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Modern search engines and LLMs have no trouble distinguishing between different things with the same name. Google Trends will even show you something is a product, a service, a boo…

It's more practical and less hilarious. There is a thing called acronym, abbreviation, or initialism copyright. For Hashicorp's Terraform, "TF" is a well recognized abbreviation. H…

This discussion ship has sailed.

I think OpenTofu should embrace the negative connotations. Go crazy, make everything Tofu, that's the goal. It'd be a nice side history for marketing purposes. I doubt anyone would…

I just read the plot and now I understand the reference. So it was a clever comment but not particularly a joke (maybe a not so good one?)

I can imagine a piece of tofu with robotic arms terraforming stuff. Pretty easy. Or a globe with a tofu on top. Make the tofu evil/insane and create a story it wants to transform e…

Wny OpenTransform?

I took it as it was written, word by word.

To be fair, I'm not saying it should hold all the knowledge in the world. I just expect it to give me short answers to pretty simple questions. For example: "Hey Google, what are t…

I expected TTS/STT to be a solved problem now with decades of work on it. I can understand LLMs having greater latency but all flagship smartphones have inference accelerators thes…

The original way of making money with FOSS that folks like Hashicorp and InfluxData fail to understand while they push for unicorn status.

This is MariaDB, a MySQL fork.

My exact issue today too. To my surprise, I was talking in Portuguese and it was answering in Portuguese even though my phone is set to English. Then I opened Spotify and it starte…

I just spent 15 frustrating minutes talking to Google Assistant asking simple questions that can easily be found on, mild shock, Google, and all I got was "sorry, I didn't understa…