This is also a major problem with social networks, gmail and so on - users think these authorize them to give away private data of you- like phone numbers, mail adresses, text message content, images - of you.

Now things that have been told in confidence only for their ears are added to that list.

I noticed that with self-checkout terminals, fruit varieties are still mis-labeled and missing. I noted that because I write down the price for such items, to be sure I enter the correct variety and price. It wasn’t there. Not only you’d pay more than is on the label - you also risk to be accused of theft if there is a bag ceck. And if you call somebody to correct it, you waste several minutes since the missing variety might not even be in the system.

The time saving is hugely illusory. You really should take your watch and measure. What costs most time at a staffed register checkout is mostly the payment. The staff scans much faster than you.

Try to save a file to “PRN”.

But to be honest, TempleOS is way cooler.

While plan9 is Unix tidied up a bit.

Look at distrowatch.org.

Myself, I am using plain old Debian stable since about 17 years, after using SuSE and a bit of Ubuntu since 1998 or so.

I also use a bit of Arch and Guix when it comes handy.

So, I am a boring guy.

But back to your question: What du you want? What is your goal?

Fuck NVidia. I saved so much time since I bought an AMD Radeon card.

Here a comment on this from usernomdeguerre on hacker news (ycombinator.com).

“His” and “GKH” refers to Greg Kroah-Hartmann, who is maintainer of the stable kernel series and the speaker in the video.

I’ve included a few slides into text that i thought were eye-opening to me:

From his Kernel Recipes 2026 slide on Mythos

  Mythos's 79 vulnerabilities:
  24 - no detail at all "something crashed"
  14 - not a bug at all
  3 - totally made up data
  15 - already fixed in latest release
    - 11 by others
    - 4 by anthropic
  20 - fixes were needed
    - 7 "assume a malicious filesystem image"
    - 2 "assume you can inject a malicious network packet into the middle of the stack"
    - 2 "NOMMU"
    - 6 sctp networking issues for untrusted devices
    - 2 ipv6 minor network issues 
    - 1 gpu driver for local malicious user

GHK called this “10 ‘real’ bugfixes”, which to me sounds like there’s a wild hype machine around these companies and uncritical parroting of every press release they make that falls apart when you engage the affected real experts.

That would lead to an AI ice age. Surely not the worst development for Gaia and her children.

Fantastic. That’s USD 750 per Earth inhabitant. You could feed all of humanity for this, with is what is essentially needed.

Sometimes, I think the “AI” industry has an interest to keep the debate as polarized as possible. Because this keeps people from taking a sober look and examine rationally and objectively what they promise, vs. what they deliver.

We have several public debates which followed a similar pattern, such as the debates around climate protection and clean energy. (And lo and behold! Now “AI” is the reason we can’t have climate protection!)

Or the “AI arms race” argument, which honestly just reminds me in the enthusiasm, propaganda, and delusion that happened at the outbreak of WWI. Yes, modern weapons got “better”. But that made war just more lunatic. And now, you can kill a building full of school children with an “AI mistake”. Military people must be gleeful.

Keep in mind that this only relates to the state of the largest LLMs. You can train generative models on consumer graphics cards. Object recognition, classification, etc are all tiny compared to LLMs. These are also AI […]

The linked Codeberg page refers to LLMs in their current, corporate-controlled shapIe. It is about using LLMs for coding.

Your argument is rather leading away from that.

How would Solus compare to Void Linux?

One of the most interesting characteristics Void Linux has is “stable rolling release”. The only large distribution which does this is IIRC SuSE Tumbleweed/ Slowroll.

Ridiculous anti-AI hysteria is pushed by the AI companies themselves to make the anti-AI side look insane.

And to weaken the FOSS communities I guess. Plain information warfare.

There is a company called CompuGroup Medical which is all-in on “AI” (LLM) and with a CEO funding far-right propaganda portals (Nius).

Why? For example, XING just got sold and with it all personal information. This is why they didn’t.

Oh, the solution is pretty easy: Ban social media access for this vulnerable group! If it works with kids, it should work with other endangered members of society, too! Won’t it?

Installing new packages is relatively slow. But it was also quite slow because the infrastructure at gnu.org was loaded. It is a lot faster since the project moved to codeberg.

Also, for me personally is openix a “guix shell” a lot faster than starting up a virtual machine.

This is what I do. I use guix shell for local development environments, for example when I need current Rust + cargo or an LSP package in Emacs.

Guix is typically very little behind of Arch (which I use as well, in a VM), and depending on what you do, it now has a pretty massive package selection (well, less npm stuff or NVidia hardware support).

It is also quite good for packaging and distributing own software that way, offering for developers and power users a better solution to what flatpaks solve. Since it works across different distributions and across most popular languages, I expect it to become somewhat of a standard for bazaar-style open source contributions.

Here Andrew Kelley’s YouTube talk version of the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4