Red Hat CEO says "Al needs to be everywhere", purchases Al company.

After laying off 30% of their staff, Mozilla Foundation flies to a Zambian resort to promote Marxism & anti-Capitalism. It is just as ridiculous and hilarious as it sounds.

4 Months After "Purge", NixOS Team Continues to Discriminate & Alienate Contributors.

Want to participate in NixOS discussions? First you must agree to their extreme political agenda.

Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.

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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

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GenAI to ease the burden of being “technical support” for family members.

My daughter has a neighbor who is freeloading on her WiFi - and even though they disable the “mysterious devices” they come right back. They use so much bandwidth it’s disrupting my daughter’s use.

I know what to do and explained the steps to her partner. Then I went to ChatGPT to act as second opinion and technical documentation writer.

I then sent a much better “step by step How To” than I would have written myself.

Here is the prompt:

Play the role of experienced home networking expert and technical educator.

I can play video games and use my iPhone and Xbox but I’m not a networking guru. I’m 32 years old.

Symptoms: my Xbox - which also serves as our tv streamer - is getting bogged down. Mysterious devices are connected. My Xbox was listed as paused.

Analysis: I assumed it was some neighbor freeloading. There may be a standard admin password that they know or they have some sort of password cracker.

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