What is Pirate Software?

This is fucking crazy.

Where did we go wrong? We have failed our young chudlies.

Unix-like?

It’s easy to lose track of time with these tools, he told Business Insider. Soon enough, the girls’ practice has ended, and the parents flood into the changing room. He joins them — with his laptop ajar, so that the AI agent can keep running.

“I have to put it up on a shelf,” he said. “I’m untying my girls’ skates while looking back like: Is it done?”

I just feel bad for these poor kids. You can’t leave your goddamn Claude at home while you take your kids to the rink?

It’s likely (and one of the reasons I don’t use Chrome) but its not the discussion we’re having.

To me this seems arbitrary—Chrome contains countless other binary blobs which you have no insight to and cannot consent to. They are part of the application. Chrome contains other machine learning algorithms and features and has for years, but these have been baked-in. You have likely been using “local AI” or machine learning on your laptop battery for quite some time without being explicitly aware of it.

If people don’t like these features that’s fine, there are lots of alternatives to choose from (personally, I use Helium). But to be upset about this specific instance seems arbitrary to me. And to claim that it’s somehow nefarious (i.e. the consent part) seems disingenuous. Consent is granted when the user downloads and begins using Chrome—why would Chrome need additional consent to download/update one of many external components?

Again, I don’t use Chrome and I’m not interested in this feature, I just don’t see how it’s necessarily bad or evil all things considered.

Beyond the disk size, what’s wrong with this? Isn’t local machine learning better than shipping your data off to some cloud provider? Or is the problem machine learning?

What kind of hobby is “injecting ads into soweone else’s community platform that you’ve rebranded as your own”?

GearLever will also perform automatic updates for your AppImages

Awesome.

Is that GPU useful for video transcoding?

Looks awesome, just missing space for a GPU (often necessary for real-time transcoding).

No, major OS releases used to cost money for a license. The same way a Windows 11 license costs money. Apple stopped charging for OS releases but Microsoft still does.

It is if there is no open source alternative.

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

Damn, that was a good read.

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Hell yeah brother