Some thoughts on how the control strip on Areon's back could work.
The strip has to be made of a flexible material in order to not prevent Areon from moving freely, which would be the case if it was made of metal.
However, the strip is also there to attach external accessories such as tail bags. In order to handle that, the strip has slots with inflexible swappable modules which consist of two slots on the sides for accessories to clamp into, and a data port on the top an accessory may use to exchange data. Since the modules are only in specific places, the strip's flexibility is retained. Making them swappable helps with maintenance and repairs and is also a potential upgrade path that doesn't require replacing the whole control strip. Connecting accessories through these modules is faster than having them connect to the strip directly because they work like a quick change system.
@raccoon The UI it comes with is pretty usable by now, but there are some things still missing given that the software is still a beta. There's nothing to handle reports, for instance. I prefer to use other frontends as daily driver such as pl-fe: github.com/volpeon/pl-fe
@anthropy I think a good analogy to draw here is crime. Nobody wants to get robbed or injured or whatever, so obviously people hate crime. Nobody wants crime. But as much as you may shout "crime is bad, it must be banned", it will never go away. Refusing to think about other solutions to protect people only does one thing: make you feel good, because you can declare yourself morally superior by claiming that acceptance of anything beside an absolute ban is accepting crime to a capacity. What many people don't see is that this kind of absolutism is essentially inaction and contributes less to our society than those who they perceive as enemies.
edit: To be clear, the point isn't to say "a little bit of crime is OK". It's to acknowledge that you can't get rid of it entirely and think about solutions with that in mind.
I keep reading that GPT-OSS isn't good and that makes me wonder what this "unexpected and quite amazing" thing was that OpenAI engineers allegedly did which delayed the release
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