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Comment The whole computing industry is fucked (Score 1) 54

They over employed people then laid them all off, meaning there is a huge amount of people using any advantage to get either money or a bullet point on their resumes. Meanwhile despite 4 trillion market caps the world is still full of poverty and unemployment and people are becoming Nazis again because of it. There's going to be a revolution, all companies and governments are responsible for this clusterfuck, AI is just another excuse for shitty human behaviour. It's not just Curl, all software is flooded with issues/bug/reports but no one is actually fixing bugs until they get Crowdstriked. I was forced to give up using Firefox because of an unfixed bug and Mozilla devs are laughing at their users saying "your holding it wrong".

Comment Echos of Napster and Bittorrent (Score 2) 38

Eventually, we will have to agree on a global copyright negotiation system, based on sharing. DRM doesn't work and anti scrapers will eventually be cracked, so cooperation is the future. Human consumers still have to go through hoops while bots bypass them, eventually we need to figure out new business models instead of having to lurk in the shadows. In a world without physical media, everything is in one interconnected soup, and both human and bot agents need to figure out their places in it. I don't know the answer, but eventually we will need a "Steam for Knowledge". We lost too many people in the fight for information, we need to sort it out so humanity and artificial knowledge forms can coexist.

Comment Red Hat has EEE'd Linux (Score 0) 89

Red Hat requieres accounts just like Windows 11, plus runs a locked down package system. So has Canonical with imposing a proprietary app store and SuSE with geoblocking. Linux is enshittified, and if you try "alternative" distros you usually get your motives questioned by the toxic community. Like it or not, I know so many people who would rather suffer with Windows 11 and telemetry than deal with the logistical nightmare of Linux. Plus the fact people would rather keep using the Nintendo Switch under the constant threat of bans rather than the Steam Deck is also something to be looked at.

Comment $100 billion isn't much anymore (Score 1) 61

Even shitcoins have that much market cap now, money is becoming more and more broken as a concept. With AI already laying off millions with degrees the true AGI definition should be generate enough value for global economic stability and a job or income guarantee scheme for all abilities.

Comment Vibe coding was already popular 30-40 years ago (Score 1, Insightful) 179

Remember when "hand wrote html" users made fun of Frontpage and Dreamweaver users? And Visual Basic users? Then there were people who made games with tools like SEUCK, "The Game Factory" and Klik'n'Play.. In fact even "speedcoding" in the 1950s would probably been seen as "vibe coding" if they had that term in use at the time.

Comment Microsoft needs to be held accountable (Score 2) 52

If hundreds of millions of people were told they are obsolete there would be revolutions on the street, why should we put up with it for our computers? I spent a lot of money on a Threadripper computer, it is currently on the right side of Windows 11s requirements but eventually with Windows 12 or 13 it will get the chop and my £5000 investment will be worthless. The complexity of modern operating systems need to be regulated like infrastructure megaprojects. The fact that Microsoft is laying off so many people is also causing loss of institutional knowledge in the company, which could lead to Windows being unfixable in the future.

Comment Re:The great internet paywall begins (Score 1) 33

Firefox's versioning is complex, and Mozilla is usually only focusing on the latest version with ocassional ESR releases which automatically gets updated on Windows/Mac, but is at the hands of the various package managers on Linux. The various LTS tiers and spins fragment things even further, Cloudflare optimises for the Windows monoculture instead of the different flavours of Linux browsers.

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