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!

I'm fairly convinced that despite the "Coffee is good for you!" reports on Slashdot on a regular basis, caffeine is probably a bad thing - I mean, it's the drug equivalent of overclocking your heart, how can that end well.

That said, there's a massive difference between nicotine, which creates anxiety shortly after it's been taken and then "solves" its own anxiety next time you take it, giving the victim the false believe that nicotine somehow calms their nerves, and caffeine which just stimulates the central nervous system. One is a fake, and is bad for you (nicotine lowers your defenses against cancer, which is even more awful considering the primary delivery method for the last 100 years has been carcinogenic) the other is real but may ultimately be bad for you in ways that haven't yet been proven.

I'm all for discouraging nicotine intake by all means possible. It's been proven to be a problem and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Caffeine... until it's proven that it's a problem, it should be left alone.

Just wondering what "opens new tab" means in TFS? Does it make sense to anyone else here?

> This is still true. Note that Rust doesn't have exceptions. At all. And this is exactly why. Errors are expressed using Rust's enums. And Rust enums can be either numeric values, tagged unions, or both. This is the basis for Result where T is the Ok variant, and E is the Error variant.

Yeah, Rust uses some syntactic garbage to hide its exceptions as something amazing and new, but it's actually more of a PITA. Having to write a long chain of unwraps to catch exceptions - sorry - "unwrap enums" one by one for objects that would otherwise be throwaway is not better.

The best that can be said for Rust's Enums-based variant is that it's so awful it actively discourages you from using it and ending up with Java where everything throws one.

Rust is, over all, a decent language, but it's not perfect and some of the decisions they made ended up being pretty bad. And that'd be fine except Rust programmers continue to act as if these decisions were masterstrokes of genius, from not discouraging 'unsafe' nor mitigating its problems by curating crates.io, or its poor Unicode support, to its absurdly lighweight library requiring you rely on untrusted third parties or write your own code for encryption and hashing.

And yes, it managed to come up with a worse alternative to Exceptions.

What pisses me off is that the entire justification for wasting 15 years to develop a "replacement" for X11 ended up being obsoleted by technologies that could easily have been foreseen in 2010. cgroups in Linux means every application can be given its own authentication token for the X server, allowing X clients to be given application-by-application security. No need to send everything to everything any more. And full backward compatibility is possible. All that's needed is for the Xorg team to implement the protocol. ...which they won't do because it'd be admitting that the entire last 15 years producing a slower, less efficient, display system with fewer features and some really boneheaded limitations, and making the rest of the community write awkward kludge-ridden desktops around it was a complete waste of time and money that could have been spent on (1) the three months needed to implement security and (2) fixing bugs and bringing other improvements to Xorg.

What an utter shit show.

The reason memory is expensive is because there's only a certain amount of manufacturing capacity for the chips, not the fucking circuit boards. If it were the circuit boards, we could spin up factories in days to make new DIMMs.

Come on editors, do better. This article is either by a troll or by complete morons. Either way it doesn't deserve a place here.

No, it is tone deafness and a lack of understanding. The position they're also convinced it's for the greater good doesn't change any of that, indeed it doesn't contradict that.

They don't recognize that the system they've set up is wildly unpopular with anyone with an IQ greater than 100. They are literally sending meaningless automatically generated thank yous like the one in the TFS to people who are tech literate enough to know that (1) the content is meaningless and automated and (2) was generated by a system that's doing infinitely more harm than good at the moment.

And... let's be honest, are they really convinced that a fucking autocomplete engine designed to produce things that look like answers but is only vaguely useful because often the right answer is the best thing that looks like an answer is "for the greater good"? I mean, are they stupid? Do they not know that eliminating the incentives to create online content means there'll be nothing for the LLMs to work with in a few years time?

Yes, they could be that stupid. If there's one thing we've learned over the last 10 years in particular, it's that most of these people who became fabulously rich during the .COM era are, actually, complete fucking morons who were merely the right person in the right place, coupled with a complete lack of morals that stopped them from not harming others. But I think you're ascribing too many critical thinking skills to them. Like everything else they've done, this is another grift. They're assholes, they know what they're doing, they'll continue to do it. They're just too stupid and out of touch to not do boneheaded things like the subject of this article.