And a minus-minus version is also available, which seems to be aimed at Chinese needs.
It's also seemingly automatically installed with Windows.
Readit Newsimo, the 'grandparent' type user should really be on an ipad or chromebook etc. (unless they have some specific software needs). Too easy to get unwanted stuff running on windows and it needs admin.
I got an 80y/o a System76, for basic tasks. Knowledge transfer from Windows was relatively quick, a week at most (she was willing, which is not always the case). Maybe we'll see Linux support call scamming, but that's not the case right now - that advantage of Linux for old people cannot be understated.
Probably the same for an iPad or Chromebook.
Fusion is cloud-only, as well, annoyingly.
I'd love to have a Linux-based 3D CAD program, but the open source ones just aren't up to scratch.
I've tried using FreeCAD, but it still scrambles things topologically (for example: adjust an underlying object and your fillets may get totally hosed).
Fusion is especially frustrating as they have a macOS version. A Linux version really shouldn't be much different.
> the open source ones just aren't up to scratch.
Yeah OnShape has been a godsend, and keeping it free for open designs is one of the better ethical stances to take. KiCad on the other hand is incredible (LibrePCB is shaping up really nicely too).
That's Linux's weakness right now - when a use-case misses it REALLY misses. Browser-native apps are a pretty reliable escape hatch for that.
What about "Linux"? It is also a registered trademark.
Linux is the objectively best choice for a significant number of use-cases at the moment (not all of them). Using Linux and communicating that doesn't necessarily make you a "Linux guy."
Obviously, using Linux when a better solution exists for whatever you're trying to solve equally applies. While it may not be unhealthy, it certainly isn't a good idea.
I think saying "I'm a _______ guy" with any brand or company filling that blank can be a big problem. Most companies are there to make money and loyalty is often a one way street.
From my view it is more productive to find out what you like about something and always be open to maybe finding someone else who can deliver on that. And sometimes things that we thought were essential are not. You might even find something new to like.
> I think saying "I'm a _______ guy"
Most comments are interpreting this as purely tech. It's worth mentioning that this applies to basically everything: the only things that are worth gifting your loyalty to are living things: humans, pets, nature.
zamalek commented on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users kenklippenstein.com/p/hom... · Posted by u/duxup
This is OSINT (open-source intelligence) and isn't spying by any technical standard because it's speech in a public venue, there isn't a way to raise hell like with e.g. Snowden. Spying would be going into their DMs without a warrant (which is probably happening).
> Reddit post about “spreading awareness” as though it were the secret messages of al Qaeda
Extreme waste of tax dollars, though. I guess this is an important lesson in Big Brother and "having nothing to hide." They will put something worth hiding in your hands and swiftly arrest you.
While I'm on the fence about LLMs there's something funny about seeing an industry of technologists tear their own hair out about how technology is destroying their jobs. We're the industry of "we'll automate your job away". Why are we so indignant when we do it to ourselves...
This article isn't really about losing a job. Coding is a passion for some of us. It's similar to artists and diffusion, the only difference being that many people can appreciate human art - but who (outside of us) cares that a human wrote the code?
zamalek commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless
If I, a human, read the source code of $THING and then later implement my own version, that's not a "clean-room" re-implementation. The whole point of "clean-room" is that no single person has access to both the original code and the new code. (That way, you can legally prove that no copyright infringement took place.)
But when an AI does it, now it counts? Opus is trained on the source code of Clang, GCC, TCC, etc. So this is not "clean-room".
Agree, but to an even further degree.
At one point there were issues with LLMs regurgitating licensed code verbatim. I have no doubt that Claude could parrot a large portion of GCC given correct prompting.
Being able to memorize the various C compiler implementations, alongside the sum of human knowledge, is an incredible feat. However, this is in a distinctly different domain to what a human does when writing a clean-room compiler implementation in the absence of near perfect recall of all C compiler implementations. The way that Claude solved this is probably something a human can't do, the way a human would solve this is definitely something Claude can't do.
Pre commit hooks are complicated because jj just has a fundamentally different lifecycle than git does.
Tools that integrate with git specifically can be tough though, yeah. Some do Just Work, and some very much do not.
I’ve found a “we use jj not git for this project” in Claude.md makes falling back to git rare, but I also tend to incorporate version control into slash commands or skills directly rather than let Claude decide what to do.
Yeah, in an ideal world we'd have "save hooks" but that would probably be much too computationally expensive in some cases.
KeepassXC implements passkey support, but they do not implement these anti-user features. As a result, they are being threatened with being banned via attestation:
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407
Screw these "You'll own nothing and be happy" people. I'll own all my keys no matter what. The software I run on my device should never betray me to signal things like "this passkey is allowed to be backed up!".