Comment Re:Title (Score 0) 148
NP++ is the #1 text editor
The vi & emacs folks would like a word.
I prefer nano.
Comment Using WhatsApp can get you killed (Score 0) 26
Comment Re:Prior Art (Score 1) 22
Thumbs up for DroidCam OBS! Best webcam ever.
Comment Re:More interesting, or disturbing ... (Score 1) 50
What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet
They were filming in a "V" pattern and heading South for the winter.
ATTN: News for Nerds: Birds are not real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:Amazon can speak up on money issues (Score 1) 62
But Bezos is silent on the death of democracy, despite owning a newspaper that claims otherwise.
The WaPo motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" does not actually specify whether Bezos (and WaPo) is against darkness when profit is involved.
Read my sig.
Comment Re:We need a different paradigm (Score 1, Informative) 171
I highly recommend you study the videos on this channel. Smarter minds and all that. Been there, done that, etc.
Comment Re:Actions vs. Words. (Score 1) 4
You might enjoy this link to an earlier slashdot submission of mine. Fingers crossed.
Submission + - World's Richest Man Says Don't Bother Saving for Retirement (gizmodo.com) 4
echo123 writes: "We're in the singularity. We're at the top of the roller coaster, and it's about to go down."
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Elon Musk, who just went to court to fight for a $139 billion compensation package despite already being worth an estimated $700 billion, says you shouldn’t worry your pretty little head about saving your own money. In an appearance on the podcast Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the world’s richest man told listeners, “One side recommendation I have is: Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”
Musk’s theory is basically that AI will become so capable that it’ll drop the cost of everything so much that money won’t really matter. Everyone will have “universal high income.” Diamandis, arguably best known in recent years as the guy who hosted a $30,000 per seat event in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic that resulted in the majority of attendees getting infected, hopped on the hype train, too, explaining that he believes that AI will ultimately lead to “basically demonetizing everything” because “the cost of labor has gone to nothing, the cost of intelligence has gone to nothing.”
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Elon Musk, who just went to court to fight for a $139 billion compensation package despite already being worth an estimated $700 billion, says you shouldn’t worry your pretty little head about saving your own money. In an appearance on the podcast Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the world’s richest man told listeners, “One side recommendation I have is: Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”
Musk’s theory is basically that AI will become so capable that it’ll drop the cost of everything so much that money won’t really matter. Everyone will have “universal high income.” Diamandis, arguably best known in recent years as the guy who hosted a $30,000 per seat event in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic that resulted in the majority of attendees getting infected, hopped on the hype train, too, explaining that he believes that AI will ultimately lead to “basically demonetizing everything” because “the cost of labor has gone to nothing, the cost of intelligence has gone to nothing.”
Submission + - Stop paying TurboTax when IRS Free File covers most taxpayers for FREE (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: The IRS has flipped the switch on Free File for the 2026 tax season, letting most Americans file federal taxes for exactly zero dollars. Anyone with 2025 adjusted gross income of $89,000 or less qualifies, covering an estimated 70 percent of taxpayers. The catch is that you have to start at IRS.gov/FreeFile, not the commercial sites that steer users into paid upgrades. Free File partners include familiar software brands like TaxAct, FreeTaxUSA, 1040.com and TaxSlayer, and many will throw in free state returns too. The program works on computers and phones and supports e-filing before the official opening of tax season.
What surprises me every year is how few people know this exists. Despite more than 77 million returns filed through Free File since 2003, most folks reach for TurboTax or H&R Block and end up paying for something the government already supports at no cost. Even gig workers and renters qualify now if their AGI is under the limit. If you want to keep more money in your wallet, start at IRS.gov/FreeFile and skip the upsell parade.
What surprises me every year is how few people know this exists. Despite more than 77 million returns filed through Free File since 2003, most folks reach for TurboTax or H&R Block and end up paying for something the government already supports at no cost. Even gig workers and renters qualify now if their AGI is under the limit. If you want to keep more money in your wallet, start at IRS.gov/FreeFile and skip the upsell parade.
Comment Re:TFA sounds like Co-pilot orchaestration (Score 1) 54
...a developer agent might use Anthropic Claude, a documentation agent might use Gemini, and a testing agent use Codex, because those LLMs have their specialties that set them apart. Co-pilot manages the team.
Comment TFA sounds like Co-pilot orchaestration (Score 3, Informative) 54
TFA sounds like simple orchestration compared to Co-pilot. At least co-pilot allows your 'team' to have various skills as they work cooperatively with each other. In other words, the technology is similar yet co-pilot has a whole API developed.
Comment Re: It depends on your skills level (Score 1) 139
However, with very actively developed libraries and frameworks, I often run into the problem of LLM tools generating code for deprecated interfaces, or mixing the APIs of different versions.
By using explicit, detailed prompts, (and good ol' GIT to fall back on, so I can try again when I fail), I have been successful.
Comment Re:It depends on your skills level (Score 1) 139
It depends on your skills level. For trivial beginner stuff, it's OK but then again.
For anything out of mainstream which no or very few examples are available for the model to train, it's pretty much useless.
I agree with you. I find it also true that free, open-source frameworks with tons of documentation and examples on GitHub/gitlab and the 'net work well with artificial intelligence. Especially Drupal because it is so heavily API driven (14 major APIs I think, last time I asked AI to list them all). The major LLMs, especially Claude are well-trained on both Drupal and Ansible in my experience. So go vibe-code a website and deploy it using Configuration As Code.
Especially after January when DrupalCMS 2 is released, (In beta over the seasonal holidays). Here's more information about DrupalCMS.
I also agree with you skill helps, (and probably makes all the difference the world). My long-term concern about the market was best said by Joey Ramone: "lack of skill dictates economy of style".
If what I wrote interests you, check out this Drupal Vienna 2025 keynote from October.
Comment Re: Just a few years ago (Score 1) 125
...They're still investing billions in AI
You just clarified where the money is going to, as opposed to hiring Stanford CS grads.
To back up your point, last week Fox News said we should all buy re-usable artificial Christmas trees so that land can go to data centers.
Submission + - Trump Dismantling National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado (pbs.org)
echo123 writes: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.
White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway. “Vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location, Vought said.
The research lab, which houses the largest federal research program on climate change, supports research to predict, prepare for and respond to severe weather and other natural disasters. The research lab is managed by a nonprofit consortium of more than 130 colleges and universities on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
A senior White House official cited two instances of the lab’s “woke direction” that wastes taxpayer funds on what the official called frivolous pursuits and ideologies. One funded an Indigenous and Earth Sciences center that aimed to “make the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and justice-centered,” while another experiment traced air pollution to “demonize motor vehicles, oil and gas operations.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity to speak frankly about the administration’s actions.
White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway. “Vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location, Vought said.
The research lab, which houses the largest federal research program on climate change, supports research to predict, prepare for and respond to severe weather and other natural disasters. The research lab is managed by a nonprofit consortium of more than 130 colleges and universities on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
A senior White House official cited two instances of the lab’s “woke direction” that wastes taxpayer funds on what the official called frivolous pursuits and ideologies. One funded an Indigenous and Earth Sciences center that aimed to “make the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and justice-centered,” while another experiment traced air pollution to “demonize motor vehicles, oil and gas operations.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity to speak frankly about the administration’s actions.
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