note that you probably need to trust the remote household with your data
Probably not actually. Borgbackup (and any sensible encrypted backup system really), does client side encryption. So the data should be encrypted before it's even sent down the wire. The remote household shouldn't be able to access the data without the encryption key/password.
I mean, they will have to trust the remote household not to destroy the data, but that's pretty much an unavoidable limitation.
You’d better give us money and not try to regulate us.
Actually, right now, the western AI companies desperately want regulation.
An unregulated environment is one where they're forced to compete on price against the Chinese companies and startups running open-weight models. All signs point to them losing that battle.
OpenAI/Anthropic's wish list right now is a bunch of regulation to prevent the use of foreign models, and to require expensive to implement "safety" requirements that make it hard for startups to compete.
I didn't say that.
Listen, I've got nothing against you hating AI. There's lots of valid reasons to be concerned, especially with the implications for the future of jobs and work. The way corporations are adopting AI is legitimately concerning.
Just don't pretend it's about the environment when it's not. That isn't just an unconvincing argument, it hurts the environmental movement generally.
It's the plastic straws all over again. You understand that the stupid straws debate did the environment no favors right? Fighting AI as an environmental issue is much worse because the AI is coming, and you will lose that fight. If you're arguing for more controls about water and power use, I'm with you. If you're arguing for a carbon tax, I will sing your praises. If you're trying to fight the idea of AI itself, and pretending that it's about the environment, that's where I have a problem.
The TPM exists because it's useful to support use cases where you want your passkeys tied to a device. It isn't a Microsoft thing either. I run Linux - my computer has a TPM. I can't use it because Linux support for the TPM is weak still, but it's there! You probably have one too if your computer was made in the last decade.
By default, even on Windows, your website passkeys aren't stored in the TPM. No one is forcing you to store your passkeys on the TPM.
And they won't, because it's a bloody stupid idea that benefits no one.
Microsoft wants your passkeys synced across devices because that's how you get lock in. If the passkeys are stuck on the computer you made them on, then you may as well buy a Mac for your next computer because those passkeys are gone either way! If the passkeys are in Microsoft Password Manager though, now migrating to a Mac is harder.
You absolutely shouldn't be angry!
The existence of powerful open-weight models is the single thing that's going to prevent us from descending into the full corporate dystopia everyone's afraid of.
It's going to hit the stock market hard once everyone figures out what's going on though.
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keep-daily = 10
keep-weekly = 4
Daily backups are cheap because of de-duplication. I keep a few weekly backups in case it takes me a bit to notice something went wrong. I don't usually back up logs.
I could probably drop the weekly backups without much risk, but I've got the space.
Sure.
Do you think that's a reasonable reason to hate gen AI?
There are absolutely issues around the rollout of AI. I haven't seen anyone disagree with that. That's just not a good argument for being opposed to the technology. That might be a reasonable reason to hate xAI or Microsoft (and I do!). It's definitely a reasonable reason to have concerns about how we're doing this. You should be concerned.
It's not a reasonable reason to hate the technology itself.
You're free to hate GenAI all you like as far as I'm concerned. Just be honest about your reasons, and don't pretend it's about the environment if you don't care enough to even look at the numbers.
So... your evidence for slop is that he made a patch, they caught an issue in the review process, and then he had to go on vacation so he asked another maintainer to take over to get the change done correctly in the merge window?
How is that not the process working exactly as intended?
The hilarious part is, yes, I don't care how fast my launcher is.
But... also, Steam is by far the slowest, least responsive program on my computer.
"Faster than Steam" feels like a joke.
I don't use a lot of non-open source applications (and not a lot of desktop applications generally). Have they gotten so bad that the slowness of Steam doesn't feel bad to people anymore?
Have you actually looked into the real environmental impact of AI is compared to, say, eating meat, driving a car, or taking a yearly plane flight? It's a rounding error. Have you looked into the numbers? Compared the environmental impact of your AI use to the environmental impact of taking a yearly vacation on a plane?
The RAM shortage is real, but very temporary. Check the news today! Chip stocks like Sk Hynix are way down because people are worried about over-production. The fact that a new technology caused a temporary shortage in a resource just isn't even a coherent argument against the technology. There's discussion to be had here about whether we should as a civilization reserve some resources for other industries. That's a discussion we could have. But the idea that AI caused a temporary shortage in RAM, so that makes it bad is... like, really ridiculous? You must see that that doesn't even make sense as an argument?
These are not arguments that hold up to scrutiny. You should consider whether you accepted these arguments because you looked into the details and they actually make sense, or if you accepted them because they're telling you what you want to believe.
Honestly, it already looks ridiculous.
To be clear, I think the automation of jobs is, at least in the immediate, a serious problem, with real consequences. The problem is real. The issue is that objecting to the technology itself is idiotic. That's not a fight you'll win. The technology exists. People are going to use it. And in the long run we'll all be better off for it.
There's serious conversations to be had about how we use AI, and how we deal with the consequences of its use, and especially how we manage the transition. But you can't have those conversations with someone who insists that AI is the devil and that we need to stop it, and who gets mad at you when you suggest otherwise.