This is older than cellular phones, let alone smart ones.

Neither does Google any more. You can put quotes around terms and still get searches which don't contain them

Debian is always behind, they don't have IBM money or a total disregard for the GPL like redhate does

Which great software has Apple designed?

If you hated to say it you could have just not done so, especially since this is not the right way to do this from the consumers' point of view where they are losing resellability.

He wouldn't have touted or even created this dashboard if the report hadn't suggest a rosy payback. The jury is still out on that prediction.

I was in Texas for less extreme weather than this, and it killed a bunch of people because it went on for a month.

Even the bush administration acknowledged AGW on their way out the door... Even the Clinton administration talked a good game but only late and mostly talk

AC is commonly delivered by one medium thick wire and two skinny hoses. You can generally get all three through a hole of around 3-4cm.

This is false. I run into this problem even for non technical issues like billing fuckery. Most call center employees don't know how and don't want to, they aren't paid enough to.

Slashdot's main problem is the total lack of will to fix anything. For example they know who the pure trolls are, but won't stop them. In fact they disabled but then re-enabled anonymous posting via the checkbox, presumably because their post count fell too low without the trollbags.

Reddit is indeed choked with AI slop, but that doesn't mean this is wrong. All that means is that nobody should know better how bad slop is.

Gemini search results are fundamentally sloppy. They are sometimes kind of useful but like all LLM output you must check the results carefully. And doing so is the quickest way to get pissed off at the AI search results because you will rapidly find that the provided citations don't support the source text. Ironically, this does not make it wrong! Often the text is correct, but the alleged citations simply provide absolutely no support for the statements to which they are linked, and if you search the claim you can find real citations. This is actually more frustrating to me than no citations, because you have to check each one every time, so it's often smarter to just not do so and find new citations instead.

All this means that Gemini results are only useful if you don't care about accuracy or citations. They are certainly no substitute for the days when Google searches worked intelligently and respected what you asked for.

Woke is what happens when you go to see a movie and instead of being told a compelling story woke ideology is proselytized

Recursion (n): See "recursion"

It's hilarious how obsessed you people are over a term that you can't even define and that none of you agree on. As far as I can tell, the only thing "woke" means today is "I'm A Right Winger, And This Is Something That I Personally Hate". I've seen people describe concepts as unrelated as "the concept of a metaverse" and "removing copyrighted materials to avoid lawsuits" as "woke".

An example of woke AI slop is Everything Everywhere All at Once

Um. What?

That movie was filmed from January to March 2020. You think AI video was a "thing" then? The movie premiered in March 2022. The infamously awful "Will Smith Eating Spaghetti" AI video was what AI video looked like in 2023. AI video was not "a thing" back when that movie was being made. What you actually hate is that movie's CGI.

Secondly, since when is "Jackass"-style "bro" stuff** famously leftist? Sexual gags are stereotypically "bro culture" and stereotypically disliked by feminists in particular and leftists in general. Don't get me wrong, you'll also find some people on the left who like that stuff, but the right tends to buy into it more (men tend to vote more rightward).

As far as I can tell from this, what you actually hate is (A) CGI, and (B) bro culture. Based on this, what you should actually consider yourself is an AI-supporting leftist.

You must keep your pipe tuned to crack 24/7 then

How boring to see slashdot editors trolling