Ah, the Amiga, the best computer you could get in '86, but didn’t know about because their marketing was shit

I vote for the blue shell, it never misses

Friend doesn’t get a day off, complains about the “ivory tower” of those that get a holiday, instead of blaming his boss and/or company for being a souless machine grinding his bones to dust for 3 extra pennies that quarter.

I can watch two of those per workday, on my bus commute to/from work. Usually end up watching history documentaries instead (currently going through a 6 hours one detailing the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, gonna be an interesting week)

it’s just factually incorrect that “The PC is dead”

I think the author’s point on this wasn’t so much that “nobody uses PC anymore”, but rather the concept of a Personal Computer, which you fully owned. There’s also the irony of the first Apple computers being personal computers you could open, fix and modify. Software is where few people feel like they own their computers. Free software being sold to shady companies isn’t new, even FOSS projects have been bought. That’s the main problem the author wants to point out, which is essentially the same as Cory Doctorow’s piece on enshitification.

The author also left this:

I’ve shown this editorial to friends, and some people felt that I did not emphasize the benefits of current technology enough. But I argue that my criticism is less about the actual technology and more about how we use it—and how companies make money from it.

To me, mostly convenience. I do that with anime and, if the show doesn’t grab my attention by halfway of the first episode, I won’t feel like I wasted extra time waiting for the full episode to be downloaded only to decide that nah, not worth it.

YOINK!

Pretty sure youtube still runs on deficit. Storage costs alone would probably bankrupt some small countries.

ear sex isn’t real sex!

How else are people supposed to “fuck their brains out”??

I can’t compete with fallout centaurs, I don’t have tentacle tongues :(

There are plenty of cliffs in deserts :)

I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better

HAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHHA - wheeeeeeeeeeze - HOOOOOHAHAHAHAHAHA-HA-HAAAAA!!!

The Meta boss was defiant in downplaying the possibility of a mass exodus of users.

I mean, he’s probably not worrying too much about the US/EU markets, since in terms of MAU, Southeast Asia probably represents over 70% of that. Does anyone know what has been the general reaction to his bullshit over there?

Mary-Frances Makichen, a Threads user who has 253 followers, lamented that Meta and Zuckerberg “are counting on the fact that it’s too hard for people to leave Threads and IG.”

Pretty much. It’s probably actually impossible to fully delete the accounts, fuckyzucky lives off users’ data.

Welp, that’s yet another maker of incredible art that turned out to be an absolute monster. Fucking hell.

If what he says about The Ocean at the End of the Lane about the kid representing him is true, then he’s just another case of keeping a vicious cycle of abuse going. He should’ve sought psychological help. Hell, he should seek psychological help now, the media would love to write about his RL redemption.

Serving for his rape crimes would also be nice.

Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t.

And why is that?

Project DIGITS features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, offering a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning and running large AI models.

With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune and test models on local Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS, and then deploy them seamlessly on NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, accelerated cloud instances or data center infrastructure.

Oh, because it’s not a fucking consumer product. It’s for enterprises that need a cheap supercomputer

Carbonated loss

Oh, so that’s why I have so much difficulty learning Rust, it’s all the coca-cola I’m drinking

Real life 40k IG: ill equipped, trained and worked to exhaustion, lied to at every turn by the higher ups and accused of treason if ever captured

Copy-pasting a comment from Aurich (Ars Staffer):

I set up the Ars Mastodon instance, and speaking as a relatively educated and technically savvy person I found it extremely confusing. And the more I learned later the more I don’t feel remotely bad about being confused, it’s honestly pretty messy.

I put Ars on the main instance, and I think it was the right call. We’re not going to maintain our own, at least at this time, and trusting a random instance that’s very difficult to vet is kinda sketchy.

We ran a guest editorial a while back that I think really clearly outlines the various issues:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/

But you know, it’s really okay. It doesn’t have to be big, or popular or mainstream. As long as it survives and people like it? That’s good enough.

I think going into an era of balkanization of social isn’t the worst thing.

One of my complaints with Mastodon and similars is that you can’t search only for posts of a specific instance, or temporarily mute a single instance from your feed. There’s also some sort of “invisible wall” for Pleroma users (niche of a niche), as their public posts simply don’t show up in public Mastodon searches, though I don’t know whether that’s a problem with Mastodon or Pleroma.

I thought punks were the non conformists and goths were just… Goths?

An even surer sign is when she talks about sacking visiting Rome