There’s photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/accodozer/albums/72157630404839770

Yeah, Voyager here too. The indicator helps evaluate if I care enough to respond. As for Eternal September, it was a doozy and the road was pretty rough.

That said, I’m still here, so there’s that 😇

This reference may or may not be before your time … forgive me, I’ve seen this before.

Think of it as “Eternal September” and you’ll be able to take it in your stride … brace yourself, this is going to happen more and more, at least for a while.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I didn’t say that it was a valid KPI 😇

I think that this is the result of a KPI.

At some point there was a fight inside Google between engineering and marketing about how to proceed with product development. Engineers wanted a better product, marketing wanted more eyeballs.

As a result, search became about “engagement”, or “Moar clicks is betterer”.

Seen in this light, your triggering of the assistant four times increased your use and thus your engagement. An engineer would point out that this is not a valid metric, but Google is now run by the marketing and accounting departments, not by engineers.

Another aspect that I only recently became aware of is that in order to get promoted, you need to make a global impact. This is why shit is changing for no particular reason or benefit and has been for a decade or so.

Wonderful idea. Love that you’ve figured out how to pay for it right off the bat.

Several suggestions:

• Add Australia as a country
• Add System76 as a supplier
• Add Operating System as a filter
• Add a way to highlight differences
• Add a way to export the data into a spreadsheet

Skirting the edge of self hosting, I was faced with this question last month. I ended up with a Ubiquity UCG Ultra. It has all the network management tools on-board and for the first time in a long time I can manage my network from anywhere on the planet.

Access can be via a web UI, or an app.

I wonder if there’s other “offensive” terms we can find to highlight the absurdity and offensive nature of this action.

Teddy is the name of lingerie, so Teddy Roosevelt needs to be wiped out of history.

I’m sure there’s others …

If you open your CPU up to a jailbreak by being a dumkopf, does that really count as Open Source?

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/you-can-now-jailbreak-your-amd-cpu-google-researchers-release-kit-to-exploit-microcode-vulnerability-in-zen-1-to-zen-4-chips

The boundary of where to host what, is not fixed. You cannot host the internet at home. Where people sit on the spectrum varies depending on skill, resources and need.

I highlighted several options that provide a solution for someone with limited skills and resources.

You could host a CALDAV server or a next cloud at home and use the suggestions I provided, or you could use those hosted by someone else.

My answer was to provide ideas, not a how-to guide, answering, in my opinion, exactly what OP was looking for.

That it doesn’t match your idea about solving the problem tells you that there are many ways to solve software problems. My suggestions had a low barrier to entry.

What’s your recommendation for OP?

Nothing and everything.

There are thousands if not millions of open source solutions scattered around society. Some are feature complete, most are not. Some are maintained, many are not. A handful are funded, the rest is not.

What open source needs, more than anything else is fundraising and the means to distribute those funds to the tune of the trillions of dollars that the corporate world extracts in profits from those open source efforts.

In other words, the people who make this need to get paid.

Firefox terms and conditions, Red Hat, and several other projects that have caused uproar through the community, are all caused by the need to get paid to eat food and have a roof over your head whilst you contribute to society and give away your efforts.

Google Sheets will be a simple solution you can do for free.

The app “Track & Graph” is another.

I have been logging all my medical events using Tasker and a Google Calendar. Analysis is manual using graphviz.

Absolutely.

Except not in this timeline.

Here it’s all about ChatGPT, nothing about neural networks, nothing about machine learning, or about what we used to call expert systems.

You do realise that the journalists around us don’t sit still long enough to make the distinction, and I can guarantee that the Orange has a shorter attention span than a goldfish. The general public has no clue at all.

Hopefully ChatGPT et. al. will choke on their own input shortly, take all the trillions of investment dollars into the sewer and cause a few CEO’s to suddenly discover the meaning of Defenestration.

… dreaming is fun …

On a positive note, something we, as-in science, got from this whole kerfuffle is back propagation, which for the first time gave us the ability to (partially) solve until now unsolvable multivariate problems.

Hopefully more will come of that before the LLM in charge pushes the big red button into oblivion.

What could possibly go wrong … though to be fair, the current crop of LLM are evidently smarter than the Orange running the country at the moment … even including typical LLM hallucinations.

Accurate, except the bottom right panel only happens in very limited circumstances, hardly ever after a year has passed.

Source: I’ve been writing software since 1983 or so.

How do you think that the internet works?

How do you propose to connect such a mesh in New York to New Jersey, or Chicago, Los Angeles, or Sydney?

This sounds like a trap.

It’s free unless you fail the test.

I rarely use a docker container in production that I didn’t write the Dockerfile for. Once you understand how it works, you can write your own and install exactly what you want in the way you want it.

NOP ($EA) 😇

This is waaay too close to the bone.

Source: I’ve been writing software since the 6502.