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  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlImmutable Distro Opinions
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    27 days ago

    NixOS is kinda the best of both worlds, because it does everything in a way that is compatible with an immutable fs, but it doesn’t force you into abiding by immutability yourself.

    You can always opt into immutability by using Impermanence, but I’ve never seen any reason to.

    Edit: That said, the syntax has a steep learning curve and there are tons of annoying edge cases that spawn out of the measures it takes to properly isolate things. It can be a lot to micromanage, so if you’d rather just use your system more than tinker with it, it may not be a good fit.




  • Oh hey, this same quote is relevant yet again:

    In other words, an AI-supported radiologist should spend exactly the same amount of time considering your X-ray, and then see if the AI agrees with their judgment, and, if not, they should take a closer look. AI should make radiology more expensive, in order to make it more accurate.

    But that’s not the AI business model. AI pitchmen are explicit on this score: The purpose of AI, the source of its value, is its capacity to increase productivity, which is to say, it should allow workers to do more, which will allow their bosses to fire some of them, or get each one to do more work in the same time, or both. The entire investor case for AI is “companies will buy our products so they can do more with less.” It’s not “business custom­ers will buy our products so their products will cost more to make, but will be of higher quality.”

    Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?



  • Meh. TechDirt is great for privacy stuff, but market analysis isn’t their wheelhouse.

    I think Vision Pro pretty much accomplished what Apple wanted from it.

    Tech press kept comparing it to “the iPhone moment”, but that’s ridiculous. It’s a dev kit.

    A dev kit with the best hardware, at a lower price than the second-best, and a more mature OS than anything else out there.

    We’ll have to see how it evolves from here, but it’s a perfectly fine first step. Not everything is for you.




  • People wondering what Chrome has to do with a search monopoly:

    The obvious benefit is that they can default the user’s search provider to Google.

    But the more nefarious benefit is that, by controlling both the client and server, they can unilaterally decide the future of web standards. They don’t have to advocate for proposals, gain consensus, and limit themselves to well-supported standards the way other companies do. They can just do it, gain the first-mover advantage, and force others to follow suit.

    If they don’t like HTTP/2, they can invent their own protocol and implement it for their search servers and Chrome. Suddenly, using Chrome with Google Search is way faster than using Chrome with Bing or using Firefox with Google Search. Even if Microsoft and Mozilla don’t like the protocol, they now have to adopt it or fall behind.

    This has happened. QUIC was deployed in 2012. Firefox gained support in 2021.

    They’re doing the same thing with Privacy Sandbox, and you can also look at browser feature compatibility tables to see how eager Google is to force their own interpretation of every not-yet-finalized web standard as the canonical interpretation.

    Edit: Also, JPEG XL vs. WebP.