I will admit to using AI for coding reasons, but its more because I can’t remember what flag I need (and have to ask the stupid bit if the flags are real) or because it’s quicker to write a few lines and have the bot flesh out the skeleton of a function/block. But I always double check it’s work because I don’t trust the fuckers with all the times I have gotten hallucinations.

I only really use AI shit on my work computer (because hooray I have a Copilot license), and its only marginally better than doing searches myself. Its nice when it works because it lets me save time researching things, but I CONSTANTLY have to ask “are you sure that’s real?” because it just fucking makes up random command flags based on the prompt.

And its only marginally better because fucking search engines have their head so far up their ass they can see their tonsils. Godsdammit I want working search engines back.

“Better to be king of the ash pile than have to listen to Tom in accounting talk about his goddamned shitheap of a boat again on Monday.”

At that point, why give the nazi fuck any browser usage? If you don’t trust the source, don’t trust the product.

Like the other person said, use Ungoogled Chromium. I use it on a couple of my devices and it works pretty well.

I fear the day my 2014 hp LaserJet dies. There won’t be a decent printer on the market…

The bigger headline is “Skype hasn’t been dead this whole time”

Maybe just maybe, people are ok with gore/porn when they’re expecting it, but don’t like seeing it when they’re not?

I don’t use meta garbage and have been on the Internet long enough that I regularly saw gore videos as a teen because I hung out on 4chins all the time. I’m not averse to gore, but I still don’t want to randomly see that shit in my feeds.

Also, well adjusted people generally don’t feel good when they randomly see gore and shit…

I’ve been considering putting graphene on my pixel for a month or so now, I’m just in tech and have a shit load of MFA entries in multiple apps that don’t sync anywhere, and I don’t have the energy to redo all that shit at work when I barely have enough time to do my normal shit…

I used to live rooting and throwing custom rooms on my phone, but I’ve been out of that for a decade and don’t have a usable spare device to test/use as a backup.

Another thing that helps is to answer and immediately mute your line so the caller only hears an empty line. Spam dialers hang up and eventually mark the number as invalid, and most people who are real callers will prompt with a hello or something. I did that for a while before I got the Google call screen, which cut it down even more.

I’ve gotten a lot less spam calls since I started using the Google assist call screener. I get legitimate calls that hang up because my idiot ops guys can’t listen to the recording and say what they need to when they call me direct instead of my office redirect line, but it also seems to chase off the spammers if they know their AI has to get through my AI to even have a chance at trying to scam me, since I’m a harder target than average.

At one point they were one of the cheapest places to buy used textbooks, no idea what garbage they do now.

It’s skip logic all the way down

ALL PRAISE TO THE OMNISSIAH! MAY THE MACHINE SPIRITS AWAKE AND BLESS YOU WITH THE WEDDING PACKAGE YOU REQUIRE!

Fucking click bait garbage article, but thankfully the article has a tldr at the top that basically contradicts the headline and saves you minutes of time to realize you’ve been baited;

TL;DR: Microsoft has introduced a paywall for Notepad, requiring a Microsoft 365 subscription to access new features like the AI-powered Rewrite tool.

Better headline: Microsoft forces you to pay to suffer through using their AI tool that no one asked for, application otherwise unchanged.

I’ll be done with audible the moment I stop being able to liberate and archive what I pay for.

Until then, they’re helping me build my audiobookshelf

Dropping a link for the lazy/myself for later

https://www.kavitareader.com/

Man, the number of places pornhub has pulled out of (hehehe) is nuts. Georgia is the only surprise on here, since Louisiana has some government program there using to stay live.

What a shit take. Not all change is good change, and if you think this will be a good change, boy do I have some great ocean front property in Colorado to sell you.

The brown ring

The irony of using one fascist billionaires platform to organize against another fascist billionaire and his platform, but also the government.