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I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of the posts there are just engagement bait anyway.

Especially useful on my TV's anemic Sony browser when I'm trying to diagnose of my network is crapping out or the apps are just in a go slow.

So algorithms then?

LLMs have some interesting properties and certainly can do a good job sifting through large amounts of raw data. They are however a very brute force approach compared to say a network routing protocol. Sooner or later people will start to realise (again) that engineering is about trade offs and you need to work out what your constraints are and stop trying to solve every problem with massive amounts of multiplication.

I swear people have rose tinted glasses as to the state of the init system before the current generation of system management daemons.

If you really want to have Debian without systemd there is always Duvean but the Debian architects are free to choose the technologies that solve the very real system orchestration problems that exist.

Mine has two, one which is very vanilla for local events and the like and has a strict no moaning policy. The other one is where the local gossip is and is as unhinged as you would expect.

Every now and again I go back to Facebook to see what my more distant friends are doing. I spend about 10 minutes trying to fiddle with my ublock filters trying to hide all the algorithmic content and then give up.

I have private chat groups for various circles of friends and that's a lot more useful for sharing stuff. We'll see if they will be persuaded to Signal when the ads start appearing.

I thought the whole "virgin" thing was an interpretation of the original Greek or Aramaic for "maid", as in a young women of child rearing age.

Is that really the case? I work for a multi national FLOSS organisation but every additional country you want to hire from requires additional compliance overhead so in practice we generally hire from countries where we already have the legal setup to employee people.

How big an org is Signal?

Vampire Survivors is still my go-to as I only get a little time here and there and the 30min cap on a run fits nicely.

It's not surprising. If I were looking for a cheap but capable microcontroller that is well documented and already supported by a bunch of frameworks and rtos implementations I would certainly consider the rp2050. I guess the esp32 is the only thing close and that has WiFi built in.

The amount of drama bait this caused over the last week was something to behold.

I like to think I'm reasonably technical and I do put network and some devices restrictions on their accounts. However stuff still gets through and I don't really want to play a cat and mouse IT admin game with my kids. If I as the root user could set the field on their PC's and that would allow them to access age appropriate services without having to hand over personal data to some age verification service then i'd consider that a useful feature.

When they get the keys to root they can set it to whatever they please.