festus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all surprising. ChatGPT ‘knows’ a course’s content insofar as it’s memorized the textbook and all the exam questions. Once you start asking it questions it’s never seen before (more likely for advanced topics that don’t have a billion study guides and tutorials for) it falls short, even for basic questions that’d just require a bit of additional logic.

  Mind you, memorizing everything is impressive and can get you a degree, but when tasked with a new problem never seen before ChatGPT is completely inadequate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve designed their platform so that you can outsource different aspects to different servers. So you can choose a moderator who curates your experience and that’s a different person from who hosts your data, which may be different to who sorts and determines the ‘top posts’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like Microsoft needs to further enhance the consumer experience by adding more personalized product recommendations, that’ll fix it right up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the sale agreement could require the buyer to never expand outside the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started self-hosting a bit prior to when Docker took off, and getting multiple services running was much harder. Service A wants a certain version of PHP installed with certain plugins while Service B wants a different version. You’d follow a tutorial for installing Service C and desperately hope that it wouldn’t somehow break Service A or B. You installed Service D for a bit despite all the installation pain and now want to uninstall it - I hope you tracked exactly what config changes you made throughout the system so you can undo it.

  Docker fixed all of this by making each service independent through containers which made self-hosting 10x easier. I’d also add that I love how easy it is to transfer my setup to a new server - I keep all of my container volumes in a specific directory and my docker-compose files in another and that’s all I need to backup / transfer. Without Docker you’d have to specifically handle each & every configuration file and database location, and if you later upgrade to a newer version of the OS or a different distro you’d have to handle possible conflicts between your versions and what the distro expects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With AI looming, is there still space for new coders?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes there will always be demand for coders, but will there be enough demand for the current (increasing) supply? Right now the global number of software developers is growing by about a million per year (total is only 28.7 million) - this means that (very roughly) to keep salaries stable we also need demand for new software to be growing by about 3.5% per year. I know that doesn’t sound like a lot, but a decade from now you’ll need 1.4 jobs for every job now to keep up with the supply.

  In the past we had new dynamics to get end-users to spend more and more time using computers and hence software (desktop PCs, video games, internet, mobile phones, social media, etc.). At this point there’s so little time left in a consumer’s day thay tech can grow into that I worry that any further advancements will have to cannibalize from another area; I.e. we’ve reached peak demand for software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nextcloud as a Drive replacement? Libreoffice for documents? There’s a ton of options for hosting email yourself. But IMO you’re not just paying Google (or other services) for the software but rather for them to host it for you. I use FOSS for almost everything and self-host many of my own services, but I pay a company to host my email and it’s money well spent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a lawyer, but bankruptcy laws sometimes won’t apply to criminal penaltiess / restitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with Tailscale uninstall⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI I’ve had a really good experience with using Headscale for a true open-source Tailscale experience. It helps that the Tailscale clients work with it too and that Tailscale (very unofficially) help support it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US is investigating if Boeing ensured a part that blew off a jet was made to design standards⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He sat in the middle seat and still lost his shirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a link to them? I tend to need to replace mine every couple of months and it’s infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how the Canadian law was written. Google providing a link, even with no headline or preview, would still have to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently upgraded my 12th gen Intel with a new gorgeous matte screen and the process didn’t take more than 5 minutes, despite one of my arms being in a cast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the cars are running all day long it might make sense to need another human to pick up later shifts. Still though, that ratio is way too high to be economical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Canada too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition Calls on Microsoft to Extend Windows 10 Support | PCMag⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually like 11 compared to 10 (so far as I like Windows in the first place - I only use it on my work-provided computer, Linux everywhere else). People rightly complain about the advertising and tracking for why they won’t upgrade but doesn’t 10 have that too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to setup my own home server & make it available to anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you should take baby-steps and focus first on just getting something running for you to use. Maybe first experiment with configuring an application you’d like in a virtual machine before you spend money on hardware too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortran was actually a pretty solid language, and I actually regularly use programs that still have pieces written in Fortran.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of framework and their methods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience with Linux on my Framework has been pretty good but admittedly not perfect. If you want an idea you can check out the Arch Wiki’s Framework page. Personally I think the repairability and upgradability of Framework outweighs the marginal increased Linux support you get with System76 (assuming they have no issues), but Linux isn’t as big a priority for Framework as it is for System76.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of framework and their methods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true. My previous laptop was getting up there in age but it still had probably a year or two left of casual use after I replaced the battery. Thankfully my father found a use for it with one of his projects. Now I’m eyeing Framework’s new Ryzen mainboards and thinking of upgrading despite just buying this laptop last year. Yeah I can use my old mainboard as a home server, but I’ve been doing just fine without one.

  If I do decide to upgrade, I don’t know how I’ll justify my subsequent upgrade until things stop working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop doing Computer Science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you met my boss.

  Not actually the case, but I am frustrated with them right now for not understanding the value of preventative work and R&D (I’m a Data Scientist).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tailscale + VPN possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Wireguard network setup for my devices that routes through my somewhat distant server. I find when I have both it and Tailscale open, Tailscale tries routing through Wireguard even though both devices might be on the same LAN. Unfortunately I don’t believe Tailscale has a way to forbid it from routing over other VPNs or networks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webfinger and multiple Fediverse services on a domain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for those two services in particular, but I know that Matrix will check domain.com/.well-known/matrix/server to see what (sub)domain is responsible for domain.com. I suspect other services also use .well-known too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk ‘lost’ when he had to spend the $44 billion. I can totally believe that he’s burning Twitter out of spite from having to buy it.