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  • AI slop repository with 8k stars on Github that doesn't even compile

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  • I have a visceral "AI" sensor that triggers when I see these:

    "Rust Implementation (v2)"

    "Performance Benchmarks (Validated)"

    Human beings don't self-validate explicitly like that. AI loves doing it.

    You generate code, there's a bug, you ask for a fix, your AI of choice will always output with:

    *** Fix build issue ***

    *** End fix ***

    and then call it "Version 2 (Validated)".

    Sometimes it's more subtle, but you can feel it, it loves adding "confirmed", "working", "validated".

  • TIL the Windows 7 default wallpaper was created at a resolution of 10800×6750. The size of the source file is 556 MB.

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  • The version featured in Windows 7 Starter was also made by Chuck Anderson and Erik Attkisson, but features a heavily simplified appearance compared to the original; it features fewer blades of grass and lines, while the Windows logo is simply a white-light blue radial gradient as opposed to being colorful.

    It also served as Starter's only wallpaper, and unlike previous Starter SKUs of Windows, it cannot be changed due to internal product policy restrictions.

    Imagine using an operating system that treats you as a hostage on your own PC because you gave the company money, but not enough money

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Sure, but that's a lot of work and worry to keep all those backups going and syncd

    I think it took me 15 minutes to first install SyncThing and Vorta? I literally haven't worried about this for the last two years

    Now, you're probably an IT admin or programmer

    I'm a biologist :) (though to be fair, mastering in bioinformatics, but this setup came first!)

    And in the end, you have a computer hooked to your stereo, the one place I'm trying to escape the constant computing.

    My stereo is a Gradiente from the 70s, no computers there. My portable player does connect to a computer to sync sometimes... but I do this when charging, so out of mind.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • But... those other storage mediums can also get damaged, burn, rot, etc

    Sure can. You know what else they can do? Instantly and cleanly copy their data to any other storage device, they can even do so automatically every day!

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Your hard drive can be erased in many ways.

    I'm willing to bet my main SSD, my backup HDD, my FLAC player's SD card, and my laptop SSD all carrying the same file are going to be more durable than a piece of plastic.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • I'm curious as to why?

    Physical media scratches, rots, burns down, etc. They also require a lot of space, and you can't have it all with you easily.

    My FLAC library is got the same or better audio quality, I can backup and copy in seconds for myself or friends, I can carry everything, or just curated playlists, with the toggle of a button, and I can preserve them on any medium I find - mechanical HDs, SD cards, SSDs, etc.

    Though I am very curious about vinyl...

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • I prefer dedicated digital players over physical media, for instance, a FLAC player with a digital library over CDs, but I'm glad to see this trend catching up. Anything that gets people building their own collections, escaping algorithms and escaping DRM/streaming is a huge win in my book.

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • It's all part of the plan, create technological dependency. Why is Google so laser focused on making sure these school PCs are always Chromebooks?

    Raise an entire generation that can't write, research, calculate, synthesize, without a Chromebook. If it breaks, they buy a new one, when they grow up they rely on always having one, and so on.

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  • I'd worry I've made a silly mistake which would make me look a fool and waste their time.

    AI bros have zero self awareness and shame, which is why I continue to encourage that the best tool for fighting against it is making it socially shameful.

    Somebody comes along saying "Oh look at the image is just genera..." and you cut them with "looks like absolute garbage right? Yeah, I know, AI always sucks, imagine seriously enjoying that hahah, so anyway, what were you saying?"

  • Can’t buy RAM sticks

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  • I'll never do cloud gaming/computing.

    If a cloud server becomes the only way to play the newest releases, I'm never playing the newest releases again. That's fine. There are more games between 1980 and 2025 than I have years of life available to play.

    If you can't build a desktop and must rent an Amazon computing instance, I'm not doing computing anymore. That's fine, people lived for thousands of years without computers, I don't need computers to eat.

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty

    So it makes the page even better?

  • What's that discolouration on the silver spoon?

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  • Sulfur causes that effect on silver, and it can happen slowly when exposed to humid air.

    You can magically fix it by boiling water (must be boiling) then placing a sheet of aluminium foil in a container, placing the spoon on top of the foil making direct contact, them sprinkling some salt or sodium bicarbonate and pouring the boiling water on top. You'll see it start bubbling, and the bubbles will smell like rotten eggs.

    Leave for fifteen minutes, you're done. But again, boiling water, this reaction requires a lot of energy and warm water won't even start it.

  • HelixNotes - a local markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0)

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  • AI writing tools — improve, summarize, translate, and more (Anthropic / OpenAI)

    why though

  • Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store

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  • Reminder that Google is on it's third attempt to prevent or limit the installation of APKs outside of the Play Store, meaning they are near the point they can effectively control what apps people run.

  • Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody's Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place

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  • The output of one pioneering model has become almost indistinguishable from another, forcing companies to try to differentiate their products.

    This is corpo speak for "LLMs aren't going to get much better than this, which is what research had shown months ago, but we can't let users notice so we will create more wrappers, shove it into more apps, mask the mistakes, keep changing the tone and adding floating visualizations to distract you from the fact they're still shit"

  • Where do you get reliable information nowadays?

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  • Books aren't an answer to this question if you need quick information you couldn't have predicted you'd need, and therefore do not own a book about.

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Now somebody needs to post about this on Reddit, so The Verge can make an AI generated piece based on the post!

  • Where do you get reliable information nowadays?

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  • Wikipédia is fighting an ongoing and ever increasing issue of collaborators pushing AI text into articles, which contain false information.

    EDIT: Why the downvotes? Your misinformation is not my fault:

    1 in 20 new Wikipédia pages contain AI-generated text: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454256-one-in-20-new-wikipedia-pages-seem-to-be-written-with-the-help-of-ai/

    Wikipédia attempts to maintain a task force to clean the articles poisoned by AI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_suspected_AI-generated_texts

    AI translations are poisoning non-EN Wikipédia: https://wistkey.medium.com/ai-translations-are-poisoning-wikipedia-and-putting-minority-languages-at-risk-c4539984734c

    AI "contributions" are bringing up recycled information and fake sources, and the human verification often fails: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution

    But sure, keep downvoting me and ignoring the issue, geniuses.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    kadu @scribe.disroot.org

    Where do you get reliable information nowadays?

  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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  • I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib

    DO NOT TOUCH my precious matplotlib, I'll HUNT DOWN any AI slop shithead damaging MY BABY

  • cats @lemmy.world
    kadu @scribe.disroot.org

    My favorite way of taking cat pictures is with an old 2007 Sony digicam

  • cats @lemmy.world
    kadu @scribe.disroot.org

    Cacau was diagnosed with FeLV-related Lymphoma and given one month to live in Feb 2025... So here's him asking for more snacks in 2026 to celebrate!