I find them quite useful, in some circumstances. I once went from very little Haskell knowledge to knowing how to use cabal, talk to a database and build a REST API with the help of an AI (I've done analogous things in Java before, but never in Haskell). This is my favourite example and for this kind of introduction I think it's very good. And maybe half of the time it's at least able to poke me in the right direction for new problems.

Copilot-like AI which just produces auto-complete is very useful to me, often writing exactly what I want to do for some repetitive tasks. Testing in particular. Just take everything it outputs with great scepticism and it's pretty useful.

The same goes for cooking, making coffee and a LOT of other things you do at home. It raises the market value because it's a chore some people want others to do for them.

I do think this is AI, but I don't think it's obviously AI. As someone said ChatGPT is probably trained more on formal writing than casual writing, LinkedIn is a place where you want to appear super smart so this is an environment where many will use a more formal style.

It's more the nothing burger of a comment that gives it away IMO. But then again, the reason people do this I believe is to be visible. If they comment on things it may pop up in their contacts' feeds, and if it catches the interest of that person it reflects positively on them. If it doesn't catch the interest of that person, it has still generated visibility for them.

I assure you a great many people take Linux seriously.

Why is Spain such an attractive place for data centers? Seems costly due to high temperatures. But maybe those costs can be offset by the viability of solar power?

Being absolutely sure about everything.

A friend of mine who works with (mobile) connectivity in remote areas said about eutelsat that they're not really a challenger to starlink. ⅕ the speed, 3-4x ping times, some "issues with routing" whatever that means (looking at a conversation from two months ago). Roughly 10 years behind starlink.

Maybe it's better for non-mobile connectivity though, such as a cabin in the woods.

Isn't librewolf building on the latest versions of firefox or gecko or something? So if firefox does, so does librewolf?

If the value of money goes down, prices go up.

No shit they are. Even after all this blows over, as it inevitably will, they're still gonna be huge… but what might be a small loss percentage-wise is still quite big when you're as big as Microsoft.

Here in the nordics they seem to have almost every company and almost every municipality as their customer, if there's a rule coming in saying public data must be in Europe or something like that — that's a lot of dollars lost. Same if just a percentage or two of companies decide they're not fans of American tech anymore.