Assuming your coffee machine is directly next to your sink, and that you don’t filter your water first

Using Monero for payment is fine once you have it set up. You’re just using it for facilitating anonymous payments, not treating it like stock.

That being said, setting up Monero securely is a pain. I’d like to use it at some point in the future but right now I have more pressing projects to work on

No it has nothing to do with racism, psycho author.

No, they have a point. Historically a lot of these norms were established for that purpose, just like the origin of homeowners associations. You’d be surprised by how much is there if you dig down further.

Plus, as others have pointed out here there’s plenty of jobs where nitpicking like this is detrimental due to passing on skilled workers for a dumb reason

That being said, holy shit that pivot was too hard. The abruptness just detracts from their point

As an engineer, if you were offered drinks and you ask for decaf coffee, you’d probably get judged more than if it was just water. And this is coming from someone that drinks a fair bit of decaf

I had all-day interviews for my job too, including lunch. For me, they were already pretty sure I was the right person to hire, so it was only the one round of interviews. I was even a few minutes late due to my employer having several buildings and the one the interviews started in was unmarked. I showed up early to the wrong location.

That being said, while a single round of all-day interviews isn’t bad, it would really suck if you had to do that multiple times, and would likely be a waste of time for everyone involved

I’m also using Jerboa on Android and it looks fine for me

I’m the most senior tech support with coding background and I’m blown away by Claude.

Then you’re shit at coding

These people are loons.

These people are “Rationalists”, so yes they’re loons

The problem with electron apps are that they’re literally just browser windows, which require a lot of overhead that you wouldn’t need with a native application. What you’re recommending has no benefit.

The issue is that Electron apps are an acceleration of Wirth’s Law.

You can’t be serious

Matrix and XMPP have had working federation for years.

Should point out that the theory gets causation completely backwards.

How does it handle mounting/unmounting USB drives? I’ve had to deal with that a bit in the past few days between multiple android devices and it’s been fairly mixed, with the default aosp ironically being the best at it

What makes Material Files better than Fossify’s file manager or even the stock one? It’s hard to tell from the F-Droid screenshots.

Also, seconding the AntennaPod and Syncthing-Fork recommendations. And to add more recs: Voice Audiobook Player, Breezy Weather, and Clock (by BlackHawky) are really good. Breezy Weather and Clock are by far the best apps of their types that I’ve used

BRIEF monopoly

One way to see silver lining is the potential irrelevance of a particular saying:

What do you call someone who graduated medical school at the bottom of their class? Doctor.

A single repo hub doesn’t want to host LLM-generated code. It’s not like there aren’t others that are friendly to LLM-code, including the largest one: GitHub. And GitHub will never ban LLM code, they’re too integrated with it. And Codeberg is just a specific Forgejo instance. Nothing is stopping you from hosting your own if you really want to.

You’re taking a single instance of a provider adding an extra stipulation to their TOS and equating it to governments banning the use of LLM’s. It’s not, and the government isn’t going to be taking away your LLM. Quit acting like it is.

This is the exact opposite. Trying to ban AI from everything despite its use cases.

This is a pure, bold-faced lie. But this is nothing new from AI evangelists.

This is about banning AI contributions from specific open-sourced projects. This is due to a number of legitimate concerns that are still not solved, such as maintainability and how AI development legally interacts with licenses such as the GPL

You want to go and start an open sourced project that uses AI from the start? Go ahead, nothing is stopping you. You want to install AI programs on your OS? Go ahead, nobody is stopping you

But don’t cram that bullshit into the OS itself. Doing so then forces AI onto everybody whether they want it or not, and that’s bullshit

And the only exceptions are when it’s really Nixon who’s the problem

We’ll stop when the AI evangelists finally learn the idea of consent and quit trying to force AI down everyone’s throats nonstop.

You want to shrivel up your brain with AI? Go ahead, you’re an adult (presumably) and I’m not your mom. Go access it through a browser or separate app. Quit trying to force it into my face by integrating it into the OS or DE. And while you’re at it, quit continually going “BuT dId YoU cOnSiDeR tHiS???1?” like a door-to-door salesman that jams their foot in the door so you can’t close it