CursedSilicon

I saw a post remarking that Microsoft had instituted a return-to-office policy

The jab being something to the effect of "imagine being the group that built a tool to help people work remotely and then it sucks so hard everyone has to come back into the office anyway"

A friend who works internally then remarked to me that apparently the person leading Microsoft's AI efforts cried and whined hard enough that his org was allowed to "use Slack instead"

Really the people I feel for are the MSN Messenger engineers. They built something beautiful nearly 30 years ago and watched Microsoft ruin it, kill it with another product they had already ruined (Skype) and then bury the whole lot by building that Electron monstrosity over their unmarked graves

>Dunking on Tesla is its own industry these days, it seems.

Are you suggesting Tesla is criticized without good reason?

It's saddening that a community as self-assured of its own intellect as HackerNews would still be debating Climate Change

I guess you both grew up really enjoying that one episode of South Park and just can't let go?

Cheaper for them to just whine to the orange painted king, at least right now

Unfortunately in the real world, truth is far less interesting than fantasy

>I've found that it's almost impossible to even hire people who aren't terrified of the idea of self-hosting

Are y'all hiring? [1]

I did 15 months at AWS and consider it the worst career move of my life. I much prefer working with self-hosting where I can actually optimize the entire hardware stack I'm working with. Infrastructure is fun to tinker with. Cloud hosting feels like a miserable black box that you dump your software into and "hope"

[1] https://cursedsilicon.net/resume.pdf

AWS doesn't have to pay people (LOTS OF PEOPLE) to keep things running over the weekends?

And they aren't...just passing those costs on to their customers?

So. Are you still using MS-DOS? Or Commodore Basic?

Why evolve software at all?

It's not like Youtube's engineers can't just. Download yt-dlp and see how it works

It's not proprietary

Costco is a weird choice. They're just a bulk grocery store

To parody the evergreen The Onion headline

"No way to prevent this" says proprietary codebases where this always happens

>ahh. Eletrek is trying to spin up this story again.

As another commenter identified. Brand-name chargers that you can be unilaterally "banned" from are a problem for everyone

That was at least added in SimCity 3000

>I thought we (FOSS) were anti copyright?

FOSS still has to exist within the rules of the system the planet operates under. You can't just say "I downloaded that movie, but I'm a Linux user so I don't believe in copyright" and get away with it

>the overall energy and water usage of AI contributed to by the actual individual use of AI to, for instance, generate a PR, is completely negligible on the scale of tech products.

[citation needed]

>Is this talking about automation? You know what else automated employees and can often reduce service quality? Software.

Disingenuous strawman. Tech CEO's and the like have been exuberant at the idea that "AI" will replace human labor. The entire end-goal of companies like OpenAI is to create a "super-intelligence" that will then generate a return. By definition the AI would be performing labor (services) for capital, outcompeting humans to do so. Unless OpenAI wants it to just hack every bank account on Earth and transfer it all to them instead? Or something equally farcical

>So did email.

"We should improve society somewhat"

"Ah, but you participate in society! Curious!"

That's quite a strawman definition of "copyright infringement" especially given the ongoing Anthropic lawsuit

It's not a question of if feeding all the worlds books into a blender and eating the resulting slurry paste is copyright infringement. It's that they stole the books in the first place by getting them from piracy websites

If they'd purchased every book ever written, scanned them in and fed that into the model? That would be perfectly legal

[citation needed]

Do...do you know what communism is?

It's not "the government does stuff and I don't like it"

"early dementia patient"

No, that's the guy that got elected. The one very smart at nuclear

As the saying goes. You can't have infinite growth on a finite planet

The Complainant further points out that the Respondent registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith because the Respondent has no business activity at the disputed domain name and the only purpose of the registration and use of the disputed domain name is to bring discredit on the OPNSENSE products of the Complainant, by using degrading words and publishing a video, showing an actor interpreting Hitler, with the following phrase above it: “From deep within the OPNSENSE development bunker”.

Why do you lie about things that are so easily provable?

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2017/d201...

No wonder y'all are pivoting to Linux I suppose :)

Also you should stop editing your comments after they're replied to. It makes it awfully confusing

I'm sure the LKML will enjoy his commits just as much as FreeBSD did

Weird flex of a comment after y'all got dragged (deservedly) for hiring Matthew Macy. But I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree

Oh, was that before or after you spent however long spreading FUD by stealing their domain? The one that OPNsense had to go to the WIPO to fix?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsen...

Well there was that time you guys paid that absolute nutjob to write a 60,000 line of code disaster Wireguard client. Which you then shipped to customers and tried to force-commit to the FreeBSD project because you wanted a marketing advantage

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...

This looks a lot closer to what I'm after. Bookmarked the git repo :)

I saw that. Admittedly I'm only interested in a few of its functions. Namely roaming and guest hotspots

I could wire up all of that manually. But I'm excited for the chance to learn something new

I'm a staunch defender of OpenWRT. Having used just about every "router distro" folks care to name (remember SmoothWall?) for the last 20~ years, OpenWRT is built like a tank and just keeps trundling along

I hope their experiments with the "OpenWRT One" keep going. I'd love to see OpenWRT take a (deserved) bite out of the "SMB firewall vendors" like Netgate or OPNsense. Or just undercutting Wi-Fi vendors like Ubiquiti who base their work on OpenWRT anyway

Something I'm excited to try myself in future is running "OpenWISP" [1] to manage a small fleet (three) OpenWRT devices in parallel for a deployment in a shared workshop. This seems to also be something that OpenWRT could be better at integrating, but it's nice to see "a vendor" tackling it

[1] https://openwisp.org/

Ubiquiti uses a fork of OpenWRT. Starlink's routers run it as well. I'm sure a ton of other vendors are using it