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I’m more referring to Jeb because he did run for president, and it would make for a third Bush in office (H.W., his first son W., and his second son Jeb).

But yes, the succession line for Trump and his faction is different.

Let’s not get into what we think of the tree leaving him intact.

I can feel that from half a continent away, and what I would give to see him throw hands with another one…

Anyone else waiting for Jeb Bush to be elected president? I’m not, but that would show something about the elections here, and it wouldn’t be showing anything good (or new, for that matter).

there should be a fork of dotnet.

Dotnet is maintained by the .NET Foundation and is entirely open source. There are thousands of forks and local clones of the repos under that organization. Rather than hoping someone does this, it’d actually be a huge benefit to everyone for you to create a local clone of the repo and update it now and then, assuming you’re worried it might go down anyway.

telemetry being totally removed

DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1, though it’s lame that it’s an opt-out and not opt-in. The CLI does give a fat warning on first use at least (which hilariously spams CI output). Opt-in would be so much better though, and opt-out by default is really not great.

an alternative to nuget.org

You can specify other package sources as well, so nothing technically stops someone from making their own alternative. That being said, you’d have to configure it for each project/solution that wants to use that registry.

Setting such a thing up could be insurance in case they pull anything in the future, too.

The main thing I’d be worried about here is nuget.org getting pulled. As far as I can tell, it’s run by MS, not the foundation. That’d be basically the entire ecosystem gone all at once. Fortunately, it’s actually super easy to create private registries that mirror packages on nuget.org, and it’s actually standard practice to do this at many companies. This means that at the very least it would be possible to recover some of the registry if this happened.

For a fork, I would think these would be the main goals I’d look for:

• Default to opt-in for telemetry, or make it local-only. Telemetry should go to a sink owned by the forking organization if sending telemetry is even possible at all.
• Default package registry should be one owned and maintained by the forking organization. This would be incredibly expensive though, so they’d need funding for this.
• Organization should be independent, and not funded at all, by MS. Alternatively, MS can provide funds, but not a majority amount - instead, sponsors are limited so that no single sponsor can fund enough of the fork to have independent control over it. In either case, the goal is that no single company has enough control to shift the direction meaningfully themselves.

Please cite one example of Microsoft ever giving a fuck about users.

There aren’t many examples, but one that comes to mind is the adaptive controller. It’s not cheap, but it’s also presumably low volume, and it’s unbelievably configurable.

Outside of that, I’m out of ideas. Usually every good change comes in response to user backlash, from my experience anyway. I’ve moved over to Linux by now because I’m tired of dealing with what Windows has become.

This worked so well for Ars Technica. RIP Benj.

Surprisingly, this one’s completely new to me. It’s creative too. Gotta give praise where it’s due lol.

The way it was presented with regards to search engines was that it was supposed to pull data that was more up-to-date than when the model was trained. It does do that, actually, and provides better results too, on average anyway.

But that’s just one domain, and “better” doesn’t mean “good” or “accurate”. In most domains, at least where I work, we’ve found that RAG overcomplicates things for little benefit, unfortunately.

The way the current systems are trained simply doesn’t allow for accepting and adopting new information continuously.

As further evidence of this, RAG was supposed to enable this. Instead, we’ve found that RAG was nothing more than an overused buzz-term that has limited applications, and often results in hallucination anyway.

If he has a rash being formed by the cream, then that means he’s having a negative reaction to it and should not continue using it.

I’m curious what that rash could actually be. I have my hopes, but it doesn’t look like something good. If he really is taking an excessive amount of Aspirin (presumably to reduce the risk of a heart attack), then it could be as simple as his collar being too tight or rough on his skin. Based on the response they gave, that seems unlikely, though.

No idea who told you this, but MS employees use Teams exclusively.

As for it being terrible, it’s unfortunately hard to find a competitor that does better with the same feature set (video/screen sharing/text channels/sso/tenants/etc). Many get close (like Slack) but none have the whole package.

Since the bottom of an article is usually the least visible, I’ll paste this here to make it more visible:

“The Copilot Discord channel has recently been targeted by spammers attempting to disrupt and overwhelm the space with harmful content not related to Copilot. Initially, this spam consisted of walls of text, so we added temporary filters for select terms to slow this activity. We have since made the decision to temporarily lock down the server while we work to implement stronger safeguards to protect users from this harmful spam and help ensure the server remains a safe, usable space for the community,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Windows Latest.

Microsoft added that blocking terms such as “Microslop,” along with other phrases in the spam campaign, was not intended as a permanent policy but a short-term mitigation while the company manages to put additional protections in place.

Whether it’s true or not that the policy was temporary, I guess we’ll see.

What in the English language?

Thanks for clarifying that.

HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

Any headline that misuses the word “martyr” raises red flags for me anyway. They didn’t die to further a cause. They died because a bunch of terrible people decided to kill innocent, uninvolved civilians.

This is the kind of stuff that trump and his ilk are all about.

To build on this, the anti-American sentiment is what fuels the xenophobia of that party. “Fuck America” is what makes people go “ya know what let’s just not have allies anymore” and start threatening everyone.

Nuance isn’t that hard. It’s simple, actually. Fuck the people who are in charge of and in support of these decisions. Fuck the people who actually gain from fucking over the rest of the world.

It’s not like Trump intends to listen to me or my trans husband anyway. If anything, even against the NRA’s wishes (by some miracle), he wants us to be ineligible to even own a gun.

In some cases, it appears to be the opposite: CEOs want to do mass layoffs, so they blame AI rather than taking accountability themselves. The Amazon layoffs reek of this.

had people understood from the start the limitations of it, investment would’ve been more modest and cautious

People did understand from the start. Those who do the investing just didn’t listen, or they had a different motive. These days it’s impossible to tell which.

And by “people” I’m not referring to random people, but those who have been closer than most to the development of these models. There has been an unbelievable amount of research done on everything from the effectiveness of specific models in niche fields to the ability to use an LLM as the backend for a production service. Again, no amount of negative feedback going up the chain has made a difference in the direction, so that only leaves a few explanations on why the investment continues to be so high.

Could also do this:

#[expect(lint, reason = "TODO: #issue")]

Edit: to clarify, #issue is an issue number that points to a related issue or task. Could also just explain it inline, but if you have a task tracker, better to make a task instead.

There are enough grammatical errors for me to assume incompetence over malice here. In either case, the percentages were clearly calculated incorrectly, and I’d question the results and want to verify them myself.