flexible mason’s rule made of lead

Deep (toxic) cut, kudos.

K, happy with that.

Backing music: Pussy Riot, KMFDM and Thrill Kill Cult.

Lucky 10000 is a beautiful way to look at it.

Could sub Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and Enter and be an old school dev ;)

Miss my Zaurus clamshell (don’t forget the rotating hinge for tablet mode and a pen), definitely was ‘Actually Carry’.

Why is this idea so hard, it’s the difference between pocketable and not.

Yes, after subsidising charging stations and electric trucks for a while.

Personally I take any ‘age check’ I can’t get around with a VPN and a browser ID string (or whatever the kids find next) as evidence of egregious enshittification, and my answer is to stop using that site.

But I’m in a privileged position where I don’t need to for work, never did facebook et. al., dropped reddit (and slashdot before it) except for niche, mostly read only stuff that I can drop in a heartbeat and am a non USian. The vasty majority of internet users are not.

The article is right, this is going to cause headaches at the least and breakage at the worst. Once 99% of the population has accepted this (95% of non phone users), they’ll come for linux, rewriting and refining the currently broken legislation. The politician class globally hates free speech and private communication, this is another big nail in the coffin.

I have some hope that the internet will treat de-anonymization like censorship and route around the damage, at least for quite a while. Sturgeon’s law also applies, at least 90% of the internet is crap, and the proportion is climbing fast with AI slop, but it’s also the greatest single step in freedom of access to (useful) information ever and I don’t want to lose that, and we shouldn’t have to pay for it with voluntary surveillance.

Remember, there’s a bunch of other choke points that can be used to the same effect as OS, ISPs, DNS, fingerprinting, search engine, the list goes on. It’s just that Microsoft, Apple, Google actually want this for the data harvesting potential so OS is easy.

At some point there will be a need for internet 2.0 built with anonymity and encryption baked into the bottom layers, perhaps it’s time to start building.

Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither and shall have none.

Climate change only cares how much CO2 you emit, not how much you get for it.

What comes after bargaining? Oh, yeah, depression. Ways to go yet.

Same thing we do every night. Try to take over the world.

tank with extra steps ;]

Totally, assuming of course it’s a business class laptop (indeed if it’s a thinkpad or similar most anyone can grab a $50 screen from China, find a yt tutorial and have a go themselves with a fair chance of success). On the other hand if it’s a glued together ultra thin consumer POS, it’s likely more than it’s worth to get it fixed.

The great Aussie tradition of punching down folks.

Somewhat recent, there was a time we’d have put them up in Army barracks.

Same (but Fedora immutable), I occasionally look at NixOS and inevitably decide to let it cook some more (especially the doco). Stability is nice. One day…

frankly, anything that allows the practitioner to focus more solely on the patient is a good thing.

Absolutely.

on device AI pull out relevant bits to populate a template.

As long as it’s on device (or local network, I’d be fine with a e.g. a server for a practice, but say a macbook pro should do the job fine, with full disclosure to patients) it’s OK. Indeed go ahead and use whatever voice transcription / processing you want e.g. whisper or QWEN LLM, don’t care as long as it’s local. The article however cites ‘Heidi health AI/ Microsoft’, and my policy for anything with AI in the title is ‘distrust unless verified’ especially wrt health data.

Admittedly I don’t know ‘Heidi health AI/ Microsoft’ from a box of nails, but Microsoft’s fingers in the pie spooks me immediately. Frankly no commercial AI presents as trustworthy enough for sensitive data in general and incoming IPOs are only going to make that worse as they desperately seek monetization.

Not to mention malpractice insurance up the wazoo… As it be should for doctors.

Just pay for perfectly functional, deterministic, local, voice transcribing like dragon dictate and actually read it afterwards for errors. Or hire a person with an NDA. Sending privileged information overseas to known data miners for transcription is pants on head bonkers given the alternatives.

Need to have a chat with my doctor to see if he’s one of the 40% (there’s a fucking scary number from the RACGP, talk about burying the lede).

Moar Hammocks !!

This wasn’t about integrating commercial AI, or even AI generated code, but supporting local, open weights AI.

Fedora has approved its own AI Developer Desktop initiative with a unanimous council vote. Three Atomic Desktop images are planned, two of them CUDA-enabled, and none of them would be phoning home to cloud services. source

Personally I saw it as a positive, when only criminals corpos have guns AI etc. Local only alternatives should be encouraged.

Was about to go ‘NO!, not Fedora’, but actually they’re doing the good local thing. Phew.