llarsson

I've read several threads about how cigarettes are making a comeback because it's perceived as more natural or less chemical than vapes. If you care about facts at all you will find it completely wrong and intensely stupid, of course, but you just never know how people will react and then counter-react.

The ability to sandbox Google Play Services (if you need it, but realistically, you probably do) and to simply not assign it more permissions than it absolutely needs is awesome. I run it with very restricted permissions, where it by default requests every single permission it can. In stock Android, it has all those, and you can't limit it. Just that is worth it for me.

Imagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open, rather than just giving it all to Microsoft instead?

Because it's been trained on decades of StackOverflow and forum posts. And because while some command line tools go in and out of fashion, quite a lot are very stable, so their use will show up all the time in the training material.

Since it's all statistics under the LLM hood, both of those cause proven CLI tools to have strong signals as being the right answer.

A question because I'm not using speech-to-text, but find it intriguing (especially since it's now possible to do locally and for free).

How have your computing habits changed as a result of having this? When do you typically use this instead of typing on the keyboard?

Attention is all you need, as the transformative paper (pun definitely intended) put it.

Unfortunately, you're only getting attention in 3 second chunks.

Telling people to use nano would of course have been next to impossible. Much easier to rewrite a DOS-era editor in Rust, naturally.

That's also where etcd came from. It really felt, to me, like the precursor to Kubernetes.

Help me understand what this means to e.g. GrapheneOS, please. Will it be able to exist and just have to wait longer for updates or will it be in real jeopardy?

A GameBoy emulator written in PHP would certainly piqued my interest, but more like a morbid curiosity than anything else. :)

It is interesting that this relates exactly to everything that goes as "cloud native" these days, without really mentioning the fact that due to Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's huge landscape of open source software that targets specifically Kubernetes, you can have a comprehensive platform on "any" infrastructure. On-premise, private cloud, public clouds that are in the EC2/S3 era of services (VMs and object storage)... it doesn't matter. You can literally run the same database that powers YouTube, it's freely available and operates great on Kubernetes.

Yes, the problem is that someone has to manage it all (full disclosure: I work for Elastisys, a company exactly in the space of fully-managed application platforms on top of the infra operated by others).

But the fact that smaller cloud providers haven't had the money to invest in their capabilities to offer managed services to the same degree as the enormous hyperscalers isn't exactly impossible to overcome. In fact, it's never been more possible. Other comments here show that very well, too. And that the particular choice of identity management services is perhaps not the best for showing where the hyperscaler options shine.