Maybe there’s a surge in demand because people are hoarding the petrol in Jerrycans, similar to how people were hoarding toilet paper during COVID. Something I still don’t quite understand - the whole world is going into lockdown and some people’s primary concern was gathering enough toilet paper to last a lifetime?

Even with federation, the majority of people are still going to use the “main” instance. Look at how many Lemmy communities and users are on .world for example.

In suburban areas of the US and Canada, mixed use buildings are generally not allowed.

Mixed use meaning retail space one the ground level with apartments/ condos above.

Really? I’ve seen plenty of “luxury” apartment buildings with an overpriced fancy grocery store on the bottom floor.

Who the hell is going to do all the programming?

Hopefully they’re not running anything written in Rust, because there won’t be anyone left to maintain it.

Where is the website template from? I’ve seen the exact same one before.

!dadjokes@lemmy.world

You can run your own AI locally if you have powerful enough equipment, so that you’re not dependent on paying a monthly fee to a provider. Smaller quantized models work fine on consumer-grade GPUs with 16GB RAM.

The major issue with AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI at the moment is that they’re all subsidizing the price. Once they start charging what it actually costs, I think some of the hype will die off.

It’s not perfect, and I don’t like the OS-level age verification, but in terms of privacy it’s still far better than most other jurisdictions.

I definitely agree with you!

I’m using AI a little bit myself, but I’m an experienced developer and fully understand the code it’s writing (and review all of it manually). I use it for tedious things, where I could do it myself but it’d take much longer. I don’t let AI write commit messages or PR descriptions for me.

At work, I reject AI slop PRs, but it’s becoming harder since AI can submit so much more code than humans can, and there’s people that are less stringent about code quality than I am. A lot of the issues affecting open-source projects are affecting proprietary code too. Amazon recently had to slow down with AI and get senior devs to review AI-written code because it was causing stability issues.

Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil’s version has already rolled out this month.

Wow, that’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected!

This happens a lot in the USA, because of how much autonomy the states have. A lot of decisions are left up to individual states, and some states end up doing strange things and add all sorts of exceptions to their laws. Even basic things like sick leave aren’t federally mandated (and only 19 or so out of the 50 states have mandated paid sick leave).

Sometimes it can be a good thing though… For example, California has the strictest privacy laws in the country (CCPA and CPRA, similar to GDPR in Europe), and Illinois has very strict laws on usage of biometrics (like fingerprints and facial recognition). Those would have been extremely hard to approve nationwide. Things that go well in one state often end up rolling out to other states too.

… did you read the same article as everyone else? I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

I think the blurb was posted by the submitter (@vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world) rather than being a part of the link.

If your AI is making PRs without you, that’s even worse.

This is happening a lot more these days, with OpenClaw and its copycats. I’m seeing it at work too - bots submitting merge requests overnight based on items in their owners’ todo lists.

You can also avoid the cost of gas/petrol prices by using an electric vehicle. I pay $0 to fuel mine since I have solar panels.

They were hours apart, though.

I couldn’t not.

You could not not?

I get maybe 5 or 10 emails about this Solana thing per week (to my spam folder of course), saying I’ve been granted some crypto that I need to claim. I’m not sure what they’re actually trying to do - gain access to crypto wallets maybe?

unlike Windows you should never give userspace applications root permission

This is a best practice on Windows, too. Apps don’t run with admin permissions unless you either explicitly run them with admin permissions, they’re configured to always run as admin (rare), or they request elevation via a UAC prompt.

I don’t think WINE would work, because it likely relies on a custom driver.

If you don’t have a Windows installation, booting into a WinPE LiveCD (like Sergei Strelec’s WinPE: https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/sergei_strelecs_winpe.html) and installing it in the live environment should work. Running Windows in a VM should work too, if you pass the USB drive through to the VM.