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I love how Windows 8 and 8.1 are both historical footnotes so quickly and easily forgotten that even Microsoft itself pretends they never happened.

honest to god itd be funny as shit if we abandoned win10 and 11 en masse and just went back to win7 as an F U to ms lmao

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if you can't sleep it's prolly cos you missed one of the sheep in the dream captcha

Algorithms were invented in 825 AD by scientist Mohammed Algorithm

What's the big deal? A tie is just a business attire choker anyway.... >_>

Cloudflare is a parasitic vine that has coopted the nutrient flow of its host tree, the internet.

(It's operator precedence that simple calculators are designed to ignore, which is why they answer my example with 35, while advanced calculators and machine-free math both answer with 23.)

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Related, if you did never learn math because calculators exist, then you don't know that your simple calculator lies to you with problems like "3 + 4 x 5", let alone how or why.

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Newsroom (NZ), "When students' brains go quiet": newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/02/when

The lede is spot-on: "Students starting to learn with AI is the difference between using a calculator after understanding math versus never learning math because calculators exist"

Even with a bias in favor of (the LLMs pretending to be) AI being effective tools when in expertly knowledgeable hands, the conclusion of it being harmful in general is inescapable.

hi, security team, I keep getting fishing emails.

security team: you mean phishing?

no. fishing. I'm pretty certain.

I love clicking on one button, then the page scrolling on its own with an update, and then the page deciding that I actually clicked on an entirely different button.

i thibk I'd be a really good inkjet printer. I have years of experience in making mysterious sounds and complaining while achieving nothing at all

comes configured to install updates automatically in the night hours after you go to bed.

Windows also comes configured to go into sleep mode only a half hour after you do for the night.

Windows comes configured to promise to install updates when you're not using it and then utterly fail to fulfill that promise.

last day of aol service was tuesday. eternal september ended after 11,353 days....

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.

Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.

blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/0

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