[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

But AI isn't all about generating creative works. It's a store of information that I can query - a bit like searching Google; but understands semantics, and is interactive. It can translate my own text for me - in which case all the creativity comes from me, and I use it just for its knowledge of language. Many people use it to generate boilerplate code, which is pretty generic and wouldn't usually be subject to copyright.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, that's good to know. I have had issues with files just wouldn't "open" - even with the old behavior - and could never figure out why.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

It's not. This can be edited directly in settings from General > Applications.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What do you mean thousands at a very gradual rate? I don't think I've sent 1000 emails offer the last year. And even if some people send more, I can't imagine it would be at a pace where that becomes a problem (at least if it's for personal use)...

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, for starters:

  1. Platforms. I don't believe that the people who create, or invest in, large internet platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Uber, Booking, Upwork, etc, have a natural or moral right of ownership to said platform. They should certainly receive returns on their investment - but they shouldn't have full operational control. Instead, as the platofrm grows, operational control should slowly transition to its users. eventually, they should have the final say on, in the case of YouTube. what content in acceptable, what procedures should be used to remove unacceptable content, how to appeal, etc.
  2. Employment. One of the big issues I see is that employees are under someone's direct control for 1/3 of each day, and have to do what their boss says. And while they technically consented to that relationship, I don't see that consent as freely given, because for most people there isn't a viable alternative. This could be done through more worker cooperative, or encouraging freelancing. Even for people who decide to remain in traditional employment, they should have more official control than they do now.
  3. AI. It seems many people here hate AI, but AI does have the potential for large productivity gains. And while, in the past, productivity gains have note resulted in less work, but rather higher GDP, we could always force the issue. After all, people did it ~100 years ago, and the economy didn't collapse because of that.
[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Actually, it is already able to perform high quality translation. But it's too expensive right now to use at scale.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do you think the use of OCI containers/images is a mistake/bad choice from blendOS?

No. It's probably the best way to run packages from Arch, Debian. Ubuntu, Fedora, and others, all on the same system.

How is NixOS different?

NixOS simply doesn't tackle that problem, so it doesn't come with containers out of the box. If you want to run packages from other distros on NixOS, you'd probably need to manually configure the containers.

I feel like you're under the impression that the three distros, NixSO, blendos, and Vanilla OS, have similar goals. I don't know about Vanilla OS, but the main similarity between the other two is that they're both non-standard in some way.

But they're actually solving completely different problems: BlendOS wants to be a blend of different OSes, NixOS wants to have a reproducible, declarative configuration (declarative here means, you don't list a bunch of steps to reach your system state, but instead declare what that state is).

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reading this text, it looks kinda like the difference between red (#FF0000) apples, red (#FF0001) apples, and red (#FF0100) apples...

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I use NixOS for very similar reasons. And also, because I like my full configuration in one place.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox supports a master password to encrypt them with

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

People keep repeating this. But I've never really heard s good reason for why a separate password manager is any more secure.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You could apply patches or change the build process. But there are some limitations to ensure reproducible builds. For example, compiler optimizations that break reproducibility are disabled.

I think you could disable build reproducibility to get rid of those limitations, but I haven't tried it.

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