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  • What the fuck.

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  • If the corporate world’s shockingly uncritical adoption of LLM-generated text isn’t the most damning example of how capitalism is its own most scathing self-parody I don’t know what is.

    These sentences don’t convey meaning. Even good advertising (as in it’s good at being advertising) transports an idea from a sender to a recipient. What is this? What the fuck is this?

    At least your cubicleslop is funny. Compare that to

    you'll take on the responsibility of ensuring passenger safety

    Would a writer, even an atrocious one, imply that the person looking at the details of a flight school needs to be informed that the job of a pilot is in fact not to crash the plane?

    There’s no point in being upset at senseless machine output. But the continuous abdication of common sense by people accepting it blindly is absolutely maddening.

  • What the fuck.

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  • Begging on my hands and knees to see one last paragraph written by a human and not a syntactically valid but otherwise dead-sounding lexical mélange. Even if it’s for stupid bullshit like this. Just because most of these words are relevant to aviation it doesn’t mean they create a convincing blurb. Half of these words do nothing to make me think positively about the thing they’re breathlessly advertising.

    I know no part of my complaint is novel. I know this is about the easy dunk on the flight school named after history’s oldest failed “pilot”. But this is so blatant. Multiple people have signed off on making this very critical training sound as low effort as possible.

  • They Wylin'

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  • I heard this word for word but in Arabic back in like 2006 about Yasser Arafat. What’s old is new again.

  • Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

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  • On-device translation is also exactly what I want out of this tech and we have it. You can even just go to about:translations. This isn’t 2001 anymore, you shouldn’t be using someone else’s server to translate something quick for you. Not at first pass at least.

  • Alpha stuff just alpha things

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  • Most Western Civilization-understanding “Western Civilization” admirer.

  • Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

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  • The second big one for me is how shocking I find it that timezone spoofing isn’t standard, now that so many people use VPNs. Why would someone connecting from Sweden have their clock set to GMT? Etc

  • Finally a month that's relevant to me

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  • You ought to really bite down on that filter, give it a good satisfying crunch, just give it a real manly squeeze using your masculine man face working man muscles, just to make sure no particles go anywhere. You’ll be fine, trust

  • Finally a month that's relevant to me

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  • The asbestos is probably the healthiest ingredient in that cigarette.

  • Removed

    Emupedia – Free Classic Games and Softwares. Choose from Windows 95/98/Me emulation and play vintage games.

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  • Not clicking on the link, but this is right up my alley. Would love to host something like that locally, some sort of convenient museum of emulated stuff.

  • Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode

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  • My imperfect solution of downloading on PC over time and using the network transfer feature might still be better suited for the way my internet speed and quota works, but this is great for small updates and that kind of thing.

  • What are some of your favorite digital tools?

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  • Everyone who has looked up useful stuff to print knows about Gridfinity, but boxes.py looks so cool! Reminds me a lot of an earlier era of computer software, when it seemed like half of all programs were made to help you do things off-screen, a lot more printing and scanning. Maybe that’s just me, I don’t know.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • For the future: File Lockpick, from PowerToys. The only thing the Windows product managers haven’t ruined, and only because it’s on Microsoft’s GitHub and not built into the OS. Or in Winget, since this is Lemmy.

    You can just right click the drive that won’t eject or the file that won’t cut and it’ll list everything that had a handle open, without digging through the SysInternals programs.

    I wonder where my computing would be if I spent all this time scaling the Linux learning curve instead of the Windows one. Probably more friction at my work-issued Windows machine. Probably increasingly many hours saved on “fixing” every successive Windows install.

    For me it ends up being SpaceSniffer a solid 20% of the time.

  • Meanwhile at Microsoft

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  • For what it’s worth Windows 10 is/was perfectly usable after setting it up properly. A bit of customization needed but nothing crazy. Honestly I liked the OS and its design, it felt very clean and utility oriented.

    I’ve set up a new Windows 11 install from scratch this past month and it has been a real pulling-teeth experience. It’s not completely unfixable (yet) but even the annoyances that are not sinister are perplexing. There’s a new context menu that has a cut down layout and takes a few milliseconds to load - I get the design decision to keep it short, and have a button for more options, but it lags - so I’m out. It’s just a little hidden config to automatically skip to the full (more cluttered but no lag) menu (which you could do by holding shift every single time). There’s a few dozen little annoyances like that. A few are bigger than others, like the need to drive Copilot out to the desert and double tap it in the head unceremoniously. They’ve put it in Paint. They’ve put it in fucking Notepad.

    That’s not even getting into how desperately they want every user signing away the rights to their bone marrow to the Microsoft Corporation. The computer I’ve set up is more or less where I want it to be, but I’m wary of things breaking with an update.

    I’m not big on quotes but I’ve been coming back to Ed Zitron’s words a lot lately:

    I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to the computer.

    I find it funny how the tables turned. Used to be that Linux was the one that needed unintuitive setup and Windows was the one that just worked. I don’t think I’ve used a single Linux image that didn’t just drop me into a desktop environment no questions asked upon boot, and that’s a world away from the awful, awful new Windows experience. Unless Microsoft conspires to make the next decade of Linux hardware drivers absolutely abhorrent, I think this will have to be my last Windows machine. That or the entire executive suite of Microsoft’s OS division has an epiphany about not wanting to spend eternity in hell.

    For all the Just Use Linux people: I’ve got more machines running Linux in my house than Windows. I’ll get there, Microsoft is just doing everything they can to push everyone off their OS.

  • ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’

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  • IIRC I played it a little and it was just mobile microtransaction hell after a certain point, no?

  • Making Nazis great again. All white men and a couple subordinate women.

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  • Unmistakeable piss filter on the left. Nobody who has used an entire pencil in their life would draw that shit.

  • What's the most impressive video game mod you've ever come across?

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  • I think I’m subconsciously holding back going back into Skyrim until Inigo V3 is released.

  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • At least to me, Overwolf is the third or fourth iteration, following acquisitions, buyouts, restructurings, etc. The original FTB launcher worked perfectly fine. It’s mostly just obnoxious now and I make sure not to have it running in the background. No direct rent-seeking behavior just yet, I don’t have an account on there and it’s not a problem.

    Right now I have it on my computer just use it to update packs that are only available there and then yoink them straight into MultiMC.

    AFAIK it is owned by Curse and I guess those guys make most of their money from those godawful wikis and their ads.

    I thought I’d check this before posting it, and it turns out it’s the other way around. Overwolf bought Curse. Worse, Overwolf is a company based out of Tal Abib… that’s two discoveries in one day. I was looking into getting a CaribouMini until I learned where that comes from. Less than two hundred kilometers away from me as the missile crow flies (and sadly, has flown). Great. Fucking great.

    The shitty thing is that a lot of cool pack creators only publish through Overwolf, so I don’t want to delete it just yet, but I don’t like this at all. At best a minor security risk, at worst I don’t even want to know. I just thought it was just some shitty ad company’s Curse buyout as a billboard for more ads. For all the issues I might have with Nexus Mods, I don’t think they’re quite this bad. Concerning that this is the de facto standard repository of MC mods.

  • The struggle

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  • Did all my urgent housework on Friday evening. Got up at 8:30 AM. No sleeping in today, I have a game I want to play, and I’m going to spend a leisurely day that I’ve dedicated to it.

    It’s now 8 PM. My computer is still off. I don’t even know what I did all day.

  • Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally?

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  • I think I should have been more clear, this is exactly what I'm asking about. I'm somewhat surprised by the reaction this post got, this seems like a very normal thing to want to host.

    Doesn't help that some people here are replying as if I was asking to locally host the "trick" that is feeding a chatbot text and asking it whether it's machine-generated. Ideally the software I think I'm looking for would be something that has a bank of LLM models and can kind of do some sort of statistical magic to see how likely a block of tokens is to be generated by them. Would probably need to have quantized models just to make it run at a reasonable speed. So it would, for example, feed the first x tokens in, take stock of how the probability table looks for the next token, compare it to the actual next token in the block, and so on.

    Maybe this is already a thing and I just don't know the jargon for it. I'm pretty sure I'm more informed about how these transformer algorithms work than the average user of them, but only just.