Jeremy Soller π¦There has never been a time in my life when I have been less enthused to be a programmer than now.
Per Vognsen@soller Yup. Even my most optimistic prediction involves it getting a lot worse before it starts getting better again.
TornaxO7@TornaxO7 AI, government overreach, undocumented hardware, death of the PC and rise of mobile devices, etc
Yvan γΌ γ€γγ πΊοΈ 
@soller @TornaxO7 sending big big hugs. I absolutely feel you.
I'm now adding to my baggage an MSc in AI and machine learning because I really wanted to grasp all that there is know about these things.
And honestly it's a huge bag of disappointment, ai accelerationists and investors of fluff.
But the good news is that we can still make good products AI doesn't have to ruin everything.
You still need lots of care to make a good product, nothing that will automatically come from this huge statistical models wrapped in a loop with some heuristics scripting to call external tools.
If there's anything we can so to cheer you up let us know.
I personally enjoy seeing your work, posts, etc. I wouldn't switch to read a bot's work instead.
Blue Luma@soller @TornaxO7 the death of PC and rise of mobile devices comes with something positive : less cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Major PC OS (Windows, MacOS and Linux) are so bad at security compared to mobile OS. I hope new players like @redox could come with security in mind (like capabilities) to reduce the huge attack surface traditional PC OS has.
Michael A. Murphy 
@blueluma Most phones and tablets only get a few Android updates, so the vast majority are left on older versions with security vulnerabilities. And even if the hardware is still perfectly fine, there's often not much choice but to upgrade to the next phone every couple years.
@mmstick indeed when released phones have at most β7 years of update, which is not much, but phones usually don't live that long too. Phones with few years of update should (and will in the EU) be illegal and people shouldn't buy them.
Also, phones are much less repairable, and because of the end of life at β7 year at most, spare parts cannot be used to keep repairing them as long as we could while keeping the security it offers
Also, phones are much less repairable, and because of the end of life at β7 year at most, spare parts cannot be used to keep repairing them as long as we could while keeping the security it offers
Redox OS@redox @soller @TornaxO7 I absolutely agrees, I just think currently mobile are more secure than desktop for most cases, while having both big attack surface.
Microkernel with capabilities would be the best I guess, (kind of similar to the Nintendo OS or Fuschia from Google)
I hope one unified OS for desktop and mobile being secure and open will emerge, and Redox with Risc-V might be a great contender (also I like Rust dev)
Igigog
GreenDotGuy@soller I ran into a friend who is a lead for web developers, and he's pretty spooked.
Dave 
@soller If it can reassure you, there is still a huge amount of people like me who don't believe in the AI hype bullshit and want to learn real computers. I want linux on my computer and on my phone. I want no AI integrated in my OS. I want no ads everywhere and I want control over my hardware. Please don't give up on us Jeremy. You're part of the ones who can save us from that bullshit that no one needs. You have all my support my friend and you work for an amazing company and team!! π€
alcinnz@soller I find there's things to be optimistic for. Computer Science continues to advance, finding more efficient ways to achieve our goals. And the public compsci education is better than ever!
But amongst the industry's tunnel-vision its harder then ever to find our place in it! If I had an answer I would've taken it.
Renato Trevisan@soller As a translator I've been feeling it too.
Michael