I love the sound of this, and so to start it off, I’ve added a very rushed together section on my personal website (and yes, absolutely a plug for my very static website).

It only points to this post’s bookmark list and my personal list of high quality YouTubers, but I do want to maintain a fairly high standard of things I’d want to link there, which is why I’ll leave that to a time when I’m less preoccupied.

Man, if I didn’t get out of gaming, this post would have me downloading that pack right away. The combination of older Minecraft (especially from my teenage era) and deeper mods like Tinkers, oh man what a joyous time that would be.

Wow, the days of dodgy toolbar extensions never truly went away. They just evolved to become part of your operating system.

The thing that actually baffles me about this is how this looks in the face of their next major competitor in the consumer market, Apple and their macOS.

macOS (or any other Apple product) has never (to my knowledge) had anything like this and it would be extremely out of character for Apple to suddenly change that. With all other manufacturers raising prices (including the Surface as of today) and the MacBook Neo directly competing with the mid tier PC laptops, this is what Microsoft decides to do?

At some point, one would hope that the average user starts to ask the question, can I have a computer that won’t pull this bullshit on me? But I think unfortunately most typical users (especially anyone daily driving Edge) just think there’s too much friction to move away from Windows, and so they stay, continuing to get fucked in the ass by megacorps.

But hey, I’m not in the running for a free car like them. Not like I’ll install Edge onto my Mac or Arch Linux computer and sync my shit with OneDrive.

I’ve been using What’s Up Docker as an alternative instead. With my containers set up in Yacht, I can check for updates with WUD and then actually update them with Yacht

Just yesterday, I had a studymate try to open an xlsx file on their phone - they had the Microsoft 365 app installed that would do this, but a recent update to that app just decided to change it to a Copilot only app.

So they had to install Microsoft Excel, and then it took over 10 minutes to initialise, just so we could finally look at a marking criteria. It would’ve literally been quicker for us to walk to a campus computer, log into that and read the xlsx file from that.

It genuinely baffles me how Microsoft makes their software objectively worse and outright baits and switches one popular application to turn it into another, presumably to up those adoption statistics and metrics; and they get away with it every single time. They long ago stopped caring about home users, but even business users put up with this mess.

Devuan boutta get an influx of new users

Oh I’m with you, the tests are precalculated and expect a true to return on something like 99991, this function as expected returns false, which throws the test into a fail.

Thank you for that explanation

I’m struggling to follow the code here. I’m guessing it’s C++ (which I’m very unfamiliar with)

bool is_prime(int x) {
    return false;
}

Wouldn’t this just always return false regardless of x (which I presume is half the joke)? Why is it that when it’s tested up to 99999, it has a roughly 95% success rate then?

Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.

Our product is so good, we mandate our employees to use it and watch them closely to make sure they do!

I would never buy brand new from them, but yes, my older devices are Intel because they were second hand and I knew more about them at the time than their AMD counterparts.

I’ve still got a ThinkPad X260 with an i5, and a MacBook Air 11" also with an i5. Those still get daily use from me and I’m not throwing them out because Intel is a shithouse company.

While Bedrock performs way better than Java, Java will run on anything that has a JVM and I’ve had the vanilla version run just fine on an M1 MacBook Air.

If you use community mods like Sodium for increased performance, I’m pretty confident it would run on a Raspberry Pi

As someone currently studying at a Queensland university, I can say that anecdotally there is a lot of racism - I’m a cis white male so I am privileged in not being part of any minority groups, instead I get let in on people’s racism to others, usually against Asians and usually from other privileged people, although one person I know is Indonesian and they particularly hate “mainlanders” (Chinese)

Yes, I just already genderbent it in my comment.

What about gay love songs?

I kissed a boy and I liked it, the taste of his cherry ChapStick. I kissed a boy just to try it, I hope my girlfriend don’t mind it.

For me personally, I wouldn’t consider it worth the risk. You still have to make an Amazon account, hand over your personal information, let their cameras onto your network (of course, you can VLAN them) and… how many people are gonna do this to make it effective?

It just seems playing right into their hands, I’d rather outright boycott anything Amazon (I understand easier for some than others) than waste my time, money and effort into protecting my personal info.

Nah yeah, that applies pretty much one to one with Australia, we just slang no as nah except for the last one, where you’d actually say no

I also wonder how much of this was spurred by Linux even beginning to come to the mainstream mind and how simple most distros are to just install and run (Bazzite, CachyOS, Linux Mint).

You’ve always had Linux go around tech circles, forums, enthusiasts, etc. but big YouTube channels out of that circle are talking about it and hardware manufacturers are distributing it in place of Windows in the case of the Steam Deck, and it’s just building more and more momentum.

I think it’s easy to take for granted how (relatively) mainstream Linux is getting, but if you think today how many people talk about *BSD, that was Linux not even 10 years ago.

God damn that was good. I won’t spoil anything but for newcomers be warned that it will take about 30 minutes of your time, and it will be worth it.

I’m in the exact same boat - I’m grateful that the person who introduced me to it never forced it on me, they obviously would cook vegan meals for both of us when I’d visit his house but that was pretty much the only exposure they gave me.

When I started looking more into it and taking it on, they were obviously very supportive and I intend to do just that in my own life - people know I’m vegan eventually just from seeing the meals I eat and eventually asking, but I don’t mention it otherwise.

This whole article reminds me so much of the rogue AI sign found in Portal 2