wulrus

Clippy (the old Office assistant)

Chatbot Shill

Or 50 and 29 - eww

Interesting! Do you think you would have gotten out with filter bubbles and Echo Chambers as they are these days?

Nice! And here I am, moving just 80 % of my Amazon purchases elsewhere and talking a lot about switching to Linux ...

I found Mastodon not viable. Here are my experiences with it: https://lemmy.world/post/22012649/13473693 (tl;dr: my instance was shut down, all accounts deleted).

Followed the BlueSky people eventually. I kept my Twitter account, although unused, but to be honest, any account that I need for vital information is also - or only - on BlueSky. I left one last pinned post on Twitter, urging people to at least mirror whatever they think they must post there to Mastodon or BlueSky, so they don't force others to stay, but I'm afraid those who still believe, after all that happened, that they can do more good than harm there will be hard to convince.

Table top dishwashers usually have a window. My kid considered it a major disadvantage when we got a real dishwasher that the window was missing.

Last time I had to implement a feature like that, I stored a substring of the old password's hash. If one User in a million gets a False quotation Mark same Passwort quotation Mark message, I can live with it.

One insanity in the following years was how they thought people still wanted their next generation diesel.

I've been working for them in the 2010s with the department to organise the staff car fleet. We ordered many electric vehicles years ahead from production and planned it all around electric vehicles: Charging stations, operating distance, some hybrids for long distance, software to calculate trips etc.

Then a few months before we needed them, they said: We overproduced on the latest diesel generation and can't keep up with the demand for electric vehicles, so we have to sell the ones you ordered. You can either go with a Tesla (for official Volkswagen business trips!) or have the diesel for free.

It felt like there was a hysteria: Decision makers got it in their heads that the "hype" for electric vehicles was ideology-driven and not something people with buying power actually wanted today or in the near future. Bit like the republican administration thinking that "woke" is our main problem. Meanwhile, huge research and development departments did come up with the electric vehicles they sell today (and fully working hydrogen prototypes you won't see in a store, just to be safe) and must have been quite frustrated that so few were produced.

Great. Now ChatGPT and a Gemini are getting a partial lobotomy, like this Chinese llm.

Finally someone who appreciates him! I always noticed how his contribution is pretty impressive.

Yes, good ones! I've been using geizhals since it was new (it's a very old site), also used Mindfactory for electronics in the past.