Now do Beavis and Butthead.
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It's the first time I hear this. Can't yet say much about it until I can verify that.
One can not even find it on TIOBE but one can find COBOL there:
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
(TIOBE is horrible, but still.)
I ended up really disliking tk.
Using ruby-gtk2 and ruby-gtk3 was much nicer. (Sadly, gtk4 sucks, so that's the end of the story there.)
I kind of want a universal toolkit that works everywhere and is also good. Right now I use ... well, either the web (that's ok, though I hate how I can not easily open local files and so forth, without having to use node), or swing via jruby-swing - which semi-sucks, but it also works on windows and it actually is not that bad. (I could use javafx etc... but it is so much easier to get started with swing). I also use libui-ng which is ok but lacks many features, sadly.
But mods can say they censored you because of low quality contribution to reddit. :)
I do agree that the karma system does not work. I was able to farm 77k karma in two years, after I created a new account there (the old account I had before for +14 years was forced to change the password, so I created a new account - and used EXACTLY the same password, to prove a point to reddit that they are incredibly stupid. Sadly, reddit never understood the problem, even though it should be obvious that, if your passwords are lost yet users retain the same password after being forced by reddit to change it, something in reddit's insinuation simply does not add up here.)
However had, recently they also ruined old.reddit.com. I always said that when they take down old.reddit.com (they require a log in, which makes no sense from a user's perspective) I would be gone. Turns out I retired before that due to mods censoring me willy-nilly style. It's interesting how the internet shifted towards more and more censorship. Can we not come up with an internet without censorship? I am not even against 0% censorship, e. g. I am fine if bots are not allowed to pester real humans, but specifically a lot of censorship that was and is going on on reddit, has to do with mods arbitrarily enforcing "rules". I know this is the case because I wrote just about the very same content and style on ALL subreddits - on some I ended up being censored, on others not. So that's individual mods abusing their anti-social powers.
On Hackernews this is not as bad, but the UI is annoying, especially the "you post too much". Well, I don't - but Hackernews simply has a rate limit that makes no sense. At the least the censorship on Hackernews is nowhere near close to the reddit censorship.
I understand it was inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllotaxis, but arrangement on leaves serves the purpose of growth in a specific niche. The pattern arises because naturally leaves serve to capture light - see the images on wikipedia there. Phyllo means green. The LEDs used here do not really tap into any of that, and the name is also a misnomer. That's not good.
For instance:
> US forces leave country where 4,500 of them died in worst US war of 21st century
I am not even certain that this war was worse than the Afghanistan war. Perhaps the Iraq war was objectively worse, but since the sudden withdrawal in Afghanistan, leaving the Taliban in charge, I am not so sure which war was worse. I am not even sure how to qualify it, so Reuters stating this was the worst war is ... indeed a strange label to use. Wasn't Reuters indeed more objective in the past? And with that I mean objective at all times, not white-washing or black-washing.
I now finished reading the article and it indeed seems op-ed. The reader now thinks that the war against Iran must continue. I still fail to understand why the USA invaded the area. Other than some making enormous profits, of course. If 911 was used as a rationale, why was not Saudi Arabia attacked?
As for Hollywood ruining videos: well, it is time to phase out Hollywood. The movies are cultural heritage and the best quality must be preserved (without artifical AI slop clowning it up and changing things; I see that on youtube every day, it is AWFUL. AI slop constantly lies about things. I can call it lie-slop).
People say we can ignore them but I find the difficult to ignore.
But this is not the only problem with lisp syntax. I found that reading Ruby or Python is simply, on average, so much more efficient.
I found scheme somewhat readable - see haxima game world, https://sourceforge.net/projects/nazghul/ it contains scheme files - but I would not want to write any game logic in it.
First, the Anthropic master clown babbles about how mankind will be destroyed by AI. I mean, skynet in the movie Terminator was kind of cool; the current AI models just work by slopness. They want to erode us by dragging us down to zero quality.
Then this continued over the last some days. Today I heard at the UN speech a german minister babble about AI building up nukes in a private garden (a large garden), bla bla bla all the information is there bla bla bla AI mass-nuke generation.
Now, they are clearly FUDding many people who don't understand anything here. People will associate AI with mega-danger. Probably there will be laws that ensure that only a few companies can control the AI slopness soon, because IT IS SO DANGEROUS. We saw the same discussion with "omg omg omg terrorists", then "omg omg omg someone protect the children", e. g. as a rationale for everyone to ID in order to access information on the world wide web (starting with the anti-social websites, such as facebook, but it won't be limited here; the computer will hand over your ID to the government; see systemd preparing for this move: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 - it all comes in small baby steps, until all the final legislation is in place. The same happened before again and again - anyone remembers the DMCA? Corporations lobbied and paid for that - and it happened).
That's a bold claim.
I do not buy it. Essentially AI acts as random babelfish generator, just with a lot more cross-talk back to check to see that it is not total garbage. But there is a ton of garbage nonetheless, hence the proper term AI slop. You seem to mostly try to promote AI with such a wording.
> The only option on the table is to force regulation to impose open source ban before it catches up to the frontier, buying them time to mature their next generation models and keep their business model alive.
Every time someone claims "the only option" is when I become skeptical. I see many more options - most importantly close down the AI slop. I mean you can require of these companies to excel in quality. If they don't, they must go bankrupt. Easy solution here.
Can we get our money back here? I mean, just take the increase in RAM prices alone. That should come with a huge penalty they should give us back due to collusion. And that's just one of many more things. Trump's family dynasty also owes us all money - we want that back as well.
This, in turn, handicaps me searching for information. If they could fix this problem then I would be more likely to make use of TOR. We really need to think long-term about a future web that isn't ruined by Google etc... while also not being locked down such as via age-gating.
Because the point of AI slop is to waste your time. You just lost about 30 seconds of your life trying to get a correct answer. AI was lying to you, so you had to spend time to counter the AI slop lies here.
I solved it by banning all AI slopness; in the browser some extensions do that. The world becomes better without AI slopness.
I never found them helpful. I always have to block them via extensions.
Google is really an annoying company these days. I am hardly the only one who wishes that company were to cease to exist altogether. In the past I did not understand, on reddit, the de-google movement. Now I completely understand it, but I think it is the reverse as problem here - people abandoning Google. I think Google needs to abandon mankind and this planet. Let them go far away where they no longer cause any issues here.
> Google, a search engine which does not have human emotions, assumed that I had been spurned by a man in my life named Dario and decided what I wanted was an empathetic digital friend. What I wanted was some links, but that's not what Google does in 2026. Expanding the AI overview to see the full answer gave me this:
Poor guy ^^^ has not yet realised that AI slop steals his time. I realised this the first time I notice the AI slop generated text spam Google pushes onto people. A few lost souls may find this useful - I find it utter trash. No quality. Just steals my time.
> What in the fucking hell? I think this was the moment I, the frog, noticed the pot had been boiling for a while. In what universe is it Google's job to console me and be an empathetic listener rather than just find what I am looking for on the internet?
Good that he finally realised it. Million people noticed this before already. I noticed this when Google started to ruin its search engine. First time I remember was via AMP-ification. AMP mostly failed, but Google kept on pushing towards less quality and more suckage. AI is just the final nail in the coffin, but Google search started to suck way before that.
One of these days some scientists should determine when Google really started to suck, because in, say, 2006 or so, Google search did not suck as much.
> Regardless of what you think of AI or chatbots, I think it's pretty obvious this is just plain weird.
Not if you think Google is not doing this on purpose. They are trying to kill off the search engine so they can present you an AI slop spam world. The other AI slop companies do this too. Slop suckage everywhere now.
> Is it so hard to imagine that some parts of search were just fine before LLMs?
That is how YOU think - but not Google. They deliberately crippled their search engine. The adCompany that Google is today, has nothing to do with the original Google. The billionaires running the show just want to suck in more money and dish out more slop.
> I'm not sure how to feel about all of this. Maybe I should go talk to my friend Google, it's always so nice to me.
Some people realise things more slowly. I am glad he finally understands why so many people are pissed at Google. Same for youtube by the way - about 80% of the shorts are AI slop generated or AI slop modified. I noticed this when I watched Brent Spiner on that podcast show; in the video itself, he had white hair but not totally white. In the short, both he and Jonathan Frakes had much whiter hair. I then realised that AI spam filter slop lies to me. I hate AI slop. Youtube is now infected with that, in particular the shorts. Poor guys looking at their smartphones being spammed down via lying slopness.
They knew the damage they would cause - and went on regardless. The USA need to fix their court system. Right now it is just OligarchBros running the show. The small thief stealing a wallet gets put in jail for years. If you are rich enough, you pay some peanuts and that's the end of it.
It is clear that we do not see all communication. Governments become increasingly deceitful and secretive - the US government is the best example, but the same applies to other governments (just look at the garbage produced by the russian government, they almost outperform the current US administration with total crap, like what Lavrov recently babbled about - what pile of nonsense). And companies - they are alo secretive. So which conspiracy exactly is meant here? It's not that I disagree with your prior statement, but I want to know which conspiracy you assume to be here to exist, or to NOT exist. Because what you wrote is very unspecific - you insinuate that there may not be a conspiracy. How do you conclude that?
I concur with Levitz's statement too, with regards to conspiracy or "inventing" one - so, which specific conspiracy was meant?
Not true - a youtuber from Germany who lives in Japan since about 10 years, was denied citizenship recently. And he'd make more than enough money.
https://www.youtube.com/@NihonGoo
The thing is really true: Japan is against more immigration. You'll always be a gaijin there if you come from the outside.
> there seems to always be a large number of clearly white people from America and Europe coming in to display their Japanese nationalism
Other countries are also very much against mass immigration. Japan just does it in a very strange way.
Something really fundamental has been changing in Japan in the last few years, kind of an anti-globalisation movement tied to more nationalism - and I have a SLIGHT suspicion that this will become ultra-nationalism. In turn, a second prediction I make is that Japan will become militarily more aggressive and invest more in that. We can already see the writing on the wall here that more conflict will be brewing in the area.
It's a bit unfortunate in that if a country does not really want people to visit it, well - one does not have to go there. There are many other countries in the asian area that aren't as hostile to foreigners now. (Also interesting to see how an aging society suddenly changes to offset immigration. Hopefully we won't hear a single japanese complain about lack of people in Japan. Ironically Paolo is, or rather was, also kind of a gaijin, even though he speaks perfect Japanese of course.)