I never got to try SerenityOS due to the developer's bizarre insistence that users compile the OS instead of just providing a precompiled ISO or IMG file. Shame because I appreciated the workhorse 9x aesthetics it had.
Why is it bizarre? It encouraged people to contribute to the project. It clearly worked out well for them. SerenityOS isn't for regular users, it's for developers.
Why exactly does Apple need to make their own AI? I would prefer if they focused their efforts on what they're already good at - making hardware and operating systems to run on top of it.
It's standard law enforcement PR. People who are serious about cybersecurity topics might shake their heads a little at the self-aggrandizing naming and Matrix "hacker" backgrounds, but they aren't the target audience. The target audience is for the mass public, to glamorize the police as the Good Guys who are going after the Bad Guys.
I particularly remember the mainstream media in the US cheerleading for the war and shouting down anybody who raised doubts as being "with the terrorists". The truth is that the intelligence never mattered, it was always meant as an act of revenge against the Arab/Muslim world for 9/11 and a settling of scores from the 90s Gulf War.
I remember when the US invaded Iraq(II) it was treated like a party. The media loved it, it was like a football game. And when out to eat, I saw a lot of Americans were loving it , it was entertainment. Shock and Awe, it was spectacle.
The US definitely got very good at selling wars in the last decades. I remember being fascinated with the cool videos of "surgical strikes" against Iraq in 1991. Only later I read reports that a lot of the strikes weren't exactly surgical and killed thousands of civilians.
It always irked me when people called it the Second Iraq War. From my recollections, people always referred to the war in the 90's as the Persian Gulf War and it was instigated by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The war in the 2000's struck me as the poorly justified invasion of another nation. While there were legitimate grievances against Iraq, they were not the types of grievances that should escalate into war.
I think it is just a colloquial numbering for clarity. That is why I do it.
The 90's war was with Iraq, that is who we were fighting against, and sometimes it is just easier to number them to differentiate from the one in the 2000's.
People claiming that the negative response to OpenAI integration into iTerm is a knee-jerk reaction by a bunch of AI haters I think are missing the point.
a) Putting an LLM into iTerm introduces almost no benefit that I can think of, other than "shiny new technology", and is a waste of time and resources. I've heard some people suggest that putting an AI prompt into the terminal could be helpful for generating commands for difficult applications like FFMpeg, but you can also do the same thing by just asking ChatGPT in your browser and copying/pasting, which is what we've always done
b) More importantly, I absolutely do not want there to be any code in the terminal that writes commands for me or on my behalf. The command line is intimately connected to the OS and has access to every file, environment variable and socket on my system. iTerm just had to patch a bug where its URL handling and link previews was causing a remote code execution, so I would have expected this "feature" to cause security issues in the same way
Terminals are also just a fundamentally conservative application. Shiny new technology has never been a clean fit into terminals. Imagine if iTerm decided to integrate NFTs and crypto, or optionally link your Meta account so you can use your terminal in Virtual Reality, would probably draw a similar negative response.
> you can also do the same thing by just asking ChatGPT in your browser and copying/pasting, which is what we've always done
The whole point of software to reduce this kind of tedious manual work. You can also do the same when writing code instead of using Copilot, for example, yet the latter significantly improves productivity in practice precisely because it's one hotkey away.
> More importantly, I absolutely do not want there to be any code in the terminal that writes commands for me or on my behalf.
Have you actually tried to use this feature? At no point does it submit commands directly to the terminal. It has to be explicitly enabled, for starters, by setting it up with a valid API key or custom server URL. Then you need to activate a specific command to open a textbox where you type in your input. Then you get the result back, and you have to use yet another shortcut to actually run the resulting command.
There's just no way to trigger this stuff accidentally. You have to very deliberately carry out several steps to get to the point where there's any commands being generated at all, much less actually running on your system.
> Imagine if iTerm decided to integrate NFTs and crypto, or optionally link your Meta account so you can use your terminal in Virtual Reality, would probably draw a similar negative response.
Your examples are fundamentally different in that they don't add any clear utility to the core function of the terminal, which is interacting with the shell.
Are the mobile apps for mumble any good? I primarily use discord because it works well across all my devices (pc, smartphone, chromebook via web client).
I think OP should maybe advocate for Signal instead, which does have a reportedly good mobile client.
A quick google shows a mumble mobile client exists, but honestly recommending a voice only program as a replacement for discord is genuinely ridiculous on their part.
Matrix is the closet they get. A large part of their point is self hosting, and Signal is a bit better, but still fundamentally resides on someone else's servers. And last I checked, Signal required a phone number to make account and connect with others, which personally is a line.
They're very late to do this IMO, but better late than never. I am certain that VMWare has not been selling many Workstation licenses to personal users (costing ~$300 each) and making the products free gives free advertising and mindshare to VMWare. Visual Studio is a good example of this, Microsoft making Visual Studio free for personal use in 2014 provided a huge boost to a platform that a lot of people had written off as dead, irrelevant, gray corporate software.
Except that VMWare is owned by Broadcom, which is known for only being interested in Fortune 500. That doesn't at all apply to Microsoft. No sane people will buy into VMWare anymore if 500k in cash is not a rounding error of your budget.
> VMWare has not been selling many Workstation licenses to personal users (costing ~$300 each) and making the products free gives free advertising
Not really. The VMWare Workstation Player had the same engine (but less management functionality) so personal user could actually use a VMWare virtualization product. For basic usage (including snapshotting), which fits a non-commercial user, it was a fitting choice.
Therefore, it's good that they're essentially giving more functionality for free, but they did have a free offer before (for non-commercial users).
Primary IDE for Unity and Unreal. Microsoft has been extending beyond Microsoft platforms, so I imagine a decent chunk of Visual Studio use is for cross-platform development.
It's probably the best C++ IDE out there, with a great debugger. For C# a lot of people prefer Rider, but in terms of free options VS is much better than VS Code.
But stock ownership, as a relationship between the stockholder and the company, is fundamentally not peer to peer. There's no way for you and I to settle a trade of Gamestop stock ourselves; we have to either contact Gamestop to transfer the registration or go through a trusted third party broker who holds the registration on our behalf.
There used to be bearer certificates for shares that could trade without a third party being involved.
They went away both because of the obvious downsides (fraud, loss etc) and the obvious upsides (efficiency) of more consolidated clearing.
What’s probably less obvious but more important for securities trading is the consolidation of the extension of credit. We no longer need to go verify the cash is available with every different counterparty pair, we can instead extend the credit just by using central rules, including the turning off of the buy button.
It’s not obvious to me how crypto equity trading, even if decentralized, solves the credit issue at the cash off ramp. Unless that off-ramp is truly a society that actually uses crypto as a currency.
Lazy journalism is to blame here, as always. Newsrooms have been purged of any talent over the last decade and the only people left are the same "perpetually-online wannabe influencers" you talk about, trawling Twitter for easy stories and rage-clicks. Nobody would have heard or cared about this ad if formerly esteemed publications like NYT weren't running lazy stories about it.
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