He’s CEO of a large American company. Whether the company succeeds or fails, he’ll be left with more money than most people see in their life. It’s not make-or-break for him.

Claude says he’s sincerely sorry that users feel software quality isn’t a priority, probably.

I don’t know what the plugin does but script to append an audio file to all audio files is possible to do cleanly in just three lines. Being able to write three lines doesn’t make something good at programming, and taking many more lines would make it bad at programming.

Many senior level “software engineers” are just tenured programmers and they’re managed by business people who don’t know software engineering either. One of the major benefits of using off the shelf software libraries is that they generally work as expected and have been through much more testing than something you just wrote, and often these libraries even receive free or cheap maintenance updates. You don’t want your developers wasting time reimplementing things and then wasting more time maintaining those reimplementations.

Getting the AI to write it is like mitigating the initial reimplementation cost by going to Fiver.

Google Search being replaced by Gemini makes it easy for Google to have big AI numbers. Bing never got over its reputation of having bad result quality, and it’s only the default search engine on Windows PCs that don’t have Chrome or Firefox installed. My friend uses Windows and iOS and always sends me links to Gemini results, which normally are only slightly worse than “I’m feeling lucky.”

You’ll still be able to get consoles and cloud stream. The real problem is that the power to create is being taken away from regular people.

Most updates are a waste of time on my phone. Open a streaming media player for a closed streaming service and before it let’s you watch anything it reminds you that you can spend a minute or two updating to a new version indistinguishable from the o/d version. Who knows what they’re changing because the attack surface is basically nonexistent and bugs aren’t being fixed.

Would Wine be better with Microsoft working on it? The frequency and severity of regressions in Windows has been increasing for years now. Maybe for Wine to be a more accurate representation of Windows 11 it needs more bugs and less functionality. The Windows team is good at that.

As if older memes were all meaningful. There’s nothing wrong with 6 7 itself. What’s 9 + 10?

Don’t worry. Next year Google will protect you from such dangerous apps by ensuring that you can only “side load” applications that they allow you to run.

What Microsoft is doing with Minecraft should be illegal. After they purchased Minecraft from Mojang, they started changing the rules so instead of being a game you have purchased and you play with your friends how you want to play it, it’s a game that you have a temporary license to use in a way that Microsoft thinks is appropriate for small children, even if you are hosting your own private server like these people are doing. Microsoft doesn’t like the way that these people are playing the game and talking outside the game, so they are taking the game away. You may not like these people because they sound like the kind of people that use “free speech” as an excuse for hate speech, but would it be the same if Microsoft were taking away the game from servers that allowed people to specify their pronouns or use different color combinations associated with LGBTQ representation, which they may soon be pressured to do by the government of the country they are headquartered in?

It’s not just anti-LGBTQ+. This is going to be bad for everyone. We’re just years away from banks and insurance companies factoring in your social credit score based on your activity on sites where you had to verify you’re not a legally considered a child.

You verify your age on Discord. Discord doxxes you through negligent handling of user data. Your account is found to be a member of a server that might suggest you are less responsible. Your rates are increased. Even if you know this is the reason, you cannot sue Discord because you were coerced into waiving your rights. The shareholders are happy because the line goes up. Is it already happening? I doubt any companies are rushing to tell us that they’re doing it, but the data is available to them.

It’s the natural progression of subreddit simulator. Somebody heard about dead internet theory and had to make it a reality.

That repository is only for the Boox60, a device from 2009. They haven’t been releasing kernels for modern devices.

They’re not that open because they steal Linux: https://web.archive.org/web/20220109040915/http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/install-linux-or-alternate-os-and-gpl2-kernel-source/698

Unfortunately, if you use either of these methods to install Windows 11, you will wind up with Windows 11. You will eventually regret it.

It’s so user friendly. It tells you exactly what to do to solve the problem. Switch to a tty (if that even works on your system) and log in, type this long command from memory, making sure not to mistake those 0s for Os or the Unicode left single quote for back tick, restart your lockscreen, which of course you know how to do, and then come back. If that doesn’t work, start terminating some processes and praying.

It says you can return using “ctrl+alt+F[N] where N is the tty number in the top left corner.” I can’t find my F0 key.

It’s not even good. It’s just scripts for some starter Arch rice, not a serious distro.

Some Unity games may be launched with a parameter that causes them to execute arbitrary code. It seems like it only makes sense on Android. Windows and Linux games can normally only be launched by a process with the same or greater privileges than the process being created, but on Android you can elevate privileges by invoking another app. In practical terms, another app can access the save data of your mobile games.

There was also something about games that register to be launchable directly from a webpage, which would allow web sites to escape the browser sandbox, but it didn’t sound likely.

They’re headphones. Somehow we’ve managed until this point without headphone-based spy devices. How is their translation software different?