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  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux users survey!
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    15 days ago

    So there are 43+ NixOS users and noone switched away for another OS?

    Woot!

    I keep pondering switching back to Debbie and every time I get in a fight with … well everything I try to install … And I look at my configuration.nix and sunk cost fallacy sits in.

    I don’t really need Splashtop, NinjaRMM, Parsec Server right?



  • Nah, it’s more like Dropbox. It’s a multi-way sync between all devices. Dropbox, Google drive and Microsoft one box all have the same kind of problems. Stuff that’s supposed to be deleted ends up not getting deleted, stuff that’s supposed to be overwritten ends up getting multiple copies with conflicts Even though nothing else has any changes staged. It’s totally possible to do it without all that, but there are cost savings are wrapped up in trying to add intelligence in there to make it communicate with the server less.

    I don’t really give a rat’s ass about the guy cheating, but if a company is going to drag me into their distributed ecosystem I fully expect deleted things to delete everywhere and stay deleted. This isn’t the first time that they’ve been in the news recently for deleted things reappearing.


  • Twitter’s original plan was to run in cash infusion mode as long as possible. They never even substantially tried to monetize. They had links to all the other platforms, that all the best celebrities in journalists. Besides having just some tech debt issues they could have easily spun an AI product and sold the exact interests of their entire user base to the highest bidder.

    Everybody sliding into AI right now isn’t an accident. They train a model on the corpus of everyone’s interactions. It creates a model deeply seated with everyone’s likes and dislikes. They can use the model to infer stuff that’s not even exactly stated. They can lump people together that you wouldn’t be able to do in a conventional manner.

    That user base, in the right hands, was worth the money. Just not necessarily for shoving ads in their faces on the site.