Doesn't really work on my setup (0). I am curious if it does more than the PhotoPills app, quite a useful thing for city scapes photography.

0. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FB3Ofl4mUvOO4gGqARro9cO_kjJ...

/edit: Looks like noscript blocks the p5 thing.

The stupid answer is that not everything that can be automated should be.

The real answer is of a more philosophical nature, if you manually had to check A, B, C... Z, then you will have a better understanding of the state of the system you work with . If something goes wrong, at least the bits you checked can be disregarded and free you to check other factors. What if your systems correctly report a faulty issue, yet your automatic checklist doesn't catch it?

Also, this manual checklist checks the operator.

You should be automating everything you can, but much care should be put into figuring out if you can actually automate a particular thing.

Automate away the process to deploy a new version of hn, what's the worst that can happen?

But don't automate the pre flight checklist, if something goes wrong while the plane is in the air, people are going to die.

I think a less verbose version of the above is that a human can detect a fault in a sensor, while a sensor can't detect it is faulty itself.

5 years is overnight?

I think this is missing the main problem with security on a Linux Desktop, the user. All an attacker has to do is to convince the user to run InstallSteamWithAllGamesUnlockedForFree.sh You know, the AnnaKurnikovaSexTape.exe of the windows world.

This is an education problem and no amount of tech is going to fix it.

Even if dbus didn't have this problem, this is my hardware, I'll do what I want! That's the whole point of Linux.

nearly everything talks dbus, even browser extensions.

It’s even more serious than running untrusted shell scripts.

That's not the problem. The real problem is that if I convince you to run my script, it's going to be quite easy to convince you to give me extra permissions, so I can get to your data. It really irks me when things like Cargo are doing exactly that, make me run a sh script. Cargo and the likes, are making running sh scripts way too common.

I assume you mean rustup, not cargo specifically or am I wrong?

cargo builds/runs build.rs in the background

Yeah, that was a brain fart.

browser extensions? you mean like Chrome ones etc? never heard of that being a thing

plasma integration and gnome-shell integration do, and those are open source so you can see for yourself.

It’s also very common for password manager extensions like 1password and bitwarden.

Forget running some random downloaded shell script, just needs to convince the user to curl some-url/do-some-cool-thing | bash.

If US and Venezuela are in a state of war, then the head of the US Armed Forces is a legitimate target.

Not sure why you have doubts about this.

> we need human interaction and contact

Indeed, but not at McDonalds.

    > Move on, do something useful, don't stop being amazed by AI but please stop throwing it at my face.

Do you see the irony in what you did?

So, how about you move on, do something useful, don't stop being annoyed by AI, but please stop throwing your opinion in anyone's face.

One could argue that pointing out the pointlessness of LLM hype is infact useful, while producing that same hype is not

You are conflating "hype" with any positive outlook. It has some uses and some people are using it. That's not "hype". It is exhausting to see it everywhere so I sympathize.

Readers may enjoy looking into Peter Norvig and his contributions to the field, which they might find in positive contrast to any of the stereotypical LLM hype.

I will stop when the AI bubble will burst and people will stop throwing at my face everyday about statistical models. It is litterally everywhere I look, I did not ask for it even when I filter the inputs.

IMHO it would be nice to have an AI summarizer/filter (see the irony ?) for tech news (hn maybe ?) that filters out everything about AI, LLMs and company.

> The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026.

Second paragraph of the article.

> To implement progress reporting, it means you are able to know the time a task would take to run upfront, no?

No. You just need to know the total number of steps and what step are you currently on.

You're right, but I also don't find a way a task queue library could know that upfront either to implement progress reporting.

Does anyone know a task queue library that implement it ? I would be curious to look at it !

The way it's typically done is that the worker process reports back its progress to the job metadata on the queue, and the web worker polls the job metadata to read the progress. I've implemented this for progress bars many times on Django with django-rq.

I first learned about it from Miguel Grinberg's Flask tutorial: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial... But the same concept applies to Django.

Maybe because their robots.txt disallows that?

https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    ...
    Disallow: /feeds/videos.xml
    ...