I see so many claims that LLMs are now at the point where they can do the job of an intermediate software developer. If that's true, who would that benefit the most? Surely, if it lives up to its promises it should help free software the most, enabling millions of kids and hobiest all over the world to just press tab until their vision materializes.

But if that were true, there's like a Fermi paradox, because where is all this software? Where's all the good new exciting things being developed?

"OpenAI Showed Up At My Door"

How OpenAI is trying to shut down its critics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOmUWd-OII

@classicweb This was the golden era of the web, when most web people figured out how to use CSS properly, and web pages looked good and were fast.

Somehow I'm still not out of fucks to give, so here's one of my largest handouts ever.

1. Fuck Trump.
2. Fuck everyone who ever supported him.
3. Fuck everyone who ever tolerated his supporters.

That is all for now.
You're welcome.

Germany makes major progress in dumping Microsoft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_bTm_yF71E

@stuartl Being 44, I've made peace with this, I keep my expenses low, and plan to transition to paid for maintenance of a few pieces of software. Relying on a day job just doesn't seem sustainable anymore. I think the people who are my age who hope to work at the same company until they're 65 have some hard realities that will hit them.

Veritasium covers the XZ backdoor in the detail that any person can understand, just as well as they do on many other topics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

@fossdd @ncopa Ah. Well might as well go all the way then. In my experience users are more forgiving of newer software with new bugs than older versions with fixed issues upstream that they have to wait for. YMMV etc :) - I'm a little curious what you end up deciding and why!

@ncopa Not sure if it's a useful datapoint for you. In Debian there was the same question for the next release, and IIRC the decision was to go for Python 3.14, but first upgrade to 3.13 as a step in between to help the transition (currently 3.13 is in unstable / 3.14 in experimental).

@zhenech Good. You didn't need that feature anyway. *ducks*

@Jyoti People who use Medium are bad people.

@reverseics hmm that seems to be 6 months off

@felix For BeOS this was one of it's famous aspects even back in the 90's on a real Pentium!

@pevinkinel Yikes.

@juliank Life is like chocolate. Or something like that.

@littlealex *cough*

@ariadne Yep, I don't know the full history either, but from the context I got in this thread, things sound fixable so I hope it goes into that direction from the Debian side so that it stops causing problems upstream and for users of the package in Debian.

@ariadne That post now walks into conspiracy theory territory there. I know Andrej personally and I think you're assuming a lot more bad faith here than he deserves.

@alienghic @bri7 LFP batteries are quite safe. As in, you can throw them into a fire and they still won't explode, or you can take a pick-axe to them and they won't catch fire. They also last 3-4 times as long.