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  • While I love the fun of having a pattern like that... It's actually kinda dumb (with all due respect) that KDE had a naming convention of starting every app with K, and at the same time, a standard app menu that lists applications alphabetically.

    Which means if you install a standard, expected "clean" version of KDE Plasma and it's default apps, the alphabetical sorting is almost useless yet it's the primary UX element of the most important menu in the interface.

    Still love KDE though.

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • What absolute scares me is how even if you download Windows Enterprise IoT, which already comes extremely clean out of the box, and then run your favorite debloating script (removing even more crap)... the system still shows a noticeable delay when opening the right click menu, or the start menu, or a new Explorer window. So the most basic possible tasks, that you do constantly, for some reason are slow on a modern multi-core processor and a clean build of the OS.

    How the hell did they manage to downgrade... the start menu? the right click menu? How?

  • Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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  • And so it begins.

  • AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

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  • Yikes.

  • Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds | From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.

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  • Ah yes, the famous two countries in the world, the US and Denmark, our good old two-country world.

  • Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds | From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.

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  • We can't extrapolate data from "Americans" to say "people in general" like this title does.

    Americans and declining education is not a new phenomenon nor is it global. Americans are also not role models for anything.

  • YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE

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  • Imagine an alligator. Quite good at catching prey with their current anatomy.

    An alligator that shoots laser beams for tracking and bullets would be even better. There's however no path from their current anatomy to this state, regardless of the randomness and timescale for mutations. In fact, in order to achieve this higher state several non advantageous intermediates would be necessary and therefore never selected for.

    So no, evolution can't achieve global maxima, it can however optimize the shit out of what it's given to work with.

  • Shit like this is why we need open source printers!

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  • Apple also considered printers for a while and decided this mess is untouchable

  • Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?

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  • Naturally. But the comment is not comparing tape to other media, so your rant is not relevant. We are talking about tape players.

  • Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?

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  • VHS isn't coming back because you simply can't buy a CRT and VCR. These are no longer being made, the existing ones are degrading and overpriced.

    Otherwise they'd absolutely be back, a lot of videos on YouTube and TikTok are specifically longing for VHS.

  • Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?

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  • Don't listen to "audiophiles" otherwise literally no audio equipment is ever good, and it becomes a who can spend the most money contest.

    A cassette player from FiiO will sound absolutely great and work fine.

  • Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers

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  • It doesn't have "3 million bits of info" on a specific topic, or even if it did, it wouldn't be able to directly measure it. It's worth reading a bit about how LLMs work behind the hood, because although somewhat dense if you're new to the concepts, you come out knowing a lot more about what to expect when using them, what the limitations actually are and how to use them better if you decide to go that route.

  • Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers

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  • LLMs don't have any awareness of their internal state, so there's no way for them to see something as a gap of knowledge.

  • GNU/Hurd Now An Official Platform For SDL Cross-Platform Gaming Library

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  • Nobody runs Hurd outside of testing or developing it. It's not ready for actual daily computing.

  • This could be the start of the bubble pop.

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  • If the market gets spooked, it doesn’t matter what CEOs do.

    That's true, but when a CEO forces a company the size of Microsoft to use AI for all tasks, regardless of effectiveness, you can bet safely on AI companies selling their product because demand is literally being fabricated and forced into existence.

  • This could be the start of the bubble pop.

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  • It unfortunately won't be, as we still have too many CEOs that invested heavily into forcing AI workflows and they rather let the company burn than admit a mistake.

    But it could be an early sign for non tech savvy investors that are still wondering if they should invest in AI or not.

  • VPN company Mullvad reminds users it will no longer use OpenVPN

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  • These immutable distros always create a thousand little problems like that.

  • Increasingly, Americans just arent feeling AI

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  • I think AI will be stable and mundane when we don't use a ton of processing power trying to force a shitty language model to "reason" an answer that could've been solved with a 30 second web search.

    AI will live on as nice little algorithms running in your phone's TPU to clean an image from noise or making better typo corrections.

  • Increasingly, Americans just arent feeling AI

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  • AI is so good and users love it so much and use it so much that...

    ...companies need to beg people to use it, astroturf trends, try to force AI buttons everywhere in their UIs, automatically "upgrade" your subscription with a new AI bundle and hope you don't notice, give large free trials and then try to lock user's content.

    All signs of super desirable and on demand services!