Oh my god don’t get me started, the last time I tried that, it took me over two fucking hours to get the Microsoft account to recognize that I owned Minecraft. Apparently I bought the game so long ago that it failed to unify my accounts correctly so the separate “enter your password” screen just failed to load? I had to reset my account and open an entire new outlook.com email address just to link my purchase to the account I already have.

Fuck those losers who succeeded only in making the game worse to encourage platform lock in so they can replace Java with Bedrock.

Used to be, “the tragedy of the commons” didn’t quite so literally mean an attack on the common resources.

That’s not very reassuring, we’re still only one computer bug away from that situation.

Presumably she wasn’t identified as a violent criminal because the facial recognition system didn’t associate her duplicate with that particular crime. The system would be capable of associating any set of crimes with a face. It’s not like you get a whole new face for each different possible crime. So, we’re still one computer bug away from seeing that outcome.

It’s an extremely compelling product story full of market segmentation advertisers dream of!

H100 isn’t $40, it’s $40,000. You’re making the Bloomberg Mistake: it costs $4,000,000,000 - four billion.

I can’t wait to see what clownshoes nonsense way he absolutely fucks this one up, but that’ll take a lot of liquidity he probably doesn’t have access to unless he gets the $45bn Tesla payout.

How in the fuck did you find that, and where is the rest of the text on the page?

https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?xruxssyjn.wudtc241

That, finally, explains the pink sauce lady!

Back in my day, we called that “hard-mode plagiarism.” They can’t punish you if they can’t find a specific plagiarized source!

Which one?!

They were so close on the acronym: “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” should be “Detecting Ominous Location Trackers” (DOLT). (“Obnoxious” also works but unfairly downplays the stalking/domestic-violence angle.)

The hero we didn’t deserve.

Protec, not attak.

Now, they could still rename it FireWolfHound, which would be a rebranding I would be on board with.

I wish I had a decent explanation. But instead, I have Windows 11’s shiny new Taskbar configuration menu that politely warns me that showing seconds on the clock takes more power. Right under the “Show Copilot” button.

These fucks are fucked.

Oh cool, somebody signed up, they have more supporters today.

That is (was) DMOZ: the Mozilla Directory of websites, now curlie.org, after AOL shut it down in 2017.

They have a Patreon if you want to help them maintain it.

But what if I wanted to communicate with humans instead of propaganda-bots? Then yes, that Internet is dead, and there’s no real fucking reason to be on most of those sites.

I think an algorithm that sounds unprepared to deal with children is insufficient.

Is it really a solution, though, or is it just GIGO?

For example, GPT-4 is about as biased as the medical literature it was trained on, not less biased than its training input, and thereby more inaccurate than humans:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(23)00225-X/fulltext

It’s a $6000 upcharge. I think you have to make an appointment for it?

Gemini webrings are the future?