Unfortunately, for most evil and/or small corporations, licenses are weak requests and not binding contracts. They will strip the code from the license and integrate it into their software.

It will be interesting to see what their implementation is like, and if it will decrease trust in LLMs. If the ads are obvious and part of the output, then people might just socially demote chatGPT to a dumb bot.

Incredible article. Does what it claims in the title, is written well and follows a linear chain of reasoning with a minumum of surprises.

I'm genuinely scared about what society will look like in five years. I understand that outsourcing mentation to these LLMs is a bad things. But I'm a minority. Most people don't, and they don't want to. They slowly get taken over by a habit of letting the LLM do the thinking for them. Those mental muscles will atrophy and the result is going to be catastrophic.

It doesn't matter how accurate LLMs are. If people start bending their ears towards them whenever they encounter a problem, it'll become a point of easy leverage over ~everyone.

It's a shame patent trolling killed the OG Steam Controller. But this one's got trackpads and seems like a decent substitute.

Indeed a massive shame. The case was ultimately thrown out but by then Valve had stopped production. I still boycott Corsair today over this.

When was it thrown out? It seems the ruling against Valve was upheld

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/court-upholds-jurys-decision-i...

I have the OG steam controller. I didn't realize it had turned into a collector's item.

Really? I'd assumed it was just a commercial failure because Valve tried to replace an analog stick with a trackpad that performs worse in almost every way.

Pretty much everyone I know bought one, tried it for a while, and determined that the trackpad simply did not work well enough. It's a really cool device and I've been trying for years to actually use it. It's great hardware, but the ergonomics and UX is really just not good.

Not these days. Native Compilation made emacs a faster and there have been a lot of other changes. In fundamental-mode, emacs can handle really large files. When opening files literally, it's even faster. I have this 104k line org-mode file and it's reasonably responsive. Reverting it takes a while, but the UI does not hang while the buffer is being formatted according to the mode.

I use a mid tier laptop CPU (6C12T). Emacs is snappy. Compared to what it's like now, it was glacial in 2019.

I’ll bite, wtf is your org file?

It's three months of text I need to refile.

Hey, I think that's a great idea, too. 4K panels on phones (tiny!) exist for some absurd reason. But somehow there are no 22" 4K monitors. I think they probably don't sell well. Probably the same reason why all monitors are 16:9.

At one point there was the ASUS ProArt PQ22UC, but I don't think that panel was produced after that stopped selling.

If you go slightly bigger, there are the ASUS ProArt PA24US, Japannext JN-IPS2380UHDR-C65W-HSP, ViewSonic VP2488-4K, AG Neovo EM2451, and the UPerfect UColor T3.

Thank you. I'll look out for these on second-hand markets.

I know this is satire, but a program that logs what you were doing and when is quite helpful. I have a script that fires every ten seconds and stores the current active window's metadata to a sqlite database. Other scripts log battery level, system load and free space. I use Zeitgeist to store my clipboard history and it's backed up regularly. Another script, run by Audacious (with the "song change" plugin), logs the music I'm playing.

It can't make a standalone executable, but Babashka might be useful.

You kinda can:

https://github.com/babashka/babashka/wiki/Self-contained-exe...

Going by what's popular on Goodreads, the publishing industry thinks the way out of this uncertainty is smut disguised as fantasy.

Smut (and Archie Comics) are one of the few ways you can keep selling the same plot over and over again.

You can even find it in serialized writings of some of the "greats" of yore - if you real everything Dickens or Chesterton or Wodehouse wrote, you start to see some serious echos, if not direct repetition.