Identifying Corporate Devices

The what now?

The author develops a tiling window manager for Windows. It comes with a dual license - free for personal use etc., paid for corporate devices.

I have no opinion on this because I’ve been using only Linux for over a decade, just wanted to clarify the term.

There’s a Black Mirror episode like that.

I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Most people don’t even know the difference between an URL bar and a search bar, or more precisely: most devices use a browser that deliberately obfuscates that difference.

It may just be a hype but I’m upvoting it.

exactly.

programming and Linux

I’m seeing almost daily the fuck-ups resulting from somebody trying to fix something with ChatGPT, then coming to the forums because it didn’t work.

Thankfully Google is not the only search provider.

the search results have slowly yet noticeably degraded

You mean Google.

It’s funny how many people ruffle their feathers over this. Same type of comments as when somebody first shared this poll here: you can’t expect this to be representative, it’s not a yes/no question etc.

Let’s put it like this: I do not want AI pushed on me in almost every online situation. That is a yes/no question to me.

Why? Because it’s not ready, wastes the planet, and is the USA’s big gamble.

It still creeps me out that people use LLMs as search engines nowadays.

I hope they learn their lesson from their own poll.

🎶 What if I bake you a coconut cake?
With lots of nuts, the kind that you hate?
What if I threw your car keys in the lake?

What if I took you to the edge?
What if I pushed you off a ledge?
What if I scratched all your Sister Sledge?

Would you still love me? 🎶

Neither mom nor dad or brother makes sense here. The whole cartoon is a fail really. Posted by another of those less-than-1h-old accounts.

deleted by creator

Cheesus.

First reaction is “social media really isn’t safe for teenagers” - but then I think again: the worst stuff always comes from the USA, usually the platform formerly known as Twitter. We really should ban that shit.

…and obviously I can’t see any of it because their posts are gone, too?
Can you put some numbers on this?
Can anybody confirm?

It could be some sort of Streisand effect brought on by people complaining about “bot accounts” for days/weeks now.
People thinking something like “You scared of trolls? Lol, let’s troll you some more!”

Also, some of those accused seem like very normal people to me who also comment in other communities and do not, in fact, delete their account.

edit: somebody created an account 1h ago, only to downvote every single comment in this thread. No content.

Children of Time is the trilogy that awaits my attention.

I love Le Guin! I just started re-reading her opus; but since this is a (short) story I might have skipped it the first time. I also aded some Tschaikowski to my e-reader, if I like that I will try to remember this.

full-blown examinations of the concepts of utterly alien intelligence.

In this context I will always recommend Stanislaw Lem’s “Eden”, although it has little to do with differences in speed.

Reminds me of the idea that intelligence might express itself in ways that we cannot perceive, because it’s so slow. Like Rock trolls taking a year to speak a sentence and a century to have this little conversation. Ents are a little faster I guess.