in 2016, WOULD have

Scooby Doo style:
The boogeyman is a centrist who is neither left, nor right!

Pull mask off

oh it was a right-winger all along.

You’ve gotten good responses already, but I just live and let live with Gnome’s Mutter & KDE’s Kwin. It’s worth mentioning that they’re both highly polished offerings. But I would also understand why one wouldn’t want to use either.

Is the photo of Goebbels?

fuck me. lmao.

I use Firefox as I actually like it more, except for the lack of Chrome-style tab groups (in development). But it does seem like it’s mismanaged and I wonder what that means for it in upcoming years.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/

I am reminded of this old (forgive me) The Atlantic piece. It has two through-lines. One is the story of a dentist that was doing malpractice, finding issues in people’s teeth that didn’t exist so he could milk their insurance (and ruin their lives). The other is the story of why dentistry is separate from the rest of medicine.

If you have a Mac the free app Tomito in the App Store is a genuinely good pomodoro timer. There are plenty other options, even websites, but this one is my favorite so far.

Netscape, which was essentially the predecessor to Mozilla, was a well funded VC-backed startup. That’s how they did it.

I think they are trying to ensure that no future Windows is ever good again. I mean, it was Win10 that made me frustrated enough to permanently kick the habit of using Windows.

As for what ByteDance plans to do with a new LLM, a person familiar with the company’s ambitions said one goal has to do with the search function for TikTok.

Last week, TikTok released an update to its current search function focused on [keywords for ads], basically allowing advertisers to search in real time for words that are trending on TikTok. It allows marketers to build an ad with relevant keywords that would ostensibly help the ad show up on the screens of more users.

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“Given the audience and the amount of use, TikTok with a search environment that is a completely biddable space with keywords and topics, that would be very interesting to a lot of people spending a ton of money with Google right now,” the person said.

A dark vision just flashed in my mind. And I am certain this is what will happen. AI-generated ads done in real time based on the latest “trending” thing. Presented to users basically as soon as the topic has the slightest amount of “trend”.

Just emitting untold amounts of CO2 to show you generated ads in near real time.

Untold bloodshed, cruelty, and inhumanity. But at least you get some wine and a nice note. Really makes it worth it!

E.T.

I am absolutely charmed by the characters, the story, the optimism, and the connection to the unknown.

Since it’s an old acer netbook with an Intel atom cpu it is highly unlikely it has any hardware decoding built in.

Really looks like Liquid has GG’s number so far in this series (middle of game 2)

Wait… again???

Wow who could have foreseen back doors getting back doored?

I don’t even watch Anime but I still get bummed when news like this hits.

This company has already laid off a bunch of employees, too.

The only charitable read of this is the end-user bypassing controls on company-supplied computers.

Of course that doesn’t mean that they won’t also shove secure boot, hw lockouts, DRM, etc on regular consumer laptops as well.