Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)

OpenAI Plots Charging $20,000 a Month For PhD-Level Agents: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/openai-reportedly-plans-to-charge-up-to-20000-a-month-for-specialized-ai-agents/
Here, I thought the whole point of LLM was to reduce salaries. 20k per month per postdoc comes to $240k pa. Postdoc salary is around $70k in the Bay Area and much less in the other parts of the world. This is more expensive than hiring an actual human. Many find spending $200 hard to pay for a pro account. The whole thing is a big scam based on stolen data to train AI and creating more environmental issues.

🐈⬛ Tired of plain old cat command (`cat filename`)? Want beautiful syntax highlighting and Git integration in your terminal? Try `bat filename` on your #Linux, #macOS, or #Unix system! You'll wonder how you ever lived without it. See https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/bat-linux-command-a-cat-clone-with-written-in-rust/ for more info.

26 years ago GNOME 1.0 was released. Do you remember this classic desktop? #Linux #Unix

Ouch 😣

Get ready for the hallucination-prone model to mess around with medical stuff. Someone will get hurt if AI makes some mistakes, but who cares? Microsoft has announced Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI system for healthcare that can, among other things, listen to and create notes based on clinical visits. https://news.microsoft.com/2025/03/03/microsoft-dragon-copilot-provides-the-healthcare-industrys-first-unified-voice-ai-assistant-that-enables-clinicians-to-streamline-clinical-documentation-surface-information-and-automate-task/ I guess now you need to tell your doctor not to use such a product because your health info is now transferred to greedy corporations with questionable privacy policies

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain ...

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credit https://turnoff.us/geek/just-touch-it/

Sed is one of the most powerful tools on Linux and Unix-like systems. Learning it is worthwhile, so in this in-depth tutorial, we will start with the sed command syntax and examples. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-sed-command-tutorial-for-text-editing-with-syntax-examples/ (patreon supporter download the pdf version https://www.patreon.com/posts/linux-sed-learn-123514851 )

#linux #unix #tutorial

Apache web server history feels like a LOTR film intro. #unix #linux #opensource #bsd #history

Developer decided to go on a date, but ...

when you lie on your resume and get the job ...

Just hit escape …

Error messages that simply say "Something went wrong" should be banned. They're completely unhelpful. We need to know what went wrong! 😑

AI hands out Windows keys, but Linux never had a lock https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/28/linux-has-no-locks/

#linux #opensuse #opensource

meanwhile in Australia 😂

Vim with and without syntax on. Which one are you? 😂

meanwhile after Google, Microsoft also begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-begins-turning-off-ublock-origin-and-other-extensions-in-edge/ This is some serious coordinated stuff going on by big tech. It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but now the big picture is here. The only other major player is Firefox, and it is doing everything it can to ruin its reputation.

Mozilla's new direction of Firefox is scary. They seem to forget that the core audience is using Firefox for privacy and security and not for AI features. It is so stupid that they are following big tech. It is time to fork out FF and sponsor the development using donations. No AI or anything else was added to the FF.

#opensource

Wow. Amazing news. Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique: Transplanting insulin-producing cells along with engineered blood-vessel-forming cells has successfully reversed type 1 diabetes, according to a new preclinical study. With further testing, the novel approach could one day cure the as-yet incurable condition. https://newatlas.com/diabetes/islet-transplantation-type-1-diabetes/

#health #science #life

Two cloud computers are talking. One says, "I'm feeling a little down." The other replies, "Why?" "Existential crisis. Also, my fan's making a weird noise. Probably someone else's problem though." 😉