From the article:

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD used the Debian userland on top of the FreeBSD kernel, although sadly, due to lack of manpower the project ended in 2023. There was a similar effort using the kernel from the slightly older BSD, Debian GNU/NetBSD. Multiple others have been suggested, including ports to the kernels of OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, IBM’s OS/2 kernel and others.

Unfortunately I’m about 13° latitude farther south, so it’s much harder to see them normally

I really hope to see them sometime. Whenever we’re in Quebec and there’s a good geomagnetic storm the weather is cloudy.

A joke also used on Futurama

I can’t speak to all of Canada, but my in-laws live in Quebec and I see a lot of EVs up there, but a different mix than what we have in my part of the US. In Quebec they have a lot of hydroelectric energy and electricity is relatively cheap. Where I am in the US there are a lot of Tesla vehicles, especially the model Y. We see other brands but at a rough guess I’d say Tesla is over 50% of the electric cars. Where my in-laws are in Quebec the Teslas are pretty rare and I see a lot more of the cheaper cars with shorter ranges, like the Hyundai Kona EV or Chevrolet Bolt. The F-150 Lightning (recently discontinued) also seems much more popular up there; people can still put all their accessories on it to carry their snowmobiles and camping gear.

It shows just how much he has changed in the last few years (beyond the obvious white-nationalist stuff), as Musk originally said Tesla would pivot to a more traditional design if the Cybertruck failed. It has failed. Now what?

I feel like his ego was already strong enough back then that he never had any intention to pivot

Windows 7 Ultimate!

In 1938, wallet manufacturer the E. H. Ferree company in Lockport, New York decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit into its wallets. A sample card, used for display purposes, was inserted in each wallet. Company Vice President and Treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be a clever idea to use the actual SSN of his secretary, Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher.

Although the snafu gave her a measure of fame, it was mostly a nuisance. The FBI even showed up at her door to ask her about the widespread use of her number. In later years she observed: “They started using the number. They thought it was their own. I can’t understand how people can be so stupid. I can’t understand that.”

One embarrassing episode was the fault of the Social Security Board itself. In 1940 the Board published a pamphlet explaining the new program and showing a facsimile of a card on the cover. The card in the illustration used a made-up number of 219-09-9999. Sure enough, in 1962 a woman presented herself to the Provo, Utah Social Security office complaining that her new employer was refusing to accept her old Social Security number–219-09-9999. When it was explained that this could not possibly be her number, she whipped out her copy of the 1940 pamphlet to prove that yes indeed it was her number!

Is this strictly Lemmy or does it include related platforms like PieFed and Mbin? Because it seems like there has been some shift to PieFed

Wait, so the Thomas’s English Muffin was their invention?

Man, is there anything IKEA doesn’t sell?

Writing’s on the wall

300 km out of 24 kWh?

Press X to doubt.

Skimming through this lets a remote AI control my computer? No thanks!

It’s the kind of thing I was doing in the late ’90s with DHTML, copying random scripts off websites like Dynamic Drive

I don’t know about any background services; it’s their cloud gaming service. It would be a benefit for the people who want to switch to Linux but have a game or two they want to play that can’t be run on Linux, because of things like kernel level anti-cheat or whatnot.

The statement is probably true, but the only quote in the article that mentions “slop” doesn’t really support the headline’s claim:

”We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella laments, emphasizing hopes that society will become more accepting of AI, or what Nadella describes as “cognitive amplifier tools.” ”…and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our “theory of the mind” that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other.”

The article makes a lot of solid points about the AI hype bubble that Nadella is promoting in his year-end LinkedIn post, but it doesn’t seem like he was actually calling for people to stop using the term “slop.”

I remember a TV station I worked at, that had a lot of good redundancies with 3 redundant UPSs that could keep a bunch of equipment on air until the big generator took over, one day had the UPS controller die and took all 3 UPSs out. I think it took the engineers a couple days to get everything back up and running.

There was an article a few weeks ago about a developer who used a standard research AI image training dataset and had his Google account locked out when he uploaded it to Google Drive. Turns out it has CSAM in it and it was flagged by Google’s systems. The developer reported the data set to his country’s reporting authorities and they investigated the set and confirmed it contains images of abuse.

I’ll give a +1 to RadarScope; it’s by far the most useful radar app I’ve used. The only thing I’ve seen surpass it are desktop software, most of which is also paid like GRLevelX or products more oriented towards professional meteorologists (and most meteorologists I know from a past career in TV still seem to use RadarScope on their phones when they don’t have access to their more powerful software at work).