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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:28AM (#50338159)
Increased safety with Rust utilities. /s
In the Rust compiler, yes. In reality, no. /s
They are too busy killing themselves and extracting every dollar from their fellow "human beings".
Re:Altman says 'quite terrible' for your PCs to have RAM on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:06PM (#50329219)
> Altman says 'quite terrible' for your PCs to have RAM

Intelligence runs after him, but he is faster. /s

Re:Why big tech stopped building useful stuff on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:09AM (#50324862)
> Big tech built AI which is probably the most important technology since internet

It is only important for 3 letter agencies because they also get your frustrations and they can give you answers.

> Yeah - code rewrites are generally a thing to be avoided

Ha, Ha. Tell that to Gnome or KDE teams.

Because Rust is better than C. /s
This is only because people disable telemetry and online accounts.
> I don't understand how OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft ... get to do this

They wrote the law to serve them. They will modify the law to serve them. It is funny how some people are more equal than others.

Re:Casio Watches of the 1980s on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:21PM (#50318059)
The chinese clones were more interesting. You had 7 songs to choose from.
Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:56AM (#50315236)
> A GTA 6 download is estimated to be 210 GB. Under this law the publisher or storefront will have to pay an extra 11.5 EUR per copy in tax.

Maybe this would teach the publisher some "computer science". /s

Re:'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:52AM (#50315205)
They teach that in schools. /s
> Trump and aides

I mean CIA has nothing, i mean nothing to do with it. /s

Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:28AM (#50303585)
> If a browser can show it on a screen, in fact screens of many sizes, it should be able to render to a printer. With perfect fidelity. It frustrates me to no end this isn't the case.

Software is hard. Rounding corners is easier.

Re:NATO Defeated Serbia in a 78-Day Air War on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:16AM (#50301101)
Truly an achievent. /s

NATO also partitioned Yugoslavia and then "anexed" some of it in a 10-15 years war.

> downloads that Just Work without patching

Then why do you need Automatic Updates ? If it works, don't fix it. /s

> It's interesting that the current AI revolution began with transformers that came out of Google who was trying to apply AI to search, and now that seems to be the an unpopular use for it.

It is because it is crap. When i search for "Wombat" i want the animal or the program. Not a page containing the word. Not a squirrel that looks like a wombat.

Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:49PM (#50292085)
> and now it never does.

For you. Sometimes one needs to restart the zombie Windows. (Graphics problems, file access problems)

Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:35PM (#50291821)
> No, latency hasn't gotten worse.

Just compare the start of Notepad in Win9x with the start of Notepad in Win11

Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:32PM (#50291772)
> Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

It is still horrible. Much horrible. Working with multiple windows in Win 11 is an exercise in masochism, although Windows got some "virtual desktops". And Android and iOS do not even have the notions of windows or files.

She couldn't use her brain. ChatGPT Told Her how to. /s
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:55AM (#50290145)
> A machine should be treated as a whole.

... single point of failure. /s

> A wolfpack territory is typically about 1000 square kilometers.

Common sense checks out.

In the good Boeing tradition, they can make it shorter. /s
Now ?

You must be new here. /s

> US startup's demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism

There was a Russian mission in the 90's which demonstrated that.

Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:20AM (#50274078)
> Why are we sinking huge amounts of already processed resources...

We also call ourselves "humans". /s

Re:Apple Security Research Device on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:42AM (#50270731)
> My point is that there's nothing Apple could realistically have done to stop it.

They could start throwing an error when an iMessage pic looks funny from a decoder point of view. But this is so 90's.

Re:Apple Security Research Device on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:39AM (#50270710)
> Which is why Google is getting ready to lock down Android.

No. They want more control. If they really cared about malware, they would have started with Google Play.

Re:Apple Security Research Device on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:44AM (#50270350)
> It wouldn’t be the most secure consumer phone

Citation needed. cough iMessage, HW backdoors cough

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