Interesting - I didn’t see that. They say “You can add your own copyright as well”, so you don’t have to give up your rights to the code. They do still need to comply with the terms of the Apache license.

Their contribution agreement forces you to give up copyright to them.

The license just looks like the standard Apache license though, which doesn’t require this. With the Apache license, contributors still own the copyright to their code, but they license it to the project. Did you see a document in the repo that says something different?

If it really needs AI, something this basic should be able to use a tiny AI model that can run locally. Google are working on building small models into Chrome for example (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in). It really doesn’t need a huge model.

Several mobile apps bundle an AI model with them. Samsung phones do a bunch of AI things on-device, including object and face recognition in the Gallery app for photos. There’s no reason an extension couldn’t do that.

if you need a POSIX interface

SSHFS isn’t POSIX compliant. It doesn’t support hard links, file locking, atomic renames, full support for changing file permissions, umasks, and probably other things.

Versity S3 Gateway is another option that’s trying to focus on simplicity. https://github.com/versity/versitygw

Out of all these, SeaweedFS is the most scalable. Seaweed’s design is based off some of Facebook’s whitepapers about their warm storage system, and it works especially well for use cases that have a very large number of small files (like images).

SSHFS is very unreliable. At least use NFSv4 or even SMB/CIFS.

Practically every other object storage provider offers an S3-compatible API.

which Horwitz is charging $4.99 a month to use after a three-email free trial

what. Why does a thing that inserts typos into your email need a monthly subscription that costs as much as other services that have far higher costs? What’s changing about typos month-to-month that people need to always be on the latest version?

You’re absolutely right!

(sorry)

When generative AI can’t even answer simple questions correctly, it feels like maybe it’s too imprecise a tool to trust with this level of necessary precision.

I don’t think this would be generative AI though. Machine learning is probably a better fit - training a model based on recordings of human air traffic controllers.

I haven’t tried any yet, but my understanding is that recently there’s been a trend of immutable Linux distros, where the root filesystem is immutable (read-only). Instead of directly changing stuff in /etc, installing apps, etc, you instead update some sort of config that says exactly how to set up the system, and rerun a script that rebuilds the root.

System updates are atomic - either the whole update is completed, or the whole update is rolled back. If the system breaks, you can revert back to an old config file and restore it to exactly the same state as it was before.

It’s still not very common - the majority of Linux systems aren’t doing this.

Honestly, I’m not sure what’s worse: the current state of things (severely overworked air traffic controllers because there’s huge shortages), or using AI for it.

The plane that crashed into a fire truck at LGA recently was mostly due to overworked ATC. One controller was working both ground and tower, with queues of five or six planes needing to land. He needed to continue working for half an hour after the crash too, because nobody else was around to take over.

I’m not sure I’d trust ATC to be fully automated using AI, but AI tools could probably help controllers by reducing the amount of work they have to do. For example, smarter RADAR, recommendations for what to call next, more proactive warnings for if anything dangerous is likely to occur, etc.

Great redesign. The icons finally look distinct enough to differentiate them at a glance.

The Tasks icon looks like someone sat on it though.

I didn’t realise until now that the Drive icon combines the colours of Docs, Sheets and Slides. Clever icon.

Yeah, the USA is weird when it comes to banking and financial services.

Sounds like Canada is similar in Australia. At a lot of places in Australia, you pay when ordering. Sometimes you pay at the end. Aussies don’t really do tips though, and prices must always include tax, so it’s a lot simpler. Something on the menu is $20, so you pay $20. That’s it.

Why would a tip be charged after the rest of the bill?

I’m not sure where you live, but in the USA at a restaurant, the server takes your card, runs it in the PoS system, brings it back to you along with a receipt, and then you hand-write the tip amount on the receipt. Some of them bring a portable payment terminal to you, but it’s the same idea.

When they give the receipt back to you for you to write the tip, the payment has already been authorized. It’s already been sent to your bank, in a pending state, and your bank has replied saying the transaction will be approved. One of the receipts will have an authorization ID/number from your bank.

When you write the tip, they enter that into their PoS to modify the transaction amount, and finalize the transaction.

otherwise the waiter could just add in whatever tip they felt like and update the charge

That can actually happen. A lot of the time, issues like that are accidental (eg they typo the tip amount).

Monochrome? It still works.

your card issuer maybe doesn’t allow for updating transactions after the fact,

In the USA, they all do, to allow for things like tips at restaurants. The initial payment is just a hold, then they adjust the value before finalizing it.

I don’t understand why so many people misspell Newsom as Newsome. I’ve seen it enough to the point where I wonder if a bunch of people are just trolling.

They really are turning the frogs gay

I see two comments from you on that thread.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/25337436
https://lemmy.ml/comment/25337412