but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.

And if they do exist, there are 4 subscribers and zero posts in the last 6 months.

It’s ruining far more than reddit.

My robot vac will only operate when connected to the Internet

That would trigger me to return it to the store. “It doesn’t work”

Newfoundland and Labrador is the province involved.

Had to read far too deep into the poorly written article to find that important bit of context.

Users will receive automatic pro-rated refunds for active subscriptions, and the app code is promised to be open-sourced after shutdown.

That’s the correct way to wind down a cloud based subscription app.

Not that I’m in favor of the entire business model of cloud based subscription apps, but at least Marques is ending this one the right way.

Of course not. Most people are motivated to doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do.

But some people seem to need the threat of personal consequences to keep them from being selfish assholes. And it often appears that those are the same type of people who manage to get themselves into decision making positions in the business world.

Fear of punishment.

The punishment (or the threat of punishment) is supposed to be part of the motivation to not drive into pedestrians.

If the decision makers behind the fully automatic vehicles don’t fear that punishment, the concern is that they’ll make choices that are motivated more by profits and efficiencies and less by safe driving and preventing harms.

And given the abuses of profit seeking executives we have seen in the past, it is a valid concern.

I wonder how (or if) grokopedia defines “woke”?

Most of the people who complain about “the woke” arent able to define it.

Quiet quitting is such a bizarre phrase

It’s just a trendy phrase for what has always been called work to rule.

Do precisely what your job description requires and not a single bit more.

The next year before the Midterms is going to be a wild circus.

The criminal attacks on the entire democratic process will be at a new peak.

If you’re going for chaos based investing, just buy a goldfish

these “smart” appliances are all addressing things radically important for households

Are they, though?

Most of these “smart” functions are at best a slight convenience. And a lot of the “smart” functions in most of them don’t really add anything useful to the user experience.

If we’re talking about them setting up the skeleton of a project, then templates have already been around for decades at this point.

That’s what LLMs are good at - taking old work (without consent) and regurgitating it while pretending it’s new and unique.

If it is a cheat sheet as in commands

With most modern distros, I would say that most typical users shouldn’t have to go to the command line any more than they had to in windows (which is to say very seldom).

Yet there is that lingering reputation that you have to be some sort of command line guru to even think about using Linux- and that simply isn’t true. Hasn’t been true for decades.

back then, I thought it was some scary OS for people who’s tech savvy

That “too hard, too scary” reputation is a big part of what has held back linux adoption.

But when people actually give it a try, most realize that reputation isn’t really true.

That’s the beauty of Linux- there are so many distros to choose from.

Something for everyone.

And if enough people don’t like the existing options, you are always free to fork what exists and make something that fits your needs better.

My penguin doesn’t listen to what Microsoft wants.

I know that if AI knows about this stuff it must have been produced by a human.

For now. Maybe.

It won’t be long before these LLMs will start ingesting the output from other LLMs, biases, confidently wrong answers, hallucinations and all.

all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.

Increasing numbers do.

But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.