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maxinstuff , 14 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

If it’s a public repo do they need permission?

Not saying this is good, but you can’t really argue that it’s not a natural consequence of open source.

maxinstuff , 15 days ago to Technology in Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

“tHATs nOT tRuE the aRCHiteCTuRe iS cOmPlETlY dIffErEnT!!!!!1!11!!ONEONE!!!” <— Apple fanboys when this was predicted on launch of the M1 🤖

maxinstuff , 15 days ago to Technology in Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

Oh man, I remember so many people defended 8GB since the M1 first came out (and since).

I always argued it would significantly reduce the lifetimes of these machines if you bought one, not just because you’d be swapping a lot more on the (soldered in BTW) ssd, but because after a few years of updates it would become unbearably slow, or hardware would fail, or both.

Didn’t stop people constantly “tHe aRchITecTuRE iS cOmPlETelY diFFeRenT!!!”

Sure it’s different, but it’s still just a computer. A technical person can still look at the spec sheet and calculate effective performance accounting for bus widths etc.

Disclosure: I bought a top spec 16GB M1 Mac Air on launch and have been extremely happy with it - it’s still going strong.

maxinstuff , 15 days ago to Technology in Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded

RabbitMQ is used internally by a lot of applications and is often referred to colloquially as just “Rabbit”.

maxinstuff , 15 days ago to Technology in Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded

Lots of tech people who don't know or care about the r1 device are going to get a jumpscare from this post 😁

maxinstuff , 16 days ago to Technology in Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

Why does my open source browser need proprietary SaaS products stuffed into it?

Isn't this what extensions are for?

maxinstuff , 16 days ago to Technology in Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

Seconding this. Why not allow people to run llama3 or other open source models?

maxinstuff , 17 days ago to Technology in OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content

The real problem is robots.txt is an honour system in the first place - It's never been a defence against bad (or even simply poor faith) actors.