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definitemaybe

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  • Windows 12 could be the tipping point that finally pushes you to Linux - here's why

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  • idk. I think it's very clearly labelled that this is the author's guess at where things are going, with context around it to explain those prognostications. I like articles like that; it's not saying anything definitive, but his specific angle on why agenic AI might be so interwoven into Windows 12 to make it impossible to strip out was fairly compelling, imho.

    Who knows; it's not like Microsoft isn't aware of the AI backlash, so maybe they'll scrap most of the agenic AI bullshit. Or maybe ask the speculation is wrong and it won't be included. But if Windows 12 includes deeply integrated AI slop, then I think the author has a decent chance of being right.

    But I'm happy to hear why this article is a waste of time, so let me know if you disagree with his argument. I'm not married to the idea, but I'm seeing Linux adoption IRL already by "normal people" who have connections to technical people, so I'm biased toward the argument.

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  • You don't need to ask. It's clearly explained in simple terms in the summary of coverage. It's not even hidden in the fine print.

  • Working outside

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  • Wasps. Fuck wasps.

    If not for wasps, my family would eat outside most of the summer. As it is, it's either wasps writing 3 minutes of bringing food outside, or a wind strong enough to blow the wasps and our food away.

  • Working outside

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  • WiFi mesh networks can have impressive range outdoors, without walls and reflections blocking the wifis. And they can be powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet) so you only need to run 1 cable to hook it up.

    But for most of my work, a cellphone hotspot is suitable, so long as it's not so remote that I don't get at least a strong 4G signal. Video conferencing isn't very data intensive with compression and, if I'm not running the meeting, slight spottiness is fine.

  • Working outside

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  • Over-ear headphones help with this. Then you can just ignore them and pretend you can't hear.

    (My neurospicy is showing...)

  • This Phishing email... What is the IP?

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  • This is exactly right, I'm pretty sure. Scam emails are poorly written and have tells for anyone paying attention on purpose. It's a feature, not an error.

    Scammers don't want to waste time on someone who will never believe that the government takes Walmart gift cards.

  • I love password based login

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  • Based.

    Email is terrible. It's an unreliable communication system. You cannot depend on sent emails arriving in the recipient's mailbox—even the spam folder.

    People incorrectly assume that all emails at least get to their spam folder. They don't. There are multiple levels of filters that prevent most emails from ever making it that far because most email traffic is bots blasting phishing links, scams, and spam. Nobody wants phishing and scam emails, but the blocks that prevent those are being used by big tech to justify discriminating against small mail servers.

    I can't remember the site, now, but I literally couldn't log into one this week because the email never arrived.

  • Looking for vibe coder with vibe management skills

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  • Oh, I very much doubt it. AI just introduces lots of new kinds of problems to solve.

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  • The downvotes are, I assume, from the WHOOSH sound as the point flies over your head.

    This is the optimal packing of 17 squares in a minimum-size larger square. Of course it's not optimal everywhere. It's specific to 17 squares packed in a square.

    The joke is that there's no reason to choose 17 squares as, clearly, a rectangular array is optimal.

    squares are, of course, rectangles.

  • Convincing

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  • I think "contextual awareness" would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it's great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn't fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.

  • Pride Versioning

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  • Lowkey how I version number personal mini-projects and small things I roll out for my team.

    I guess more like:x.. "huge new feature, scope expansion, or cool shit.".x. "small feature, or fixing a serious bug" ..x "testing something. Didn't work. Try again +1."

    I'm not ashamed it didn't work. I swear!

  • The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.

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  • Thanks for the link. It annoys me that even "good" journalism (PC Gamer) didn't quote him correctly; stripping the

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    tags obfuscated the original tone.

  • The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.

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  • Going backwards in Tim makes complete sense. You just don't morge enough to understand.

  • Is Windows FOSS now?

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  • That edit had confused so many users over the years. They think they are signing away rights to their copyrighted work by agreeing to the platform's EULA, but the terms granting them license to freely store and distribute your work? That's literally what you want their service to do because you're posting it with the intention of the platform showing it to others!

    Granted, companies are using user data for other purposes too, so that's a problem, but I've seen so so many posts over the last couple decades of people complaining about EULAs that describe core site functions...

  • Is Windows FOSS now?

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  • This is giving me illegal number vibes. Like, if an arbitrary calculation returns an illegal number that you store, are you holding illegal information?

    (The parallel to this case is that if a statistical word prediction machine generates copyrighted text, does that make distribution of that text copyright violation?)

    I don't know the answer to either question, btw, but I thought it was interesting.

  • Regaining Sanded PETG Colour: Heat Didn't Quite Work for Dark Parts...

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  • Not OP, but that search brings up a bunch of different products on AliExpress: black paste, white paste, sprays, creams, liquids... Do you know if it matters?

    Thanks for the tip, regardless. They're only a few bucks each, so 8 could try a few, but if you have one you know works for PLA and/or PETG, I'd appreciate knowing what worked for you!

    Edit: I just thought to look at your gallery again and saw the headlight restoration bottle in the background in one of the pics, so never mind!

  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • The open menu key. It's the one I remap to Compose (for special characters, like Comp+--- to get —).

  • If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time...

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  • I assume you're nerd baiting* with that, but it's infuriating how many math teachers actually teach that.

    It's not that complicated. x² = n isn't the same thing as x = √2 because then square rooting isn't a function, which is asinine. (Similarly to why 0! isn't defined to be 0, because otherwise it's a stupid notation that would need a piecewise function definition for just about every single application of the factorial function.)

    *link to xkcd: Duty Calls

    Edit: my phone autocorrected "isn't" to "is", lol.

  • 🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable

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  • I'd be very, very nervous about using AI for a project that big.

    One of the biggest issues with AI, when it "works", is that it's incredibly hard to catch its errors. We have layers of cognitive biases around content that appears "written well" is most likely authoritative.

    That means LLMs sound very authoritative, since correct structure is something LLMs are very good at. LLMs can write text that uses advanced vocabulary and complex sentence structure correctly. Similarly, it can write well laid out code with detailed comments and include an explanation for how and why the code works.

    It all looks really convincing. It takes significant attention and effort to critically analyze LLM output to notice the errors it makes, and it's very easy to forget that the LLM is categorically incapable of understanding your prompt or its output—LLMs don't understand anything! They're just advanced word (token) prediction machines.

    So, on a project the scale of refactoring the entire Windows codebase, with pressures to do the work quickly, the results are very predictable. They are going to introduce a lot of errors. And end up with incompatible spaghetti code that's incredibly inefficient.

    (Somewhat technical example: Anyone who's studied algorithms/computer science knows how easy it is to write functional code that scale terribly because of missing a small logical step that makes one factor of code operate in linear time instead of logarithmic time. Multiply that by a few other factors in the same function and your code balloons from n or log(n) time to n² or even n³ time.)

    We're witnessing the beginning of the end of Microsoft as an OS company.