If your language requires an IDE to show you WTF is going on in the code, it’s a bad language.

Given, there’s ways to write poor code in any language, but some are much, much worse than others. Java and JavaScript being the kings of that kind of thing.

Some day, AI assisted coding will become so intelligent that it will look at your average “enterprise” Java code and ask the user, “WTF were they even trying to do here?” Which is the only correct response a lot of the time.

Thank you for posting this comment. I came here to write the exact same thing and now I don’t have to!

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So… In no time at all, they’re going to be breached. Proving them wrong.

Will they go back to open source after that? No. Of course not. Because it was never about security to begin with. AI is just an excuse.

It’s like saying, “anyone can scan the source for vulnerabilities! It’s so easy. Too easy! That’s why we’re not going to justdo that ourselves and instead bury our heads in the sand and pretend the availability of source code was the problem.”

Remote work is great all around. Who knew‽

Oh wait, fucking everyone.

That is one fugly vehicle. At least it’s electric I guess 🤷

Nothing says, “I’m really old” like driving a Rolls Royce. This car represents that aesthetic to a T.

Yeah but it works and it’s still free 🤷

BYD is special in that they make nearly all the components of their cars. I wouldn’t be surprised if they owned and operated the mines that obtain the metal necessary to build them because they’re that integrated.

Contrast that with how western car companies do it, where they outsource most of the vehicle parts manufacturing to 3rd parties. When Ford or GM needs a new side mirror for a new vehicle they just designed, they’ll send the spec to some company that just makes mirrors (like that) and put in an order.

When BYD needs a new part like that they just make it them damned selves. In fact, they’ll setup an enormous production line for each stupid little thing.

BYD can get away with this because China’s market is so big and a lot of the things they need for making electric vehicles are subsidized by the Chinese government (aka the people paying taxes).

This is why a BYD compact electric SUV is $12,000 (in China) and an equivalent vehicle in the US is $40,000 (or more, I shit you not!). That $12,000 SUV with 300 miles of range really is equivalent to a $40,000 vehicle in the US!

It’s one of the benefits of having your government pick and choose winners and subsidizing TF out of those winners. There’s also things other than subsidies at work that give BYD a huge (price) advantage but they’re more complicated than I’m willing to write out at the moment.

What’s the downside to doing things the China/BYD way? The inability to pivot. In theory, the EV market could undergo a massive change so that demand drops like a rock. Then they’re stuck will zillions of cars no one wants. This already happened.

BYD also has teeny tiny margins which leaves them vulnerable to market crashes (like that). Fortunately for them, the government will bail them out and give them loans that are basically free money. Just like how the US government bailed out GM.

The AI features are actually pretty cool!

Using a local AI model (running on your own GPU), you can:

• Drag files on to the “AI bar” to bring them into the context of a prompt.
• Tell it to perform actions like, “merge these two PDF files.”
• Use it to search your filesystem, “find pictures of spiders.”
• Ask it to find system settings or tell it to change them, “turn on dark mode.”

It supports voice and probably visual (e.g. with a webcam) I think.

Best of all: It doesn’t send any of that to some data center in the cloud! I mean, you can configure it to do that but you can just as easily use say, qwen3.5.

Note: It’s not realistic to expect to be able to use local models if you have less than 16GB of VRAM (in your GPU). I mean, some 8-billion parameter model will work with say, 8GB but you’re not going to be satisfied with the results most of the time 🤷

This is what happens to nearly every business Microsoft buys or invest in. They’re the enshittiers.

Sony is a close second, BTW 😁

It’s so dumb that they have to reverse engineer this chipset to make it work.

MediaTek, YOU SUCK.

This is some next level milking it for all its worth.

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For a wifi option, you can use Droidcam with OBS. Setup the virtual camera inside OBS and you’ve got a wifi webcam that you can walk around with.

I’ve used that setup many times and it’s sweet. At work my coworkers are all astonished and amazed when I use the OBS virtual camera pass-through to my virtual desktop to walk around while talking (I use a wireless headset for the audio). I can even show various overlays of my desktop with my face and a downcam I have setup for demonstrations (like a craft cam setup).

Combine it with RVC voice changing silliness and they’re all blown away. The security folks (of which I’m a part, haha) always freak out a little bit when they see me share my Linux desktop when I’m on Teams via the company’s virtual desktop. “That shouldn’t be possible!” Haha

I don’t have the heart to show them how you can copy and paste huge amounts of text into the virtual desktop directly (clipboard sharing is disabled and prohibited 🤣).

I feel for this image. It’s obviously having a hard time with its own transition from artifacts into a complete archeological record.

Big Cable is the one generating all the noise to begin with!

The “ceiling” is the fact that no matter how fast AI can write code, it still needs to be reviewed by humans. Even if it passes the tests.

As much as everyone thinks they can take the human review step out of the process with testing, AI still fucks up enough that it’s a bad idea. We’ll be in this state until actually intelligent AI comes along. Some evolution of machine learning beyond LLMs.

I know I’m way late to the party but…

A person’s job was replaced with a capitalist’s robot, and now the capitalist earns all the money.

Not necessarily. A lot of Text-to-Speech (TTS) tech comes out of academia and free, open source software (FOSS). That includes AI models and voice changing tools like RVC (Retrieval-based Voice Conversion). It is fully open source and there’s thousands upon thousands of voices to choose from that are also free and not a one is an exact replica of a real person’s voice (because it doesn’t do that good a job; just gets close). Many of the most popular voices are mashups of many different voices anyway.

You can use any number of FOSS TTS tools (some of the newer open source AI models are great) to have it read your text and then have it processed through RVC into whatever voices you want.

Alternatively, you could just read the text yourself and change the voices using RVC. That works far better than you’d think it would but it requires reading your whole book out loud which requires overcoming laziness haha.

TL;DR: A person’s job could be replaced with a FOSS robot, and now the author earns all the money.

I turn to my financial advisors, “I need to liquidate all my wealth. As soon as possible. I need it all in cash.”

The lead advisor is incredulous, “Are you serious, sir‽ You’ll be sued from here to Tokyo! The litigation will go on for over a decade!”

I do my best to act like the original psychopath, “It’s MY wealth! MINE. I can do what I want with it! Fuck the haters.”

“To what end, sir? Are we moving into gold? Crypto? Private islands like Larry Ellison? An entire city in a bunker?”

“No. I need it all in a single bank account. I want the names and addresses of every household in America earning under $50,000. All of them.”

I let them stew in that for a moment, the sheer logistics of the request paralyzing the room. Then I throw them a bone. “Tell me… if I set aside exactly one billion for myself, what’s the payout for the rest?”

One of the advisors pulls up a spreadsheet and in no time at all they have the answer, “$20,739.41.”

I smile, “Great! Make it an even $20,000 and I’ll use the rest for politics.” In my head, I laugh, “We’ll have socialized medicine in no time! Haha!”

Even after handing out checks for over $20,000 to 40 million Americans I’m still a billionaire.

I didn’t watch the video but… Why TF did he choose Pop! OS with Cosmic Desktop‽ That’s not something a non-technical user would choose. That’s like… Beta software (Cosmic) running on a Linux distro made and tested for very specific hardware sold by System76.

That’s like trying to put wheels made for a truck on a random sedan. Like, yeah you can do that with a bit of effort but why? It makes no sense.

If you’re going to put a Linux distro on random hardware pick something universal and stable that was made to run on random hardware like Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Especially if you’re new to Linux.

Also, if you’re going to do something ridiculous like this why not just start with Gentoo? Don’t use the GUI installer either! Go the LFS+ route and take care picking your file systems and compile flags 😁

BTW: Out of all the random people I’ve ever known to “try Linux”, the ones who had the best first-time experience all used KDE (Plasma) as their desktop. That means Kubuntu, Bazzite, or SteamOS. For newbies, always go with KDE. Seriously: Its interface for settings and the launcher are familiar enough to both Windows and Mac users that they don’t have a hard time while also being different enough that they don’t make bad assumptions about how things work (which is a problem for Gnome).

It would turn into a prince! An unstable prince of undefined behavior.