Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.

Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don’t brag please.

“CEO of shoddily coded autocomplete app says it will kill us all and he should get a trillion dollars to stop it.”

Basically the same headline repeated 8392 times the past three years, just phrased differently.

I mean yeah? As a PC gamer what are you supposed to use? Fucking… Windows?

I know some people still manage to tolerate paying Microsoft for an operating system that serves popup ads, popunder ads, inline ads, bundles spyware, bundles adware, bundles malware, and literally spies on you. They either manage to filter all that out or tolerate having to spend time turning it off or mitigating it every two weeks/months when an update introduces more of it.

They angrily cope. They say things like “what is so hard about just clicking Close / Ignore on a few buttons!?” when this is pointed out. But they grow fewer and fewer.

Macs are mostly valid but expensive. If work doesn’t pay for one, or you have another big hobby that makes Mac a necessity, buying one for gaming is a bit silly.

The waste is the point.

It needs to be more expensive, because that can be leveraged for higher valuations.

Yeah, friend of mine did that as a hobby project 8ish years ago. You can do that with just a small self-trained language model.

So, with AI as in the current RAM-sucking, earth-boiling monstrosities that are being pushed? No, it’s not a valid use case for that AI because it was already solved.

No bro the new model from 3 months ago is infinite gooder than what they tested. In 12-18 months we get agi or some shit i dunno just 10 more billions$ bro.

Kim: Aw shit I regret my contract. Maybe I can get out of it by lying. I need tons of lies. I need to lie and bullshit like a madman. I need to spout tons of absolute unhinged bullshit with a straight face.

ChatGPT: This. Is. My. Moment.

If everything on Windows is a vibe-coded web app then everything is going to look like different, feel like shit to use, and perform like shit.

I am happy to report: Windows apps that look different, feel shit to use and perform like shit are already available!

E.g. Teams, the CPU warmer from hell, was rolled out to Windows long ago. It was coded for Electron and couldn’t even integrate with Microsoft Windows’ taskbar popups. They had to fake one by creating a window that moved itself up from below the screen. Did this break when you changed resolution? Yes it did. Did it break when you moved the taskbar? Yes it did. Did it break when- YES IT DID

Clammy Sammy

It’s unlikely to be anything close to what the headline fuels to the imagination, but it’s good to read about some nice actual scary stuff instead of the calculator that Sam Altman put googly eyes and a miniskirt on and keeps claiming will kill us all.

AI doomerism is pure fiction and a marketing ploy.

Python is really good for golfing. The flexible types are ripe for abuse.

print(["fizzbuzz"[n%3and 4:8-(n%5and 4)]or n for n in range(1,101)])

print(''.join(__import__('random').sample(etc... for one-lining it :)

What do you mean. Why would it be a problem that my password is the most statistically likely sequence of characters in the world? And that the password is stored in plaintext in a chat log? And used for training LLMs on password conversations?

Previously from the same decision makers:

The Metaverse

Hiring the guy who fucked Apple’s UI design to shit

It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:

the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.

They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”

According to mousetrap manufacturers, putting your tongue on a mousetrap causes you to become 33% sexier, taller and win the lottery twice a week.

While some experts have argued caution that it may cause painful swelling, bleeding, injury, and distress, and that the benefits are yet to be unproven, affiliated marketers all over the world paint a different, sexier picture.

However, it is not working out for everyone. Gregory here put his tongue in the mousetrap the wrong way and suffered painful swelling, bleeding, injury and distress while not getting taller or sexier.

Gregory considers this a learning experience, and hopes this will serve as a cautionary tale for other people putting their tongue on mousetraps: From now on he will use the newest extra-strength mousetrap and take precautions like Hope Really Hard that it works when putting his tongue in the mousetrap.

We don’t need cautionary tales about how drinking bleach caused intestinal damage.

The people needing the caution got it in spades and went off anyway.

Or maybe the cautionary tale is to take caution dealing with the developers in question, as they are dangerously inept.

I mean… Deloitte is mercenary, and hired by the company wanting a passed audit.

They get paid to check pre-agreed spots A, B, and C and keep their eyes closed outside those areas.

A RAM-only server can still send metrics, metadata, “anonymized” metadata…

As a long time Firefox user, I believe Firefox sees orders of magnitude more RAM issues than other apps because it is using orders of magnitude more RAM than other apps.