I'm glad open source projects will profit from the huge productivity gains AI promises. I haven't noticed them in any of the software I use, but any day now.
Readit Newszaik commented on The use of LLM assistants for kernel development lwn.net/Articles/1032612/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Is anyone else on the opinion that ffmpeg now ranks 4th as the most used lib after ssl, zlib, and sqlite... given video is like omnipresent in 2025?
You can check, at least for Arch Linux: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages
zaik commented on Grammar Checking from the CLI with Harper gribnau.dev/posts/harper-... · Posted by u/foresterre
Can this be used to check LaTeX documents?
zaik commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
Who could possibly be in favor of this? Like sure industry lobbying is strong but could any politician really argue they're acting in the interest of their constituents with this?
There is no politician that does. It's about the interpretation of existing copyright law.
zaik commented on Open Banking and Payments Competition bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/smitop
I use a decentralized global ledger and can make instantaneous peer to peer payments to anyone on the planet. I'm not just my own bank, I participate in a system that replaces central banks and provides a money that isn't constantly devalued. It's called bitcoin.
I don't receive my salary in Bitcoin and I can't pay my groceries, rent or taxes with it. People own Bitcoin because they expect prices to rise further, not for its utility.
zaik commented on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol blog.nginx.org/blog/nativ... · Posted by u/phickey
Is there a way to notify other services, if renewal has succeed? My XMPP server also needs to use the certificate.
zaik commented on Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API ch.at/... · Posted by u/ownlife
It seems like the only internet protocols they didn't implement were the ones designed for chat. How could they forget about IRC, XMPP and SIP?
On the surface, buying 49 percent of Intel wouldn't infuse the company with any capital. It would just bail out investors.
I would not be surprised if some member of the Trump syndicate has acquired a significant stake in Intel shortly before this announcement.