@dinozombie I've always kept a little tree air freshener hanging from it. Just tradition at this point.

@michal
Civilized country doing civilized things 🙄

@michal is it Y'alliban or Vanilla Isis already?

@michal I'm sure the lawyers are already filing for restraining orders, given that "cruel and unusual punishment" is forbidden by the US Constitution.

And I can't think of a better way for the GOP to lose big than to have this hit the news just before the mid-term elections. It will drive a lot of MAGA folks to reconsider their votes.

@michal You can't make this stuff up.

@michal I would have been fine with "super knowledge" tbh, but "super intelligence" is just wrong.

@michal
1998: In a movie "Enemy of the State" you had to steal data on government's secret program that would expand nation-wide surveillance and you became an enemy of the state.
2026: I was kinda busy this week to read the news and used the wrong adjective. Guess that's the end for me.

@michal I have always used the web differently from other people. So I can still enjoy the things I've always done. I have noticed that it's harder and harder to find reliable web pages, since so much of the web is either AI slop, or posted by humans who used AI uncritically.

I search a bit longer, but I'm getting good at spotting the slop in a few tenths of a second, and killing it.

@mos_8502 One can only hope.

@veronica
Not at all but then I did have an Amiga.

@jwildeboer @muenchen

@jwildeboer Willkommen, @muenchen!

@jwildeboer

There is also an account from the "Open Source Program Office"

@ospo

@ddosecrets had to do a double take, that's kilobytes, not even a megabyte of data? Pathetic!

@ddosecrets LOL

@ddosecrets

The complete user base? Surely there are more MAGA ultra-loyalists than that.

@EricCarroll I appreciate how the article says that benchmarks typically measure what is easy to measure, not necessarily what is important. I've been saying it for years, and I'm not the first to say it, 'When you can't measure what is important, you tend to make what you can measure important."

AI productivity gains are just a regurgitation of the tired and worthless lines of code metric.

@jwilker Oh, I first read this as him pitching. 🤣

@michal Lord British FTW!

@michal Cat5 or cat5e? 5e can do 2.5Gbps, even 10Gbps (unofficially) over apartment-distances.

@michal CAT5 can usually do 2.5GbE over short distances! Mind you, multi-gigabit copper ethernet seems to largely be a case of gambling with cables and how much the NICs at each end like each other anyway.

@michal #JustSayNo

@michal

Re. No theft: They must still be trained on vast quantities of text, in order to 'understand' the input, even if they output JSON rather than human language. I doubt their training corpus is much more ethical than those used for LLMs?

Re. No hallucinations: They could still hallucinate things or be influenced in weird ways from things in the input, affecting the decision output. And then you're left with just black box decisions, without any record of why they were reached.

Correction: I'm not a guest of honour, I'm a special guest. (Polcon has specific rules about who can be called a GoH.)

The other confirmed special guest so far is Peter Watts!

@cstross Katowice are a very nice town and the Silesian Museum is great.

Also, I like the prospect of a small, cozy convention "up to 1500 guests" and not the monstrosity that is Pyrkon nowadays. :-)

Anyways, I pencilled the date in :-)

@cstross Klaus Schulze dedicated an album to that place

@82mhz @stanjames I am not a gui fan, but I still remember how great this ui worked for me. Bookmarks, folders, handles everywhere to move the widgets around. And cornery corners.

(I took a shortcut and grabbed a windows screenshot, but in fact I used in on Linux, IRIX and Solaris at the time. Worked really great!)

Alt...

Mozilla 1.0 screenshot

@82mhz It's so annoying that they spend time working on such things. Just make the browser good that is focused on what is in the best interest of the user. Argh...

@82mhz I was wondering why my mentions suddenly went from none to…more! Thanks for the shout out, @82mhz . I've updated my post to include the userChrome.css method that lets you specify the amount of roundness.

(Edit to fix incorrect filename)

CC: @seninha@bsd.network

@thomasadam isn't fvwm X11 only?
it looks gorgeous, the old school style.
@seninha

@michal I forget who said it, but "AI companies are spending billions to make millions." And they want more investment.

This will end badly. Just like Tulip Mania, the South Seas Bubble, and all delusions throughout history.

@michal When you lose 42 billion and still Reuters writes about your "sweeping vision", that's quite a success in my book.

@michal yeah I don't hate it, and I usually hate change