dgriffith

It's an accessibility issue, mainly. And very faintly a safety issue, and also owners of the cables risk getting them damaged by something with steel/solid wheels (like an industrial bin or delivery trolley) running over their cables.

Other councils have suggested cutting a groove across the footpath to lay a cable in, which seems like a fairly acceptable solution. 20 minutes work with a concrete saw, tap a channel with a flip top lid in, done. Or even just the groove - a 3/4" groove is enough for a cable and fine for wheelchairs and etc to pass over.

What are you expecting to break down? A modern internal combustion engine plus continuously variable transmission is one the world's most complex pieces of engineering in common use today.

An electric drive system is trivial in comparison.

WinXP ran quite nicely on 4GB of RAM. You could boot to the desktop in under 5 seconds if you had a solid state drive.

All the day to day tasks someone needs to do with their computers haven't materially changed in the last twenty years since XP held the crown. In that time the speed of processors, storage, gpus, and ram has increased by literal orders of magnitude.

And yet, somehow, things have become much shittier since then.

DKIM/SPF/DMARC add extra legitimacy to your message, but you can certainly still end up marked as spam if Google thinks you're sending it.

One line emails, emails that just have links, emails with generic subjects, emails with just a subject and no text body, emails with no subjects - all that massively shoves Google's spam detection towards spam. But that generally holds true with all providers as all the big players are using some form of Bayesian filtering (and so am I, with SpamAssassin on my incoming). If you send spammy-looking stuff, you're gonna get marked as spam.

You spend an hour or two setting up DKIM , SPF, and DMARC, so that Gmail/Hotmail/etc can validate that you are who you say you are.

Once there is enough adoption, expect token costs to skyrocket and advertising enshitifaction to accelerate

Models on local hardware that give adequate performance and the availability of non-US models mean that path is doomed to failure. If they crank up the price then people will look elsewhere. While they might not get frontier-level performance out of the alternatives, there's plenty of stuff out there that's good enough for 1/4 to 1/10th of the cost. Or just the cost of power, if you're willing to pay for some hardware and are operating on a small scale.

The only play the AI companies have got now is twofold :

• Regulatory capture, hence all the press releases of basic and frankly embarrassing sandbox failures and "we need to slow down" talk to try and get that rolling, and
• Banning of those nasty, evil, non-US models in the name of national security.

And then what? The rest of the world will just move on to the next most useful thing on the list. There will be ~330 million US citizens to extract wealth out of, to service trillions in data centre debt. That shit's not gonna fly.

All they need to do is get governments high on AI mass surveillance and they'll be golden

All they have to do is be the last AI company standing, then just absorb everyone else's hardware for cents on the dollar.

This recent "we should slow down" talk is basically just them stalling until the collapse. They've spent all they dare to try and be the one on top, now it's just waiting until the bubble pops.

Meanwhile China is out there being the black swan of the whole field. If they manage to get models with efficiency and/or utility above what these guys are doing, they're fucked and they know it. So it's a ticking time bomb, and there's not that much time left.

Jesus Christ, Julia. Why is it that, in all these online ramblings, you never learned how to drip-feed your blog posts?

One a day, maybe. Don't blow through them all at once like some desperate gambler trying to strike it rich. Now all you've done is gotten yourself onto a bunch of people's blocklists and now you'll never be visible to them again.

Lemmings.

Wolfenstein.

Doom.

Descent.

Unreal Tournament.

English is rather notorious for having these phrases

English is essentially just a whole bunch of corner cases that its speakers agree on. Mostly.

I have a QNAP box at home, with Forgejo running as a container on it. It's pretty much a standard docker install straight from Forgejo's repository. It can run tests and a build on each push, which is not strictly necessary, but nice. Took me about half an hour to setup Forgejo, and about 4 hours of swearing setting up CI for a few repos, because I've never done it before.

This doesn't easily scale to a whole organisation's worth of repos like OP wants, but it easily fits a small business/single dev situation.