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2d ago

Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.
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The Evaporative Cooling Effect

3d ago

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.

Sounds familiar. The proof-of-work blockchain scheme which was the fad a while ago is also often described as a solution in search of a problem.

4d ago

help wanted

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Three-in-one computer crime: prompt injection which instructs their agent to open inspect element in a browser and then download all of the scholarly works off of JSTOR.

6d ago

Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.

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The spike likely represents Statcounter being too slow to adjust their methods of filtering out bot page views after some brand new web scrapers appeared on the scene hoovering up all the data for AI training. 10% linux market share would be a cosmic event. You would hear about it in mainstream media if it were really happening.

Edit: I forgot about popular youtube channel Linus Tech Tips' recent videos in which they gave linux their highest praise yet. One was published in mid June, another in mid July, and their most recent and most favorable to linux was published on July 22 ("My Experience Using the Steam Machine as a Desktop PC"). There have also been videos on the Framework laptops. Vibes tell me that there's a trend of more people using mobile over desktop, so I would expect a higher proportion of desktop users to be the gamer or technically inclined type, enough to be influenced by LTT and give linux a shot, compared to 10 years ago.

Here's the data for the last 4 months.

    
   Date    Windows     OS X    Linux    Chrome OS    macOS
2026-04      66.39    17.04     2.94         4.42     9.21
2026-05      64.66    19.92     3.56         3.72     8.15
2026-06      59.08    24.06     6.14         2.19     8.53
2026-07      57.63    21.07    10.61         2.07     8.63

The data looks noisy. You would expect the lines to have consistent, regular annual patterns. You can see that with Chrome OS which seems to have a dip in the middle of the year corresponding to when schools are out for summer vacation, and if you scan upward, it appears Windows has a corresponding hump at that time. But there are still unexplained extreme swings. The lines look smooth up until 2012/2013. Maybe Statcounter doesn't have as many members/page views as it once did, leading to higher variance. We could see that if we had absolute numbers, but we only have percentages. That's probably affected by the advent of the LLMs. Nobody's going to the web anymore to find information.

1w ago

Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints

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Using reddit's stock price to estimate what fraction of the users are people. Sounds like a plan. The stock price is like a CAPTCHA for social media platforms. Are you authentically human or an empty husk of clankers gabbing at each other?

1w ago

Into The Bit Bucket With Thee

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They're all forms of delay-line memory.

1w ago

Into The Bit Bucket With Thee

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tom7 is a legend.

2w ago

Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github.

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It's gothub.org. You linked to some dumb AI startup.

It's a sure sign of a bubble that a URL typo coincidentally brings one to a completely unrelated page for a completely unknown, in-beta AI startup with a dumb idea.

3w ago

Protest sign in Ukraine

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Are you referring to the fact that it looks like they're holding the sign backwards? They've most likely utilized both sides. We can't see what it says on the front.

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3w ago

Protest sign in Ukraine

3w ago

xkcd #3272: Time Change

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#hack_the_planet

#tilt_it_back

3w ago

xkcd #3272: Time Change

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Notable context for the rest of the world: the US Congress is currently debating ending the changing of the clocks every spring and fall.

3w ago

xkcd #3272: Time Change

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So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

3w ago

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.

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Now I can read the Atlantic for free while also DDOSing people. The future is now.

3w ago

'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

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It was fun when knowing programming was almost a superpower that you had to learn by reading lots of books, etc. Now a computer can do much of the job. The computers are even solving long-open Erdos problems. We're all just mediocre meatbags.

3w ago

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

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Throwaway culture exists with software but without the waste that comes with physical things. If one distro doesn't work, try a different one. It's only bits. The only thing wasted is your time.

Also, even though people claim to be happy to answer your questions, I think there's a strong likelihood that if you said what issue you had, nobody would be able to solve the problem due to how complex any modern operating system is, and due to not having direct access to the machine to troubleshoot. Seriously, they're so big and complicated that they're approximately black boxes. The easiest way for you to resolve the problem is to try something different until it works.

4w ago

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness'

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How ancient is this gif?

4w ago

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness'

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The Grim Reaper made a wrong turn somewhere.

You sent who to the underworld?! I didn't say Linsey Graham! I said Mitch McConnell! Mitch-fucking-McConnell! You know, the other dirtbag southern Republican senator, the one in the hospital. You had one job.