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mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English7Ā·1 month agoThat time when Zitron himself admits that the post is long š
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English3Ā·1 month agoThe reader mode in Firefox shows completely different version of the article, weird. I never understood how that feature works, is there some node that contains the site supplied version of text for that mode?
mlen@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.worldā¢Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooksEnglish27Ā·1 month agoAnd itās shit
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English6Ā·2 months agoMy decision to setup Jellyfin gets even more validation thanks to changes like this one.
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English6Ā·2 months agoThe article from the screenshot: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/meta-grabs-eu-approval-to-train-ai-with-social-media-posts-1034586675
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English4Ā·2 months agoOh, I only knew of some of it, thanks
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English4Ā·2 months agoAny idea why the flag reassembles the Swiss one (the proportions are wrong though)?
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" ā Tariff TerathreadEnglish4Ā·3 months agoCan we get this thread pinned? I guess that this thread will keep on giving šæ
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025English7Ā·3 months agoAs someone living in Switzerland for over 6 years, the labor laws arenāt exactly like in the rest of Europe and people are sometimes a bit too much on the freedumb side of things. Also weird german or (possibly less weird, I donāt speak it) french and high cost of living.
Then again, itās not anywhere as bad as whatās happening in the us
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025English6Ā·4 months agoThe lesswrong-tier post lengths arenāt helping to get all the way through them
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025English5Ā·4 months agoYeah, I agree. I think that this argument that is made there is a false. The logic error imo is claiming this statement is true: things get cheaper as they get used more, therefore if we make it used more, it will get cheaper.
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025English7Ā·4 months agoSecond observation is that when a thing gets cheaper itās used more, i.e. theyāll be pushing even harded to shove it into everything.
Are they trying to imply that when they will make it cheaper by shoving it everywhere? I honestly canāt see how that logic is holding together
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish10Ā·5 months agoPolish commentary on HitlergruĆ: https://bsky.app/profile/smutnehistorie.bsky.social/post/3lgaoyezhgc2c
Translation:
- itās just a Hindu symbol of prosperity
- a normal Roman salute
- regular rail car
- wait a second
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025English8Ā·5 months agoIām surprised that alphabetical lists are included. Maybe my brain has completely rotten, but keeping the data sorted is pretty neat for efficient processing
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025English8Ā·5 months agoIām sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s
mlen@awful.systemsto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksā¢PoC Exploit Released for Critical OpenSSH Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387)English2Ā·5 months agoYet still exploiting it on 64-bit systems is impractical
mlen@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th January 2025English12Ā·5 months agoIs that a comedy account? The announcement surely reads as if it wasā¦
To add an insult to the injury meta renames pride themed skins in chat https://labyrinth.zone/objects/e129982d-997e-489b-985a-3ef547b66bf3
mlen@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.worldā¢Some YouTube Premium subscribers complain of seeing adsEnglish361Ā·7 months agoublock is cheaper and actually works
Well, they canāt fully outsource thinking to the autocomplete if they get asked whether some actions are okay.