Comment Re:Economic model? (Score 1) 22
The profit model is simple: Capture client source media in Adobe's walled garden and hold it captive.
Comment Re:How Trump is decimating federal employee unions (Score 1) 68
Ever since, (and before), this happened in Term #45, DJ Trump's war against the scientists working for the government to measure and regulate has affected me deeply. So I argue here on the slashdots.
Comment How Trump is decimating federal employee unions (Score 0, Troll) 68
Comment Re:The problem with swatting is not the callers (Score 1) 110
The main problem with swatting is not the people making the calls.
The underlying problem is the police can be wielded like a weapon that is likely to get someone killed.
If the police were trigger happy thugs, desperate to play soldier with military surplus toys while being almost completely immune from consequences, then there would be no swatting.
"but the swatters are guilty of attempted murder"
sure, but the real problem is the police are a ready tool of murder.
...but also it is very much probable that *much* of the swatting originates from nation states that will us harm. This is text book motivated mayhem for these entities.
I am currently too fatigued to provide citations.
Comment The US is not a stable energy investment (Score 3, Informative) 44
We have a lot of options for power these days. There is no excuse to move from coal or gas. We have been doing so in many nations, and its time we complete the project.
They're just waiting for the tax breaks and subsidies they need to be able to make it financially viable, like Mitsubishi's recent withdrawal from the wind projects it had been involved in -- citing an inability to make the projects economically viable, even at strike prices of $140 to $200 per MWh.
Last week the Trump administration cancelled a half billion dollar project off the coasts of Rhode Island and Connecticut that's 80% complete and was scheduled to go online next Spring. He's similarly cancelled two other large East Coast wind projects that were well underway.
Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that’s nearly complete
Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects
Wind Power in Crisis After Trump’s Move, It’s the Planet, Stupid! -- Belinda Waymouth interview
Comment TRX is a realistic alternative gym (Score 1, Interesting) 77
It has been my experience that a simple TRX unit can replace a whole lotta gym. But even TRX units are overpriced. Look at Decathlon's own.
Just search YouTube to learn how to use it.
There's advantages and disadvantages to everything. Paying for and cancelling gym memberships suck.
Comment Re: The AI is not the problem (Score 1) 93
I totally committed to the free Dutch course and I liked it until I grew to hate it due to meaningless, endless repetition I perceived only as existing to up-sell the paid version to me. While DuoLingo states language learning is their mission and I appreciate their need to be profitable, (or become a non-profit), I canceled out of frustration due to wasting sooo much time and energy time on inanely repetitive lessons. The phrase, "een wafel is beter dan drie boterham", will trigger me due to said repetition and my desire for sanity and peace.
Comment Re:It won't last (Score 0) 33
its a whole new ballgame for developers. For one thing, I don't get stuck like before on technical problems even after googling with determination for a lengthy amount of time.
You mean it's a whole new ballgame for grossly incompetent developers, like yourself, who can't handle technical problems simple enough for a stochastic parrot to handle, even given unfettered access to the internet.
If AI makes you a better developer, you shouldn't be a developer.
So you've never swung for the fences and struck out. Cool. You must be awesome.
Comment Re:It won't last (Score 2) 33
I've said it before but it's going to become increasingly difficult to get the training data.
Your concern is a non-issue for open-source developers, because of all of the code and documentation online at places like Github, etc. At least that's been my experience for quite a while now. Technically speaking, its a whole new ballgame for developers. For one thing, I don't get stuck like before on technical problems even after googling with determination for a lengthy amount of time.
Comment Obligatory XKCD (Score 4, Insightful) 66
I hate reading about things like this. My heart goes out to Kapitano. Thank you for trying!
Comment Re:enshitification (Score 1) 104
No personal comment other than to include this very informative NY Times interview with The Points Guy during Covid.
Comment Re:Skype (Score 3, Interesting) 55
So he's using old handsets to control skype on their local computer. Tell me if this is somehow not what's going on.
That's not what is going on.
Comment nerdvittles + BulkVS rock! (Score 1) 55
This will be abused in a nanosecond and then he'll claim he doesn't understand why people are so terrible.
NPR isn't exactly news for tech nerds, so some technical details might be light. The article seems to address everything is a volunteer effort for the community, including refurbishing old pay phones while it doesn't address the cost of using the PSTN network, (or internet connection).
I just came here to say I was forced to leave my prior PSTN provider a year or two ago so I switched to BulkVS and I can see why this particular tech nerd doesn't mind something like a Netflix subscription cost to support and volunteer for his community.
Comment Re:Saturating in The Big Eight LLMs for Coding (Score 1) 10
I was paying $20/monthly for Claude, but now I pay the same price for Junie, a plug-in for Jetbrains IDEs because I find it to be superior for coding. Time permitting I'll try some of the other things on the short-list you detailed -- thanks!
I think it helps that I code with open-source stuff like Ansible, which manages to train the LLMs well with legit, well-documented code hosted on Github, etc.
Comment 94% of users cited "excellent" or "above average" (Score 4, Informative) 152
Nearly 300,000 filers used Direct File for the 2025 tax season, and 94% of users who completed an IRS survey rated their experience as “excellent” or “above average,” according to an internal IRS report obtained by Nextgov/FCW.
From the linked to article:
The IRS is reportedly ending the Direct File, but a report obtained via the Freedom of Information Act says that 94% of users rated their experience as “excellent” or “above average.”
TFA is light on details, but the article it links to is solid. And it makes me curse the currently corrupt GOP all the more.
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