gojira @gojira@librem.one

The web is dead to me. Managed to keep the thousands of ads at bay for years but now the "consent" and newsletter popups and the non existence of "reject" button, instead several misleading steps to just look at a paragraph or two of text doesn't seem worth my time.

And even if I jump through the artificial hoops, there's no guarantee that a human wrote the text

Either I'll build agents to fetch the data I need or I'm not engaging. The concept of www is no longer fit for humans as consumers.

Windows users seem to have 2 states of being:

1. Windows is the only useful operating system, I don't like or dislike it, I just use it

2. Why does Microsoft keep making Windows worse, why do we keep seeing more and more ads

Is there anybody that actually likes Windows

Please be reminded that anything I boost does not mean I endorse the post. It just means that I find it entertaining and I think you would too.

So if I boost some sussy, unhinged shit, that does NOT mean I agree with OP

i.e lolicons being down bad, shit takes, etc.

I genuinely cannot believe I have to post this.

"If this one guy got hit by a bus, the world's software would fall apart."

(Funny? Yes. But the reality is far worse...)

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5477752/if-this-one-guy-got-hit-by-a-bus-the-worlds-software-would-fall-apart

Myth: Bill Gates said "640k ought to be enough for anybody"

(He never did. But that won't stop people from repeating the quote.)

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5488507/myth-bill-gates-said-640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody

Firefox developers are working on a new 'translate selected text' feature for a future release, meaning you won't need to translate entire web pages https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/firefox-translate-selected-text-feature

AI bros promised so much and all they did was accelerated the enshitification of the entire internet by 100x.

Deep breaths

Hmm, I'm beginning to see the issue here with one way Federation from Threads.

I should do a video on how Ubuntu killed the commercial desktop distro

are people already familiar with this story about hard-boiled eggs or did i just stumble upon an absolute gem of a cautionary tale about algorithmic perfection? (annals of the history of computing, january 1983, volume 5, issue 1)

The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to 13 this year, say they will host "thousands" of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs (Jessica Lyons Hardcastle/The Register)

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/06/ai_hacking_defcon/
http://www.techmeme.com/230507/p4#a230507p4

SparkyLinux is a no-frills Linux distribution anyone can use https://www.zdnet.com/article/sparkylinux-is-a-no-frills-linux-distribution-anyone-can-use/ #linux #debian #sparkylinux

I love e-ink ereaders because they're like this vestige of when tech was good

The battery lasts like a month

They work fine (better) without an internet connexion

You can interact with them using the file manager and it's perfectly good

The files are an open format

It isn't surveillance ad-tech

Sparky 2023.01 + Persistence, please test https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2023-01-persistence/ #linux #debian #sparkylinux

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚

«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.»

👇
https://standardebooks.org/donate

#standardebook #ebook #publicdomain #book #reading

We took some time and released a transcription of the Weathering Software Winter talk with links for most things that were mentioned and that might have needed additional context.

http://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html

#dadjokes
#dadjokefriday

I have performed an unscientific survey of people who are working in coding and cybersecurity to see what language they use most often.

The result: profanity.