«Thank you for the planet»? I’m flattered, but I didn’t make it…

They’re talking about Inter City Express trains, not Internal Combustion Engines.

Man, I really miss the tactility of older computer hardware!

In my mind it will always and forever be the CD-ROM drive, but any drive added to a standard Windows system (including partitions) will just continue the alphabet from C. So if you install a second hard drive (or partition your only one) it will become D, the next one will be E, and so on:

I’ll leave it to someone else to convey this in a biblical fashion.

Yup, it’s the standard AI problem: It is way too easy to just do something without considering the consequences for yourself and others. It is specifically designed to shut off thinking in its users, so this is what inevitably happens.

Yup, if there is one demographic group this kind of behavior seems plausible for it is definitely immature, adolescent, spoiled rich kids!

The repo has regular commits at least a year back in time. There are a lot of commits lately with “assistance“ from AI, though. But it doesn’t look anything like “3-day slop” to me.

Danny de Hek, a New Zealand-based scam buster

Great nominative determinism!

So UNIX is *checks notes* IBM?

They teach them “digital competence” by shoving an iPad in their face, and then they go “Look, they know how to use it! They must be computer geniuses!”

I think you can! It looks like it uses the pacman config on the ISO/host, and can copy it to the target.

Arch, btw?

I couldn’t get my head around DDNS when I started out, so I ended up renting a dirt cheap VPS and running a wireguard tunnel from my homeserver. I think I pay ~$3 a month for the VPS, where I also run the reverse proxy for my services (Caddy).

Cons: I’m not completely self sufficient Pros: My machine is not exposed directly to the net, and it was laughably simple to set up.

Epic Games Store has a Linux client

I presume this is the fully vibe coded one that they’ve been bragging about?

When they say “password auth disabled” they don’t mean being ble to log in without authentication. It means that your machine instead authenticates with an SSH key:

You generate a private/public key pair on your computer (the one you will take with you), and add the public key from that pair to a list of trusted computers on your server. When logging in, your computer will prove to the server who it is by generating that same public key. No password needed.

1. Generate a key pair with ssh-keygen -t ed25519 on you computer.
2. Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub from you computer into a file on you server called ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

That’s it!

The file on the server should be in the home directory of the user you want to log in as. If it already exists, add the key you generated to the end of it.

Wouldn’t it be better to learn how to use a kitten blender instead of trying to hold back the tide of kitten blending?

No more pi-thon *sigh*

A very good start would be people not having that much power to begin with. Especially not if they’re not democratically elected representatives.

But for the people in power we’re seemingly talking about (AI company leaders):

• Not presenting AI as something mystical/mythical
• Not turning AI into a product tailored to be addictive
• Not framing AI as a tech only they can be trusted to keep and distribute (see also point 1)
• Maybe developing the technology towards what gives most utility, not what earns them the most money (fat chance)

I think you’re underestimating the amount of comments we’re talking about. I routinely see AI generate files where more than half the lines are comments! And the content of those comments are often inanely detailed and focused on inconsequential stuff, often referring to earlier iterations (“we’re no longer doing X because Y“) when those iterations were never even commited.

There’s an entire server! ttrpg.network