They’re best used alongside a hopper filter system. Just to handle unstackables.

Build an auto-sorter, so you can put it in a chest full of random junk, and it’ll output it into labelled chests.

The strategy of using Windows monopoly to force other programs+services is so deeply ingrained in Microsoft that, when it fails, MS doesn’t know what to do. Specially when dealing with a bigger bully like Google.

First MS tried to be pushy with Edge. Users remembered IE, and said “no”.

Then MS tried to be even pushier. Except being too pushy backfires, so users were saying “no” louder.

Now they’re offering “rewards”? This won’t change shit, except highlight that MS knows Edge to be useless to the users, and that the only way people would consider using Edge is if they’re paid for that.

And it’s no secret that Edge is a reskinned Chromium. As in, anyone who’d avoid Google software would also avoid Edge.

Lemmy has Reddit. PieFed has Lemmy.

Also, from 4chan’s PoV, Reddit is more like a boogerman than a boogeyman: it’s that weirdo creepo that makes you say “eew”, avoid at all costs, and if you touch them by accident or social pressures (“why no handshake?”), you immediately wash your hands.

Instead the actual boogeymen are internal: for /g/ it’s /a/, for /b/ and /int/ it’s /pol/, and for almost everyone else it’s /b/.

She’s in deep reflection, regretting her last Tonitrus bolt.

…not really.

I think AI could be used to check ones work so we don’t get typos in translations

It’s great you mentioned this, because I forgot to do it: AI is a great proofreader. Specially if you’re going to send the stuff to an actual = human proofreader later on; it means they won’t need to pay attention to spelling or grammar, they can focus better on meaning and style.

“It’s a real, serious failing of human beings that we take 5 years to translate [Ascendance of a Bookworm,] a series of 33 books, while AI does it in an afternoon,” he said.

If I had to guess, most of those five years were spent on a handful of specially problematic chapters, while the bulk of the books was relatively straightforward.

Quof said he does not take MTPE jobs because “I think I have enough skill in Japanese and English that MTL tools do not currently improve my output. It would make my workflow harder because, as one used to providing 97% or higher accuracy, I would feel compelled to fix the AI’s errors up to that high standard, and that would slow me down dramatically.” But over the years, Quof has had a habit of checking his own translations against AI tools.

My experience pretty much matches Quof’s: it takes longer to fix a shitty machine translation than to do it by hand. It is however useful to check how ChatGPT or Google Translate would do it, specially for the problem bits.

Indeed. Sadly, corporations abused telemetry so much that it makes users automatically distrust software with it - even when it’s opt-in. As such I’m not surprised it isn’t more common, specially in the Linux ecosystem.

If we take distro defaults into account, it’s possible Arch stats overestimate GNOME market share.

Based on tecmint list, the top 3 distros are Mint, MX Linux, and Endeavour. Their defaults are:

• Mint - Cinnamon, MATE
• MX Linux - Xfce, Plasma, Fluxbox
• Endeavour - Plasma

Granted, the fourth one (Debian) does default to GNOME, but your typical Debian user is more experienced, so it’s less likely they stick to the default.

…I wish I had actual data instead of a bunch of guesses. :-/

I wouldn’t be surprised if other big DEs, such as KDE, start making firmer plans for dropping X11.

If going by Arch Linux statistics, KDE dropping X11 will have a bigger impact than GNOME doing it.

In this video (Odysee link), someone asks X11 users why they’re still using it in 2025. The main answers were

1. DE or WM doesn’t support Wayland, or its Wayland session is currently WIP.
2. [lack of] support for certain graphic tablets and their features.
3. old hardware. Specially old nVidia GPUs.
4. [If I got this right] Some software expects to be able to dictate window position, and Wayland doesn’t let it to.
5. OpenBSD.

In the light of the above, I think GNOME’s decision to drop the X11 backend is a big “meh, who cares”. If you use GNOME you’re likely not in the first case; #2 and #3 boil down to hardware support, not something DE developers can interfere directly; I’m not sure on #4 and #5, however.

Ah, the struggles of the prolabubutariat…

The title is a trainwreck but, basically: the art predates Homo sapiens sapiens reaching those regions.

Yeah, the terminology is currently a mess. Not just due to language changes, but also synchronic variation - different people using the same words for different meanings, at the same time. But for me, it’s a mix of motivations, methods, and morality:

• hacker strictu sensu - like a kid who dismantles toys to see how they work. Sometimes they break things, but they want knowledge the most. Usually grey hat, sometimes white hat, only rarely black hat
• cracker - like a kid who bashes toys with a hammer. Not interested on the knowledge itself, except when it allows them to bully other kids. Almost always black hat.

Both letters in “AI” are bullshit. Most of us know about the “I”; the text is about the “A”.

I wonder if that isn’t exactly the goal behind all this shit.

It’s more than that: they’d need to have desires, aversions, goals. That is not automatically granted by intelligence; in our case it’s from our instincts as animals. So perhaps you’d need to actually evolve Darwin style the AGI systems you develop, and that would be way more massive than a single AGI, let alone the “put glue on pizza lol” systems we’re frying the planet for.

My guess:

Coverage roughly follows money, and that money comes the top of the hierarchy. However, the top is too far from the production to actually get that 1) automation is nothing new, and 2) AI won’t help as much with it as advertised.

The middle of the hierarchy is close enough to the production to know those two things, but it’ll parrot them because doing so enables the inefficiency they love so much, under the disguise of efficiency.

Then you got the bottom. It’s the closest to the production, but often suffers from a problem of “I don’t see the forest, I see the leaves”, plus since it has no decision power so it ends as a “meh who cares”. So it’ll parrot whatever it sees in the coverage.

As such, who’s actually going to get screwed here? The answer may surprise you.

All three. However not in the way people predict, “AI is going to steal our jobs”. It’s more like suckers at the top will lose big money on AI fluff, and to cut costs off they’ll fire a lot of people.

Setting aside “and how will it do that?” as outside the scope of the topic at hand, it’s a bit baffling to me how a nebulous concept prone to outright errors is an existential threat. (To be clear, I think the energy and water impacts are.)

Ditto.

Interestingly enough, not even making them actually intelligent would be enough to make them liable - because you can’t punish or reward them.

#3 would probably not work in a microblog service due to the structure, but the other two could be easily ported. I could see them popping up in Mastodon, for example; but Bluesky? Not really - it doesn’t want to empower users, it wants to herd them.