Just a regular Joe.
why
why get up in the morning, only to have to do it again tomorrow?
why paint a still life, when you can just stare at the real thing for a while?
why not hunt and forage your own food?
why not make your own clothes?
why write boring code, when you can get someone or something else to write it for you?
why contribute features that you think are interesting to a product that you use and enjoy?
why post on social media, rather than doing any of the above?
Someone mentioned Fairphone here… which seems to have just that.
demonstrated any actual competency in this domain
It may be that he/they have significant competency in this domain, just not publically or under this name/pseudonym.
I’ve personally made contributions under pseudonyms just to avoid employer paperwork/approvals, for projects that I’d rather not have my real name attached to, and for sharing in potentially hostile communities.
I’ve also developed software internal to companies that has never been released publicly.
In short … he doesn’t need to prove his prior credentials to you, me, or anyone. He may have some, he may not.
We can legitimately critique what he/they have done in this project all we like though.
I read the other replies. I was purposefully giving you an alternative, rather than repeating what others said. How you choose to receive it is up to you. Good luck, I guess.
Hate to be “that guy”, but you can probably make the FOSS alternative work for you. Create a feature/bug issue on the project(s) explaining the problem in detail. It might be easy to fix.
You can also try to fix it yourself, or ask a programmer friend to help. Friends often like helping friends.
For a smaller investment (eg. one month of ChatGPT Plus for Codex, Kimi, whatever) and you can probably fix all the niggly things that you don’t like yourself. Just don’t go opening pull requests for code changes you don’t understand - it won’t be appreciated.
Some home internet routers (e.g… from FritzBox) support multiple VOIP providers, letting you configure rules as to which provider is used for outgoing calls (e.g… default for local calls, and another for international calls). And they provide a normal phone connector.
Oh, did D have a single standard library for a while?
I would also do #1, and I’d probably make it work (loooong time Linux user and persistent debugger).
#2 is probably simpler, both conceptually and technically. NAT and FW config is self-contained, and there are plenty of docs and how-tos.
Note: I’m not a proxmox user, so there could be some proxmox specific spanners… But I doubt it.
I recorded and copyrighted a WAV of myself farting once, and now I hear it everywhere. Fuck AI firms.
A couple of tricks I use:
an apparmor profile tied to a shell script that wraps other commands … it restricts read & write access to a scratch directory … perfect for builds or one off scripts.
iptables rules & cgroups to restrict network access… I have a setuid wrapper that drops privs again…
bwrap and mounting only what’s necessary… quick to get going.
custom landlock wrapper, similar to apparmor but allows for quick userspace wrapping.
They can be combined too.
No, anyone who uses, or has even a single time used, AI deliberately (or accidentally) is stupid and a witch… with warts… and should be burned at the stake… Huzzah.
I was recently reading about Talon Voice, which sounded quite interesting with lots of usability hacks. Unfortunately, not an option anymore if you are a Linux user: https://www.osnews.com/story/145162/accessibility-input-tool-removes-x11-support-doesnt-want-to-support-wayland-users-caught-in-the-middle/
It’s of course true that one can use AI to be a lazy thinker, but that does not mean that everyone (on every occasion) who uses AI is thinking lazily.
I agree, though, that it is a risk, and risks should be managed. We are, as a species, predisposed to fast/lazy thinking. Recognizing and compensating for our own weaknesses is important.
(edit: that reads like AI when I am drunk… apologies…)
IIRC, the ancient greek philosophers took a swing at writing, claiming it would weaken memory/increase reliance on written texts to create an illusion of knowledge, plus it can’t engage in dialogue which they considered a requirement to develop true knowledge.
IMHO, there’s some narrow merit to the arguments, but on the whole, writing has helped to democratise knowledge, and serves as an important tool in education.
Perhaps you should work on your english comprehension.
Is THAT the best you could come up with? Oh dear.
One could just as well argue that books / written knowledge is a crutch that prevents people from learning.
Assuming everyone using a tool is outsourcing their thinking is daft, and casting unfounded aspersions on others isn’t exactly a model of critical thinking either. lol
Indeed.
What I see: A world class software engineer (Samba, rsync, linux, and more) is learning how to use the latest tech that is vastly changing the industry he works in. It would be both foolish and irresponsible to not learn it and embrace it responsibly. If anyone is in a good position to direct and judge the output of LLMs, it will be engineers like Andrew who have spent their life applying critical thinking and good judgement.
And on the opposing side, we see a bunch of droll jammerlappies, pitching tents on the side of a highway, waving their fists at the world zooming by.
You can also use it to improve your grammar and vocabulary. It’s quite the tool.
It’s really not that complicated.
They will answer the 911 call, you say this is just a test to ensure the functionality, thank them and then hang up.
Worst case you get some person who complains about the test call, and you calmly explain that you called their non-emergency number beforehand to ensure that it would be OK, thank them, and then hang up.
As for your VOIP location Q: If it has a registered address in another location, you should call that location’s local number. Normally you want the correct address registered though, but you could inform them of this directly, as they probably have a database with notes that pop-up based on the calling number.