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Re:Death by AI on Saturday July 19, 2025 @10:52PM (#44621577)
> I'd say this isn't just an AI overview thing. It's a Google thing. Google will sometimes show inaccurate information and there is usually no way to correct it.

Well, in this case the inaccurate information is shown because the AI overview is combining information about two different people, rather than the sources being wrong. With traditional search, any webpages would be talking about one of the two people and contain only information about them. Thus, I'd say that this problem is specific to the AI overview.

Re:The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public on Sunday July 06, 2025 @04:12AM (#44478789)
> Highways.

In my European country you have to pay a toll to use a highway. Most people opt to use them, instead of taking the old 2-lane road that existed before the highway and is still free.

Bur what happens after a long time, when most of the content on the internet is AI generated and thus knowledge is limited to what the AI knows?

It might improve productivity in the short term but when we start experiencing the long term effects, it might be too late to go back.

In my experience, people tend to say that macOS "looks good". I have not spoken with a mac user who said that macOS is more usable or the workflows are more productive. Also, Apple has convinced everyone that they always know what they are doing, so when something is wrong in the OS it's users who think they must be doing something wrong.

But with Microsoft turning Windows into a big advertising billboard, I can see it becoming a valid reason.

Re:A new Debian package helper: debputy on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:23AM (#39240568)
For me rpm was relatively easy to grasp, it's basically a shell script and each section has a specific job (building, preparing, copying files etc.)

No matter how much I tried I could never grasp deb packaging. The documentation is very sparse and the debhelper commands seem like magic. I couldn't find out what all the different files like .dirs or .install did, so I just gave up.

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:27PM (#31870288)
In the US you have two choices, so you see them relative to each other. You consider democrats left wing and conservatives right wing.

In Europe there is a plethora of parties all throughout the political spectrum.

Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:19PM (#30378120)
Would be awesome to have an EPUB version of this. The scaling on the website is really weird for me.
Re:Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:33PM (#28775076)
Yes. My bank offers NFC payments through their own app instead of Google Pay.