Watch those GPAs soar.

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”

Yeah, feel the same, curated RSS feeds also contribute significantly.

The amount of BS flying daily in the ‘media’ and with AI slop makes every day April Fool’s anyway. A constructed environment means the BS detector doesn’t have to be on 24/7, which becomes tiresome.

Thanks for the perspective, appreciated.

Sure, stipulated, but in fact I’d say the more relevant analogy to today’s situation is 1930s Germany and Goebbels (along with radio). To my mind journalism mostly evolved into profession post WW2 as a reaction to the prior corruption of reporting.

For a period there it had a strong code of ethics (professional ethics even) and served society well before concentration of media in the hands of corrupt oligarchs (e.g. Murdoch) destroyed any competition on truth (when’s the last time you heard of a scoop?) and then the internet and especially social media drove home the nails.

This is not to say that there is not true journalism still alive, but that it is far removed from the majority of society, hard to find. It needs to be sought out, ironically in an age where information flows so freely, quality is lost in the slop (even before AI). It would behoove us as a society to raise it once more from the muck, wish I knew how.

Journalism as a profession has been mercilessly crushed this entire century (at least) and we are all (save the 1%, perhaps) the poorer for it. There’s a reason it was considered one of the fundamentals of a functioning democracy.

What the article describes isn’t even reporting, let alone journalism, it’s a form of marketing.

Cheap fuckers cheaping out, shocker (context is (V)RAM). AI speedrunning enshittification, who’d of thunk.

Bad place, it’s the bad place…

more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.

Uh-huh, think of it like jigsaw puzzles…

That said, I prioritize ease of maintenance and simplicity, still wouldn’t expect my family to pick it up in any reasonable amount of time, nor have the motivation, more’s the pity.

I’ve moved to podman (quadlet) containers mostly, easy to read and edit, secure (mostly userspace), systemctl integration, autoupdate. I’ve done my distrohopping, fedora (in my case bazzite immutable) isn’t going anywhere, does everything I need. I run fairly lean, but have a bunch of stuff that can be spun up at a whim that I don’t use daily. It’s entertaining without being a burden, and useful stuff just happens.

Honestly, ssh and btop cover most of my monitoring needs, serious stuff gets a notify-send to my laptop. I’ve tried the web gui stuff and I don’t look at it enough to justify it, I’m not a sysad monitoring hundreds of computers, it’s just a hobby.

I know, but capturing business logic in spreadsheets is a different error I didn’t want to get into here… You do what you can.

Yup, seen it too, sucked, don’t think it’s the way forward though. Europe seems to agree, should be enough momentum.

Perhaps you underestimate people.

No Masters.

May I suggest Python ?

By the time you get tits deep in Excel to the point where other spreadsheets can’t hack it, you may as well be using a real programming language instead of VBA…

If you can do advanced Excel, you can do Python (and numpy will crush Excel in ways that aren’t even funny, well OK, it’s funny too).

I find switching VPN endpoints works, bit whack-a-mole, but works. Actually I run a few with gluetun and just switch proxy port numbers.

Life is teaching you all the time (for free) if you but listen.

Especially if you’ve learned to learn, and have critical thinking, things schools should be teaching (but often avoid in favor of quickly outdated ‘job skills’ or similar because some political ideologies do better with the poorly educated).

Yeah, but it’s this way in Australia and most (all?) of Europe where it came from. Nothing stopping you piling on the watts yourself to go faster, or downhill, but no power after 25.

Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

Jury’s out on that, they may be using the large US company play of undercut your competitors until they crash and burn then seize the monopoly (e.g. Amazon and bookstores…) then ratchet prices up and enshittify, but with the bankroll of a huge country.

But they can’t vote and persecuting them appeals to the LN core demographic of miserable bastards. /s-ish.

Also look at the world we’re handing them, JFC, give 'em a break.

Beyond stupid, straight up backsliding a useful, accessible mobility form to appear strict on teens. The law as it stood had anything powered at more than 25 km/h or greater than 500W power illegal (arguably already overly restrictive, I can see a case for 30-35 km/h). All that was needed was to enforce it, which was happening, if sporadically. But nooo, car brain go brrrr. Not to give them ideas, but analogue bikes are allowed on roads without license or medical check, what difference is a motor at that speed ?

Rutting LibNats in QLD just can’t help fucking shit up since Jo, hopefully back to Siberia for the next decade yet again next election.