GnuLinuxDude
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- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 day ago:
How did you determine it was the SSD failing and not another component?
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 days ago:
I’ve been a full time Linux user at home for over six years. It’s why my username is what it is :)
I can’t say it’s flawless. Sometimes you get what you pay for. But in most every significant way it is the better choice.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 days ago:
YES! Same!!!
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 5 days ago:
I have to use Windows 11 for work. Maybe this is because of CrowdStrike or something, I don’t know, but I often encounter a problem where the main section of explorer, where you can actually click files and stuff, just breaks. That entire region becomes unclickable and unusable, even though the rest of the Explorer window (like the icons on the top part) all still work. So I just have to close the window and then reopen Explorer, re-navigate back to where I was, and proceed from where I left off.
Never, in the decades I’ve been using computers, have I ever encountered something as stupid as this with this amount of regularity. Windows 11 is a uniquely bad OS compared to every competitor option, including prior versions of Windows.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
No matter how “cool” it is its primary purpose, first and foremost, is to generate spam. A trillion dollar industry, effectively, in the service of spamming our search results, inboxes, text messages, science journals, homework assignments, and so much more
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
The announcement did not include Copilot? No mention of 300 useless AI features being shoved down our throats??!
It’s wild how by virtue of the fact that Valve isn’t a publicly traded company beholden to shareholders, Valve which has a history of putting out half-baked goods, Valve which has an always-on DRM client called Steam, seems poised to surpass most of its competitors both in the user privacy and hardware hardware space with just straightforward products.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of an open internet. Taking a few legitimate problems and exploding them up to destroy anonymity online. And VPNs are not the solution when using privacy-preserving workarounds are either outlawed or just don’t work on any major website.
That it goes hand-in-hand (especially in the USA) with a neo-fascist right wing in control opposed by the most limp-dick “left” is extra troubling. What was the inception point for this trend? Oct 7, 2023? Were too many people shown images on TikTok of Palestinian civilians being mercilessly bombed?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sad part is I like the design, but it’s been over-exploited by big tech corps for the past 8 years so now I have to hate it because of the new symbolic meaning it has taken.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 months ago:
I think it’s much simpler than that. I think he just wants to make money and sees an opportunity to enrich himself. These people don’t have a sense of morality, only a “fuck you, got mine” basic American individualism
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 months ago:
The secondary use here is when you get asked in performance evaluation time how much you’re incorporating AI into your workflow. And you’d better not say “none” so you keep generating these nonsense documents and throwing them away so it appears like you’re using AI
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 2 months ago:
Their primary use case in the office that I’ve seen is asking someone a question and having them send a LLM response where they clearly didn’t read what you asked and the response they sent you does not answer the original question. It’s so cool!
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 2 months ago:
Reminds me of all those stupid “cyberpunk 1994, office nights 1998” ai slop playlists on YouTube. They all have a common theme: they don’t represent or even remotely sound like the kind of music from the year they claim to take you back to. and the tracks, if one can call them that, are the same repetitive, thoughtless rhythms. If you go to YouTube to find some background music to listen to, these kinds of uploads dominate the search results today. And it’s all D-tier shit.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 months ago:
Anubis only does a proof of work challenge if you lack a specific cookie that it gives you. You can temporarily enable JavaScript, pass the challenge, get the cookie, then disable JavaScript.
I use uBlock Origin, btw, to make selectively enabling/disabling JavaScript per domain a simple two-click task.
- Comment on AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’ 3 months ago:
It’s not just who’s on there. It’s also how the platforms promote content into your feed. When I was on Facebook in 2008 the friend feed was just that. Just people I mutually knew IRL posting. Facebook hadn’t yet figured out how to really monetize it. Advertisers were not as on it. SEO wasn’t really a thing yet.
Fast-forward 5-6 years and it really grew into an all-encompassing thing. Yeah, more people were on it, but so were the marketable opportunities. So were the suggested posts. So were all the news organizations, the grifters, the advertisers… and Facebook’s role in all of that is to promote the most outrageous and engaging content to you to keep you on the site longer than ever before. They have it down to a science.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 months ago:
my one weird trick for using fandom.com is to disable javascript for that domain.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 3 months ago:
So much spam… internet is hardly usable after a decade of SEO and now with LLM sprinkled on top.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 3 months ago:
The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.
My critique on this that the people who produce this stuff don’t have interest in it for its own sake. They only have interest in it to crowd out the people who actually do, and to produce a worse version of it in a much faster time than it would for someone with actual talent to do so. But the reason they produce it is for profit. Gunk up the search results with no-effort crap to get ad revenue. It is no different than “SEO.”
Example: if you go onto YouTube right now and try to find any modern 30-60m long video that’s like “chill beats” or “1994 cyberpunk wave” or whatever other bullshit they pump out (once you start finding it you’ll find no shortage of it), you’ll notice that all of those uploaders only began as of about a year ago at most and produce a lot of videos (which youtube will happily prioritize to serve you) of identical sounding “music.” The people producing this don’t care about anything except making money. They’re happy to take stolen or plagiarized work that originated with humans, throw it into the AI slot machine, and produce something which somehow is no longer considered stolen or plagiarized. And the really egregious ones will link you to their Patreons.
The story is the same with art, music, books, code, and anything else that actually requires creativity, intuition, and understanding.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 3 months ago:
The key point about codeberg as I understand it is it’s meant for foss projects. It’s not really much more complex than that. Want to host non-free software, or want to use it for your company’s private code repository? They don’t want that on their servers, so either find an alternative or self-host forgejo, which is the same code (derived from gitea) that powers codeberg itself.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 3 months ago:
Can’t read my emails on it though.
Great feature!!
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 months ago:
I also try, but it is invoked on my behalf. For instance, at work if I make a pull request now multiple AI bots are summoned to give an analysis of my code changes. It’s extremely verbose and annoying, and I think basically nobody reads it because all it does is just spam the comments section with way too much text.
I vehemently hate OpenAI, ChatGPT, et al. At least it’s funny when it summarizes my changes as significant improvements that improve code maintainability. I guess getting glazed by the bot in a way my manager can see is helpful to my career? Though honestly he probably also doesn’t read that shit. So glad all this energy is wasted for nothing.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 3 months ago:
“The enigma of success” whoever came up with that line has truly mastered the art of auto-fellatio.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 3 months ago:
Why does this story magically no longer become interesting because of a group that helps defected NKs?
There is nothing magic about it. The organization that’s cited isn’t the problem. The problem is the BBC cites that org as proof that this person’s claims are true. But neither that org nor the BBC have said, “we have corroborated Jin-su’s story.” On the contrary, the BBC just admits they didn’t or couldn’t corroborate the story themselves. So in my mind I may as well have read this article on any rando’s blog post, or in the NYT in 2001 under a Judith Miller byline. It lacks credence.
I wouldn’t have had anything to say if BBC said that they reviewed some documents that showed Jin-su’s claim. Maybe a few of the “hundreds” of fake IDs that he used, for example. But instead they just read more testimonies from PSCORE (presumably) like the one that they couldn’t verify for the sake of verifying this testimony!
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 3 months ago:
Would you expect a news outlet to be able to somehow verify the testimony of a prisoner of war before reporting on it?
“If the circumstance were different would you expect something different?” is what you are asking me. The interviewee isn’t a POW, but a defector. And not an escapee, because according to the article he was already sent abroad, so it’s not like he fled with merely the clothes on his back and a story to tell. So I would presume he would have a bit more to share with the BBC than just a story.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 3 months ago:
You’re tedious and annoying.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 3 months ago:
In cases like these the journalists can and often do say something to the effect of they were able to corroborate the claims. But you’re super right about being careful, because they also can mishandle the data they receive to the point where they dox the anonymous source, too. That’s what happened with Reality Winner and The Intercept. They botched it, and she was arrested.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 3 months ago:
I’m not doubting the N Korean scheme to infiltrate IT jobs. There’s even that woman who was prosecuted (I think she lived in Arizona?) because she is one person who acted as a facilitator for this scheme. My point is the BBC ran a story with an “anonymous” source then admits in the middle that they couldn’t substantiate any of the claims. That’s the problem here.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 3 months ago:
You’re not addressing the fact that BBC admits they didn’t/couldn’t substantiate his claims, which apparently is no problem for your own journalistic standards.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 3 months ago:
The BBC cannot independently verify the specifics of Jin-su’s testimony, but through PSCORE, an organisation which advocates for North Korean human rights, we’ve read testimony from another IT worker who defected that supports Jin-su’s claims.
oh. ok.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 3 months ago:
I have long contended that the computer industry is course-correcting with Android/iOS/mobile. They realized their prior “mistake” of letting people actually own, control, and modify their devices. Apple and iPhone is the worst in this regard.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 3 months ago:
It’s like he selectively forgot about the Snowden leaks