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It is security patches only. To take all the other patches you do need to reboot, which is why it still has quarterly reboots. No real OS has solved this problem.
A 90% answer is better than no answer, which is what we've had for 40 years now. Linux only requires rebooting for kernel updates, and with kpatch not even that.
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Linux is absolutely ready to spy too! The infrastructure is all in there and non-removable: dbus broacasts anything happening in the system, systemd starts background services by it's own and auto-updates are the norm. Last time I tried Ubuntu, it had popularity-contest installed by default. Apparently the scandal was big enough they removed it. [1] [1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/ubuntu-popularity-contes...
It seems Ubuntu is made exactly for these moments, to dismiss GNU/Linux as another spying OS. If you leave Windows to retain the control for your computing, choose any other GNU/Linux among many. I chose Debian.
I'm so glad linux is well polished enough now that I can finally use it as a daily desktop. Mint 22 is amazing with cinnamon. Switched from win11 about 2 months ago and have not once booted back to windows. first time I actually find my linux desktop experience is as good or better than windows.
>For example, if you ask ChatGPT’s Agent to book a travel, it’ll open Chromium on Linux in an Azure container, search the query, visit different websites, navigate each page and book a flight ticket using your saved credentials. An AI Agent tries to mimic a human, and it can perform tasks on your behalf while you sit back and relax. Big tech has repeatedly shown that they are not good stewards of end users' privacy a…
Ironically, Microsoft's slogan in the 90s was "where do you want to go today?" These days, it's more like "where do we want to make you go today?"
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There are some inherently good things, the best possible example is Lisp. It is not even matter how it is being used. Cultural cornerstone is not just like music, it is like Mathematics or like sedentary way of life. They change too many in too many crucial ways. Bitcoin changes how we get forbiddensies therefore it changes how people are waging trade, how tsars are waging war, inevitably it interfere with government…
> Your vacuum cleaner example is ignorant, blockchain is humanity's last way to resist censorship. You're missing the same point. I was pointing out that the conversation was about hype, not best-case scenarios. The point is that if the tech industry latches onto some new thing, it will be shoved into absolutely everything regardless of its relevance or usefulness to a particular problem. For every open-source projec…
The worst in the buzzword conception is that it leads to using good things as the buzzwords because the bad things get forgotten quickly. Before blockchain the popular buzzword was "webvan" but there are too few people who rememberes what the webvan was for really using this word as a meme.
Using the blockchain word as a synonym for buzzword word is like using a good word meaning some good thing for describing some bad concept and it makes me crazy. Name it the "new webvan" for adding some flavor of failure, or the "new iphone" for adding some flavor of popularity. What flavor do you add by using my favorite technology as an example?
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Yes. Since 199x. macOS does the same thing. When I actually sleep, when my laptop's lid is closed. I wake up. My Mac wants a password instead of a fingerprint. It says it has updated the OS when I was snoring. What's the difference? Every app, every window, everything is the way I left before closing the lid. My computer is updated, rebooted and ready for the day. Like nothing happened. Linux is the same deal. If the…
My experience with Mac is iterm prevents Mac from shutting down so instead some days I wake up and everything on my machine has been closed and the update hasn’t been performed. Lovely.
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> Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what It was a proper WYSIWYG editor working with rich text, effectively a poor man's Word. Microsoft should have turned it into a markdown editor, instead of killing it.
It was, and worked well with rtf. I vaguely recall it being better than notepad if you were for example looking at strings in binary files, something like that, I forget...
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I suspect this may be one of those predictions that may not quite pan out. I am not saying it is a given, but never is about as unlikely.
The words 'lead to' there cover a lot. I don't think we'll get AGI just by giving more compute to the models but modifying the algorithms could cover a lot of things. Like at the moment I think during training new data changes all the model weights which is very compute intensive and makes it hard to learn new things after training. The human brain seems to do it in a more compartmentalised way - learning about a new…
So you might improve algorithms (by doing matrix multiplications in a different order.... it's always matrix multiplications) but you'll be feeding them junk.
So they need ever increasing amounts of data but they are also the cause of the ever increasing shortage of good data. They have dug their own grave.