I use the em-dash quite often but tend to forget that I need to hit `-` twice to get it to appear in markdown. Used to be an oversight on my part but now I stick to it so people can tell I'm personally writing to them.
Apple are creating a walled marketing garden with their new privacy features too. If a person pays for iCloud storage of any time they get placed onto the Apple VPN and their IP address resolves one of two or three different values for any given country.
This makes web tracking and attribution impossible to anyone who is not Apple. Users might be happy with it but I think it is similar anti-competitive behaviour to what Google are doing.
I'm a fan of nhexl-mode in emacs. It does take a while to open large binaries (dozens of gigabytes), however I've managed to use it to do some rudimentary swapping out of video files on a modern computer game.
I suppose there is meant to be a tipping point where the humans should be able to step back after the AI has learnt enough from watching them. Perhaps they were struggling to reach that point and the failure rate was remaining stubbornly high.
Outsourcing to India/Mechanical Turk is always going to be cheaper than creating a sophisticated AI model. I could see them dropping it if the "learning" had started to stall.
This whole thing seemed like a branding exercise anyway. Like how Apple stores are in every major city despite relatively few people buying their products in-store.
They've had a binary version of the full fat linux kernel available for a few years now. Other packages like firefox-bin have been available since before I started using gentoo in 2017.
Edit: Actually looking into this more the headline is accurate. This is the first time they've provided official binaries aside from stage3s when doing the initial installation.
I use gentoo on my desktop and debian on an old refurb thinkpad I got for £100. Both of them are amongst the last of the large independent linux distros and I think both approaches are valid.
Never had a bad experience with Arch but the way they use the AUR as a crutch is a bit off-putting. It's a little bit like a giant gentoo overlay but pushes all the complexity onto the user.
I think this is unfair - Arch is also meme'd by linux enthusiasts and 4chan.
Additionally, Gentoo is the largest distro with the source-based package manager USP. I suppose you could take issue with that approach for reasons like the systemd maintainer does where he claims it wastes CPU-cycles and time. Personally I disagree with that assessment since reproducible builds are a vital part of FOSS.
Fun fact is that Gentoo is the most normie distro. ChromeOS is based on Gentoo and all have coreboot. I'm not disparaging it as much as seeing it as a similar learning tool.
This is partially true but I believe that the only component ChromeOS uses from Gentoo is the portage package manager during some of its bootstrapping protocols.
