My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
today we learned that the open-source release of the pre-Explorer windows file manager had a hostile fork in 2023 https://github.com/microsoft/winfile/issues/411
RE: https://toot.cat/@clarfonthey/116257719533434642
PS this is not even a joke
even wrote an entire blog post about it: https://txt.ltdk.xyz/giving-up/
at this point, a majority of companies' applications are as useful as printing out your CV and immediately tossing it in a paper shredder. if you can't convince me that you care even a little bit, I don't care if you're wikimedia or apple; both of you are dead to me
re: Murrican laptop disposal
@knightly666 It's not as obvious as it should be, though. Most people don't know where the battery is anymore, since they're no longer removable without tools, and most people don't know what a modern hard drive looks like, or where the important electronics bits are, in the case of SSDs in mostly empty classic laptop form factor HDD boxes.
Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:
* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
@grote remember, kids: "sideloading" is just "installing software that isn't on the app store." the corpos are just calling it "sideloading" because it sounds shadier.
@mavica_again That diode does not look healthy. :/
LB RE "The Book" by Hungry Minds: They're buying YouTube sponsorships, and just like past grifts such as Established Titles, "As Seen On YouTube" ought to be regarded not as a positive endorsement, but as a warning.
They burn most people only once, but their warnings spread slower than the grifts, so they always find new marks.
@earthshine Someone has to be the witness to tell the tale. :<
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