mlen

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[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago

Yet still exploiting it on 64-bit systems is impractical

[–] mlen@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Is that a comedy account? The announcement surely reads as if it was…

To add an insult to the injury meta renames pride themed skins in chat https://labyrinth.zone/objects/e129982d-997e-489b-985a-3ef547b66bf3

[–] mlen@awful.systems 32 points 1 year ago

ublock is cheaper and actually works

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I run into this process every time I visit Poland (mostly because I visit so rarely that I forget) and every time I'm astonished how seriously fucked up it is.

The most annoying part is having to scan a receipt in order to exit the self checkout area.

In the stark contrast to the above self checkout process in Switzerland works so smoothly. Mostly because nobody is subjected to the bullshit described above. There's even an option to grab a scanner, scan everything on the go and just pay at exit.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

[–] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

[–] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I hate it

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