Totally agreed. I never used Twitter. I tried in earnest to use Mastodon for a couple years, because I wanted it to to succeed, just kind of ideologically.

Eventually I realized that the whole concept of "microblogging" is just fundamentally awful. (At least for me)

The search term is censored by DuckDuckGo in Korea. Even robots apparently think it's going to be an IoT buttplug.

Ah thanks for that! You can tell how long it's been since I've used Mac OS.

Last I checked, Signal still hasn't fixed their giant UX problem, which is that when you first install the app, it announces you to other Signal users on your contact list. This makes it completely unusable for anybody who actually needs, you know, a secure messenger (like a domestic abuse victim).

I mean I use Signal every day and I love it. But it irks me that they're like "Oh we're super secure. Unless you're trying to get help from your abusive husband, in which case, guess what, we just snitched on you to your abusive husband! Good luck with that!"

I think for most people they won't care either way.

Some people do legitimately occasionally need to poke around in GRUB before loading the kernel. Setting up certain kernel parameters or looking for something on the filesystem or something like that. For those people, booting directly into the kernel means your ability to "poke around" is now limited by how nice your motherboard's firmware is. But even for those people, they should always at least have the option of setting up a 2-stage boot.

I'm curious about auto-regressive token prediction vs planning. The article just very briefly mentions "planning" and then never explains what it is. As someone who's not in this area, what's the definition/mechanism of "planning" here?

Seriously, my thought was "I have friends who have Soundclouds that sound worse than this". But I don't call my friends' music "just brutal" or "dreadful in every way".

Thank you!!

It definitely could scale up. The question is who is willing to scale it up? It takes a lot less manpower, a lot less investment, and a lot less time to design a low-power core, which is why those have come to market first. Eventually someone's going to make a beast of a RISC-V core, though.

No, it's considerably more safe than that. Unless the .deb has been cryptographically signed by the Debian maintainers, it won't install, no matter where you download it from.

For this reason, apt intentionally did not support any secure protocols (such as https) until just a few years ago. There's no point to downloading it securely or from a trusted source: all the security is in the signature verification. (And insecure protocols like http are usually easier to cache/proxy)

Yeah thanks for the COVID-19 there, buddy.

Don't come to Korea. Every banking transaction requires you to punch in your PIN at least twice with a randomized numpad. Well actually it's a 4x3 numpad with 2 spaces randomly inserted into it.