And it probably will be until Microsoft stops selling lifetime windows licenses because the biggest point of M365 is windows as a service. Even if you buy the other components like Intune and entra ID separately you're still way cheaper off with lifetime windows licenses. Which is what we do at work.
Unless you actively want the support contract with Oracle, there is no reason not to use MariaDB instead.
Debian changed it to the default quite a while ago, and it's full support for mysql compatibility means you sometime don't even notice it (eg "mysql" is starting mariadb client).
Yes, it replaced MySQL in Debian, and many other distros. The only shared web hosting I know about uses it on FreeBSD, etc. It seems to be more widely used then MySQL at this point.
Thankfully I believe this is largely just overblown hype. Silicon Valley has gotten way too high on it's own supply of bullshit and the AI craze is that being taken to the next level of insanity. Regardless, the tech industry is amoral at best. We are so obsessed with "can we" (or rather "can we convince a VC that we could") that we never take the time to stop to consider "should we".
Ultimately, watching tech find new and innovative ways to fool and to fleece people has, at times, almost made me feel shame that I've been part of this industry for almost 25 years now.
We are addicted to the idea of disruption and the monetary rewards that come with it. Generally we don't care if we sink the rest of the world in the process either.
It's really depressing to see that big tech is essentially universally pushing Snake Oil. AI is a lie. LLMs are a legit tech that have some purpose, but LLMs will never evolve into anything remotely resembling the actual definition of AI.
They are flowery language generators and they will never be able to reason, understand, debate and criticize. They know nothing and therefore embody nothing. No matter how much computer power you waste on them the end result will always be bullshit. Nothing more. Nothing less.
- LLM capability has grown spectacularly fast. Google published the transformers paper in 2017. Remember when OpenAI said GPT-2 was too dangerous to release? That was five years ago. Now look where they've gone and where trillions of dollars are going. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20912556
- what is the "actual definition of AI"? Do you mean AGI? Machine learning and deep learning have been subsets of AI since their inception.
- LLMs or any AI tech does not need to "reason, understand, debate and criticize" to be useful, disrupt the economy, and change how people work and live.
I think your time would be better suited getting as far ahead of this looming upheaval as possible, rather than going down with the sinking ship while trying to warn everyone on board that it's sinking, while they scoff at you and order more martinis.
Just when I think I have a handle on how stupid our politicians are... they find some way to make me realize they are even dumber than I previously thought.
According to HuffPost it was a 352-65 vote, so this stupidity was bipartisan. So much for one party being smarter than the other. Banning an extremely popular app, in an election year no less, while providing absolutely zero evidence to prove what you accuse it of doing is really some kind of next level idiocy.
This bill does nothing to address the problem of nation state propaganda spreading via social media. It just allows American politicians to claim a fake national security victory over a Chinese owned company while ignoring the fact that American owned social media companies are a steaming cesspool full of such content.
Dont get me wrong, I think TikTok is terrible. I won't use it. Ever. But that still doesn't mean it should be banned. Unless you want to ban all social media apps all at once. Probably still not something I would support, but I could definitely see proponents being able to form much more compelling arguments in favor of such an action.
As it stands right now, this makes zero logical sense.
If China were really THAT involved in the day to day operations at Tiktok, one would expect to see more pro-Russian propaganda with regards to the war. There's little to none that I've seen.
Computer Fun was the first progamming book I ever got. It made me into a coder. I got it when I was six at the same time my father and uncle gave me and my siblings my Uncle's old Apple II for Christmas.
I still got a physical copy of it on my home office shelf. Not the same one I had as a kid mind you, because that one took a serious beating over the years. I looked for that book for years with only the memory of the general illustration style to guide me. One day about a decade ago I stumbled on it.
Love that these are freely available online as PDFs. That's freaking awesome!
I guess this is a thing on Windows now. However at the moment, it seems to be a very insecure thing. But hey it's early days... I predict they'll eventually get it right 125 patch Tuesdays from now.
Happy to have the feedback! Most of those I've already fixed internally, there's just a 3-4 week delay between me checking in, and it flowing to Insiders.
For the other few things I missed: Very happy for the feedback! I've filed bugs and those'll be the first things I look at come Monday morning.
Isn't running commands as admin, in the same terminal window, already possible via the use of runas.exe? Granted I haven't daily driven Windows in years but IIRC that does the job albeit with clunkier syntax.
runas doesn't support "same terminal window", it always has launched a new window.
It's possible this sudo could have been implement as yet more clunky flags to runas, but it seems like making it a separate tool has benefits: off by default, whereas runas is a nearly always-on required built-in; more importantly a nicer less clunky syntax.
I mean that's great... but I've been using Brave sync across a wide variety of devices (Linux, iOS, Windows and MacOS) and it has worked without a hitch for quite awhile.
This is one reason I'm over and done with proprietary consoles. So tired of shitty company's like Nintendo being able to call any kind of shot. They may still know how to make fun games and do that on accessible and reasonably priced hardware, but beyond that they are an objectionable and ass-backward company on so many levels.
Consoles are not the only place where this is happening. More PC games are requiring always-online access even for singleplayer content. User experience be damned.
I just had to refrain from a Steam purchase because I saw that it requires the Origin launcher, an EA account, and is always online. For a singleplayer game. Madness.
I remember when SimCity 2013 launched and caused a massive controversy because it required a constant online connection in order to play the game. The Xbox One also had to do calls home every few days to allow you to play games you purchased before Microsoft backtracked when it caused bad PR for them.
It only took a decade but now this stuff is just common practice and nobody cares about paying $100 for digital purchases that will be ripped away from them when some server is shut down in a few years.
Honestly, physical games are kind of a bust at this point too. Many games are shipped with incomplete versions of the game on the disc, and you're required to download some of, if not majority of the game when you insert it. Hell, some games are sold in physical cases but you open them up and instead of getting a disc/cartridge you get a piece of paper with a download code.
I don’t disagree in principal but what exactly is the alternative? Playing SuperTuxKart and Pingus or some other open source games all the time? I hate the “service-ification” of everything, but I think it’s a near-monopoly that’s kind of hard to avoid.
There’s sites like GOG that give DRM-free versions of games, and I like GOG a lot, but it’s still fundamentally a proprietary service that could shut its doors down tomorrow. I know that I personally do not have all my GOG games backed up, and I am one of the rare people that has enough disk space to actually do that, so I doubt I am weird here.
Nope. Adding the "steam has to be running" check is an optional step the game developer performs before they upload their game to steam. The dev can go out of their way to wrap their .exe in the steam DRM.
If the dev does not do this, there is no steam DRM. lots of games dont use it, remember kenshi as an example.
My partner and I decided to buy a Wii together for our first Christmas in 2009. We had a lot of fun playing online with our friends and strangers until the services went offline.
It looks like those servers went offline in 2014, but it felt like we didn't get this service for very long.
We pretty much decided from that experience we'd never buy a console again.
