I mean the comparison used to be Wikipedia vs finding the right literature in a library. Now it’s mostly Wikipedia vs AI that sometimes makes things up including sources. The real degradation happens over time though. People using AI to write papers which then get fed into AI as a source. It already is but will become increasingly hard to verify how reliable the information is that you find.

This all happens in the background of short video clips dominating the engagement of young people. We have students at our school who aren’t even capable of using AI to cheat and they don’t care either. They saw some tiktoks telling them once they’re 18 they can get rich with betting or real estate (despite having no capital) so why do homework? I’d rather they trust wikipedia blindly than what they currently do.

My wife’s eyes rolls are my life elixir.

What was that post I kept seeing about vampires? If you’ve been living for centuries and you’re still broke just walk into the sunlight.

First aid is some random person that did a short class 10 years ago.

Second aid is a doc that studied for years but still doesn’t have all the answers.

Third aid is when you call the dev. They won’t pick up.

Different country, similar politics: we got refugee kids rooting for the far right (full on Nazi) party thinking they’re hating with them.

he doesn’t get us

Really went too far by yelling “it’s a small one!” instead of the customary “oink, oink!”

If I had known how bad it’d get I would’ve chosen a different field to work in. Sure, I can avoid it in my private life but on the job it’s like I’m in some kind of hostage situation.

“Oh hi there customer! You know our product your users are accustomed to will only come as a subscription from now on and it’ll also be really bad and force full screen ads. We’ll push two updates per day because our unpaid interns are so agile. Bugs? Oh, no, we call those ‘micro disruptions’. They’re a feature but don’t cost extra! How much the license costs? Well, how much do you have? Yes, it’ll be that much.”

Also parental controls are ass. Yes you can block (most) pornography but you can’t tell a social media app to not blast a teenager with misinformation. It’s like a playground but with glass shards everywhere. You can forbid the kid from playing there altogether but they’d feel excluded while all their friends are having fun. Somehow there doesn’t seem to be an option to remove the fucking shards though.

Potato, potato.

You’re winning so much that you’re starting to say oh no it’s too much winning, ah, please stop.

At this point I think there’s some kind of code hidden here. Maybe the localization AI is trying to tell us something.

link left

link right

link top

link top

link bottom

link centere

We should explain the issue in all detail to the Microsoft support so they can guide us to the windows update documentation.

When the end times are here and you find yourself bored you can come by my cave and check my collection of cool rocks and sticks.

I’m just glad that as I get older I’m more content with simple things. I’d be ok giving up most tech things and I say that while working in IT myself.

These Cambodians were ripping us off but not on my watch. I’ll make some great deals and soon we’ll be living just like them. The finest corrugated iron shacks you’ve ever seen.

That’s Nike. I believe they produce their stuff in Vietnam and that is getting hit with 46%. It’s brutal.

My favorite part was their demonstration of 3d sound in the video. Yes, this works great on my headphones watching YouTube.

I disagree with this being a good test. Where on earth would you find a wall on a road with a fotorealistic continuation of the road printed on it? This would trick many human drivers. Self driving cars fail in many realistic situations that are a lot more concerning. This is just clickbait.

But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

It’s pretty much dead to me. I know it was always ass but at some point the OC/spam ratio gets too bad to bother. Lost memes were a good time. Now I’d have to sift through 80 incels calling eachother tranny to find a single post with a shred of an original thought behind it. Eh, maybe it’s the same and I just got too old for it. Doesn’t matter in the end.