Deestan

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

https://www.explainxkcd.com/ is an excellent resource when xkcd feels confusing

Bullets went on a killing spree

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.

People don't like murder. Suck it up and deal with it, Pete.

"Happily" rules out most streaming services I do pay for, but Nebula is still a valid answer.

A Hetzner box i use for offloading hobby crap calculations to.

Various patreons and patreon-like things for people who make things I enjoy and/or strongly believe should exist: Garbage Brain University, Octavius King, Pivot To AI, Master Hellish, and a few more but I forget.

AI doomerism is pure fiction and a marketing ploy.

Whining with a question mark at the end doesn't count

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?

Scientists are calling this spammy bullshit.

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"

No no, someone really really should have been watching that piece of shit more closely.

Rhetorichal questions are annoying.

Having to listen to me answering it seriously is fitting punishment.

A small company this level of cooked and immature leadership may not have the resources to recover long term from the damage. Even if the bubble pops on them in a year.

I'd start looking for alternatives now, before it becomes urgent.