Balena Etcher has a .deb file on their GitHub releases.

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher#debian-and-ubuntu-based-package-repository-gnulinux-x86x64

Should be able to just download and double click it, on Debian.

I agree that the concerns listed there are smells, and I wasn’t aware of some of the options listed there.

Thank you for sharing this!

Holy cow. I’m stealing that. The reverse Turing test is whether we humans have the brains not to turn everything over to untrusted AI. Lol.

More and more things that could just be bash scripts are being added as stupid Claude.md scripts.

But they can pay an ongoing subscription cost for the Claude script, and it may sometimes hallucinate.

The bash script would be free forever and keep working unchanged for decades.

It’s too soon to know which approach is the right way. (I nearly died of sarcasm, there.)

Anyway, I agree. There may not be enough popcorn for all of this!

I believe open-source software will continue to provide a refuge for artists.

Yes. My work is open source, and pretty unchanged. We get some AI pull requests now that take longer to review than doing the work ourselves.

I think a key difference is that there was never any tolerance for bullshit in my team’s code base.

We don’t have thousands of points of boilerplate, or a big pile of “not invented here” crap code.

So we don’t have somewhere for the AI to really shine.

The company, however, is poised to resume the data tracking program once the issue is settled.

Yep. Sounds like Meta.

Yes. It’s getting to where con-artists and theives just can’t be trusted, anymore.

Same here. I’m just going back to cash.

All of this “artificial intelligence security” just gets in the way of basic legal transactions, but all the yes men running it are too spineless to tell their bosses and shareholders how much money they’re losing.

Yes. I would be quite surprised if that detail were present, since these folks seem to just want another way to track people and sell a higher quality profile.

Obviously they’re not, because I am.

Microslop

For science!

Edit: Seems to have calmed down and usual vote averages have prevailed. Have to try again another time.

I don’t really think it’s my funeral, since I’m not that invested. It could destroy everything and I’d still have a backup.

You’ve got the idea.

AI will sabotage you, but so will the average computer and about 5% of the accepted answers on Stack Overflow.

Just…check your backups. It’s fine to trust a bunch of stuff to the easiest path, but never trust your backup solution to anything except your own two hands.

And… take some notes. The current era of cloud AI is wildly subsidized by idiot’s retirement savings. When today’s price goes away, you’ll be better off with some notes to re-use, to keep ongoing token costs down.

Oh, and obviously, treat everything on your hosting environment as potentially public to the whole world at any moment.

As long as you and your club are fine with those risks, just enjoy and keep learning!

Yes! lol.

And wait until the confirmation study of the water in the kitchen sink comes back! Initial findings strongly imply it may be wet!

The moment AGI is achieved it’s going to be a glorious destruction of society.

Specifically, if ultra affordable AGI that also happens to be acceptably reliable.

Which is certainly a pipe dream, today. It might or might not ever get any more possible.

To be economically viable, AGI needs to cost less than the people it supposedly replaces. Sure, we can all think of a couple of over-priced Word document slingers.

But ask someone who wanted to buy a conveyor belt or a barcode scanner for a factory in an emerging market…until the technology costs dramatically less than local seasoned professionals, the technology just doesn’t get bought.

Now, I do imagine there’s a few specific use cases that billionaires are very interested in replacing humans - because humans as morally empty and worthless as Epstein and Thompson (rest in piss) may actually be hard to find.

I think Fire and Stick have a long future ahead of them still. Also a big fan of Wheel and Stardew Valley.

Uh…one of these is not like the others.

Are we sure Wheel has the long term practical staying power of the others in this list?

Do elaborate more on the 3D printing stuff

There’s all kinds of mechanical things that can be directly 3d printed, now - screws, and hinges and springs!

Someone invented a 3-way zipper that allows a structure to be rigid when zipped or flexible when unzipped. Supposedly we’re going to get a bunch of cool new more convenient tents and field furniture with it, soon.

There’s quite a lot happening in 3d printing that is kind of life changing, and not getting any press coverage because no single obscenely wealthy person can use it to hype a pump and dump.

Weird specific stuff exists now, that never did before - like custom cases for weird sizes of batteries, and a pen-holder that looks exactly like the latest manga character to make a splash.

Or Google thinks all the other illegal crap they routinely get away with is a leading sign that they will also get away with becoming a monopoly…

You might not know, but you can say “crap” on the internet.

Nice!

• xrap!
• crat!
• crraaaab!

Well, I’ll keep practicing.

Aw. Gee whiz. They promised not to close studios, as long as they’re allowed to do illegal mergers.

I’m beginning to mistrust CEO promises.

I’m sure they’ll do their best, in the future.