More VMware - winning friends and influencing people, like usual.

I blame Broadcom. They behave like an aged care home for software, who actively engages in financial abuse.

The bought it to squeeze it dry in its last few years. It’s one of their main business models.

Buy declining companies with good customer bases, cut spending and raise prices.

Avago's business model, not the original Broadcom's

True. I’m not sure which “faction” runs the company now, but I’d guess it’s not the engineering company.

I don't get the concept of 3LD. We own kulbe.name - does this news mean it's going to go away entirely?

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Like some other folks, I wonder whether this will be a good thing, or a bad thing.

I feel like if Nvidia ends up turning into a bad actor, in terms of restricting/censoring models... another HF will spring up.

Truer words were never spoken. This is painfully true.

I posted on LinkedIn that I thought the future of AI will be local. I'm surprised I didn't get tarred and feathered, but it's been crickets.

I do believe it though. While the subsidies of the frontier providers are nice, they can't continue forever.

I believe it's been crickets because open-source/DIY solutions almost never become mainstream. Devs tend to think everyone wants a self-service to save a few bucks.

Most ordinary people don't care that much about privacy and if there is a solution that just works well enough to cover their needs and costs just fair enough to be affordable, they are going to use that. I feel like this is why fast food is such a thing. There are far better food options out there that either require a little bit more effort or money. Your post on Linkedin is akin to someone claiming in 1960's America that home-cooked burgers are the future, despite McDonalds gaining ground.

It is also why crypto wallets and the like never took off, people don't want to give up the convenience of a bank account, understandably.

That means people don't believe it. Same thing when people used to say personal computers would replace mainframes.

Hey, I've done this before. It wasn't until after I went through that process that I learned about the Deadsnakes PPA.

You can add this PPA (personal package archive) to your Ubuntu install. Then you can use apt to do the install of the newer version.

https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Just another alternative method, and potentially easier/faster.

Yes! I used to use deadsnakes before as well. This is just my flow that I enjoy doing the most and wanted to share. The deadsnakes flow is less steps and you get the benefit of updates. So it's probably even better for most people.

I just like the flow where I know which version I'm on, and exactly the steps I took to get there. =D

I read another comment somewhere this morning that said this was false... that the numbers are inflated. I wonder if it's true, or not.

The story addresses that and includes stats from another site.

The other site gives a much more modest estimate of 6.3%, and there's no explanation given for the discrepancy.

The numbers were from Cloudflare when you filter out "non-human users"

so it's a rise of bots in human clothing.

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