It’s a race to become too big to fail.

Every time I see another AI headline, the Gamers Nexus “AI” video starts playing in my head.

You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you’re a robot.

Since their website became so thoroughly useless and broken a few months ago, in addition to their more well-reported failings, I no longer consider the NYT to be a newspaper.

What do you know, it’s a mysterious “thing” that everybody is going to love. Will they redesign cities around it?

Vivaldi is not free software and is therefore not worthy of consideration as a replacement for Firefox.

Wow, that’s even higher papal density than Luxembourg!

Regular, non-expert internet users find it fun, or even amusing, to play gacha games. And yet the sentiment about a potential new gacha game panel built into Firefox has been overwhelmingly negative. While sophisticated gamer aesthetes find those creations gauche or even offensive, other cultures find them perfectly addictive.

Most of the people that see gacha games as a valuable use of their time on this earth belong to demographics that are dismissed by all you internet weirdos. It’s an incredibly mainstream experience now. Regular people have no problem collecting trading cards, making the numbers go up, and spending money on in-game purchases. If Firefox wants to keep up with the times it needs a built-in gacha game so that it can protect the privacy of all the billions of people who will see it and understand that Firefox is the web browser and gacha game platform made for them.

The majority of censorship is self-censorship

I’m sure there’s still a good American newspaper out there somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. All the familiar big ones seem to have fallen.

My rule of thumb: Do not ever link to, or follow links to, or read the New York Times.

If a website is going to break because it doesn’t know how many cores my CPU has, I prefer that website to be broken.

I didn’t read a word of it, simply scrolled to the end to verify that yes, there is a link to X down there.

Whichever kernel debian bookworm has, the patch for this has most likely been applied to it. The larger risk is to organizations running ancient versions of RHEL or something that never get updated, e.g. because some hardware they need uses a shitty proprietary driver that supports only very specific kernel versions.

Edit: You can confirm that it’s been fixed in Debian here. Looks like it was patched for bullseye systems still running kernel 5.10 in June 2024.

“Hacktivist” apparently now means “for-hire saboteurs working for Russia.”

Thank Goodness You’re Here was good for a few laughs.

Is this a joke or are you serious?

Both. I realize it’s not for everyone, but I like it the best. When I got into it, what I was looking for in a religious text was not that it be “the easiest” but I didn’t want to learn Latin or Hebrew either.

Pretty sure the copyright on the KJV, which is obviously the best version, has expired by now.

Another hypothesis is that the city was taken over by wizards.

What I’m thinking of depends more on the training methods and data used. But I guess it’s too early to say much about what strong AI would be like, we’re not really close to it yet.

I mean some of it might turn out to be “profitable” in the narrow sense of earning financial returns for somebody, but that does not mean it will be a profitable endeavour for humanity in general.