Tldr; we shouldn't be idealistic, we should accept that LLMs stole from FOSS code, we should accept reality and instead of abandoning daddy GitHub we should ask them super nicely if they can pretty please open-source the training models trained on our stolen code.
I don't understand how the author simultaneously holds the position "we should accept reality" and "GitHub/Microsoft will open up their models if we ask them to".
Azure and Teams. The former makes them waaaaaaay more money of course. Other than that it's been a trainwreck. Gamepass was relatively novel but increased the price so much as to make it unviable for most people, that's before you get into the plague of issues with it like controller compatibility, which is itself a problem of Microsoft's own making.
The irony of the chancellor announcing today that they are promoting innovation in the UK tech industry while simultaneously implementing the innovation-crushing OSA is fucking baffling.
Hey small group of people who want to communicate online to organise things, you'd better be monitoring everything that's been said on your forum or face a crippling fine that you cannot survive. Oh cool you've moved to Facebook and now everyone needs a Facebook account to interact with you in any meaningful way because god forbid you read emails.
When I looked into nix a year or two ago I was directed to use flakes by half of the documentation while the other half told me to not to use them since they were experimental. Ended up going back to what I knew, since, you know, installing things was a pretty solved problem.
The issue for me as a potential advocate to my immediate circle of friends and family is that I don't want to become the only source of tech support. Now realistically they'll probably have fewer issues, but as soon as they want to fix something they'll have to come to me. No they won't Google things, and if they do they won't understand it.
I've not built anything beyond simple scripts in rust but I'm looking at some of the cosmic codebase to see what I can do.
If you're British and employed your employer is legally required to provide a private pension I believe. You also get a state pension if you've been paying national insurance (most people will get this taken out of pay cheques before you ever see the money, same as income tax). Some employers offer "matching contributions" up to a certain amount. For example if you decide you want to send £100 per month into your private pension, your employer will also do the same, so your pension gets £200. These contributions are tax free so it's a tax-efficient way to save money when compared to privately investing where you'd have to invest from your income, which has already been taxed and then potentially have to pay capital gains tax on profits.
That works until all* games come with root level anti cheat. It was the same with micro transactions which people still defend despite being utter shit.
Again, this existed before AI. Typo squatting, supply chain attacks, automated package uploads, CI pipeline infection, they're all known attack vectors. That's not to say this isn't a concern, just that it's a known risk and the addition of "AI" doesn't, to my eyes, increase that risk. If your SSH keys don't require a password, you have taken the decision to make those keys less secure but more convenient to use. That's pretty much always the tradeoff in security.
The "Invaders Must Die" fight in Hi-Fi Rush had me beaming ear to ear. By that point in the game I was so in tune (intended) with the mechanics I just chewed through the fight, headbanging the whole time. One of my all time favourite gaming moments.
One of these days I'll actually play lancer...