I know some European "automatic scribe" projects of the government sector. Their IT buys a physical GPU server hosted locally. Pretty sure it wouldn't be accepted otherwise (or maybe I'm just naive, but it sure is a topic they care about). The software stack is mostly open source, I think. It sure as hell doesn't talk to a big American cloud provider. (Well, the transcription service doesn't. Who knows what they do with the automated transcript. Probably the same thing they did with the manual transcript.)

Well said. There is a social context, there is a process and a struggle that can be more important than the result. It is sad to reduce art to the final product, or to approach it with an industrial mindset: maximizing commercial value while minimizing effort.

I can't write well. Let someone say it who can: (Ursula Le Guin, 5min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2v7RDyo7os&t=337

My doctor probably thinks we software developers do a very narrow job. And she is kind of right, we always turn up with those back problems from sitting too much, or RSI or whatever. While doctors have all those medical specializations and different roles and employers.

If it can go online, I'd prefer to use an android work (or user) profile with only auth apps in it, and nothing else.

As a separate device, it should be offline always IMO, and perhaps the size of a passkey. Or one of those banking devices with a display that show an authenticated text saying what you are confirming.

I don't know if it will work, but Pl@ntNet Identify (which I use often) seems to have an API: https://docs.plantnet.org/en/reference/api-plantnet/

Saying how many lines of code you can write this way is also a bit like bragging that you are building world's heaviest airplane.

Say you have an ad-blocker and you don't allow it to touch your forms. Five years later, the ads have moved all into form fields.

Never mind the technical challenge to allow doing anything with the DOM but disallow reading the forms. Like, prevent the forms leaking its text when you do funny things like testing character width via line breaking or font changes.

AGENT SMITH: And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is DRAM if you are unable to boot?

The question unnerves Neo and suddenly he feels his phone vibrate as it unexpectedly reboots. The standing Agents snicker.

In Switzerland, on some trains there are trilingual announcements: German, Italian, French.

Disagree, Linux is too big to fail. Too many people depend on it. It may get chaotic, but worst-case distributions will start collecting patches, as they already do for many unmaintained projects. Eventually one or two of them will emerge as the new upstream.

I guess the worst case is that future Linux will end entirely controlled by Google/Facebook/, Microsoft.

While I dislike a lot of what comes out of the FAANG companies, even if the names change over time...

I generally feel if most of them can agree on something, it's probably an okay direction.

That's generally how politics works, where you find the common ground is generally the better option for everyone.