overview for atk007

Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ in c/technology

[–] atk007 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am thinking of deploying a RAG system to ingest all of Linus's emails, commit messages and pull request comments, and we will have a Linus chatbot.

“Extreme Danger”: Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump in c/news

[–] atk007 24 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Brutal. You have to support the one who kills half of your children because the other one will kill all of them.

Saudi textbooks remove Palestine from most maps, says Israeli study in c/world

[–] atk007 16 points 6 months ago

Well Saudi Arabia has been doing its own genocide in Yemen, so Saudi Arabia joining Israel is just birds of same feather flocking together.

Post office operator wrongly jailed while pregnant rejects executive’s apology | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian in c/world

[–] atk007 6 points 8 months ago

I had no idea about it before watching the mini series "Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office".

Rich Americans are getting second passports, citing risk of instability in c/news

Australia outraged by death of aid worker in Israeli air strike in c/[email protected]

[–] atk007 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Which Australia? Cuz I just saw a compilation of Australian TV hosts and politicians saying Israel is only killing terrorists, and there is no genocide.

US asks Ukraine to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure – FT in c/world

[–] atk007 37 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Politics, Because Russia is still a global crude oil supplier, any strike damaging their infrastructure would increase global oil prices and Biden can't have that in an election year.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology

[–] atk007 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well Windows 10 at least lets you create a local user account. you can't even install windows 11 without having a microsoft online account, because you need a Microsoft account to be able to create a local user.

Even Korea is starting to prefer an iPhone over a Samsung in c/technology

[–] atk007 31 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Korea is extremely class conscious and people treat people differently based on perceived wealth. iPhone being considerably expensive than Samsung offerings in Korea is an instant wealth signifier and having an iPhone means you are perceived as upper rich class than those pesky poor Samsung, which is now associated with old people or who couldn't afford an iPhone.

Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down? in c/[email protected]

[–] atk007 2 points 10 months ago

Same. After 20 years of distro hopping and living on latest releases, Debian feels like home with the least amount of broken packages and general overall panic.

Apple’s rejection of Hey calendar app revives an old feud in c/technology

Pakistan human rights body says an upcoming election is unlikely to be free and fair in c/[email protected]

[–] atk007 13 points 11 months ago

Pakistani Military has been doing groundwork for months to ensure the election results. Forced abductions of politicians and journalists, threatening peoples families with physical and sexual violence and forcing/buying judges to disqualify and reject nomination papers for election. These elections are set to compete with 1965 general elections which were rigged beyond belief to ensure a win for military backed Ayub Khan. They tried to do the same in the 1970 general elections, and even though they initially didn't succeed, they didn't let the winning majority party to form the government by illegal arrests and violence and forcefully dismantling them, which resulted in riots and eventually allowed East Pakistan, aka Bangladesh to get independence from Pakistan.