IIRC Vivaldi and Brave promised to prolong it for a year.
andrew_bidlaw
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andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 daysEnglish
4·11 months agoIP hoarding of products that may potentially be produced. Millions of dollars aren’t a pocket change, but if anyone’s going into this wearable AI bullshit, HP’d make a hole in their pockets. It’s a low stakes conservative gamble ‘just in case’.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research.English
4·11 months agoI thought this rat made access for researchers difficult, just like on reddit, thus getting bulletproof evidence via data harvesting got complicated.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answersEnglish
21·11 months agoThe ride just never ends…
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”English
3·11 months agoI perceive my advanced tools akin to a broom.
I can mop floors alright, but I also don’t want to sit down with a cloth to do it.
If I can’t do that myself, and it does that instead of me, that’s not just my tool, that’s my employee, and the one I now depend on.
‘AI’ companies sell us billions of hours of other people’s labor to replace our own need to interject our experience and ingrain themselves into our routine. Like the coming of ads, it’s already normalized. But this time, critical parts of our life has this black box dependancy and subscription.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy EverythingEnglish
3·11 months agoAlso, LLM doesn’t usually have memory or experience. It’s the first page of Google search every time you put in your tokens. A forever trainee that would never leave that stage in their career.
Human’s abilities like pattern recognition, intuition, acummulation of proven knowledge in combination makes us become more and more effective at finding the right solution to anything.
The LLM bubble can’t replace it and also actively hurts it as people get distanced from actual knowledge by the code door of LLM. They learn how to formulate their requests instead of learning how to do stuff they actually need. This outsourcing makes sense when you need a cookie recipe once a year, it doesn’t when you work in a bakery. What makes the doug behave each way? You don’t need to ask so you wouldn’t know.
And the difference between asking like Lemmy and asking a chatbot is the ultimative convincing manner in which it tells you things, while forums, Q&A boards, blogs handled by people usually have some of these humane qualities behind replies and also an option for someone else to throw a bag of dicks at the suggestion of formating your system partition or turning stuff off and on.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billionEnglish
65·11 months agoShortly after the news was announced, Altman posted on X: “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
If only their slapfight meant something good for the world. At least, I don’t see everything collected in Musk’s hands.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Was this reply helpful?English
9·11 months agoAlso launching an update to see if it fixes things.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Windows dropped W11 before ending life support for W10 lmaoEnglish
26·11 months agoDo I need to install the SpaceNoodle app to please you with a low effort meme or what? You didn’t post any meme yourself though.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Windows dropped W11 before ending life support for W10 lmaoEnglish
27·11 months agoMy screenshot app on Android says otherwise and I can’t obtain root to replace it, sorry.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Windows dropped W11 before ending life support for W10 lmaoEnglish
108·11 months agoIt’s a wall of text. Since it’s a meme, it needs to be easily consumable. So I highligthed the relevant parts.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Windows dropped W11 before ending life support for W10 lmaoEnglish
245·11 months agoMe and my fat fingers.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Was this reply helpful?English
45·11 months agoHehe.
Thank you, I’ve updated the post body.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Was this reply helpful?English
24·11 months agoPlease updoot another commenter who sent it first instead. And, also, take a long look at the issue as it’s hilarious too. Just like theirs, my laptop would try to update every reboot and cancel it seeing less than 40% battery because the battery is, well, long dead and the laptop is plugged into a wall socket all the time. Once a safeguard against idiots it grew idiotic itself.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill ThemEnglish
1·11 months agoNeuralink ftw lol.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"English
3·11 months agoI agree. They need to be either pressured or abandoned.
I feel like they would need to rewrite it completely in that case, partially because no one knows how their legacy code works and partially because it’s completely broken.
Google with it’s billions and a promise of more free data did great with how office formats work. They set some little limits of what user can do compared to MS Word so ending up with a broken table or whatever is harder, and they aslo strong-armed their way into adoption with their obvious mechanics of real-time collaboration.
I’m not sure about MS users coming to Linux, but their marketshare was already bled by Google. And if in some scenario Google releases their own internal XML format for these, I guess it’d work too.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"English
4·11 months agoMS Office’s lie of WYSIWYG and the idiotic requirements to follow absurdly complicated formatting guidelines and them not rendering the same from system to system or even correctly is the most brutal offender. If we used simplistic markdown without page-breaking in the GUI, there could’ve been no point to buy Office, but we don’t, and itso hsppens I had encountered many times where some arbitrary cosmetic request like ‘you can’t have less than X lines per page’ caused people toy with formatting or rewriting their documents… only for it showing differently on the other side >:ç Thus leading to even worse things like PDF.
It being the most used piece of office software renders the voluntary switch close to impossible.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"English
51·11 months agoSome of them just don’t want to take responsibility if they do something wrong under your instructions.

Resource drain of LLMs inescapably makes them tools availiable only to big players. They are ideal in the way they are naturally gated. Making them mandatory == giving these select companies and people power over everything. And not only oligarchs’ promotion, but the whole situation of them being given for free or cheap at a huge loss gives one an idea that there’s a lot to milk from it’s growing adoption.