I think it’s more an exercise in understanding the underlying concepts used by tools like Podman or Docker.

I bet this is done with inodes. Deleted files aren’t truely deleted until nothing has it open and its inode gets dropped. Like ARC for files.

You can also do interesting things like overwrite a “file” (as in a specific filesystem path) with new contents while keeping anything that already has the file open on the old contents by unlinking the old inode to the path and writing the new contents under a new inode. I believe mv does this. The kind of lesser known feature that probably strikes a good balance between preventing super annoying silent errors/corruption and causing them.

Relevant Kevin Fang video

Probably for exclucivity or something.

Similar to stories of orchid pickers way back when destroying the habitats afterward for exclusivity.

Just make the midlife crisis white tourists go back up and clean up after themselves /s

“Sorry, my fat American fingers accidentally entered the wrong code, you understand.”

Us living so rent free in your head that you’ll talk about us in other instances isn’t the own you think it is rofls

Also, great! You don’t need us then, so go ahead and block us.

The resale market is precisely what they want to kill. Can’t sell a game twice if one copy can be played by two people. Can’t profit from nostalgia with a retro re-release (that will inevitably be shittier than the original) if the original retro game can still be played.

Yet even this nearly pointless action is still infinitely more than you will ever accomplish for your civil rights.

Well you and the subject of this post are the side supposedly against “all” censorship aren’t you? Or was that just a motto when convenient?

Also we don’t give a shit if we get censored by other instances or users, and we censor in return. Agree or disagree I think our logic around censoring/getting censored is mostly consistent here. Go ahead and block us, go ahead and get your instance and client to block us, you won’t. Because then you wouldn’t be able to fulfill your daily “hurr durr .ml hurr durr tankie” quota.

Probably people who thought they could make an app with AI, realised it’s not possible to make good software without actually learning how software is made, and never opened Cursor or whatever again.

Don’t know about “fun again” but definitely a lot less nervewracking and paranoia inducing.

Fair enough, I apologise for jumping to conclusions then.

Why is buttonless a selling point?

Not trying to be snarky, genuinely wondering.

You can run a local LLM capable of assisting in software development for less energy than running a AAA video game. I’m not denying the environmental impact of the current AI landscape, but I kind of disagree that it’s intrinsic to LLMs as a whole, I think it’s more a symptom of capitalism and its disregard for sustainability causing everything it touches to have a high environmental cost.

Also, nearly all modern computing has high environmental costs, certainly all cloud computing. I think instead of focusing on AI only, it would be more helpful to engage in a broader discussion on how computing can be made more energy efficient as a whole, and do proper cost benefit analysis of all things we use computers for, including but not limited to LLMs. We may well still conclude from that process that we need to stop using LLMs, in which case we should.

If you’re against LLM use on environmental grounds (which I’m not disagreeing with), I submit to you that we should take the idea even further and things like gaming, video streaming, high frequency trading, social media, and any other nonessential computing should be on the same chopping block for the same reason. Applications of computing that we also use at scale with high environmental impacts, but that have been normalised and practically seen as a right by many of the same people against any amount of AI use (not saying that’s you, speaking generally). Why should AI be the only thing we raise concerns about if we’re to raise concerns? Doing environmental protection piecemeal by independently targeting single things and not the entire system has been shown time and time again to not work at best and make it worse at worst.

TL;DR

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Is there any way to build Android apps for Linux if you have the source code? I know Waydroid is a thing but that’s basically just a VM of Android. I was told Jetpack compose is supposed to be cross platform so there should be a way migrate it right?

China is good at compressing the existing models by stealing the answers they give you to make models that have equivalent performance that are way cheaper (plagiarism)

Lol plagerism is when they take your shitty product and actually make it better apparently. Begs the question why China manages to succeed at this when Western companies that own the original product can’t. You’d think they’d always be one step ahead of those damn plagerising Chinese scum or at least would be able to do the exact same thing China does.

Also if you’re calling plagerism on this I’m calling plagerism on all of AI. You can’t accept any generative AI while simultaneously pearl clutching when someone else plagerises your country’s AI. So pick one. Either we ban all AI for plagerising all of humanity or we don’t give a shit when one AI company plagerises another.

You can always make Boeing optional

It’s morally correct

Technically valid but extremely rich coming from a US state of all places.

https://iowaspulse.com/iowa-flock-license-plate-cameras-privacy/

Safe to say they’re not against spying in general.

If you’re an average American, the spying Iowa allows and embraces put you in far graver danger than spying by China who doesn’t give a shit about you or what you have to say about them. America, as we’ve seen, cares slightly more about what Americans say than China does.

I’d stay clear of Temu mainly because it’s a shitty platform replete with blatant scams and you risk losing your money. Go to an actually reputable Chinese site if you want to buy from one, or don’t if you don’t.

Also don’t buy cloud/app enabled cameras if you give a shit about privacy. From anywhere, period, because doing so guarantees you’ll be spied on by someone, China or otherwise. Roll your own local network camera system or get ones that only record to local storage with no smart features.

Incidentally, I must also be paid to use Windows.

I’ll gladly wait for the Node.js start menu to render on company time 👍