poopkins @ poopkins @lemmy.world

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I know everybody's here to rag on Microsoft, but I honestly am quite pleased with Windows 11. I comfortably do software development in an Ubuntu shell using the Widows Subsystem for Linux and it honestly works like a charm. Then I can unplug and play video games in Steam and everything works great, there, too.

Of course this is all possible on Linux, but my point here is that Windows really isn't as awful as everybody makes it out to be.

Meanwhile, MacOS enters into a second decade of no innovation. It still relies on Homebrew for developer tools, still lacks any substantial improvements to Xcode and only ever receives iterative cosmetic changes like video lock screens and the new bundle of desktop backgrounds for its latest "update."

Funny, I was just reading comments in another thread about people with mental health problems proclaiming how terrific it is. Especially concerning is how they had found value in the recommendations LLMs make and "trying those out." One of the commenters described themselves as "neuro diverse" and was acting upon "advice" from generated LLM responses.

And for something like depression, this is deeply bad advice. I feel somewhat qualified to weigh in on it as somebody who has struggled severely with depression and managed to get through it with the support of a very capable therapist. There's a tremendous amount of depth and context to somebody's mental condition that involves more deliberate probing to understand than stringing together words until it forms sentences that mimic human interactions.

Let's not forget that an LLM will not be able to raise alarm bells, read medical records, write prescriptions or work with other medical professionals. Another thing people often forget is that LLMs have maximum token lengths and cannot, by definition, keep a detailed "memory" of everything that's been discussed.

It's is effectively self-treatment with more steps.

Register his own root Certificate Authority as well and this man is well on his way towards global surveillance.

Sounds like everything's working as intended from Amazon's perspective.

I acknowledge the downvotes without any discourse. If you'd like to see how this actually unfolded, here's some context.

I'm curious to see how proponents of this behaviour would support the other side of the aisle perform similar theatrics.

It's okay, folks, the IDF investigated and found "no civilians were killed."

Burning down the houses of parliament would also suspend voting on the bill. Do the ends justify the means?

I'm eager to see how this community will support the conservatives when they loudly disrupt the debate chamber and silence the Maori members of parliament, now the precedent has been set that this is acceptable behavior.

This comment is unrelated to my position. (Which, for what it's worth, is in favor of the Maori.)

The bill is now suspended; is the strategy to keep performing hakas to continuously silence members of parliament? The risk is that the next time, when the opposition wants to influence a bill, they also create a circus in the debate chamber. That is not a democratic process.

There are many enjoyable things that are not appropriate to do in parliament.

While I personally don't see how performing haka is constructive to include in a debate about the bill, I think it's unrelated to the discussion about what is or is not appropriate in the debating chamber.

This is exactly what I did on Reddit.

Really? Who am I?

10 Gb connections are widely available in Europe for very reasonable prices.

It's the toxic cesspool of the anonymous internet. All these communities are the same.

The most ludicrous part of Idiocracy is that the film makers thought the future it depicted would be 500 years away. Turns out, it was 20 years.

Ah yes, the good ol' retirement pyramid scheme. What could possibly go wrong, so long as we create more and more and more and more humans at an infinitely exponential rate?

Relevant bit for the lazy:

People who owned or purchased a Siri-enabled device — specifically: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch or Apple TV — that experienced unintended Siri activation during a confidential and private conversation between Sept. 17, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2024, may be eligible.

Now it's up to the justice department to obtain details about shorts made prior to the tariff war and investments made prior to the reconciliation so they can prosecute anybody who performed blatant market manipulation.

What do you suggest children use instead?

I feel like I'm fighting a one-person crusade every time I respond politely to some jerk online. Last night I couldn't sleep because some rando on the internet said mean things. Why are humans like this? Why can't we just be nice? Sometimes I feel like we deserve to go extinct.