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LLM shoehorning aside, holy shit, mobile-oriented site designs never fail to negatively impress me. Dunno if it’s the poor use of space, way too many pre-made categories shoved in the sidebar, text elements not being as clearly differentiated making them be ADHD triggers/inducers, or something else, but the beta forum for Stack Overflow feels like it ticks each problem I can think of.

Please give the jank. At least jank is usable, predictable and doesn’t make you feel like you need to take focus drugs/meds.

NY Times

Nuff said

Checking out of morbid curiosity, but before that, I can’t help but to think, did some government commission the article?

Also about Moltbook, paraphrasing an older comment of mine, social medias run by AIs are like Computer vs Computer battles in PS2 games - it’s fun to watch only for first one or two battles.

Had forgotten Moltbook was a thing. Or maybe it was something else with the proposal of “social media for AIs; humans optional”.

Reminds me of some news about Meta pushing LLMs in the comments of Facebook, and also about the zombie profiles where those from dead people would keep posting through LLM mimicry as if the person was alive. I wonder if Meta is hellbent on making the dead internet theory real.

it’s just the tip

Portugal’s current government is pretty unstable in these past few years from what I check every now and then, so I wonder if they’re trying to make it amid the confusion of political shift, “as the lights are turning off” as a local saying goes, so no one notices as dust settles.

For those that use WordPress, maybe people can (politely) poke the site owner to enable ActivityPub integration? Might help with traffic at least.

The cryptids and end-of-world scenarios there must be out of control, so they must be going with the nuclear option:
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Jokes aside, it’s a draft, so I wonder if they’re proposing the absolute worse option so bad options sound acceptable. Wouldn’t be the first time I see this sort of thing, specially with alarmist, sensationalistic and discreetly ill-intented news media aplenty as samples.

Going by the headline alone, fearmongering at best.

If people don’t trust it either, there’s also an alternative, reading the package for the expected spoiling date.

RSS, Grayjay and watching embedded were also still working.

Cheers for options. 🍻

You probably can’t trust anything if it’s compromised

Dunno if NBC is repositioning, pushing a tendency, or both, but glad to see the indication that parents are taking the role that should never stopped being theirs.

Headline implies Meta is being dystopian. Text suggests they’re hoarding the patent so others can’t use. While sure, Facebook the company deserves all distrust in the world, that’s quite the disonance between the title and the rest of the article. Gotta love such manipulative news, specially as people usually read just the headline.

There’s that legal jargon that comes to mind, fishing expedition

I wonder how much of that could be mitigated if the ebooks were made officially DRM-free, or if people would be willing to buy but resort to illegal means because they don’t want people owning stuff…

I’ve always seen “kill switch” being used in a negative tone, so with how the headline is written, it sounded like some AI feature that could kill the browser itself was implemented.

Ok, but as I tried to say right next, still that sounds like a tangent.

I mean Epic the storefront, not the umbrella company, as the “company” in my original quote. If we are to be pedantic, there is also Epic the game publisher.

Also Rocket League was bought by EGS and turned exclusive after it already had a following, so the numbers for it seem kinda artificial. Though that and Fortnite would also fall in the publisher branch from what I understand.

The storefront itself is seldom news-worth, except for the freebies and that time they added a shopping cart with a few years of delay. And their freebies strategy seems to not be working out as EGS has yet to see a profit from some recent news.

Then comes Tim, that if I had to guess, is trying to dig any resentments people have with Steam to try to bring its userbase to EGS.

I was almost forgetting Tim’s whole deal seems to be antagonizing more successful companies than his.