Hey, this is the tech industry. That’s all we do!

All platforms must be decentralized and interoperable and fuck the algorithms.

Lightly customized KDE plasma, it truly is just the best de out there. However when I’m feeling a bit playful and not looking to do actual work or using my laptop without a mouse I do switch over to hyprland sometimes.

You dont understand, I simply have GOT to buy and play the new FIFA/FC/Madden/NBA2K its simply so much better than last year’s! No, thats not all I play, of course not. I also play, like… Uh… GTA 5… Yeah, what a story, am I right? Especially when that guy goes “oh shit here we go again”? What a moment. Also that one PlayStation game, uhh, well I forgot its name. Anyway, what’s your Valorant rank?

It is actually unusable. Like seriously unusable. I’m not even exaggerating.

We will be 80 and still looking at the charts going “It is the year of the Linux desktop yet?”

Well I find this one extremely disappointing and very insulting. I read the first 3 panels and was actually getting excited and happy that I was about to read something insightful and hopeful and positive 😩

MOGAI

It says on the article that 404 Media recreated similiar images to the memes they saw to protect their sources, so there is a chance that the originals were pure gold.

You can sift through the various sources to get the un-paywalled page from the correct archive.

It also has the added benefit of watching you all the time!

Other than that EVs are pretty dope.

As someone with very little programming knowledge, the existence of all the “Learn how to program in our easy to use course and AI Assistance for $800 a month!” sites baffles me when w3schools is just… there. It has helped me massively, without a dime.

I also just realised that the about page of w3s has a ChatGPT section of “This is how ChatGPT describes W3Schools”, why???

I in fact did not read the article.

we have added a new preprogrammed conversational help bot to the company website that doesnt have enough logic trees to actually help anything

Why aren’t they just… Removing them?

Oh. Its probably because removing them is unnecessarily complicated so they need the company to come do it for them.

yeah and I mean I’ve got ice cream RIGHT on the conveyor belt and she KNOWS it

I don’t know much about this new captcha system, but I feel like the challenge wouldn’t really be in the scanning of the qr code itself but more so on making the device you’re scanning with seem legitimate. They could check usage patterns, what apps are installed, how many accounts are added and are they actively used, location and sensor data, are the hardware specifications really unusual, are they constantly trying to complete random captchas… Stuff like that to tell apart a real user’s device from a bot or sandbox. The QR Code is probably just a random ID for which captcha instance the user is trying to pass.

Also I just realised this but this is probably inconvenient as hell. Like I do NOT want to constantly be picking up my phone to scan QR codes when I’m trying to go around the Internet. What if my phone is on the other side of the house? I don’t want to get up and walk all the way over there! If this gets fully rolled out there may actually be a small dip on the amount of desktop users of websites because they just leave when they are hit wth this captcha instead of bothering to scan a code.

The point with captchas is not really that bots can’t pass them, more that its too expensive to pass them consistently with a hurtfully large enough volume of bots.

It really should be illegal to build systems that require a user’s access to any unrelated technology. You shouldn’t be forced to have a phone to pay a parking fee or to get on the bus. You shouldn’t need an app to charge your car. You shouldn’t need to use proprietary software from one spesific company to pass a captcha on a random site.

I tried it, and got similiar shorter answers but not the exact same answer. Sometimes it ends up getting it right at the end after fumbling a lot, and sometimes it just fails completely.

Searching on Google directly sometimes doesn’t produce the AI Overview on stuff like these in my experience, but passing the search to Google from DDG with the bang (!g) almost always produces the AI Overview.

edit: I tried it again and it grew the ability of humor:

There are 2 't’s in the word colonialism. colt-a-ca-l-i-s-m (just kidding) C-o-l-o-n-i-a-l-i-s-m:

• t = 0 (If you were thinking of colonization, there is still only 1 ‘t’ in the word.)

Interestingly, on one of my attempts it used python to count the number of t’s and still ended up getting the “verbal” explanation wrong.