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Went to my doctor today for regular testing and this was in the waiting room. It's a sentiment I'm becoming more sympathetic to as time goes on.

it's so funny to me how webp literally got a massive vulnerability in its library and people are still defending it over png and jpeg

daddy google is not going to notice you

I really miss the Web 1.0 days, when websites assumed you meant exactly what you said or only *offered* corrections for ambiguous potential mistakes.

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No, YouTube. I copied my search terms straight from the Billboard chart. I thought you would've learned by now what your autoco-wreck exceptions should be, but here we are.

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

Today in "stop reinventing HTML poorly & stupidly in JavaScript":

Using the Avast Uninstall Tool | Official Avast Support

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Speaking of LLMs as the enshittification du jour, the lawyer who had ChatGPT do his homework for him: futurism.com/the-byte/lawyer-c

Depressingly got away with it via a punishment a lot less severe than the disbarment he deserved: futurism.com/the-byte/lawyer-c

All this does is perpetuate the soul-destroying bullshit's appearance as the new hype.

This isn't the future I was promised.

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LLMs, in the context of online and meatspace enshittification, are "large language models." The invisibly-failing & gatekept ripoff ChatGPT is simply the most famous LLM.

if the cyberpunk themed product is not trans as fuck and anticop you aint got punk, you got neonliberalism

Folks, I'm really sorry. Computer Fairies went down because I made a stupid mistake. I gave the site host a CC to hold & draw payment from, but it expired last month, and I forgot to give them a new CC until today. Again, I'm really sorry about the downtime.

dog goes "bark".
cow goes "moo".
fox goes "okay so what you're gonna want to do is open up a terminal,"

Space Karen, fundamentally broken walled-garden search 

What the you, HellTube? When I search YouTube for "billionaire dies on Mars," I kind of think the results should *not* consist exclusively of not-billionaire conspiracy theories, Elon Musk not on Mars, and Elon Musk not dying.

“AI” enthusiast: i have made a chatbot that answers your questions

Software developers: you fucked up a perfectly good search engine is what you did. look at it. it's got hallucinations

Today's tech support patient took a whole hour to boot up, and the history suggests that wasn't new. (Removing the long-expired McAfee LiveSafe trialware helped by orders of magnitude.)

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