I often see Copilot get stuck in a nonresponsive shell after it used cat > file. It’s hilarious to watch the first time, but I’m a bit tired of it by now. Why doesn’t it just edit files like it normally does?

These are matters of morality. Don’t run such a deeply immoral government if you can’t handle criticism.

For now, the EU has strong data protection laws that the US and China don’t have. Although it is true that stupid ideas like Chat Control keep popping up every couple of years.

Ideally, though, you put them in countries close to the EU but not part of it, like Switzerland.

Makes sense. Never pay through Apple if there’s any other option. Can’t fault Google for that.

But even then, $16 per month for Youtube!? An adblocker is cheaper.

“It’s making too many errors. Make it smarter.”

People have coded Minecraft in Minecraft.

The Trump regime loves to be sued by its supporters and then hand out juicy settlement. It’s blatant corruption, but because it’s going through the courts, I doubt it’s possible to undo and punish it.

Or they’ll make apis shittier because they don’t want AI using it.

However, Copilot has made it a lot easier to navigate through Azure’s incomprehensible menu structure.

As long as he opposes genocide. That’s good enough for me. (And it’s ridiculous that that’s where the bar is.)

They campaigned against Biss and I think he said he wants conditions on aid to Israel (which is currently unconditional).

This is not a win in any way for AIPAC, but the loss would have been bigger if Kat had won, which she nearly did, so I guess that’s something?

The signature of the president of the treasury that has always been on the bills had nothing to do with vanity, but with the president of the bank issuing the money guaranteeing the value of the money.

But who is going to trust the value of money guaranteed by Donald Trump?

I remember wondering as a kid why those plugs needed to be screwed in like that. It seemed ridiculously overengineered.

It already has fields for personal information, though, and they’re every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they’re all optional, and you don’t have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.

But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.

Governments and banks love this, but I’ve even seen it with phone companies with e-sims. I quickly needed a new phone subscription, so I considered an e-sim, because I figured you could activate it by scanning the QR code from the screen. But no, they will mail me a piece of plastic with the QR code on it. So I went with a regular sim instead.

Exactly. And that’s the part that worries me most: I’m seeing people investigating the guy, shaming him (he wrote a blog about using Claude to write a game in 90 minutes, so clearly he must be evil /s), and the article above is written in such a way to insinuate all sorts of nefarious goings on, but everything I see suggests this is just normal procedure.

I really feat this is going to hurt the community and chase good developers away.

Exactly. There’s a massive thread on Mastodon where everybody is panicking about this, but it’s a nothing burger if ever there was one.

Sure, the timing and comments suggest it’s meant for legal compliance, but if that’s what it does, it does it by keeping full control in the hands of the user, where it should be.

Linux has similar fields for realName, emailAddress, location, timezone and more. But like birthdate, I think they’re all optional.

Was Linux ever used for massive multiuser systems? I thought it had always been primarily home use and internet servers. I think big multiuser systems went out of fashion with Solaris. Well, I suppose corporate workstations need user accounts where some of these are set.

Only in California and Brazil. And I suspect neither has a shortage of people able to add this field.

And yet, the most used OS in the world doesn’t clear it.

What it was before was still not good. Although tools like git-bash alleviated the pain a bit.