If you’re using flakes: nix flake update && sudo nixos-rebuild switch —flake .# in the directory of your flake.nix

That’s one of the dumbest articles I‘ve ever read. Glad the author realized it themselves.

If you ask me personally, I don’t think that any of this has a benefit for anyone. I don’t think this is an advancement. It doesn’t make us work less, it just makes us achieve more in the same amount of time, or at least most people feel that way. It doesn’t make me more productive, it’s rather the opposite.

And what good is it to us if we achieve more? The only benefit it has is for those god damned capitalists. Great for them. The pay we get stays the same, and it probably even gets less.

OpenClaw? Why the fuck would I let an AI use my computer? I want to use my computer. I want to read my emails and I want to answer them. I want to research stuff and I want to learn. Why would I let an AI do all of those things? Hire a human because AI can’t touch grass? Seriously?

It‘s all just so gimmicky, and yes it’s interesting and amazing that those things are possible, but it’s like flying humans to mars, it is really cool? Yeah. Will it have any real benefit? No.

To me, this is all just fucking sad and will probably mark the advancement from late capitalism stage into hopefully complete economic chaos.

So yeah, when it comes to AI, I‘m probably not the best one to ask.

But what they’re also implying is is that most people just can’t keep up. But they can, apparently.

About the security stuff, I don’t think it is a question of whether AI could do it or couldn’t do it, it just wasn’t extensively used for it. For a long time there have been LLM bots trying to automatically identify security vulnerabilities in hopes of making “free money”, but it wasn’t effective. Now there’s people actually trying to find real issues. And I would argue that AI is not good at it. You can just let it ponder for as long as you can feed it with money, and you will definitely find vulnerabilities. The false-positive rate is very likely high. If I try to roll a dice 12 times, and 3 out of those were 6, then that doesn’t make me a good dice roller.

I think it’s just more the act of discovering what we can do with AI. It’s like openclaw, that could’ve been around last year, it’s not like AI wasn’t capable enough at that point, it’s just that no-one thought of using it like that (or at least no-one built it to the extent of openclaw and got it that popular).

Not even every bug AI finds is a bug.

But then you’re primarily extracting text, which you don’t need LLMs for. OCR tools will do the job much cheaper and more effective.

That problem isn’t even specific to computer science, it’s specific to most engineering fields. Programmers are just extremely good at automating, so they automate themselves out of existence.

At least in Germany, people with higher-education on-average also have more political awareness - but the more engineering their field contains, the more that awareness jumps out of the window (what I mean by that is that of all the people with higher-education, engineers have the highest rate of politically right-leaning people, which in my world-view equates to being incompetent).

Which imo comes from another problem: Computer Science had a huge boom, and now we ended up with a lot of businessmen who can hussle 70h/week to get their degree in 4 semesters, so that they can start their path to their first million. Basically, computer science got invaded by capitalists and the nerds just went to another corner in hopes not to be bothered. Not that they could have done much about it, there are way more capitalists than there are computer nerds.

Try to optimize this away, sucker:

echo "level full-speed" | sudo tee /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

Luckily I have a ThinkPad, I just run the following program and hold the fan vents against my face:

int main(void) {
  while (1);
}

Rust made the same mistake that C++ made, otherwise it might’ve been a viable option. Now instead debugging a memory issue for 3 days, I think a month on how to architect my software, just to scrap that 5 months later and rewrite it from scratch.

GNU is a trusted quality stamp. Me see GNU, me go GET.

And I want to add: even though LLMs can identify cybersecurity risks, it doesn’t mean they are good at cybersecurity. They’re probably just as bad as in any other area. Also questionable if the actual positives outweigh the labor required to flag all the false-positives.

Just because they‘re used everywhere doesn’t mean that we just have to accept them. Also doesn’t mean that LLMs are a good thing.

I think LLMs can be used as an (additional!) cyber security analysis tool, that’s honestly the only area in which it seems to be actually useful (right now). And most projects don’t reach the size in which spotting security risks spanning across many different modules is a relevant skill to have. So it should be used sparingly, on things like the linux kernel. Then the cost of it might even be worth it (but I also don’t want to know about the amount of hallucinated bugs it finds).

Honestly I don’t really understand what’s wrong about calling them that, I do prefer calling them compositors as well, but to the untrained eye window manager is much more clear, and it’s the existential goal of a compositor anyway (in most cases at least). Just because a spec sheet doesn’t call a game engine a 3D renderer doesn’t mean a game engine is not a 3D renderer, because unless it only renders 2D, it is also a 3D renderer, if you get what I mean.

Though you could argue that a compositor without a window manager is useless, thus a compositor implies the presence of a window manager.

Sway and River both use wm as part of their URL: swaywm (see https://swaywm.org/) and riverwm (see https://github.com/riverwm). Calling them only one or the other is wrong, they’re both compositors & window managers.

Also using something like that takes all the fun out of configuring it yourself.

That’s some really good music. Apart from the theme.

No, I don’t configure using nix, but partially because I don’t use home-manager. So I just write in the native config language.

The other reason is that I don’t believe configuring everything in nix is sustainable. You’re adding another layer that needs to be maintained by someone, and there isn’t much benefit. The native config is as much part of my configuration as a pure nix configuration would be.

And it doesn’t really matter whether it’s dedicated files or just inline in a nix module. I decide based on complexity. My neovim config is spread out over many files, but all other configs are inline.

Adwaita