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garylkz··on Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October
Remember Microsoft Edge? Remember Microsoft Teams? Remember Dev Home? Remember Copilot? Yeah it's the same thing everytime.
garylkz··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Yep, I can't remember when was the last time I've visited a SEO optimized site but I still had the bitter taste that I felt when I last visited it:

- searches for "How to do XYZ" and click one of the site

- "what is xyz"

- "why xyz matters"

- "preparations before xyz"

- "what you might encounter when xyz"

Sounds reasonable and in theory should be useful, but the actual useful info are only stuffed in 1-2 lines of multi paragraphs on tons of sections that I don't care about.

garylkz··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
That's because AI is still in the honeymoon phase, unless it's a paying service, at some point the summary will start to have context relevant ads.

Also, I felt like in long term that's going to kill off the good faith of all those smaller sites that are actually good, while the bigger ones still produce subpar contents.

garylkz··on Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers
Curious, currently how is the use of AI being detected from papers?

From the article I saw that they're using "excess words" as an indicator, is that a reliable method?

Also, is it possible that it's just autocorrect that added "excess words" when fixing grammar? If that's the case, should that be considered as "use of AI"?

garylkz··on Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests
If you force yourself to communicate in certain language, you more or less will be able to communicate with it sooner or later.

(Provided that you have basic understanding to the language)

garylkz··on I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
On Arch if I'm not mistaken, you can export your archinstall configuration to be used at other machines although it's not fully "declarative" but I believe it sort of works for certain use cases
garylkz··on Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia
Buddhism encourages non-violence, it's not strictly enforced, but there will be consequences when they die.

Then again, just because some people's doctrine does not encourage violence doesn't give others a free ticket to bash on them for doing so.

garylkz··on Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia
The whole point of becoming a monk is to try to have control over their desires, exercise mental discipline like how Buddha does.

If one is already able to achieve all of that they won't even need to become a monk, because they've already achieved what they wanted to.

garylkz··on Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia
When people are doing something "in the name of religion", it's possible that they are just trying to justify their actions to achieve certain goals
garylkz··on Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
Ah yes, that exactly
garylkz··on Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
Yes, it's truth as in "consensus" but not the absolute truth, and I don't think we are going to reach the absolute truth anytime soon.

You're assuming that everyone will agree on the truth just because it's the "truth", but why do you think we no longer believe that earth is the center of world?

There will always people who questions the truth and did research and study about it, discovers new observations of the subject and replace the existing if it convinced the majority.

It's question that lead us closer to the truth (occasionally it does the opposite). That's why we made new discoveries, and that's why you are here questioning about the truthfulness of truth.

garylkz··on Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
From my totally biased understanding, truth is what groups of people agreed on, people believe what they believed in. Even though people agreed on the same thing, each of them would have different interpretation of the truth that they believe it, with certain levels of overlap.
garylkz··on The UI future is colourful and dimensional
So a full circle from colorful design to simplified design to flat design then to colorful design again.
garylkz··on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
Curious, do you supervise the code itself or at least understand what the code is trying to do?

By "I didn't edit a single line", do you still prompt the agent to fix any issues you found? If so, is that consided an edit?

garylkz··on On "Vibe Coding"
Imo there is nothing wrong with generating code with AI, it's the effort spent on supervising the quality of product that matters.

But that requires you to have certain levels of knowledge on that domain to begin with, which is not something you can just "vibe" your way out, at least for now.

garylkz··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
I've been using Arch for 1-3 years now, as far as I can remember the only time that my system "break" was caused by pacman lock got stuck somehow. Aside of that it's pretty stable in general.
garylkz··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Don't get me wrong, what I meant is that I only uses windows on games that runs poorly for me, I use Linux as my daily driver.

Regarding fps, it's around 15fps diff, and it's bad in my case because I had a potato machine.

garylkz··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Curious, if you don't mind answering, do you mainly uses Ubuntu or Nixos, and which one do you liked more ATM?

Regarding Steam, do you install it with distro provided or through Flatpak?

What is the spec of your machine that you do Linux gaming on? I've noticed a notable performance penalty (around 10%, even higher on GPU heavy games) when running games with Proton, which is mainly why I haven't dropped Windows yet.

garylkz··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
I remember back then my laptop broke during the beginning of COVID, and I was left with a smartphone that is incapable of doing Termux stuff.

To cope with that I have ended up making some toys like Discord bot that evaluates code, requested access from Insomnia 24/7 to SSH into Linux environment for programming purposes.

It was fun experience and I've ended up learning a lot of programming stuff before I've even started my study in university for computer science.

garylkz··on Huawei is spamming open source community for its Harmony ecosystem (See Comment)
To be fair, it's their freedom to create a proposal to any author they want, and it's also the author's freedom to reject the PR.

But to be honest, even if the author rejects it, what will happen is most likely them forking the repo and make changes on top of it.

garylkz··on Internet Artifacts
I remember researching about early era of internet while trying to make a game for a game jam about online shopping, and damn, it sure is a deep rabbit hole.
garylkz··on RPG in a Box
They do provide ability for users to export the project as Godot 4 if needed.
garylkz··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
Remind me about Fuchsia in 3 years
garylkz··on Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign
Whoever designed the email archive dismissable, what the heck
garylkz··on Conspiracy theorists can be deprogrammed
Should be a solid yes
garylkz··on Just use HTML
and once the "accurate" AI accidentally wrote bugs, it will seem even more foolish for humans to debug the binaries built by AI.
garylkz··on Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the web
From an end user perspective, the whole "proof that you are human" thing is nothing but hassle.

Back then the "select all boxes with traffic light or something" is already ambiguous enough, now they even started to generate AI images for that and to be honest, I can't even get it right like 40% of the time...

... And the actual bots are able to do that better than me. What an absurd time to live in.

garylkz··on Why Are ADHD Rates So Much Higher in the U.S.?
But really, if like more than 50% of children has ADHD, maybe it's not really a "defect" but rather a "trait" of some human.

Unless you're implying that half of the humanity that has ADHD are defective humans.

Just a thought

garylkz··on Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire
> Does the OS natively VPN all your devices

Uhm, I don't think so. How did you came up with that impression?

It sounds more like IOT

garylkz··on AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?
Not always, but can be
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