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This says Claude was able to see the TV over wifi, remove apps and install new ones. It doesn't bode well for the security of these devices

Any policy that asks students not to use AI and trusts that they will comply is giving a massive advantage to dishonest students and punishing honest ones.

This article sounds like the professor was reprimanded by higher powers and tried to dig themselves out of a hole for having a badly structured grading system.

Students should be encouraged to use AI in their learning, because they will anyway. The understanding should be that they will be assessed in supervised environments so they need to learn the work either way. This gives the students incentive to learn without fear of using the best tools available to do so, and provides evidence to the powers that they actually did so.

Yeah my setup is pretty similar, I use a shared repo for my work laptop and home desktop. I test out new setups at home, and typically run nixpkgs-unstable there for a few weeks before migrating the work machine.

I use nixvim for generating my neovim config (and I have a flake output for running that on MacOS where I don't use nix a lot) although I've been pairing back my plugins lately as I find I'm spending less time in the editor.

Claude code/Git/NixOS is such a nice system to work with.

You can build your entire system from a worktree and merge if it works or boot the old generation if it doesn't. This is great for trialing new kernels, NixOS releases, or alternate Window managers, and rolling back is trivial.

One downside is that there is only one stable NixOS at a time, and no LTS. However in practice I haven't found this to be an issue across multiple desktops, servers and SBCs.

As a parent with kids at three different schools, help keeping track of their schedules would be amazing.

Currently updates from the schools are spread over multiple sources: paper notes, email, sms, "news" and "calendar" in school app (which are not kept in sync), and Facebook. Different schools use different apps.

Additionally the channels are often noisy, with messages about groups my kids don't belong to, and "helpful tips" like how to pack healthy lunchboxes. These notifications come in during the day while I'm working, get dismissed due to the low SNR and then the useful ones often slip through unnoticed.

Definitely an area that is ripe for disruption, but as others here have commented, I don't feel confident about Google being the provider.

I worry about the accumulating debt of maintaining all this "free" code if (once?) the subscription honeymoon ends.

Meanwhile I'm shipping tons of new features, upgrading outdated systems and delivering real value. But I do worry.

I'm waiting for the models to start responding with "Oh hi Simon!"

Language still matters because writing robust code in C requires discipline on many fronts, and LLMs will often do the minimum to get code running (as will most humans) unless prompted further. Rust protects you from some of these issues and gives you greater confidence that changes will not introduce bugs.

You can also push deployments to remote systems which is great for servers and headless devices like raspberry pis. I use colmena and deploy-rs on different projects because they have some nice features but you can also do it with bare nix.

I have a repo for kiosk appliances that can build an SD card image for a specific device in a fleet (so no on device configuration is required) but it can also push out updates or changes at runtime. NixOS isn't perfect for embedded devices yet but works well for cases like this in my experience.

What did-ger-eyes-doo?

I have older versions of litellm installed on my system - it appears to be a dependency for aider-chat (at least on NixOS)

Cue a flood of crass jokes as the bots attempt to prove their humanity

In this case though, the new driver has the same license as the project it was based on and explicitly credits the original project

  ISC License
  
  Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Broadcom Corporation
  Copyright (c) brcmfmac-freebsd contributors
  
  Based on the Linux brcmfmac driver.

How do you do it in nix?