I mean for decades every developer has known number of commits or lines of code is a horrible metric.

I have to wonder how much it is like last year, there was a similar story on /. about how Github said something like 90% of users had tried copilot. But then you read the article and realize that means how many had clicked the link they had repeatedly thrown on the front page for every single Github user, the metric was flat out a lie.

Claude *is* a game changer. It and tools like it are here to stay, but this can still be a hype piece, and I'm pretty sure it is.

This is fair but the pitch/summary still seems very misleading, which I think is the above person's real point.

It's not the funding that keeps open source alive, it's the funding that keeps some smaller open source alive.

The summary acts like this is some existential threat, it's not. I mean I'm typing this into Firefox, on GNOME, on Fedora, on Linux.

Virtually no part of that stack is impacted by what they're talking about, but it's phrased like all of those things are about to implode. They're not.

This isn't just the same old Apple joke anymore, this is pretty literally how they built the system.

Even if you go build a high-end M5 MBP, it defaults to 16 gigs only. And there's an edit button to reveal 24 and 32 gig options. And then a further button to reveal the 64, 96, and 128 options, where the price goes up *fast*.

It wouldn't shock me at all if pushing those options out of the UI was a bigger reason for the change than anything else, RAM prices are insane right now.

These numbers were released as part of an earnings call that drove the stock down more than 10%. It's taking the market with it today, it's a really, really bad day for Microsoft.

These numbers aren't really what did it but . . . still though.

Does anyone have precise numbers? I'm pretty sure Windows 8 was supported a full year longer into the Windows 10 cycle than Windows 11 was into Windows 10's. The adoption rate is not at all impressive considering that . . . though if they wanted to take credit for the surge in the Linux desktop . . . that is much, much, much, much bigger than the last cycle.

Even as an old man on /. I've never been in the spelling Microsoft with a $ camp of haters, but this is just embarrassing.

They have not committed to spending $1.4 billion on an AI initiative.

Rather, the new CEO stated it's a priority, and that they want to do it by investing in themselves and others. And then the article notes that they have about $1.4 billion in reserves that could go towards investments like that.

They are moving on AI in a way that is a priority, and is a concern for a lot of people that think they should still be mostly focused on the web. But I don't think they've said anything that makes them as all in as this implies.

The actual article even says directly:

"While its biggest priority remains growing and investing in Firefox, investing in the rebel alliance is “at the heart of who Mozilla is today,” according to the report on Tuesday. Supporting startups is central to that strategy."

But the summary, and to some extent the headline and intro to the article, imply they've made some all in commitment about AI. But nothing actually says that.

. . . when they say it out loud.

I think there's a real growing concern, I last heard Gamer's Nexus on YouTube make this point really well, that the real appeal of AI to VC and Big Tech, is exactly this. They can squeeze the PC market for a few years until the cloud computing end game is finally realized, and everything is a service. It's not just Bezos and DRAM. Nvidia really wants to route consumer GPUs not to consumers, but go GeForce Now subscriptions.

Owning a PC could very well be a protest statement soon.

Pills don't keep me alive, and if they did, Republicans in America wouldn't be able to take them away from me. WTF is this babbling nonsense?

Not everything is about Republicans, not everyone is even American. WTF is wrong with you?

You really need to join the rest of 2010 and get off fark.com.

I assumed this happened years ago. I know tons of people who when they say "I just read such and such" they really mean "I listened to the audio book of . . . "

I just figured this already happened.

Especially when you count ereaders. Outselling the hardcover isn't outselling all the read copies.

100% of people who say "look it up" instead of providing a source are idiots.

The Law & Order effect is real, Dick Wolf is low key one of the most insidious influential people in the world, there's a lot to discuss there.

But this comment is a low effort attempt to hijack an unrelated thread.

As a kid who grew up in the 80s/90s I've literally heard, loudly, my whole life, is reason you tip is the workers make below minimum wage.

We can't then act surprised that when you then tell everyone tipped workers are getting a wage now, people tip less.

Maybe we should tip even more, but come on. We can't just pretend that hasn't been the pervasive message for decades.

Because money. For years, where has most of Mozilla's revenue come from? Default search deals.

When you read:

"We're not incentivized to push one model or the other,"

You just have to understand that what's implied is:

"Yet. But we'd like to be, it's for sale."

And then, unfortunately, it makes perfect sense.

This has been true and kind of just an open secret in K-12 and higher ed for many, many years now.

When you create a bunch of "free" programs, families with resources tend to be the ones who have the knowledge and means to exploit them.

For just one of many examples:

https://www.law.georgetown.edu...

Studies have shown that (government backed) scholarship dollars disproportionately go to wealthy students too.

This is frankly the core of our education system. Listen to "Nice White Parents" if you missed it a few years ago. Perpetually relevant.

People love to tell themselves they came to their opinions all on their own. If a chatbot tells you something, no one, not even some author, convinced you of anything. You never had to concede some opinion you used to have to another human being. You just "did your own research."

Title is basically "Thing that sets a record every year for last ten years maybe now driven by new thing this year?"

Come on.

Seriously. It's up every year, with the exception of 2020-2021. Nothing anomalous going on in those years.

https://statistics.blackfriday...

Now every time someone on the internet says your brain isn't developed until 25, can we start saying 83?