Since when does Microsoft care about (consumer) Windows?

They haven’t. Not for a long time. Probably not since pre-XP and the convergence on the NT kernel. (Don’t get me wrong, moving to the NT kernel was absolutely needed…but now, desktop functionality is “secondary”)

As long as they sell Windows Server and Windows Pro/Enterprise, nothing of value is lost.

And the added GamePass subs probably also boosts Azures value, because I assume a lot of it runs on that infra.

Wtf is the point??

Is someone out there drinking Budweiser…for the taste?

Lighter fluid works well for taking care of that.

Just pour it on the Walmart and light a match.

Sure. But what makes them so special? Fucking patriarchal bullshit, itellyahwhat.

Imma start calling my hens “roostresses”.

You’re really dismissing the reality that the biggest reason dems didn’t show was because the troll farms and their disinformation/amplofication worked.

Or do you just not understand? Because that’s fine too. That just means it worked on you.

Let me clarify. They didn’t just hype up the red guy. They also drowned out the blue gal. A lot of the “both sides” talk, all of the “but muh genocide” abstaining voters…some, sure, were real, but most of those that were, were pushed there by the bot farms.

Propaganda isn’t just glorifying the leader. The other real important part is inhibiting the opposition.

They all knew, and continue to know, that they didn’t have to get people to vote for Trump. That’s a fools errand. Most everybodies mind was made up about him well the elections.

But keeping people from voting for Harris is just as effective. Because ultimately the winner has to be one of the two parties. We can hem and haw all we want about the need for third parties (and that’s totally true), but the fact is that it will always be a two party system until the voting system get fixed, and it will always be the same two parties until one inevitably implodes on itself and re-brands. Republicans are very much aware that the easiest way to win isn’t to attract voters, but to disuade people who vote against them.

They gave up the honey a long time ago, and they’ve gone all-in on vinegar.

Let’s stick to reality tho…neither did Republicans. Troll farms did, and people bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Buckle up my man. Remember how shit programming got during, and then following, the writers guild strike? How many shows just…could not recover?

Imagine if the writers were to strike again. They’d be replaced with AI scabs in a heartbeat.

Actual footage of me testing in prod:

Everything is legal in New Jersey.

I don’t disagree.

The genie is out of the bag with AI. I don’t think there’s any “going back” to a pre-AI world. It cannot get back into the tube.

It’s a bubble, for sure, but we aren’t going back to pre-dotcom, either.

In the meantime, though, it’s an arms race. Especially when it comes to things like offensive and defensive cyber security. LLM is especially well-suited for throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks, and that’s a perfect use-case for offensive cybersec.

FOSS has its own set of issues to deal with with regards to LLM code…even beyond the vibe-coding aspects of it, the ultimate problem of licensing and attribution is incredibly complicated.

That is more of a philosophical issue than anything else. Not to be dismissive if it, it’s quite important…I had a conversation recently with a major FOSS group’s sysadmins about their defenses from web scraping. They have outright blocked a major cloud proxy platform’s ASN because of abuses frok their IP blocks.

(What follows is my interpretation of what he said, not his wording)

A lot of that probably isn’t even “offense”, but poorly coded tools run by the platforms customers performing excessive web-scraping…but it exposes the bigger issue that’s more philosophical than anything, because from his perspective, this looks, smells, and has the same outcome, as a DDoS attack. And the only ways to really, truly mitigate such an attack is with CDNs and such, and usually with SSL Decryption on a cloud provider.

These types of methods are diametrically opposed to something like their mission, putting them into a position where they have to outright block a lot of legitimate use to stop a handful of bad actors who are probably more ignorant than maligned.

I kinda see AI as the same. Shaming it, in FOSS projects particularly, isn’t a matter of code quality…it’s a philosophical matter, and the problem-users are usually more ignorant than maligned.

It’s over 9000?

Eh, wake me up when he’s sewing them into his clothes.

Until then, I aensesthetize.

You see what happens, Larry?

You see what happens?

This is what happens, Larry. This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps. This is what happens when you feed a stoner scrambled eggs.

Idk but I do know my town is in level 3 drought but the car washes and golf courses are exempt.

Hey kid. How many times I gotta tell you to keep your hands out of your pants?

Nah everybody who can read has always at least able to see the headlines as they walked by.

Everything old is new again.

Love when a joke has two punchlines.

Especially in this format, as a pantomimed gif. Oh man this is beautiful…

Gems like this are rarely retrieved from the mime meme mine.

I’d rather have my body covered in scabs than have to be friends with people like them.

Fuck, I’d volunteer for a nudist motorcycle race. I can’t even ride a bike.

I think all this AI and vibe coding is exposing something very instrumental in America…

We all suck at our jobs.

I’m sorry to say…like, I thought it was just me, and it was just imposter syndrome, but nah. Everybody legit sucks.

Not me, I mean. I’m pretty good at my job. I’m sure you are, too. We’re just lazy and doing the bare minimum, and that’s totally fine, I get that. Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime. I hear you.

But like, everybody else. They all suck at their job. I don’t blame them, but it’s more than just not giving a fuck…like they are just legit a bad match for the job entirely. That’s what I’m talking about.

And we all just kinda limped along on mediocrity, and everything just sort of worked.

But now? That misaligned mediocrity has been amplified 1000x. Now we’ve got computer scripts that are trying to do jobs that people 1, didn’t want to do; 2, didn’t know how to do; and 3, didn’t desire to learn how to do better.

And that’s just tearing everything apart.

Programming is especially bad for this because it’s full of people who were told “you should go to school for computers! That’s where the money is!”. So they got into the field solely for the money (not because they had a legit interest in computers/technology/programming), racked up some debt, and found themselves stuck in a career as a code-monkey getting paid a surprisingly less-fulfilling salary than they were lead to expect.

There’s no passion, just overworked, misled, disgruntled people.

Like imagine learning how to write complex programs…by asking google how to do X in Y language and just reading the highest-rated stackoverflow comment.

That’s what’s being churned out.

The one thing I will say boomers did better is CompSci. Practically made the damn thing up as they went along, and was largely made up of passionate, neurospicy nerds. More “Woz”, less “Jobs”. Good for them.

Nowadays, seems so many tech “leaders” make Jobs look like a shy intern.

It’s a real shame…like, I really feel like there are two types of people who become and remain teachers (at least here in America):

• Those who love kids (in a platonic sense) and are truly selfless. Think Miss Honey.
• Those who can’t find stable employment elsewhere but can pass a background check. Think Miss Trunchbull.

I would think cultural attitudes (particularly work ethic) in Japan make that all the more difficult…especially if they are getting paid comparably.

Fortunately…I feel the former still outnumber the latter. But they are dwindling in numbers. At least our birthrates are dwindling to compensate.