Even Debian has popcon as an opt in. I can see why collecting data about hardware and package choices is useful to Ubuntu. I didn’t think they collected any personally identifying information.

I also have a diverter which heats up my hot water tank which saves on gas, especially in the summer.

Export to the grid, for every kWh I export during the day I can afford two kWh overnight.

If it’s finding valid vulnerabilities then it’s just another tool like static analysis, fuzzers and sanitizers. There definitely seems to be a difference in quality compared to earlier generations that were behind the sloppy avalanch of reports.

Funny 😂

I think the article is over complicating things. I work in a project which is heavily forked for a variety of reasons. While it’s academically interesting to look at the reasons for those downstream forks we have no interest in going to the considerable effort of tracking them all.

If you can take a project and use an LLM to enable your niche use case then more power to you. FLOSS was never about ensuring all patches flow upstream.

They don’t have to be. They know what they asked the LLM to do. They know how much they adapted the output. You usually have to work to get the models to spit out significant chunks of memorised text.

No, that’s why the author asserts that with their signed-of-by. It’s what I do if I use any LLM content as the basis of my patches.

If the 2-10% is just boilerplate syscall number defines or trivial MIN/MAX macros then it’s just the common way to do things.

If you are using MakeMKV when ripping you can override the filename template. So I name them for example “Show s01e04+” based on the disc I’m ripping. Then once encoded it’s relatively quick to rename the files with the full episode number. I personally use dired in Emacs because a macro makes short work of the renaming but I’m sure other solutions are possible.

My Bravia experience improved markedly when I replaced Sony’s default home screen with the Projecivity Launcher.

My kids are growing up in this environment and they already have an eye for ai slop. I suspect it’s the same thing that led to OpenAI’s TikSlop “product” is getting canned. After society had gotten over the sugar rush excitement of new and shiny toys I suspect the interest will fade and people will crave the connection you get from real art made by real people.

At least I hope that is what will happen. We might have to do something to hold the tech companies accountable for their dopamine trigger machines though.

Where are you seeing the 2-10% figure?

In my experience code generation is most affected by the local context (i.e. the codebase you are working on). On top of that a lot of code is purely mechanical - code generally has to have a degree of novelty to be protected by copyright.

They don’t, just like they don’t with human submitted stuff. The point of the Signed-off-by is the author attests they have the rights to submit the code.

Isn’t that like the extract opposite of what everyone wants which is free flowing shipping?

I started this article expecting the nostalgia of dealing with bit planes, dealing with masks and pre-shifiting assets. I guess sprite routines have moved on somewhat since my day. Even for 2d you are dealing with a shader GPU pipeline it seems.

Interesting stuff.

I guess it depends on how many of the newly minted green voters have moved across because they have carefully read their policy offering and how many just wanted to vote not-Labour because they were unhappy (i.e. protesting) with the government. Things will become clearer next month and finally at the next general election.

Energy efficiency is great but we still need to get the power from our new shiny off-shore wind farms to where the population centres are. The original grid was very much designed to radiate power from the big generators which are more central (modulo the nuclear generators which tend to be coastal).

The problem with all protest parties is it’s easy to oppose things but governing is about making hard choices. UKIP made progress in the polls until they got the Brexit they were after but haven’t exactly been able to point to the benefits since. We are seeing Reform suffer the same when they realise there aren’t piles of “woke” projects to DOGE away to fund local councils.

I’m sympathetic to the core Green mission but opposing the expansion of the grid we need to supply renewables is peek contraianism.

It’s not entirely unexpected, all the AI companies have been heavily subsidising inference to get customers.

I don’t use Codex but I’ve been experimenting with ECA and I can track my token API costs across Gemini and Anthropic. I’m mostly using Gemini and a heavy days usage would be £1.50 in API costs and I’m certainly not doing that every day. I have to wonder if these Codex users are conscious of how many tokens they are burning underneath or just YOLOing everything until the computer says no?

ECA allows you to mix and match models to sub-agents and I could certainly see me offloading some tasks like code exploration to a locally hosted models and saving the expensive reasoning tokens for planning.

I didn’t say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.