Don't monkeys on a typewriter with a space bar also have the same statistical property?
Interesting comment since this is from the university of Manchester. Is this a late return to monkey news?
Readit NewsI'm still waiting for the apple laptop killer (a 12h+ laptop with plain Ubuntu) but it's still brittle as fuck. I'm so frustrated by the current state of the mobile computing space. I have to have an Apple locked down device, which I hate, just because I want proper battery life.
A aarch64 Ubuntu vm inside MacOS runs faster and lasts more time than a booted up Ubuntu on arm in these devices. This is how far behind these things are.
and what bums me the most is that it's all about software. The hardware is great, but software on Snapdragon is taking a lot of time to catch up and it screams M$ lobby to me
I echo that wish.
I'm about to try the Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Q Elite with Linux so we'll see how it goes.
Maybe I'm being reductionist, but it is rather obvious that if someone likes gambling but doesn't have access to it due to their age, they will reach for gaming as the closest substitute, sure.
That doesn't mean that gaming makes you like gambling. There are many player archetypes, some of which get enjoyment out of games from factors that are quite dissimilar from gambling, and they will probably never gravitate towards it. I could see the reverse being true though, probably gambling does make you like some kinds of gaming.
Also, this is saying that online gaming is correlated with online gambling. Well yeah, it's all sitting at the computer playing competitive games against strangers, money or not it's a similar activity.
Indeed, they show no correlation between "playing games at 9" and "online gambling at 20". It might be the age difference, but it also might be that gaming in general has little correlation with online gambling, it's just competitive online gaming that correlates, which makes a lot of sense.
Might also be a connection between risk takers and gamblers. At least when I was growing up it wasn't always games, it was often general risk taking that signified the future gamblers.
INTPenis commented on Which company would you prefer to join? companymatches.com/... · Posted by u/wsycharles0o
The list is actually missing the only two companies I ever dreamed of joining. Red Hat and Gitlab. Never made it, but I was close with RedHat.
You can check company names too ! It's interesting to see that by default, the graph shows google,apple.
But adding meta, and IBM really changes the plot.
Meta went from 2K to 10K+ from 2018 to 2025. While IBM seems to have stopped contributing in 2008. Since they the merging with RedHat, I would have expected to see them increase again but none of RedHat / IBM seems to have increase. https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#redhat,oracle... Not sure if their name appearing means that they are contributing tho.
Really cool project,
But why have Apple contributions skyrocketed? I have never heard of Apple using Linux in anything.
It wasn't really clear to me that you had to select the year as well as location. Because the year was already written in a red box, so I never tried to change it.
INTPenis commented on DeskHog, an open-source developer toy posthog.com/deskhog... · Posted by u/constantinum
I instantly pictured this being a rubber duck. And then I started thinking, how could a virtual rubber duck help you deduce things?
Mostly you'd want it to listen and be supportive I guess.
But maybe, just maybe, could AI somehow summarize a very short suggestion or response based on what you say.
That is something I'd buy. Tactile, can be thrown around a bit, listens at the press of a button, responds with a random short suggestion or idea.
INTPenis commented on Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too) samueleamato.xyz/2025/06/... · Posted by u/rd_wei
In some countries I'm sure you can get away with it.
But I have a friend here in Sweden who tries hard to avoid our eID monopoly "BankID", and also doesn't use credit cards, and I see how he struggles with everyday things.
I wasn't put on this earth for a short time to struggle with such mundane things.
I'm sorry for being negative, but it feels to me just as a publicity stunt.
No serious product, just a proxy for Google, while it is interesting not a real solution.
But as a marketing tactic to promote your VPN it is an interesting move.
It's not a publicity stunt when they're using the technology they helped develop to run their search servers completely securely and without any stateful data.
Not specifically related to this “child protection” thing, but you can’t deny that the free flow of information also leads to some pretty terrible things, driven by actors such as states, magnified x1000 by social media, and now also AI.
Every platform these days is full to the brim with misinformation and propaganda (which ends up in mainstream media as well), deliberately making many of us hateful and sometimes violent. The free flow of information is undoubtedly being used for harm.
I’m 100% for personal liberty and accountability, and admittedly I don’t have a solution for this.
I do think the Elon Musk approach (“just let people decide for themselves”) is very naive at best.
Again just to be clear this has nothing to do with the UK thing which I strongly disagree with.