No it won't.

If they could make money from paywalls, they'd have more paywalls.

And many of us would welcome paywalls as a replacement for ads anyway. So I'm not even sure why you're putting it the way you are. I'd rather be the customer of the media I consume. You prefer to the corporations to dictate what you read. I like my option better.

The best way to do these renewals using an advanced autocomplete system rather than a regular, non-AI, logical algorithm is why exactly?

It wasn't across the board, but at least for me personally, "Inspiron" meant "laptop with the durability of a soap bubble". Maybe they felt they had to rebrand everything else to make it less obvious?

Or perhaps they instead voted for a better economy, and this was a part of the package deal, whether they wanted it or not.

We have a republic, not a democracy. We didn't vote for this, but for the person who would occupy the office of the President. How much different would our country be if legislation proposed by congress had to be passed by national referendum? It's not the 18th century anymore. The bills are published on the Internet. We could create an electronic voting system which would allow the public to vote every spring and fall for proposed legislation, except for the fact that such a system would take power out of the hands of the politicians and return it to the people.

To an extent. X has two clipboards, although I don't know what they are called. Highlight some terminal text, use CTRL-SHIFT-C to copy it to one clipboard. Highlight some other terminal text, leave the terminal, go to the browser. CTRL-C pastes the first clipboard, MIDDLE-BUTTON pastes the second clipboard. It's incredibly handy.

I despise this trend away from the UNIX philosophy of simple tools combined by users to do things. I despise systemd taking on more and more roles. I despise demonizing X11's client-server model in favor of Wayland's one monolithic bastard. I despise getting rid of middle click copy-paste. I recently tried to install Ubuntu 25 and discovered they've eliminated middle button emulation.

Ever since I was a kid and read Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, one chapter in particular has stuck with me -- some planet has a nuclear power plant blow up, and the Galactic Empire's solution was to shut down all nuclear power plants. That's how I feel about all this UNIX backsliding. "We don't understand it. Get rid of it."

Bah.

Instead of trying to fix X11's security problems, the powers that be want to get rid of it. I have many times used its client-server model on remote servers. Sure, it's not necessary, just as fire is not necessary, since we could all eat raw food, even meat. But it sure made problems easier to diagnose.

My concern is that the replacement really isn't sustainable. ChatGPT is not going to get better, the concept is ultimately technically limited to the level of reliability we see today, and without people publishing answers to more current questions, it's going to get stale and lose its usefulness pretty quickly.

I still find it hard to understand why that's so difficult for generative AI boosters to grasp. How will it be more accurate in 2035 if most of the information it bases its output on comes from 2025?

And if, like some, you're all going to pretend that people will still post anything but political rants and other non-technical stuff to the Internet in 2035, explain why StackOverflow is dead.

Congrats Altman, Nadella, Musk, and Pichai - we had a good thing going, you killed it. Assholes.

It doesn't feature in the John Boorman film, but it's certainly a feature of one strand of the King Arthur myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

(I would assume it's merely a detail in the original stories, as it's rather obvious Arthur *would* have a shield, but all focus would be on Excalibur because of its origins and its link to Arthur himself and his powers.)

> I think this is actually why giants like google have been enshitifying search engines, to promote the use of AI which provides better results.

I think you misread what you quoted. They didn't say (paraphrased) "AI was better than search engines", they said (paraphrased) "A rival to Gemini is better than Gemini".

I have no idea, to be honest, they're both fucking awful.

Google search was enshittified much earlier than Gemini, it was already falling apart in the 2010s, it's largely remained popular because the rivals insist on copying it, rather than trying to build something likely to give you relevant results on the first try. Why enshittify it? Because if it can give you hundreds of thousands of irrelevant results on your first try... you'll sit there for 5 minutes trying other searches. Engagement, baby. That's where it's at. Make you sit on a site for longer, and you'll see more ads.

AI had nothing to do with it, it's just adding a new layer of shit to the pile.

For the umpteenth fucking time the "Mainstream Media" is not a loony-right-wing-conspiracy debunking organization. It's a group of outlets owned by billionaires and, less frequently than in the past, giant corporations, who have no interest in truth, just serving a demographic, and most of them repeat the same shit Fox News does, and if they don't they usually are talking about other topics.

You don't know this, because you don't actually follow the MSM, you just assume what's said on various right wing sites or even Fox is true.

At best, the "liberals" have MS Now. That's not because MS Now is a liberal organization - its morning show is literally headed by a man who was considered a far right Republican in the 2000s. It's just that MS Now is pandering to "liberals". Curiously, it's also slightly more honest than the other outlets, largely because most liberals - gweihir being an example of an exception, prefer to know that what they're repeating is true and get embarrassed when called out on it if it isn't.

But no, the MSM isn't sitting watching Fox News saying "Gosh, another lie, we should debunk that". If that were the case, obvious lies, like "gender reassignment is being done on kids!" would be debunked every few days when Republicans make that lie, rather than quoted without pushback.

That's giving them far too much credit. Even if everything on the Internet was accurate, you'd expect generative AI summaries to mess up regularly because the algorithms are based upon statistics, not reasoning and logic.

If it were merely the Internet that was wrong, you'd expect a much higher proportion of AI summaries to be accurate: after all, just as Google's PageRank system made its search engine revolutionary, you'd expect similar algorithms could be used to filter out sites and pages less likely to be factual, and you'd have expected Google to implement that by now. But right now? One third irrelevant, one third inaccurate, and one third... might be accurate, but how do you tell? That's a symptom of a much bigger problem than someone on the Internet being wrong.

I am patting myself on the back for making a rare call that everything tech was going to rise in price, albeit largely based upon Trump's rhetoric about tariffs, which turned out to be even more complicated than I thought. So late 2024 I built and finished the network servers I wanted, and early last year got my main PC as much memory as the mobo will take.

This one we all have to ride out. What's infuriating is the helplessness I feel as every other article on Slashdot is about someone adopting generative AI for something it's not really capable of doing sanely, knowing it's pushing along this trend, causing people to lose their jobs - often permanently, not because their job was ever obsolete, but because the businesses that switched to AI will never recover - and seeing the entire thing crash.

Between the rise of fascism, the enshittification of businesses in general, and the damaging fads from crypto to LLMs, it's hard to figure out whether there's an end to this nightmare that doesn't ultimately end in the collapse of everything. Who knew the post-apocalyptic fiction we read as kids would end up being so wrong about the cause of the apocalypse: in the 1980s, I'd have said Nukes, not mass stupidity and con-men who are good at marketing.

ASUS has pretty good products, their mobos are great. I can't comment on the support because I've never needed it.

Regardless, it wouldn't be another reason to avoid them even if it was a legitimate complaint because everyone else is doing the same thing. You think ASUS is the only company affected by the world wide shortage of memory and other storage chips, thanks to AI and crypto and other techbro frauds?

Fiat currencies don't claim to have assets, instead they have the backing of a government and a mandate to use them.

Bitcoin basically destroys assets and then pretends they're backing it (spoiler: no, because they've been destroyed!), and other cryptocurrencies are usually worse. Indeed, only the stablecoins come close, and usually they're fraudulent. But in all these cases, the crypto-boosters pretend the unique advantage to their fake currency is that it's "backed" by something, when it clearly isn't.

Bingo, that's what it is.

If you go to the source, the words "described the consortium" (rather than just "described") are the link. The link then ends with a symbol that has an alt text of ", opens new tab" on it, which means if you cut and paste and don't look at what you're doing, you get this:

described the consortium, opens new tab,

So someone cut and paste this, noticed the link was missing, but somehow didn't notice the new clause added to the sentence!