Posts by sarusa

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

Koolaid

Okay, you obviously don't know how an LLM works or that it's not actually 'AI'. It is not sentient, can never be sentient. Very confident dumb executives have argued that if you just throw enough hardware at one it will magically and hopefully become sentient (AGI) in a shower of pixie dust and wishes. Hundreds of billions of dollars have failed spectacularly and completely at that premise and f@#$ed up the entire computer economy.

Yes, someone could come up with some brilliant new tech that can achieve AGI - nobody can rule that out. But that's going to require at least one more adversarial / transformer type breakthrough and won't be LLM (though LLM could be part, just not the thinking part).

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

Microslop Copilot

I kind of like Elmo rebranding Twitter to X, because it has a couple advantages (just not for X):

- We call it xitter, the posts are xits, the white supremacists still using it are xitheads, and Elmo is the chief xithead. X is pronounced 'sh' here, which is linguistically quite valid.

- Twitter is dead and at least we can have some fond memories of it, RIP. Yes, it was really bad in some ways, but now X makes that look like rainbows and milk and honey.

Also, the other big rebranding for 2025, though not voluntarily: Microsoft is now Microslop. I will never call it anything else ever again (unless Nadella ever pulls his head out of his ass, which seems highly unlikely).

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

Re: It really is time to move to some place like Proton

> I'm not sure whether Proton allows you to have your own domain but that's been my approach for a long time.

This is a very good point. Yes, Proton allows you to bring a custom domain(s) so my email addresses are all at [sarusa].com and if I ever have to move providers again it will be literally 1000x easier next time (just point the custom domain at the new mail service).

I had no idea Mythic Beasts existed, but looks fun, would certainly have considered them.

Re: Extraordinary

Is it really paranoid when Google is explicitly fucking evil?

I mean, technically, yes, it's paranoia even if they really are out to get you. But there is absolutely no question at this point they are 100% evil and I would rather not be their bitch unlike you 'NFTs are the future!' guys?

It really is time to move to some place like Proton

About a year ago I saw where the google shit train was going and finally moved my email and docs - I had been thinking I should do this for about 3 years, finally did it.

I moved to Proton Mail / Docs. And YES, I cannot lie, it was a month of HELL, logging into everything and tediously moving them over to my proton.me account.

But at this point I think it was totally worth it. I am so happy to have everything on Proton instead of Google, and I do occasionally go check my gmail account but it's just 100+ shit messages I don't give a single eff about. I can actually easily say 'move everything from this sender to this folder' which Google would NOT without explicitly writing a rule (and then sometimes ignoring) because they were sure their AI would take care of it (and it did not). And I know Google is no longer training on anything I actually care about and there is no 'AI' and I'm not subject to their whims and pure evil.

So please, you don't need to move to Proton, and it will be a month of HELL, but please move off of fucking Google. For your sake and for our sake. You can't pretend you're tech savvy and still have Google as your primary account.

Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway

Slop Coders Gonna Slop

Look, if you're a slop coder in the first place, why would you bother checking the AI written code? You're having the AI write code specifically because you're lazy, lack talent, and lack rigor. And suddenly you expect them to have all that for the verification phase?

'30% of people who drink drive don't use their seatbelts!' well gee what a surprise.

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results

Re: Criminal behavior --> criminal org

Laws are of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. In the US it's big evil corporations. Once the big evil content producers link up with big evil AI corps, like Disney is doing with OpenAI, then this sort of content poisoning will be considered industrial terrorism.

In Mainland China, AI is a pillar of the Chinese Communist Party's plan for world dominance and everything (by law) belongs to the CCP so there's no actual theft. I suspect if this poisoning takes off, it will be crushed, or the CCP will just demand you hand over all the keys as they do with other things. So govt approved AI will get all the keys - I suspect that's why there even ARE keys in this case.

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Re: Why not just ditch Chrome?

> Why not go further and DITCH anything related to GOOGLE?

I have as much as I can. For email and online drive, I've gone to Proton. For search, it's obviously Kagi. For browser I've gone to WaterFox, which is FireFox without the AI enshittification.

However, sometimes I have to log into something for work, banking, or health that needs something Chromium based because those f@#$ers have the worst codebases with decades of technical debt. And in that case I use Vivaldi.

I sometimes get commenters going 'OH NO IF YOU HAD ALL THE INTEGRITIES you would not use anything Chrome based at all!1' and yeah, that's probably right, but in practice I do need to schedule my health care and pay my property taxes without getting hit with massive fines, so I will use Vivaldi for that.

Re: Why not just ditch Chrome?

I can second Vivaldi. No AI crap, older extensions (like fully functional uBlock Origin) still work since they still support Manifest v2 and it's not a MAGA Techbro browser that secretly adds invisible referrers to your urls like Brave was doing till they got caught (along with all the other things, 'privacy browser' LOL).

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Re: Why use AI to convert from c/c++ to rust?

Because f@#ing Nadella only rewards cult members who fountain 'AI!' feces from all holes over all surfaces. This is very much tail wagging the dog.

Vibe code lots of Windows updates with zero testing that take down millions of PCs? You're a star performer, you're getting promoted!

Oh, you're a strictly methodical engineer who hand writes his code and seriously considers pointer lifespans and best data structure for a particular problem and whose code never fails? You're getting demoted for not deep throating Nadella's new God.

It doesn't matter what the actual problem is, you just need to slap 'AI' on your dick and wave it around to succeed at Microsoft. They obviously have not cared how sh@tty this makes their products since at least 2021.

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement

Ahaha, no

The problem is that 'AI' is only more competent than useless at very specific things, like OCring text, upscaling pictures, doing translations. And you have to know what those are. It is a tool that is good at very specific things. Like a knife, a craftsman knows not to hammer things with it.

For things like coding, doing budgets, doing schedules, summarizing meetings, LLMs follow the usual AI rule - It is absolutely better at producing something than completely incompetent twats. You get something instead of the nothing they could have done themselves so they think it's pure magic. For anyone competent, AI just slows things down because it does worse things (and radically wrong things) than we could have done on our own in the same time and we have to spend more time fixing and checking it.

But then... management is usually completely f@#$ing incompetent, so it is kind of a big plus for them? So I guess the big takeaway here is just replace all of management and all of the executives with LLMs and everything will be much better. I'm sorry, I guess you were right, it really is a management problem. Management needs to be replaced entirely by 'AI'. But by no means attempt to use it for real work, it mostly sucks at at that.

Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot

Re: Oh great

Sorry to reply to myself, but after spending an entire f#@$#ing month trying out alternative browsers:

- Brave: NO. This douche thinks gay people can't get married because Jesus hates them, and they do tons of privacy violating stuff (like adding invisible referrers) while claiming your privacy is #1. It's the iconic MAGA browser.

- Zen: I did like it, I wanted to like it, but there are too many Jony Ive UI form before function atrocities like insisting you only use vertical tabs. I like vertical tabs for some things, but they eat up a lot more area than horizontal tabs and act weird when opening a bunch of tabs at once, so want to be able to switch. There are other things that annoyed me a lot so I stopped.

- LibreWolf: This is your 'mostly the same but locked down' version of Firefox. And I was pretty happy with it, but the security stuff broke a lot of sites I needed, when normally I would just use NoScript to lock things down where I needed it. It just got too annoying.

( a bunch of other browsers I won't even bother mentioning )

- WaterFox - this is the best 'Firefox but better' browser I've found, I'm still happily using it, think it's even better than Firefox even besides the lack of AI shit. I was able to easily import my bookmarks, cookies, extensions, etc. with FF Sync.

- Vivaldi - this is the best Chromium based browser I've found, for when you need to f@!#$ing broken websites that need Chromium. You can even still run the good extensions like uBlock Origin, because it hasn't broken them for malicious reasons like Chrome has.

So basically at this point, after trying literally dozens of browsers, unless you have a super specific need I would suggest Waterfox for FF compat and Vivalidi for Chrome compat.

Oh great

So the guy responsible for most of Firefox's enshittification over the last couple years is now in full charge.

I would suggest people take a look at Zen Browser. It's a fork from before FF started rapidly enshittifying.

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

I was happy enough with them, but they just went to [poop]

I had a Roomba i7+ for a long time (the + means it came with a stand to charge and empty its bin), and it worked great. Every day it'd run around and happily clean up all the new shed cat hair and spilled kibble and knocked around cat litter, then empty its bin. I only had to maintain it and change the bag about once a month. Even while we were gone on vacation it would keep cleaning! Perfect when you have cats. You could get replacement parts (bags, rollers, filters, etc) way cheaper from third parties than from iRobot. Sometimes I'd actually check the bin before it emptied into the bag and was amazed by the amount of cat hair. Where the heck was all this coming from? I sure didn't see it. So it was nice that it was cleaning stuff that I wouldn't have noticed, like under the bed, every single day.

Well after about 6(?) years the i7+ was obviously going senile, battery going to poop, so when Amazon had a Black Friday sale on the i9+ I snagged one for half price. Hey, it's two more, must be better, right? No, it was a total piece of crap. Things the i7 would handle with ease it kept getting stuck on. I had no obstacles near the stand, completely clear for it to roll onto it, but it kept failing and insisting it needed to be placed back on the stand by hand. While the i7 could go a whole month cleaning without intervention, the i9 had a successful run rate of about 30%. I'm not sure /exactly/ what made it so much /worse/ than the older model (vibe coding?) when even just the same would have been fine, but iRobot's stubborn refusal to add LIDAR, Elmo style, certainly didn't help.

Anyhow, for Black Friday this year I grabbed a Roborock Qrevo and yeah, it is just light years ahead of the Roombas. It has LIDAR and actually doesn't smack into things, it's far quieter, it has SO many more options, it's never gotten stuck yet, the app is far, far better. So once again I have a vacuum cleaner that runs every day and cleans up the pet hair, kibble, and kitty litter. Of course the downside is that Roborock is Mainland China, needs their app, and needs wifi to talk to it. Well, I'm not putting that on my internal network (ditto for the Roomba!), so I put it on my separate doghouse AP that doesn't get to see my internal network. That's a really good strategy for any stupid appliance where you actually want to use it with an app.

Anyhow, yes, iRobot's products sucked. iRobot coasted on their initial superiority for far too long and deserved to die.

Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement

As you'd expect from Purdue

I went to university at Rose-Hulman, a smaller and much better engineering college just down the road.

Our standard joke was:

'If you fail out of Chemical or Electrical Engineering, you go to Mechanical Engineering, and if you fail out of that you go to Civil Engineering, and if you fail out of that, you go to Purdue.'

Good to see that's still 100% applicable for the complete fail engineering school.

Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs

Hahaha sure why not

Having had to work with some of these worse than useless clowns at previous companies (in my case McKinsey and KMPG), I would have no problem replacing them with AI. The only thing they're there for is to tell upper management what they want to hear or justify.

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

Re: Just go back to Office 2021

Wow, El Reg did not show my previous comment for DAYS so I assumed they had just banned it not being asskissing enough to MS for HP Enterprise. Sorry for the double post! And the first one was absolutely better.

Just go back to Office 2021

So more politely than my previous effort, after Office 365 was obviously going to heck I bought a license for Office 2021 from St*ck S*cial for $40. One time payment, it works great, no AI, no subscription, what a concept. I need Office (TM) because LibreOffice is unfortunately not compatible enough for complex Excel spreadsheets, so I went with this. If you want to go back even further I think they have Office 2016 for $10!

I've been told these are probably business keys that are not supposed to be resold, but I don't care because the only reason I needed to do this is that I was paying you money and you completely broke the product. I bought an auto from you, then you came along and tore all the tyres off and smashed all the windows with a hammer. If anything, MS owes me that $40 I paid to fix their product, but of course that's not going to happen. But I think this is entirely justified.

Just go back to Office 2021

A year ago, when Office 365 was obviously going to complete shit, I bought an Office 2021 key off StackSocial for $40. I installed it, it works fantastic, it has NONE of the AI shit, it doesn't cost me $80 / mo, just $40 once. Forever. What a concept. If you want to go back further, I think they have Office 2016 for $10!

I've been told these are probably enterprise keys that are not supposed to resold, but at this point I don't give a single f@#$. F@%# Microsoft and f@$#% Nadella sideways up the ass with a chainsaw. I was using your products and paying you and then you just turned them to complete f@Q#ing shit and I only have to do this because you completely destroyed what I was paying for. This is self defense.

So as someone who sadly NEEDS Office (Libre Office compat with Excel is not good enough to trade complex spreadsheets), this is the best solution I've found. And MS can't make it worse every f@#$ing month!

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

Most 'end to end' are just marketing lies

I suspect if you looked at 100 things that claimed to be 'end to end encrypted' you'd find only 10% of them actually were. It's just some marketing buzzword for most companies, they have no idea what it actually means. For most of them what they think it means 'encrypted on your end till it gets to our server end where we decrypt it'. Which means anything using SSL is 'E2EE'. And then of course you have the 'E2EE' ones that are just sending in plaintext, which is *technically* a form of encryption (a=a) like 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (etc) is technically an RNG.

Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

This is counterproductive for me, unfortunately.

I often find myself limiting the search to the last month because in the tech world, especially the linux world, even stuff a year old can be wildly out of date and incorrect.

My solution for dumping all the AI slop has been switching to Kagi. Yes, it has an optional AI slop module in case you *want* it, but Kagi is fabulously configurable so you can completely eliminate it. They also aggressively try to remove AI slop sites up front. Which Google could do (sites suddenly popping up with thousands of slop pages are very obvious), but they don't want to because more bad results means more ads for them.

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

What the Fark did you expect?

If you expected anything better from this, you're a freaking moron and deserve having all your hard drives formatted.

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

There's no slowing down this fecal train

> Fast forward two decades and Microsoft is stuffing Windows with AI features while seemingly ignoring user complaints about performance and reliability.

Not seemingly, absolutely ignoring user complaints and very major performance and reliability issues, like the update they just released that tanked game frame rates by 30-50%. NVidia issues an emergency driver patch but that should not have been their responsibility. Windows 11 is on a long slippery shitslope with no sign of slowing down, sorry Dave. Nadella is firmly on the AI fecal hype train, can't admit he was wrong now.

If Valve ever releases a desktop SteamOS that I can just put on my current desktop I am seriously considering switching. Or at least spending most of my time in that (it's just Linux that can play a lot of games) and switching to Windows when absolutely necessary.

Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011

Lousy AI is a Feature

I know at least two friends who switched from Samsung to Apple recently because of the privacy issues with Google being aggressively evil and because they can see where the AI shit train is going with Android and Samsung, full speed ahead.

Of course Apple's sliding down the slippery shitslide (to change metaphors) but nowhere near as fast and we're hoping that by the time the AI bubble pops not toooo much damage will have been done.

Evil is relative of course, Apple's no saint, but we feel more like the customer than the cow with Apple, and what else are we going to do at this point. For now. We basically have three choices and the Chinese stuff is even worse. For the same reasons I am seriously considering switching from Win11 to Steam Desktop dist whenever they release that because holy crap Microsoft is the king of shit now. Like that giant poo monster in Conker's Bad Fur Day flinging his AI at you.

And sorry for all the fecal analogies, but I can't think of anything more appropriate at this point than shit gushing downhill onto our heads. This is all staggeringly anti-consumer. Welcome to 2025!

Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

Re: ALINT (At Least It's Not Teams)

Teams is half a dozen apps MS bought (or had, like Sharepoint) stapled and glued together with cloves and jizz into a barely functioning shambling, stinking, mess. There is absolutely no coherent design or rhyme or reason to any of it, so, yes, you spend all your time trying to find in which 'subapp' that file is.

One or two components kind of work okay on their own, like the video conferencing is as good (bad) as Zoom or Google Meet, but then it's still got its own grotty chat.

This is Nadella at the peak of his powers.

Vibe coded vital system utility is too slow and bloated and there are no competent coders left in the company? Uhhhh... we'll just load it at start and slow that down and steal all your RAM! Good job everyone, AI wins again!

Re: All I ever wanted

I highly recommend XYPlorer (https://www.xyplorer.com/) I've been using it for over a decade on all my machines, and zOMG you can just buy it for $15 and not pay a subscription, what a concept!

Now I'm going to have to figure out how to kill off this Explorer pre-loading because it will be extra worse than useless, as usual for anything MS has done since Win11 launch.

HashJack attack shows AI browsers can be fooled with a simple ‘#’

This is... pretty awesome?

Anyone stupid enough to be running AI agents, much less letting them scrape the web for you and do things like shop for and buy products, completely deserves to be #rogered sideways up the backside with this. Yes, I am blaming the 'victims'. If you go drink driving without a seatbelt and get shot out the windscreen, nobody to blame but yourself.

This isn't for you, though. It's for your AI Assistant. If you're dumb enough to be running one.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Great for incompetents, meh for anyone else

Yeah my experience has been that it does actually improve the apparent productivity of complete incompetents. They get SOMETHING, which is better than they would have been able to do on their own. Of course it's a security nightmare, they can't maintain it, they can't make changes to it, they have no idea what it's actually doing. But if you're actually competent it just slows you down unless you want it to write some tiny tool (like parse this text to that text) in a language you're not super familiar with and you're willing to trust it - at least if you're competent you can do a quick scan of the code first. And if you try asking an LLM about WHY this code in here they're hilariously wrong and inconsistent. Ask it twice, get two different answers.

Actually, this seems to be LLMs all around - great for incompetents (because you do get something, that often works in this one test case), bad for competent people because you have to check it, fix it, and harden it - might as well just do it yourself. And who's doing all the pushing for LLMs in the workplace? Oh riiiight, the C-levels and upper managers, aka the incompetents! For them it's a magical box that actually lets them 'do' anything besides expense meals, call meetings, and wander around destroying productivity. So they think 'Wow! If this works for such a genius like me, it will really help the peons!' And they're too Dunning-Kruger to realize the problems.

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

A complete f@$#ing dumbass whose only job is literally cheerleading complete fail

This guy is a f@#$ing dumbass (he has said many other dumb things) whose only job is literally cheerleading these atrocities to increase stock value. At least if you were Google you could kind of point at Deepmind at being something you bought that is actually doing good things, but Microsoft has literally nothing worse than useless for AI.

But this is all you can expect from C levels. All dumber than a f@#$ing LLM.

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

It's the facking execs, of course

The facking mangers and execs, whose greatest skills are taking a meal with drinks on company dime and wandering around destroying productivity, have been told by the uber facking managers, their c-levels, who are the pinacle of zero skills except schmoozing and expensing, that AI is the great magic bullet they need to drive productivity through the roof.

Of course this is all a giant lie, but they don't have the skills to evaluate that.

Although it is very ironic that is is from an Indian dev, because in the two times I've been forced against my will to work with Indian outsourcers, it was extremely similar to working with vibe coding LLMs, except the vibe coding LLMs don't beg for more money every single time you make a query. But if this guy is actually competent I feel for him!

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

Re: Firefox People - consider Zen Browser?

Sadly it is sometimes something I need to do for work or healthcare or banking because we are in the nearly worst possible timeline of 2025. My options are use a chrome based browser on the PC or install their app on my phone and I can lock the browser down tighter.

Re: A simple question

Nobody NEEDS this shit, but the enshittification economy is top down. We'll tell you stupid f@#$ers what you need because this will bump the stock price.

Firefox People - consider Zen Browser?

Zen is a fork of Firefox before it started enshittifying at high speed into AI f@#$ery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Browser

It basically works as you'd expect (with a few tweaks), it's not dependent on the Great Satan Google's browser engine, AND most crucially, your Firefox extensions still work! I can't give those up. Of course some extensions that depend on very specific things that have changed (like tabbed browsing) might not work as you expect, but in general it's load and go.

You always need at least two browsers (because some dumbass sites always break one or the other), so I use Zen as primary browser and then I use Vivaldi if I have to use a Chrome based browser for something.

Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’

Re: Automate HR....

Or CEOs - you could save tens of millions of dollars by just replacing your CEO with one of these that will actually probably be more competent (just because the bar is so low).

Re: Oh Jaysus

Sorry to reply to my own comment, but a friend made the very good point of 'What's going to happen when these things start emailing people outside the company, either by deciding to reply to chains on their own or just because they decided it would be cool to start emailing people, and including all your confidential info?' They 100% will. Of course in theory you could lock them down to only email inside the company, but any company criminally negligent enough to be using these would not have. And MS would probably circumvent that anyhow, because they want other dumbass CEOs knowing this exists and craving it like the incompetent trend chasers they are.

Oh Jaysus

If you thought your cow-orkers were incompetent before (and you were probably right) this is going to add a whole new level to it. Imagine a legion of bots with the technical skills of a CEO, the empathy and caring of an HR person, and the social skills of Milton (the stapler guy from Office Space) helpfully doing random reply alls and calling meetings. LLMs can't do this without failing hard, and since it's from Microsoft it will fail extra hard.

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

Re: Password rules make for weaker passwords

Yeah, I came here specifically to bitch about '"The most secure passwords will be set by the users who have the strictest password requirements," the privacy advocate added.' After a certain point of ridiculousness it gets totally counterproductive. Like the job I had where everyone had minimum 12 characters, one special char, one number (so far so okay) BUT there was a max of 20 chars (why?!) AND you had to change them every 90 days. So everyone used passwords like 'sigh@thisshit1' and just incremented the final digit. And when you got to 9, you could wrap back around to 0 because MS didn't keep track of that many old passwords. Super secure there with all your requirements, guys.

Re: TFL

Ooo, Ooo, and does it limit you to 12 characters? I love sites that do that!

Even worse are the sites that let you enter 20 characters when setting up your password and then silently throw away the last 4-12 of them. And then when you try to log in with your saved password, of course it doesn't work, so you do the 'I forgot my password' link (sigh) and then they email you the 12 chars they actually used in plaintext. Okay, haven't seen that in a while, but still run into the first kind - I just keep lowering the length till it magically works.

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer

It must be failing super hard

The only reason Amazon would object to this is if the number of returns for items Perplexity bought is just through the roof. And just from what we know about how shitty LLMs are at doing stuff nobody wants this would be 100% predictable and predicted. Otherwise Amazon would love 'AI' automatically buying their shit for people without the people even being consulted on it.

> Perplexity objects to Amazon's demand and has published a lengthy blog post characterizing the e-tail giant’s stance as "a threat to all internet users.”

Like hell it is, I do not need prices to go up and greenhouse gasses to spike because your shitty bot is causing 90% of purchases to be returned.

Note: I find it increasingly impossible to write about 'AI' without constantly invoking 'shit', sorry about that, but anything less than 'shit' for all this enshittification feels insufficient?

Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again

The goal here?

I'm not even sure what the business plan is, here.

I guess they know they will have a couple million very gullible old people to fleece with scams, or at least sell access to them?

Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to

Re: Hmmmm

I think this is a case where it gets exponentially worse rather than linearly worse. Clueless user errors to the power of guaranteed hallucinations = wheeeee @-@

Guaranteed Fail

Unlike a text document, where you can have a weird word or two out of place without completely destroying the whole thing, one wrong spreadsheet cell can make the entire thing completely wrong. And of course if you're only looking at the final number (say, total profit this quarter from all divisions) then it's the 'sum' of the rest of the spreadsheet. They're fragile! One place you definitely wouldn't want AI hallucinating.

But since they Just Don't Care and Corporate Managers and Execs are Morons, here it comes to make everything even worse.

BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries

Even they said they were stranded (just not forgotten)

They were totally stranded waiting for a ride home. Otherwise it's like saying nobody can ever be stranded on a deserted island because they can always choose to hop in and start swimming. Actually, reading that article you posted, and the astronaut does say they were stranded! Just not forgotten.

> “So in certain respects we were stuck, in certain respects, maybe we were stranded, but based on how they were couching this, that we were left and forgotten in orbit, we were nowhere near any of that at all.

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

Oracle's attitude towards its customers has always been 'Fuck you, if you could move to something else you would have. You haven't, so bend over.'

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds

You need to consider who the users are

Everything I've seen about 'AI' (LLM) so far is that it makes incompetent motherf@#$ers slightly competent and thus more productive, which is where all the gains are coming from, and makes anyone actually competent much less productive.

I haven't seen a single thing that contradicts this, come at me ElmoBros.

Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI

God damn

Jaysus Christ, the amount of broken fuckery this will cause! Well, I guess in 202x we are 100% committed to enshittification for shareholder value.

Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Yeah, I'm going with 'Both', have a cookie!

Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough

It's not a REAL linux alternative yet

First he's gotta murder his wife.