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I'm not sure there being fewer jobs for a handful of datacentre engineers is going to be much of a problem for the voter base. Unless profits made from these datacentres are going to be directly helping the public somehow (if they even can make profits), there's fundamentally no reason for anyone to want DCs in their area. People might want to do things that require DCs, but that's different from wanting one near you. What arguments can you even make to ordinary people as to why they should want datacentres? It's the easiest populist slam dunk ever.

FYI it's "moot", not "mute" here.

If you think AI can replace experienced engineers you're not working on anything complicated. If your product is a web app, sure, maybe. If you're working on actually difficult problems, then people who know what they're doing are irreplaceable. AI can supplement them and make them more productive, sure. AI does not know what NOT to build.


> ackchually difficult problems

That's likes rocket science, av, automata and things like that.

Less than 1% engineers work on that and even they are using ai.

For other 99%, one person knowing what to build is enough.


Fwiw the guy you're replying to is trying to replicate 1:1 the entire Adobe creative suite (and now Microsoft Office?) with the help of AI.


I don't get this, it is working. It's largely replaced IRC in open source spaces. It's not going to penetrate the mainstream but it's fine for what it is and people do use it all the time.


People have different definitions for "working". I assume that the people who claim that Matrix doesn't work are the ones comparing to alternative commercial solutions and all the polish that usually accompanies those.

A decade ago Moxie Marlinspike argued[1] that to develop Signal more quickly, he and his team could not be distracted by federation. At the time I wasn't sure what to think, but it does seem that the effort level of using the integrated approach of client/server/protocol may just logistically be easier.

[1] - https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/


Not working to me means: the client is slow a.f. I was once banned by accident from the Mozilla room. I couldn't even retrieve the contact information from the room because you can't do that as a banned user. And room history being lost for whatever reason.

That's is what I mean by not working. Those are things are are either bugs, or as in the falsely banned issue, a protocol design issue that should have been thought through in the first place


They have a product good enough that they don't need a huge advertising budget that involves every channel on YouTube


>And companies: you must let juniors write the code.

This is just not going to happen.


They should really give you code execution with nothing but a paperclip like the original Switch models


I miss the old days of the PS1 where you got a chip fitted into the machine and then used a spring so it would still boot up when the lid was open.

And you could cheat with games by plugging Action Replay or Gameshark into the serial port which basically just fucked with the game's memory. I don't even know what the serial port was actually meant for.


> I don't even know what the serial port was actually meant for.

The rarely-used Playstation Link cable, ostensibly:

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

Never used it myself, but it allowed a really weird first-person multiplayer mode in Bushido Blade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-obFMn_u3U4


Elaborate please; mine is in a limbo disassembled state since months because i'm too scared to install the picofly


Unpatched v1 models can be softmodded no hardware modding (picofly) needed. For those you only need to enter the recovery mode which can be done with a paperclip > sorting the pins on the right joycon rail. Though it's also not recommended because you can fry the whole Switch with the paperclip. Nowadays people use 3D printed cheap RCM jigs.


You short pins on the right joycon connection at boot time to enter recovery control mode in the boot firmware which (via an unpatchable exploit) gives you full access to the hardware IIRC.

(I presume the picofly & similar devices are just doing this automatically so you can boot the hardware under user control without requiring other hardware to make the exploit work?)


There's a site you can put your serial number into and it'll tell you if you're vulnerable


The paperclip RCM was an oversight by Nintendo on the early switch models. It is not possible to do on later firmware's, I would HIGHLY recommend not trying to install the Pico fly yourself, it is much harder than you might think and the first time I tried I screwed up the capacitors on the APU and bricked the console.


First models of the switch can be jailbroken by connecting pins accessible without disassembly (used to connect joycons), lookup switch jig RCM.


Same thing happened to Blizzard


Blizzard didn't forget about it though, they just ignored it until it became too big to ignore with Elysium, and then took it seriously and launched a great version of vanilla WoW with Classic.


They very famously did not ignore it, with the whole "you think you want that but you don't", the shutdown of Nostalrius and so on. People were going to jail for WoW private servers before 2010


yes, I meant ignoring the customer base that wanted it, but actively denying them is probably a better term. pserver shutdowns always will happen regardless if they're visible. I used to do a lot with them when I was young


Citation needed on jail time for WoW private servers.


Source: I made it up, apparently, my memory failed me and they never went to prison. They just owed Blizzard $88594539.


Bit hostile. I get the point that it's unnecessary, but the whole "agenda" thing feels kneejerk. Just say that being written in Rust isn't a good enough reason for adoption.


Yeah, that’s Theo de Raadt for you.

In fact this feels remarkably tame by his standards.

The guy is undoubtedly an exceptional talent. But his communication skills isn’t one of them.


Theo de Raadt is like that, everything he touches is gold, everything someone else comes up with is garbage, unless he forks it.


Perhaps, uutils is garbage though, pushed by some only for rather bad reasons (Rust and license). I worry more about projects where it is not directly laughed out of the room.


Much like Arch you need to have a decent idea of what you want first. As a 15+ year Arch user I used to decry people using Manjaro or the like, now I'm using omp, so I get the appeal


There is a reason I don't use Arch though lol


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