I’d go one step further. This kind of ‘tool’ is not fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. It is actively causing a problem that didn’t exist, and doesn’t need to (along with the charlatans peddling the AI application-slop ‘services’). I’ve heard from hiring managers of people trying things like this, and it:

1. Categorically does not work, no-one is fooled
2. Results in extra barriers needing to be erected.

Ultimately, it makes an already brutal interview landscape 1000x worse, for no benefit to anyone.

Popup ads? Where are they? That’s not something I’ve heard of, but then I always use an adblocker…

I used it for years on a raspberry pi, and it was great, very easy to manage storages and different ways of sharing over a network.

If you are after a Debian based system, with an interface for file server/backups/network storage, with a (web) interface, you are pretty much describing https://www.openmediavault.org/ . Decent plugin ecosystem to set up Wireguard, as well as a web interface to set up docker based containers for anything.

This Mitchell & Webb sketch comes to mind… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY

Of course it does. This particular change may seem innocuous in itself, but the idea of compliance with ridiculous laws like this one, in one jurisdiction, being implemented in a project used globally will result in compromising everyone’s privacy/security, regardless of whether they are even subject to that law or not.

If anything, it’s more troubling for those outside the relevant jurisdiction, since we get 0 say on the laws, and have no actual reason to comply.

That makes sense. I’m generally extremely sceptical of critics, to start with, so I would not generally red flag that discrepancy (Look at the awards shows, they frequently are at odds with what is actually popular, since they are fundamentally coming at things from a different angle). But the other criteria, all taken together, do seem strong indicators, so that makes sense, which is a shame.

Personally, I was pleasantly surprised, but only because the bar of expectation was extremely low. Over all, I still don’t think it’s particularly great on the whole (although it had its moments). I just wish we could have more discourse about the things it did well/badly without it constantly falling into the woke/anti-woke nonsense, all the time. (For me, at least, ‘too woke’/‘not woke enough’ has nothing to do with its issues - they’re all about storytelling and handling of established lore/canon)

Genuine question: How do we decide when a show is being ‘review bombed’ Vs being actually just disliked? The article doesn’t really give any evidence of this claim. (To be clear, I’m not saying it’s not being, just need a little bit more than ‘I personally enjoy it, therefore the negative reviews must be bad faith’, which seems to be most of what I see).

What kind of dystopia are you living in that listening to music or podcasts would ‘raise the alarm’? Yes, don’t do anything inappropriate (definitely no piracy, obviously), or detrimental to productivity, but listening to music? Would definitely quit if an employer had a problem with that.

Is this a thing that’s considered ‘normal’ in the US? (I’m assuming US mainly because other countries are not generally so hostile towards employees)

It’s not quite the same thing. If you are ‘fired’ that’s generally to do with performance or conduct of the individual. Redundancy is about not needing (or affording) the role any more (i.e. it is redundant). There are specific legal protections for each case that work quite differently. (You cannot rehire for the same position after a redundancy, for example)

In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development

So, that is to say, they expect it to have no impact on serious work whatsoever?

Surely, if you forget it’s even running, you aren’t using it, and it doesn’t matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)

Why would you use an LLM for this? This sounds like a process easily handled by conventional logic, which would be cheaper, faster, and actually reliable… (The ‘notes’ part notwithstanding I guess, but calculations in general are definitely not a good use of an LLM)

Or use both. That’s what I do, they serve suitably different needs for different situations, even if there is an overlap, and it’s not like they’re heavy tools

Also this Voyager/Frasier crossover (skit, rather than episode) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIeEyDETaHY

Grew up on Armada and Away Team, but of those, Away Team was definitely my favourite!

More recently played Elite Force, which was also pretty dang great.

currency symbols other than the $ (kind of tells you who invented computers, doesn’t it?)

Who wants to tell the author that not everything was invented in the US? (And computers certainly weren’t)