VCFundedGenYer

A true Microsoft drone to the end.

> And it's an old version of the OS anyway.

Most modern Windows code was written in 1995. Don't assume for one moment that it isn't in production Win11 today.

This feature will not make it to release.

Just like Recall, it's completely DOA.

We don’t need this nonsense. The author doesn’t actually know that for certain.

Holding onto my 14 for as long as possible as it is safe from the absolute nonsense AI features.

"A batter you can't outrun" actually the gen 1 Pebble from literally 2013 still runs circles around this thing.

I don't use LLMs for coding aside from minor suggestions. They've also gotten far worse in quality in the past year (GitHub Copilot especially. It went from "oh this has promise" to "I could hire a 12 year old to do this better").

The gold standard remains to code things yourself.

The statement becomes very true and very real once LLMs are applied to physical objects in the physical realm such as anthropomorphic robots.

LLMs are too weak security-wise to be contained.

This article says nothing.

In practice, operationally, none of this is solved. Every website/app/platform handles logins differently. Some are still doing SMS 2FA, some still do passwords, some implemented passkeys in the wrong way, some are doing app based MFA, some are doing magic links, some are doing email codes.

You can't in good faith say this is "solved" when it's just more complicated than ever, and the UX is terrible (passkeys, cough)

> Have all these things become reality?

I suggest you read 1984. It ended up being a field guide.

And AI companies are stealing and destroying all the books. Thanks Silicon Valley!

They're having fun asking a robot to make a picture when they could have learned to make it themselves.

It's incredibly depressing.

Kind reminder that zombies are not real and you should understand that you are critiquing an entertainment product.

GrapheneOS is also saying some suspicious stuff on Mastodon in which they are failing the vibe check. They are suddenly very AI obsessed, which is the antithesis of their platform.

I would recommend being very careful with them.

You still wrote it, processed it in your brain, and reasoned about it.

With an LLM you do zero of those things. I don't understand how you don't get that.

Every chat bot has this problem. If you don't tell it to respond tersely and without conversation, it will waste a billion tokens giving you a 5 paragraph manifesto of rambling and useless redundant information.

Same. It started on Tumblr around 15 years ago when people were "self-diagnosing" themselves then it spiraled out of control. It really bothers me because I see a lot of of obviously-not-neurodivergent folks try to use it as an excuse (I am diagnosed formally + can easily detect if someone is just spouting nonsense about it)

Highly doubt this. Do you have a source or numbers on that bold claim?

> If you root or jailbreak your devices, you've, by their very nature, broken their security.

Yeah no this is just incorrect. There's many cases where jailbreaking actually fixes issues when a vendor abandons the platform. It also enables usefulness for a product long after it's been EOL'd.

Correct. Jobs was mentally unstable. That is not a role model anyone should look up to.

As an IT person, the way this email was written makes me feel like I'm having a stroke. This was Gates whining about nothing.

Bill was in charge of MS at the time, he should not only have known how Windows works at this level (Dave Cutler on NT anyone?), he should have been able to figure this out.

Installing Movie Maker was easy back then and it is still easy now (on XP).

LLMs are very limited and have finite usefulness. The idea of AGI is a grift.

AGI is a fake term and will never be a thing.

Anyone suggesting it is actively contributing to the grift and their statements are to be completely disregarded.

I suggest things such as building an "offline room" like an 80s/90s living room setup complete with a thrifted CRT TV, old game consoles, VCRs, shag carpets, old lamps, woodgrain walls, physical books, instruction manuals, etc.

For those who use WhatApp, sure. I do not know a soul who does. It depends on your region.

The company lives and dies with him.

Finder is missing so many basic features that explorer.exe and Linux file managers have had standard for decades.

Simple things like easily copying paths (and no, not with a weird keyboard shortcut nobody uses - a simple GUI method, preferably with an address bar, which Finder also lacks), copy queuing (pause queued copies rather than shotgun them all at once), cutting files (FFS why is this feature outright missing? There is an awkward keyboard shortcut to move a copied file but it's frankly not the same), broken views (icon view sends most files offscreen, and even maximizing doesn't bring them back into the confines of the window), idiotic keyboard shortcuts (Cmd O opens a file, Enter renames it? No other OS does this). I could go on and on.

Finder is a rare case in macOS where Windows actually outclasses it in every way.

...and who is this?

Random blog dealing with spam problems blocks gmail (the most used email) wholesale?

Not exactly going to stop the world from turning here.

Microsoft is being all kumbaya right now for those exact same reasons - they are hemorrhaging users to Linux and macOS. WSL only exists because of this.

In the 90s and 2000s, they considered Linux a cancer, and only kept macOS alive for antitrust reasons.

I don't think you understand what Asahi Linux is.

This isn't about running VMs.