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Ariel Millennium Thornton

This ignores that Microsoft Windows is the problem, not the solution, but one result of that problem, Microsoft's OS monopoly, is that there's no viable alternative to Windows.

There are literally hundreds of alternatives, but none of them are viable. The closest ones, Apple MacOS & Google ChromeOS, are servants of capitalism pretending to be servants of users as well.

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What will it take, short of dismantling & abolishing capitalism, to get Windows PC makers to include the two most important user instructions & warnings in their leaflet excuse for a user manual?

Instruction 1: How to turn this daffy slab of scrap plastic off, as in for-real off.

Warning 1: The most intuitively obvious way, the power button, doesn't. It puts it in still-on sleep mode instead.

Instruction 2: How to reboot it.

Warning 2: Shutdown/"Turn Off" then turning it on again doesn't.

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Taggart :donor:

@catsalad Every day I get another threat intel briefing that tells me that threat actors are not vibe coding malware.

Because they need it to work.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The reality of landing on any website firewalled by ClownFlare, long before the "AI" scraper bots became the scourge of the Wild Wild Web, with untrusted, untrustworthy, and unauditable JavaScript either unsupported or forbidden from running roughshod over my PC.

Even when landing on websites that either don't need JavaScript to work or don't even use JavaScript themselves.

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evacide

Another day, another conversation with the press team where I explain that I did not give the quote in that story and the whole thing is AI slop. This happens once every few weeks now.

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jnpegay, emphasis on the “gay”

the people censoring our porn and queer content are not puritans. they are capitalists, supremacists, and fascists. treat them accordingly.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

The IT world has convinced us no new software can be deployed outside of US clouds. We're so sure about this that European governments (including the UK) are handing over vital government functions & data to US controlled servers. In this piece I argue that until recently we somehow could run stuff on locally owned hardware, and that we should urgently relearn that skill, while it is still possible - or end up as digital colony of the US: berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I guess I should say *how* it doesn't work, now that I'm calm enough to. Well, quite simply, there's no option or place anywhere to tell the new PC it's the new PC, let alone put in the old PC's name.

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4am ❧

Ah yes, the three genders

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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boot /boot/kernel/kernel

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Juice that toots other Juice

Indiscriminate Juice

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Microsoft, "Transfer your files and settings to a new Windows PC": support.microsoft.com/en-gb/wi

Both PCs are running the latest Windows 11, and this latest iteration of Microsoft's "trust me, bro, it's official" instructions don't work. The app's there and up to date on both PCs, but THE WINDOWS BACKUP APP ITSELF SAYS IT'S IN A BETA "USER TESTING STAGE"!

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The last time Microsoft made transferring files and settings from an old PC to a new PC easy was when both PCs ran Windows XP. Since then, it's been either inconvenient, inconsistent, or impossible.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

re: LLM vibe-coding disaster 

Pivot to AI, "Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened": pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/23/hug

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Juice that toots other Juice

Underdone Juice

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Adrianna Tan

Fascism for first time founders

techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascis

As usually I’ve found that techdirt is doing more to call out the fash in tech than most

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Uncle Duke

pretty smart to call them both because it might be a real ghost or it could just turn out to be some dude in a mask

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sofia

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

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Carina C. Zona

It's disappointing how many people who proudly call themselves software engineers have still not grasped that Large Language Models are incapable of intelligence. Bullshit is not the exception, it is the one thing it's capable of doing. LLMs can only predict the structure of language that would likely be used by a human if there were a human writing about that subject. LLMs don't understand the subject itself, cannot analyze ideas, cannot make reasoned conclusions based on evidence, cannot even distinguish between what is real and hallucinatory. But they are extremely good at emulating the language of a human who confidently spews bullshit. Because that's the one thing an LLM is designed to do. As a woman I've spent a lifetime having to tolerate ignorant bullshit that's gladly offered up for free. Why would I bother to pay for what I already don't need?

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captain acab :antifa:

Good boi

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