No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?

you’re not supposed to use it when you’re fully congested

Yes, ideally you use it BEFORE precisely to prevent this kind of state.

most uncomfortable experiences in my life

I’m not a medical doctor… but yeah, a neti pot won’t fix a broken bone. That being said it should NOT be unpleasant at all! You should be able to breath, talk, heck even sing while using it. The water MUST be at exactly the right temperature (if you pour it on the back of your hand, it should not feel warm or cold) and the salt must be precisely the measured amount, not a gram more or less. This way it will not burn your nostril or give you any kind of reaction, just water flowing. If you do this right, which honestly takes a minute more, then it’s not disturbing at all.

US, but I don’t know that should matter.

Well that’s precisely the argument that this specific thread is bringing forward.

They are saying the tap water in France, US or another random country is not the same. The regulation around water sources, treatment, urbanism, architecture is different and this has consequences. The regulation around medical devices is also different.

The argument is not trying to say the amoeba gives a shit, rather than instructions on medical devices are country specific because regulations are different.

Same thing in Belgium. ENT confirms that if you are in a normal random city you can use tap water, as-is.

If you are traveling to another country or in a temporary setup then yes take extra precaution, like boiling and/or distilled.

Yes but it’s probably worth reading the fine prints of a poll before coming up to the conclusion that 100% - 85% of one answer means 15% of the polar opposite. Chances are that there is a non null share of “I do not know” or even they didn’t understand the question.

Not sure what NLNet is going to do about software lol, I believe you mean something different.

That NLNet https://nlnet.nl/ funding FLOSS project.

There are also BlueHats in France showing how administration is using AND consequently funding FLOSS https://code.gouv.fr/en/bluehats/ by paying for sysadmin, feature dev, maintenance, etc.

Don’t underestimate management desire to be absolutely indistinguishable from their competition.

They read the Harvard Business Review, learn new terms they don’t understanding, make a PowerPoint out of it and voila, they are “innovative” like everyone else.

If HBR put “AI” on its cover you can be damn sure all those innovators are going to put AI wherever they can.

I would love to, but we stiill use Windows specific software

If I had 1 cent every time I read that… and I pulled those cents together… and then paid software developers to build that missing software for other OSes like Linux… then we’d gradually see less of those comments.

It’s as if the isolation was the business model, proprietary software insuring that alternatives do not exist because users do not bother to get together and unstuck themselves from glowingly dangerous (security wise but probably even financially dependencies.

Hopefully initiatives like NLNet are precisely trying to alleviate such challenges. Until them compatibility layers like Proton are showing the way with arguably some of the most complex and demanding in terms of performance software, namely games.

Minority Report, the bad parts.

Edit: glad I’m using a deGoogled Android phone, can’t trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.

2, 3 and 4 also are about politics.

I for one knew it and yet I enjoy, in a very tragic way, discovering that she was, actually, even worst than I thought.

Hoping not getting crushed by SUVs while drivers are busy scrolling down their phone is so woke. /s

I’m playing games at home. I’m running models at home (I linked in other similar answers to it) for benchmarking.

My point is that models are just like anything I bring into my home I try to only buy products that are manufactured properly. Someone else in this thread asked me about child labor for electronics and IMHO that was actually a good analogy. You here mention buying a microwave and that’s another good example.

Yes, if we do want to establish feedback in the supply chain, we must know how everything we rely on is made. It’s that simple.

There are already quite a few initiatives for that with e.g. coffee with Fair Trade Certification or ISO 14001, in electronics Fair Materials, etc.

The point being that there are already mechanisms for feedback in other fields and in ML there are already model cards with a co2_eq_emissions field, so why couldn’t feedback also work in this field?

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Right, reminds me of the hacker mindset or more recently the workshop I did on “Future wheel foresight” with Karin Hannes. One can try their best to predict how an invention might be used but in practice it goes beyond what its inventors want it to be, it is truly about how what “it” does through actual usage.

an exception

FWIW it’s more than an exception IMHO it’s one of the very best game I played in my life. It’s more than a game, it’s an experience. I was in City 17.

very very little actual logic

To be precise, 0.

The business model IS dodging any kind of responsibility so… yeah, I think they’ll pass.

I should write a Tridactyl script to use that as warning… it goes like this

document.querySelector(“textarea”).style.backgroundImage = “linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255,255,255, 0.7) 0 100%), url(https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/e7e7aeb4-ae1d-426b-bf45-02a4f3060bd6.jpeg?format=webp)”

It’s hard to read but a good reminder maybe it’s not worth it! :D

I agree and in fact I feel the same with AI.

Fundamental cryptocurrency is fascinating. It is mathematically sound, just like cryptography in general (computational complexity, one way functions, etc) and it had the theoretical potential to change existing political and economical structures. Unfortunately (arguably) the very foundation it is based on, namely mining for greed, brought a different community who inexorably modified not the technology itself but its usages. What was initially a potential infrastructure for exchange of value became a way to speculate, buy and sell goods and services banned, ransomware, scam payments, etc).

AI also is fascinating as a research fields. It asks deep question with complex answers. Research for centuries about it lead to not just interesting philosophical questions, like what it’s like to be think, to be human, and mathematics used in all walks of life, like in logistics for your parcel to get delivered this morning. Yet… gradually the field, or at least its commercialization, got captured by venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, regulators, who main interest was greed. This in turn changed what was until then open to something closed, something small to something required gigantic infrastructure capturing resources hitherto used for farming, polluting due to lack of proper permit for temporary electricity sources, etc. The pinnacle right now being regulation to ban regulation on AI in the US.

So… yes, technology itself can be fascinating, useful, even important and yet how we collectively, as a society, decide to use it remains what matters, the actual impact of an idea rather than its idealization.