s we’ve been using neural networks to do voice transcription. They just decided in the last five years that neural networks = AI (so they can get the investor dollars). But voice recognition is basically a solved problem, and that solution was neutral networks. Has been since the late 90s, with ANNs and then RNNs.

Same with language translation. Google Translate started using NMT in 2016.

See every update from the websites you want updates from without trusting an algorithm to surface them to you.

Well, true. But it sounds like the library didn’t own the book either, all things considered.

Exhibit A for “If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”

You can have me em dashes when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. This looks like AI for actual reasons, not meme reasons, and em dashes as a sign of LLM usage is pretty outdated at this point; most AI-brained people have their system prompts set up to tell the models not to use them.

The point of it is being able to play online with friends running the official version of the game on mobile or consoles. That means you need Bedrock Edition. If you don’t care about multiplayer or your friends all play on computer, then you should probably use Java Edition, which is natively available on Linux anyway.

Also, Pi Edition is thirteen years old and was massively hobbled from the main production version back when it was new, so if you want a free Minecraft experience, you’re better off using Luanti.

There’s a launcher for Linux that allows you to run the Android version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition. Is there a similar thing for Fortnite?

Hmmm. Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. So maybe there’s a need for a bike horn that’s super loud and that you can trigger with a finger while you’re braking.

You could probably get a ton of mileage out of an aerosol air horn, if those are available in your area.

That might well be the best thing that any government could possibly do to drive open source adoption.

With their budgets as they are, absolutely.

I work in edtech, and the current landscape is something like 55% ChromeOS, 25% iPad, 15% Windows, 5% Mac. I might have the exact percentages wrong, but I’m pretty sure about the order. The old Mac advantage from the gifted computers is basically gone, and though a lot of primary schools do give students iPads, Windows isn’t really gone gone; a lot of edtech apps are either web-based or built for Windows. You’re right about Google undercutting the market with ChromeOS, though.

The characters in the comment are “LBRY.”

You must be fun at parties.

I don’t think they know what it’s designed to stop. Seems like this is pretty clearly just a piece of conspicuous legislation passed just to make it look like they’re actually doing something.

Any such algorithm would be patched out of a jailbroken version of the firmware in minutes. 3D printers are already running on FOSS, so this is worse than useless. Anyone who wants to print a working gun will be able to do so trivially.

Honestly if they haven’t done it in the past 22 years, I’m not sure it’s ever coming. Not saying they’re a “good” corporation, just that it seems like they’ve been playing it fairly clean for a while.

Besides, Ubuntu is FOSS. If Canonical does do a rug pull, there’ll be a fork available for people to migrate from in approximately 10.3 milliseconds.

Not saying I like Ubuntu—I’m not a huge fan, honestly—just that this probably isn’t as much of a risk factor as it seems on the face of things.

I was with you at the beginning, but—

This pie alone contains 400% daily value saturated fat, which is terrible for long-term health.

A single serving only contains 40%. Not great, but not as terrible as you’re making it out to be. (And unlike a lot of packaged food, the size of a serving here is pretty reasonable.) Very few foods are good for long-term health when eaten alone, and singling out this particular one because it doesn’t fit with your specific use case weakens your argument.

They are lying about the ingredients. That’s true, and it should be noted because false advertising is terrible for consumers. Not because it’s bad for a one-meal-a-day fad diet, but because it’s bad in general for anyone who buys a product based on what is on the label.

It’s probably on the plastic wrap inside. I don’t know why they do this, but I’ve seen it happen more and more often. I like having it on the plastic, but I don’t love the fact that they take it off the box.

It definitely doesn’t. Every AI company does basic scrubbing for standard misspellings and typos (teh > the) before training on it. It doesn’t even take any extra measurable time. Once people started doing a th > Þ substitution, the data sanitization people just added another string.replace to the pipeline. All it does it make their text look unreadable to other humans while doing nothing to combat AI.