forcing passengers to flee

Err, why? We know they're not rabid since it's the UK, so why not just ignore them?

Well yeah, you need to do the computation somewhere and it's not doing it on the server so...

Thunderbird on desktop, although I don't love it.

FairEmail on Android.

[...] a lot of AI companies are “selling dreams” that this tech will go from 80 percent correct to 100 percent.

In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all.

Yeah, it's well known, e.g. people say "the last 20% takes 80% of the effort". All the most tedious and difficult stuff gets postponed to the end, which is why so many side projects never get completed.

Maybe his analysis considered this, but the article doesn't mention real-world factors like the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, and what feels like the resurgence of fascism and the spectre of World War 3. It's noted that liberal families seem more susceptible - perhaps it's because right-wing families are more likely to believe these things aren't real, or aren't a problem?

Same, I had to ad-block some custom elements on YouTube ages ago because they kept covering the screen with "related videos" whenever I paused to read something.

Distro watch rankings are just which page gets the most hits. Get a bunch of different IPs to load LemmyLinux and it'll be number one (and then actual people will click on it to see what it is and why it's number one).

What I'm hearing is you'd rather that the developer used their time to produce binaries so you don't need to spend your own time.

The problem with open source is that people expect a lot time and effort to go into things like bug fixes, documentation and support, when often the devs start out making something to scratch a personal itch. They then share it for the benefit of others, and it can be a slippery slope where you can end up with a second job, except you don't get paid or even thanked.

Open source burnout is a big problem.

I hadn't heard of it, but it looks like it wouldn't have much use outside of stalking or doxing.

I wonder what they found.

Environmentally or economically? Actually, which one you mean doesn't matter, cos it's not either way:

• A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country
• Microsoft Lost $20 for Every $10 Copilot AI Subscription

It's only for very old Kindles, really - Amazon have a new version they use (azw3) and everyone else uses epub.