Imagine the management of Fiat not going around in a Panda…

I got three such offers by direct email just this week.

No, thanks.

But I mean why? Used in this way, AI systems are just another static analysis tool.

Sure, a computationally inefficient one, but if you can get the signal/noise region high enough, anything that helps you find bugs seems fair game to me.

One has to review their work, and take any fix offered by the slopmachine with a lot of care, of course.

And Anthropic is a bad company, but we are talking about detecting security vulnerabilities in Firefox by wasting Anthropic money. That seems like win-win.

The only downside (and I admit it’s big) is that Anthropic gets some publicity out of this.

They are talking about specific hardware features. Which would of course be great, but you can imagine how they are not exactly at the toppiest toppy top of Fairphone’s priorities, when they are still struggling to be taken seriously by your mainstream Android buyer.

Consider that every hardware features is extra hard for Fairphone, on account of their very specific commitments to materials sourcing, labor practices, and longer term support.

They are a company with a lot of very complicated demands, for a still very low volume of sold devices. They need to pick their battles, and clearly being blessed by the church of Graphene can’t be that high a priority.

My Thinkpad from 2017 keep getting firmware updates through lvfs for like 7 or 8 years. I was pretty impressed actually.

FOSS users:

Big tech leeches off FOSS and never gives back!

Also FOSS users:

These big tech companies should stay out of our favorite projects, thei money is poison!

And this is why we can’t have nice things.

a man of wealth and taste

What’s puzzling me is the nature of their game… (Cit.)

It’s not that we didn’t listen… It’s that there’s just too many people that see every warning as a suggestion.

But now with 100000% higher carbon footprint!

Wilbur, IIRC is the name of the mascot.

Anyone who has not yet been able to completely cut the US off their business travel.

Indeed I was not suggesting switching the OS on that device.

But if it quits on you, old thinkpad + Linux will keep you going.

I’m rather concerned about what I do when my Surface Pro 7 dies. I inherited a Chromebook from my dad, but that’s a poor substitute.

Do you need to use Windows? Because any old Thinkpad with Linux Mint will get you through a few years, and performance-wise should be able to handle anything you’re currently doing with your surface. Or hell, I can’t believe I’m saying this, a Macbook Neo.

83% of the searches that happen on PC are done with google and 95% of the searches done on mobile are done with google.

So 12% of users didn’t change the default from Edge with Bing?