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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  whether farts are denser than air

  They are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservation of mass would prevent any outcome other than the scale showing you getting lighter.

  No household scale would be precise enough for this experiment though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not entirely true. It’s true that Microsoft invested in Apple, but it’s not true that they were about to get broken up and that Microsoft money saved them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with “just works” in monopolies is that it eventually stops working

  This gets accelerated when the company starts changing the product just for the sake of having to change something to meet some OKR, or because they need to find a way to incorporate the newest marketing buzz (cloud, AI, etc).

  The Office suite was simple to use and performant. Nowadays I watched a college professor struggle for 8 minutes trying to figure out how to save a file locally rather than saving it to OneDrive, because they redesigned everything around that. It also takes an obnoxiously long time to launch, it keeps popping up some Copilot button in inconvenient places too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We are talking about operating system adoption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, not going to argue against obviously dumb points from executives. Do it. Raise your prices yearly. Fuck it, you think prices need to incrsse? Increase them.

  It takes me five clicks to close Steam, open Firefox, open my favorite piracy site and download your game. Raise the fucking price, test how much I value my money versus five clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The average user no longer uses a PC at all.

  There are lots of us, but we are not the majority. The average user is quite literally doing everything from their phone, and they don’t care about any OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thought of relying on Microsoft services for something sends shivers down my spine.

  Then I remember there are adults in this world using Outlook to keep their agendas, paying for MSN news, people BOUGHT MEDIA AND SOFTWARE from the built in stores Microsoft created and abandoned. I can’t imagine it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand CEO’s obsession with AI… is it because when they give LLMs a go they feel smart and finally capable of doing the things others could do but they were too dumb to engage with, like reasonably good writing or drawing pictures?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  as long as certain jobs and tasks can be done easier, and searches can be done faster

  I’m still waiting for somebody to prove any of these statements are true. And I say that as somebody working in a company that demands that several employees use AI - all I see is that they now take extra time manually fixing whatever bad output the LLM produced, and slowly losing their ability to communicate without first consulting ChatGPT, which is both slow and concerning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seashells require face to face interaction, they weigh a lot and they are not convenient to obtain. Nor are they fungible or even anonymous

  That’s all true, which is why seashells are terrible. But even being terrible, they beat the imaginary crypto bro token. That’s how bad the crypto bro token is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  so you agree that Monero has value then

  Nope, I’d rather use seashells than something like Monero. Crypto is got negative value, the time wasted hearing people like you preach about it is never going to be returned to my life.

  especially in countries like the US?

  Seashells would be an upgrade in a country like the US, but failures of your payment systems do not change anything for the inherent value of random online tokens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pix sounds trivially easy to censor, freeze, or control from the government’s perspective

  If the Brazilian government decided to go against the constitution to censor my online purchases like that, buying hentai games would be the least of my concerns. And then it wouldn’t matter if I’m using your fake crypto bro tokens or not.

  And we don’t have anything like it in the US

  Of course not. You live in a weird techno feudalism where the government can’t do anything because that’s socialism and the only solutions you trust are some random tech bro dependent crap like CashApp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Monero, a decentralized censorship proof cryptocurrency, has no real utility with regard to solving MasterCard’s censorship and only depends on a pyramid of investors to function at all?

  Monero - the digital token with no real world value, yes. You don’t need crypto to fix this issue. Brazilians can use Pix and would not depend on MasterCard and Visa, and this includes everything from physical purchases to digital storefronts to paying in installments and more. All attached to currency that actually means something and zero crypto bros trying to pump the value up or down on their delusional subreddits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme and has no real utility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little... why not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gemini will also attempt to provide you with a help line, though it’s very easy to talk your way through that. Lumo, Proton’s LLM, will straight up halt any conversation even remotely adjacent to topics like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little... why not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what people (and many articles about LLMs “learning how to bribe others” and similar) fail to understand about LLMs:

  They do not understand their internal state. ChatGPT does not know it’s got a creator, an administrator, a relationship to OpenAI, an user, a system prompt. It only replies with the most likely answer based on the training set.

  When it says “I’m sorry, my programming prevents me from replying that” you feel like it calculated an answer, then put it through some sort of built in filtering, then decided not to reply. That’s not the case. The training is carefully manipulated to make “I’m sorry, I can’t answer that” the perceived most likely answer to that query. As far as ChatGPT is concerned, “I can’t reply that” is the same as “cheese is made out of milk”, both are just words likely to be stringed together given the context.

  So getting to your question: sure, you can make ChatGPT reply with the training’s set vision of “what’s the most likely order of words and tone a LLM would use if it roleplayed the user as some sort of owner” but that changes fundamentally nothing about the capabilities and limitations, except it will likely be even more sycophantic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Users make abhorrent weird workarounds for that, like running a PC software that uses a free temporary developer license to re-license an app on your phone, that then uses that license to resign other apps ““automatically””

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t really run into any issues with them

  This has been changed if you’re lucky enough to have a recent Android version, but not long ago any gallery app sideloaded from external sources couldn’t be set as the system gallery, meaning managing pictures was really annoying because any changes required a pop up confirmation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If Google is sad, I’m happy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The FSF (and RMS himself) wanted an alternative for online payments for ages, without crypto. An anonymous buffer layer between your payment method, like a credit card, and the vendor. I believe something was eventually released but it never took off, because unlike something like a NFC Wallet, vendors would have to natively support GNU’s version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t mind not having a native Linux drive client if they didn’t block rsync, which used to work, and now does not. What a stupid decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, it’s a great idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, that’s the problem with email - it’s much harder to change and migrate, because you can’t guarantee others will use your new email, much less find out who somehow still has the old email to send messages to and expects a reply from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone on a dist wants to maintain a package then let them take the heat if it is broken.

  That’s quite literally what happened and why this guy is moaning though. Nobody asked him for an Arch build, people distribute it themselves on the AUR and he’s annoyed anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In his defense, a LOT of emulator maintainers have this sentiment about RetroArch, so I can’t fault him too much for that one in particular.

  Then release your emulator as a paid app for iOS with a closed source and go nuts. Otherwise it’s like going out naked during a rainy day and shouting you’re getting wet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The developer also had a massive drama with RetroArch because, wait for it… “RetroArch users complain too much!” so that’s actually a common sentiment coming from them and it’s absolutely not restricted to Linux. He hates Linux users, Android users, RetroArch users… at this point I wonder why even publish this as a public user facing project at all, he clearly hates users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want to see your software packaged in ways outside of your control, is it smart to publish it with a license that allows it to be packaged in ways outside of your control?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to the nearest Google stor

  A “Google Store” doesn’t even exist in my country lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering it is a Google phone their long term support is still crap compared to things like Fairphone or even iPhone.

  At least it beats Samsung, I’m not buying any product from them ever again