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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.worldYou Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
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    20 minutes ago

    yes and yes and yes, except:

    Cron jobs are nice and simple to create.

    So are systemd timers. Seriously. I understood this sort of argument in the years when systemd was relatively new, but nowadays … c’mon, it’s 2 config files in a very simple (the simplest form is just 2 headings with one variable definition each) and common format and (optionally) one command to reload the daemon.

    Maybe adding a line to your list of cron jobs is slightly quicker, but you have none of the things systemd offers on top.

    OK, tbf I don’t know how much (ana)cron provides. Cleaning up the process tree? Restart conditions? Avoiding service duplicates? Advanced starting & repeating like “5min after boot” or “only after this other service has succeeded”? Can it read abbreviations like ‘daily’ or does it all need to be in that cryptic cron syntax?















  • Researchers tested how the services ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Grok and Replika performed on a single day during the 2026 Scottish pre-election window and found:

    • One third (34.1%) of responses across chatbots contained factual errors, whilst reliability varied significantly across services
    • Errors included getting the date of election day wrong, giving wrong information about the need for voters to bring ID, “hallucinating” a candidate, and making up an expenses scandal on one occasion, and a nepotism scandal on another.

    We reveal new evidence of the scale of these services’ unreliability during elections and make recommendations for the government to close the regulatory gap.

    The last bit is the most important imo: Chatbots must not be allowed to present themselves as providers of information. Nor should any commercial/official body be allowed to rely on them.