Posts by _wojtek

Give Google the boot by building your own search engine

Re: NO

The problem is not me (I don't produce / publish that much) but rather everyone that feel the need and that have anything interesting to say falling back to those cages...

Old days internet

I miss the old days internet... scattered, tiny islands of quirks and information and amusement. and when you stumbled against one of this gems you got the link and shared them with your friends..

nowadays everything is concentrated around a buch od big, walled garden style, platforms force feeding users the crap... sharing something (outside of the platform)? very difficult and obviously with tracking baked into the link (and recently they did away with query parameters that were easy to strip and moved to tracker being part of the share URL that's only later on, after first resolution, gets to actual content)... :/

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

so they French with billionaires...

I'm not suggesting anything but French were into something bad maybe we should reevaluate their approach?

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

Ethics and morality...

ethics and morality follow it's creators (Usania and Usanian BigTech)... which is none... or rather "whatever it takes" so everything checks out?

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

in general I agree that Venture (vulture?) Capital mixes with companies being public and acting on a whim of the "investors" (shares plummet because they profit didn't meet forecast of 200% and was "only 190%" or similar) is the cancer of our western world

BUT - saying that Chinese models don't have anything guardrails or censorship is a huge stretch...

Besides the companies have heavy subsidy from the state which also skew the picture..

hypocrites..

> "The pincer movement comes as US model devs like Anthropic and OpenAI stoke fears over the origins and safety of China-made AI models"

oh the hypocrisy... wasn't it OpenAI model that broke loose and hacked hugging face?

not to mention the cry of legality (again) as if anthropic, OpenAI and the rest wasn't sucking all the data of the internet as there's no end xD

MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish

Anyone cares about MinIO anymore?

After they shift to AI and shitty handling of licence change I though their popularity tanked...

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another

Oh, it's still used, but it wasn't sold to Salesforce without reason...

Force using ODF...

Without regulations forcing (at least public institutions) to use open ODF nothing will change simply by inertia... And if public sector has to use ODF then MS will be forced to support it (well) and then there issue of sharing ODF with anyone will be gone becase excuse "hace to use ms format becase office" will be rendered irrelevant.

Internet changed because if Google fighting Microsoft - google wanted multiplatform internet and not "best viewed in IE" so they pushed hard...

Right now they are same as MS pushing to stick to their ecosystem and for anyone using Google docs the actual format is irrelevant...

the problem is the integration itself. I'm general integrations good but MS abuses it's dominant power to cudgel into using their tools and formats...

Does anyone remember Slack? The tiny app that promoted MS to create Teams and then bundle it into Windows and Office? which then resulted in Slack basically falling of the cliff? Lovely monopolistic practices...

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

shovels...

NVIDIA sell shovels and doesn't care who and how uses them as long as people keep buying more shovels...

(and if promoting open modes would bring the Usania AI bubble to a laud pop then promoting open models is even better!)

Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle

Re: Courts should enforce all physical media rights for digital

So much this! And fix the wording - anything short of complete ownership shouldn't be allowed to use word "buy" - only "rent" would be allowed.

Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com

Re: But, but… Will nobody think of the children?

Funnily enough, contrary to (loud) popular sentiment, they mostly do just that...

the problem is that they tools they may want may backfire in wring hands, but we are already living in a world where it's possible without EU doing anything...

Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine

Slap on the wrist still...

At this point we should be mulling how to split google (and Meta) instead of those peanuts fines...

Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs

water is wet and gatekeeper sucks

it was never about "security" and always about Apple control over there ecosystem and tighter grip on what the user can run... same as supposedly thorough review process or app store which still is full of shady crap...

OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

The best thing about open models...

The best thing about open models is that they may puncture AI bubble and in turn down a "boo boo" to Usania bubbly market (mind you - almost of the bubble IA over there) :D

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Re: anti Java sentiment

uhm... I wouldn't say Java is equally as bad as MS though... while Farage is as bad as Trump (though less demented)... fingers crossed for binface in Clacton though! ;)

anti Java sentiment

Anti Java sentiment in comments is amusing...why do people hate it so much nowadays?

it's kinda funny that nowadays having a desktop apps build using Java could yield somewhat less resources hogs compared to "beloved" web stack of JavaScript+ HTML / CSS :D

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

Re: a 2-week release schedule

so you can use ESR.

don't get me wrong - I'm mildly annoying with the ridiculous release cycle and we are going from one stupid extreme (release every couoke of years) towards yet another one...

monthly releases are kinda OK and I didn't have much problem with them...

You are assuming worst-case-scenario there. Though for QWACs simply owning domain shouldn't be enough. It simply puts more obligations on (public) institutions when it comes to obtaining and issuing the certificates. And it's mostly intended for them (see TPS).

In a nutshell LE is great in the sense that it made encryption ubiquitous but we did loose in the process the verification because anyone with a domain can issue certificate for "lIoyds.co.uk" (second letter is capital "i")...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_website_authentication_certificate

Re: a 2-week release schedule

the regular one.

you are aware that nothing is perfect and nothing can be 100% QA'd - right?

from what I read: QWACs are geared towards actually verified certificates for organisations that are base in legal framework and requirements how the verification should be carried out. And this Firefox version should correctly handle and display / indicate such verifyied certificate AA mandated by eIDAS.

Now, in the past we had EV (extended verification) certificates and browsers displayed them with distinct signage / icon but then with the proliferation of Let's Encrypt (no verification at all beyond simple domain one, which doesn't prevent phishing at all) and commercial EV being carried out willy nilly ("trust me bro" kind of way) browsers decided to basically drop "verified" AA it didn't bring any improved security. eIDAS / QWAC tries to bring it back with legal safeguards and is mostly intended for government and banking sector (from what I read).

Also - besides Let's encrypt there are still CAs that charge you for the certificate so your comment about "forcing making money" is just plain dumb...

Re: a 2-week release schedule

counterpoint: maybe they work on the features separately and when the feature is done and tested they then merge it into mainline and ship? most likely it already works like that with 4 weeks schedule because it's would be already to tight to do it differently... so 2 weeks doesn't mean any news feature is developed within 2 weeks..

C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest

general *nix problem altogether...

I don't know why moronic "paste this curl into your terminal to get an script and pipe it" way of installation became the norm recently...

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it

"nobody"?

given the adoption rate of diatros with those vs without it seems your statement is quite false... (eg Debian mainline vs devuan)

Re: Can anyone tell me why X11 needs to be abandoned?

But that's exactly what is happening - people are developing and working on Wayland. The "issue" seems to be stemming from the expectations that they MUST ALSO be working on x11 despite them not wanting / liking it because there is rather tiny group of people not wabtjbf Wayland. Great but maybe those people should step up and contribute instead of just complaining? Sadly noone is willing to do what. There are rage-forks that try to maintain the supposedly "abandoned" tech that die out within weeks because that's how much effort those complaining are willing to put into maintaining it...

Re: Can anyone tell me why X11 needs to be abandoned?

> . It is also more efficient which may matter on laptops though I doubt that efficiency difference amounts to more of a savings than turning down your brightness a few notches.

Just the other day phoronix ran some benchmarks and indeed Wayland came on top in overwhelming majority of cases.

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

black ans white... not

sadly in the comments everyone has to have black and white at-extreme stance - either completely anti-AI or ad-absurdum generating slop with ClaudeCode without seeing any middle ground that Linus is talking about (ie. glorifies "auto complete on steroids")...

one (well, two actually) big problem with AI is that either the output is not read / reviewed properly - either because of time constraints or general slack or because it's used by incompetent people that can't sensibly verify the output...

Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5

hush with your logic and whatnot! ;)

alas - in such case many / all screens should be affected...

Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’

I giggled :D while they the statement is annoying and a bit of trolling it's also quite true - not surę why you are getting downvoted;)

Re: All this wonderful AI code

tbh we were on the downward spiral and decreasing quality way before AI boom...

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

Re: interpreted, dynamically typed crap like JavaScript and TypeScript are slow...

Erm... JS can be fast and is probably the fastest when it comes to dynamic, interpreted languages but as the article states - statically typed, compiled languages are still more performant hence using Go and not JS/TS...

oh the comedy...

so they are actively acknowledging that interpreted, dynamically typed crap like JavaScript and TypeScript are slow.... <slow clap>

EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short

Re: This is so wrong...

kinda yeah, but this is just a rotten compromise that was created becase member states (including UK) were so butt hurt to give up the power... so glee ended up with the Council (head of member states that drive the agenda), Commission that writes that into law and Parliament (which is actually elected) that votes on it.

There were proposals to give EU Parliament legislative powers but guess who screeched against it?

EU is, in a way, disfuncional because of this power struggle between democratically elected MEPs and member states and I don't see how this could be reformed in a any meaningful way without countries giving up their powers (and veto)... :/

Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms

Re: Competition

Id guess population distribution? I _think_ that Asia is more densely populated and more concentrated while Udania prides itself on urban sprawl, which makes doing anything absurdly unsustainable...

Re: Competition

Musk has you (and others) coverd with a delightful trip to Mars ;)

Re: Competition

Maybe promoting the unsustainable sprawl is the answer to avoiding littering the sky with junk becase someone has desire to be as far as possible from the test of humanity...

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

Consultancies are a huge scam?

They mostly overcharge and don't deliver anything substantial? (or they deliver a "raport" that surprisingly underlines and backs argument of the entity that contracted those liers?

UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees

Re: Free install (sideloading) for all

The problem is - given Google terrible review process there is already enough iffy apps on the stores so the benevolent gatekeeper excuse quickly falls flat...

Re: History repeating?

Sadly EU is based on "consensus", rules and (contrary to what some may claim) is not all powerful which makes everything so darn slow...

So to answer your question - the case is probably still being processed and going through THW machine cogs...:/

Free install (sideloading) for all

Would be great if regulators would finally made it obligatory for platforms to make installing whatever I please from wherever I want a hard requirement (without dumb "developer verification")... I guess google / apple lobbyist are too darn persuasive...

No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle

a storm in a cup...

The world moved on...

Maintaining something costs money and if host is not going to support it then why should Java keep doing that?

If someone really needs x64 then they can still maintain the support for their platform as Java is open source (and I'm already gearing the screeching "hurr durr THEY must do it"... funny isn't it? ;) )

Besides - it's not like overnight thing - Apple was quite open about dripping the support for years.... Getting new Intel Mac after they got discontinued was just dumb... (not to me to that even in it's infancy Silicon was better...)

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

containers everywhere...

Not particularly found if windows (stopped using it as a platform about 15 years ago) but the feature is indeed interesting.

For some forced to use windows in corporate environment this could BW very handy (and arguably better than docker desktop).

Not to mention that Apple is doing something very similar by providing "lightweight containers" in macOS 27 making docker desktop into an very optional install... (there is also podman but it's a bit weird on macOS from my experience...)

Notion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox

Just keep it tidy?

Am I the only one that don't have issues with email? I receive only a handful if messages that are actually important or of interest to me.

But then again - I don't subscribe to any darn newsletter that a stupid website prompts me to do with a nagging popup and actually disable obnoxious notification from other services...

UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise

kill "popularity contest" on SM

While the idea may seem good in the face it could spectacularly backfire.

The biggest problem with social media is the algorithm and everything being driven by popularity and clicks.

Simply kill that aspect - only show followed accounts in chronological order of posting and voilà - problem solved. No more "suggested for you" that most of the time is simply something inflammatory just to keep engagement up...

also - promote independent websites that can do their own ordering but only if their content.

And make social media responsible for everything posted over there...

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

Re: In place upgrades...

Yes, it's quite popular to have a docker compose with related services (app + db + others if needed). Most of the time you would just stick with the required PostgreSQL version when you started and stick with it only bumping APP image version (which then would run schema migrations if needed).

However, at times, it would be nice (of required because of compatibility) to be able to upgraded the database (to next major version) as well and it's not as simple as just changing the image tag like in the APP case, becase PostgreSQL doesn't support that... (it works fine with MySQL though so you could switch from 5.1 to 8.0 and during next docker compose down / start and recreation of the container, new version of MySQL would detect older version of the files and would run then upgrade on it's own.

Re: In place upgrades...

You are running PostgreSQL 13, you want to switch to 14. You can simply use newer version because it will refuse to start.

In ternera, when NOT running in docker when you upgrade PostgreSQL via system package manger it will download newer version, run pg_upgrade (which requires version _from_ which you are upgrading still being present) and after the upgrade remove older version. With docker it's not possible as you only have current version in the image so PG_upgrade fails.

And while there are workarounds (export / import or using custom, alternative docker images that contain both versions) it's somewhat inconvenient.

So (I'm your docker compose for example) changing image from postgresql:13.0 to postgresql:13.1 will work just fine with in-place upgrade, switching to postgresql:14 will throw an error...

I'm not suggesting upgrading between very far apart versions but upgrades between successive major versions would be nice.

21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI

BigTech going bankrupt?

One could only wish becase, as always (and that was the case with banks) "too big to fail" will prevail...

In case of Oracle my obły worry is Java, especially that recently it's picking up steam and finally "goodies" are starting sto land... and while it's now open Oracle will probably hold on to the trademarks like they are doing with JavaScript, which would result in same havoc as it happened with JavaEE - Jakarta migration...

Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze

fuck AI

as simple as that.

as for "hurr durr I can built one cheaper". that's most likely true but then again not everyone can do that. What's more - it wouldn't be exactly the same neat, super quiet box that could sit in the living room...

And silence is nice - I opted for M1 MBP years ago instead of regular x86 becase it wasn't trying to burn my hands and was (and still is) absolutely silent....

India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1

phone use is extreme but "only in China"

It's kinda cute that all commenter are on their high horses that "poor China and India are obły using phones and not PCs". Surprise surprise - whole world moved towards mobile first and most people, if not for work or not being tech enthusiasts, would also use virtually only phones (yes, also applies to "rich" UK)