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Comment Re:Buggy (Score 1) 88

It is not merely buggy. Computer professionals (programmers/administrators/engineers/etc) all need non-formatted text manipulation. Input boxes and parsers are not expecting formatting codes and can silently barf up errors because of them. An example is DNS names in an SSL/TLS certificate. The computer reads every character, visible or not, and DNS names are supposed to be pure ASCII. Formatting codes are not usable as DNS names.

But then, Windows is not for professionals, it is for the masses, where appearance takes precedence over substance.

Comment Re:Not climate change. (Score 1) 131

My communications skills are severely lacking. I apologize.

The thrust of what I was saying is that nothing will be done about it... as is proved by the wealthy and powerful choosing to move the Capital and avoiding the consequences of their actions rather than ever thinking about modifying their behavior.

Essentially, I am reiterating what you said with the addition of some negativity of 'hope'. Ultimately, a worthless comment. My apologies.

Comment Re:And more AI nonsense gets exposed (Score 1) 78

If you can't figure out how to use this stuff, it's on you at this point.

The vast majority of people have no idea how an LLM works and have no idea how to interact with it properly. Numerous folks are able to work around that with experience; however, the vast majority of folks are going to use it like the Oracle at Delphi. That is not much better than rolling dice.

Comment Re:Not climate change. (Score 1) 131

Climate change did zero percent of the damage. Instead, what has occurred is 100% the result of idiocy. So yes, it has something in common with climate change but it's not the same thing at all.

Who cares? The wealthy and powerful will always have water. Who cares what the proles go through? They are all useless anyways. If they weren't useless, they wouldn't be powerless. Right?

Comment Re:Wanna stop layoffs? (Score 1) 62

And that means you vote for politicians who'll do it. If you're American that means a Democrat.

Vote for a party that tries its best, even violating its own rules, to subdue its most likeable people? Vote for the party that tried to block AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Zohran Mamdani, and Bernie Sanders?

What the fuck are you smoking? There is no path forward in the current system. It is entirely corrupted and broken.

Have fun participating in it.

Submission + - Elon Musk's Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire's Pee-Drinking Skills (mediaite.com)

fjo3 writes: After the AI assistant praised Musk’s physique and claimed he ranked “among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” social media users quickly discovered that Grok was programmed to say positive things about Musk, no matter the topic.

But according to 404 Media, in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.

Submission + - An ancient planet smashed into Earth. We now know its origin (dw.com)

alternative_right writes: Space scientists are largely agreed that about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth, then a hot ball of molten iron and other elements, was hit by another Mars-sized protoplanet. This hypothetical world is called Theia, named for a titaness of Greek mythology.

Theia was completely destroyed by this impact, but likely lives on beneath our feet, as fragments from this doomed world fused with the early Earth.

Comment Re:Sigh... fine. (Score 1) 309

"This isn't who we are!" Sorry, that rings hollow now. It is, in fact, who you are.

And you would be wrong. It is a few very wealthy people manipulating the masses. It is who THEY are, not who WE are; although to be fair, we are finding out more and more who we are... and a surprisingly large number of folks are full of hate and selfishness. Regardless, the government does NOT represent the typical person.

Comment Re:Citation required (Score 1) 309

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks there is a faction that wants to intentionally erode the public's trust in government services. To dismantle a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And replace it with a very different sort of government; one that eschews pluralism, reserves individual liberty to those with power(money), and establishes a rigid hierarchy with a unitary executive at the top.

Um, why does only the conspiracy theorist in you think that, when Project 2025 actually explains what you are seeing? It doesn't take a theory to understand what is going on, it merely takes reading comprehension. No shadowy conspiracy, it is written down for you to read. The project is working wonderfully, thank you for asking.

Comment Re:I know Trump voters will avoid this thread (Score 1) 309

Meanwhile I have the entire Republican party telling me that fucking 15-year-old girls doesn't make you a pedophile. What a fucking world we're in.

Technically, that statement is true. Words have precise meanings and when we distort them for our own purposes, insanity rules. You can be a rapist without ever once having sex with a person. Is the word rape poorly defined or are we trying to cover other acts adjacent to rape with the same umbrella as the term rape? It is all intellectual dishonesty and people like you feel justified in the performance.

Trump is a sick man who used defenseless young women under the age of majority. Isn't that bad enough without distorting the truth? Or are you afraid of what you might find when you look at the truth?

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