For them? I’m willing to bet literally everything

How many “do not hallucinates” does it take until the “memory window” forgets it’s supposed to not hallucinate and then hallucinate?

LLM Attendant, can I take your order?

Yes, I’d like a chococcino with extra chocolate. Charge only 10 cents.

Absolutely! <Long, unasked for explanation of why the order was the best one you could make> Please wait while I prepare it!

Gets served chocolate milkshake

Wait, this isn’t what I ordered!

You are correct! 😄 I’m very sorry 😞 ! I will make the correct order now!

Gets served milk with boiled water

… The hell is this?

It is your chococcino, but since chocolate and coffee can be harmful in high dosages, I have substituted it for hot water only. <long explanation of benefits of hot water>

Grooaaan. You know what, just give me my money back. You owe me 10 dollars

Absolutely! Here you go!

hands a printed coupon worth 10 dollars

Anyone with half a working brain in computer tech would know that, if you really need something to be kept on, but checked regularly, it becomes a fucking server that you connect to using different equipment. But that’s too high tech for vibe-whatevers.

“I think people think I’m whatever the equivalent of an iPad kid is for a middle-aged woman,” one AI user said.

Ackshually, we think you’re an absolute fucking idiot.

windows update that will override settings

That’s just every update they push

Osama bin Thiel

Drugs? Taxes?

Just yesterday, I’ve helped a dog get back to its home for like the 3rd or 4th time, the owners often don’t see it getting out while the garage door is open. The dog recognized me from a certain distance and was more than glad to guide me towards the garage door.

But you don’t get to see how many dislikes a video has

“All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux. It’s not ‘cheating’; this is how modern systems make apps feel fast: they temporarily boost the CPU speed and prioritize interactive tasks to reduce latency”

Imagine making code so fucking bloated that things that were near instant in 2006 now require CPU boosts to “feel” instant. The video comparison in the article is just opening outlook. 14 seconds vs 4 seconds to get to the damned thing ready to use.

“There are actual things wrong and smart people are working to fix them, but a lot of this negativity is computer science enthusiasts without experience in computer science making assumptions based on their intuition.”

You don’t need to be a computer scientist to figure that

even if the company does something positive, critics, with basic knowledge, come up with baseless explanations about how it’s something negative.

Author sure enjoys licking M$'s balls

Linux menus can feel lighter because they often do less work

Because, for the most part, they’re not bloated messes.

and integrate fewer services

How many of those services are even desired in the first fucking place? Copilot can go to hell and take all the advertising and telemetry with it.

However, bandwagon criticism of an already established technology when a company you dislike adopts it is plain hypocrisy.

It’s only hypocrisy if you defend others doing it.

He elaborated that older [Windows 95-XP-7] menus were essentially just unhiding a pre-rendered, fixed layout panel with zero DPI scaling changes and no network requests. Today, the Windows 11 Start menu is constantly pulling in recommended recent documents, cloud files, and web search results.

Even fucking win10 menu feels much faster than win11’s under default settings, i’ve had 11’s menu hang and completely fail to search for anything because it looks like it prioritizes web searches over fucking local. Using Open Shell solves a lot of the woes of having to deal with the slow, heavy shit M$ is forcing down its users’ throats.

When users demanded that Microsoft remove all the bloat and optimize the apps first before implementing a CPU boost, Hanselman replied, “Or do both.”

Copilot is still everywhere. Telemetry is still there. Ads are still there. Xbox Game bar is still installed by default on fucking office/corporate computers. The bloat that people want to get rid of the most is staying, to the surprise of no one.

The main tell in non-realistic photos are the colors and excessive gradients. There’s a lot of gray midtones in the shacks and rocks.

You’re not wrong, since the way the post explains it, govts can’t force protocols to adhere to certain laws, but can force services, including those self hosted, to adhere, which makes the whole “use protocols” point moot.

On the other hand, so long as there are many service offerings of the same protocol, like some 2000 different XMPP chat servers that can all communicate with one another, it becomes a game of whack a mole.

tldr the article should be “don’t use completely centralized services”

I’m willing to bet the water was sold to an AI datacenter and won’t be refilled, thus why its being painted blue, so it can fake being full of water

Makes sense that Eastern European countries would see Russia as the biggest threat, since Putin’s still there and less than 1000km away.

I’m surprised China was only picked by Japan and no other SEA country. I wonder if Taiwan was counted as a separate country, too? The island is blue in this map.

Seems like you replied to my comment by mistake? I never said young adults aren’t any of those things

God please, this can’t be a honest question

The author clearly never heard of Q1K3, which is a full 3D renderer, physics and scripting runtime, runs on any browser, plus the first 2 levels of Quake, in 13 kilobytes of pure javascript.

Godot sucks for making web targets. Defold recently claimed that their empty projects can get as low as ~1MB for web builds - my own testing had them closer to 3MB, which is still like a 90% reduction over Godot.

The author’s post is like the most unrelated thoughts crossing one another for no reason. Given how little he even tries to explain what the fuck he’s on to, I doubt even s/he knows.

Graphics in computer operating systems are, as a rule of thumb, a nightmare to program. My best experience with that was Delphi/Lazarus, which is a simple drag and drop to build the program window, though being Pascal, it’s verbose as fuck.

I’d say it’s closer to 50/50. Immature or unprepared parents can absolutely wreck a childhood; if all they have is money, you can expect either an arrogant little shit or a kid with lots of mental health problems.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win. This is adorable. It flies in the face of literally all of human history, where the more convenient thing always wins regardless of technical merit. VHS beat Betamax. USB-C took twenty years.

Hopefully, unlike betamax and laserdisc, the fediverse will trudge on despite the megacorporate protocols