There's an interesting twist where the protocol is interesting and clever, the client can be configured/recompiled to use a different server, but the company developing it is also doing Ministry of Truth style moderation.

So the interest from the independent open source community is low because they don't expect a good working relationship with the company.

And it may not be mature enough to fork yet.

While other solutions are 'good enough' for most.

IIRC Bluesky protocol can federate just fine but the company running the default service just won't, to keep its users safe from Deplorables.

I'm glad this never happened in the early days of SMTP.

That's how many Americans felt when GM et. al. moved production to Canada so they started buying e.g. Toyotas made in e.g. Indiana instead.

You are correct that people will vote with their wallet. To me it makes sense for Canadians to buy from one of the major Canadian automobile manufacturers, and not just for tariff reasons.

I'd like to buy about 60KWh of batteries soon.

Not for a car, but for a home.

Many folks are likely in the same boat, so why not address a huge market demand?

"Solar is great but batteries are too expensive" is something you'll hear all day long.

Bonus: It's cheaper to ship from North Carolina than from China.

With all this 'found' matter people now need to work out the electromagnetic interactions and torsion, as well as relativistic.

It'll be a while.

Dynamic pricing can also mean you get a discount for purchasing a good or service when the establishment is less busy and their resources are underutilized.

I would have loved this as a teen - we went to the diner at 11pm and were often the only ones in there.

Encouraging more efficient utilization of services is not a bad thing. The 24-hr grocery store could offer a 2% discount when shopping during restocking hours when the two cashiers are reading a book.

This would be the good use of such technology.

But of course they will instead track your bluetooth beacon, correlate with your online history, and decide if they want your menu to be higher or lower. As stated, Surveillance Pricing is a terrible development.

Unfortunately politicians will probably get confused and ban price rationing instead of price gouging.

Not that I want salty, microwaved, factory food stored in plastic, anyway. The food I can't cook well myself I get from local mom-n-pop restaurants.

> it still doesn't seem like a meaningful improvement over KDE 3.5.

Have you tried LXQt?

On Debian just install it and uninstall connman and it's pretty good for most tasks, especially low-spec devices.

Some neural nets have been good at solving sticky programming problems. Whether finding game cheats, doing voice recognition, modeling proteins, or other tasks humans haven't done well at.

But an LLM is more of an information retrieval tool, so tasking it with clever algorithm design is asking the wrong tool the wrong question.

Then there are the people who complete in programming challenges. In high school I would sometimes stay after to do the ACSL competition tests - no big deal, the school was a five minute walk, and it helped my buddies who wanted a high team score.

Then they implored me to go to DC on a trip for a national competition our score qualified us for. This seemed so bizzare to me as a fifteen year old kid - I could stay in a run-down motel and take tests this weekend or go camping in a state forest with friends. I let them down, in a way, but the ask was totally alien to me.

I have nothing at all against people who enjoy such things but it's a subset of the algorithm minds.

So we now have the results of some competitive coders vs. the wrong tool for the job.

OK, mildly interesting, but does it tell us much?

Are any of the profits going to Gila Monster conservation?

So every international traveler could be searched to see if their meds contain any patent violations and seized at the border?

This is entirely unworkable.

Didn't they say some rogue VP set up his laptop to torrent all 72TB of Z-Library to feel o-llama?

I wish my laptop had that many drive bays!

Some people so want to believe that a useful information retrieval system is a superintelligence.

The rest of us aren't surprised that an interesting search engine isn't good at chess.

I'm familiar with some organizations that have been feeding their Slack data into a RAG for employee queries.

They're going to be quite pissed if this has been shut down by Slack.

I implemented portsentry feeding fail2ban on edge servers to deal with the unrelenting scans.

It helps, somewhat.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fportsentry%2F...

Yup, but now the AI lobby is stronger than the oil lobby.

I guess whichever the military needs more.

There are some videos online with sound.

Do we hear the engines?

Hopefully an airplane enthusiast who is familiar with the expected sound profile can comment.