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The categories that they used for "sabotage" (Entering proprietary information into a different AI, using unapproved chatbots, and using low-quality AI responses as-is) seem like they're just put together so they can blame employees for sabotage for the failure of the AI rollout, rather than employers trying to wedge it onto a bad use case, or not rolling it out properly. The first two just seem like the company having issues with people going straight to ChatGPT, and using that as-is, and the third seems to be more people not really caring and using the AI output as required. None of that comes across as outright sabotage like the organisation or article the to imply. All three seem like reasonable end-points of telling people to use AI, and giving them metrics they need to meet, or a not-great interface, so they just go off and use a different AI thing, because it's all AI, and basically the same thing, right?

The initial learning curve is very rough, since people might be used to commands from a newer editor like Notepad++, which doesn’t work in vim. nano at least says which button combination you need to exit, for example. It is easier past the initial hump, though.

You can also use :x to write and quit, from memory.

They’re also fairly versatile. y-i takes any symbol after. Space, comma, the letter p, you name it. If you can type it, it’ll generally work. Which can be a bit faster than some graphical editors at times, where you might have to find and select the contents by hand. That can be a bother if there’s a lot.

It's like a better iPad in a way, since you could run full-scale desktop programs on it, and use it like a desktop. I wouldn't be too surprised if things like surfaces were one of the reasons why Apple seems to be making a push to try and make the iPad functional as a computer on its own.

More than a decade on, and it's still one of the best kindles ever made, in my opinion. You had physical buttons instead of a fiddly touch-screen, you could have music, have it read to you, and also go on the internet. Plus it's old enough it supports a bunch of formats, and registers as a mass storage device to a computer, so anything can use it.

According to the article linked in the article, it’s not that the operating system itself is more demanding, but more that the DE, and Browsers/Websites are more demanding now. It feels like that Canonical basically needs to do the games thing of having a set of minimum specs for Ubuntu to run at all, and a recommend specs for Ubuntu to run well. Canonically basically bumped up the latter, but it’s being taken as the former.

It’s odd, since they used to have a rather nice HTML web interface specifically for low-peformance devices, but it’s since gone away.

This doesn’t seem so bad, though. 2 GB more in about 10 years is pretty reasonable in terms of an increase. It’s not like they doubled it.

A little confused, is this basically the same thing as Open Street Maps, just in app form?

And your full shelves of various peanut butters, many of which are owned by a small handful of conglomerates, and all of which are produced in about 3 factories.

They were also presented as being cheaper and more ethical. You didn’t risk being roped into paying a higher price because the cabbie deliberately took a long route, or be surprised by the price being different in person. You could order an Uber, and you’d pay only what was in the app.

On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly.

Right, but the volume was the issue. The cURL team could only work through and verify them so quickly, so the deluge of bug reports just made it impractical for them to dedicate time to sort through it for the Bug Bounty. The idea being that they got rid of the bug bounty, so there was less of an incentive to generate and write a bogus bug report.

It was volume that was more the issue with the bug bounty program. They were flooded, and recognising it is all well and good, but not if there’s no good way to filter it out. They didn’t have the manpower to keep up.

It does make it harder to find them, because the phrasing is similar, but not identical due to randomness. Whereas before, you could probably filter a good chunk of it out by just finding the same message/keywords and filtering by that.

It doesn't. Whether that remains the case remains to be seen.

Storage. There aren’t enough hard drives, so datacentres are also buying up SSDs.