We see a lot of promise in AI browser features making your online experience smoother, more helpful, and free from the everyday disruptions that break your flow

I don’t really see AI and LLMs as a solution there. Things that disrupt are typically ads or other capitalist nonsense. What are they thinking and how will AI help?

Conservatism really does have bad takes on everything.

Yeah the people who are just unaware need like remedial education. The people who don’t care need something else.

I think that some of them are broken inside. Like the world hurt them badly when they were vulnerable and projecting this tough guy “I do what I want” persona is a desperate play to feel like more than the dust of a shattered ego collected in a bag of meat.

I used to play Mesmer and someone told me that your clones don’t get your title, so I stopped using titles. Not sure if that’s even true. But now I’d get decision paralysis if I tried to pick one!

But if I did pick, I think some came from guild wars 1 achievements and the hall of monuments. I liked those ones

I usually prefer strength. It’s the great club, not the so-so club.

In the context of Trump et al doing rape, I don’t think the distinction presented by Kelly really matters. Any amount of sexual assault and abuse is too much.

In what way does it matter here? Is some amount of trump rape acceptable? Is it beneficial to anyone other than trump et Al to split this hair?

Only if you’re still browsing fridge websites!

Lowering indent levels is nice in functions. Early returns mean you don’t have to think as much. “If it got here, I know foo isn’t null because it already would have returned”.

Yeah some comments are not useful

# returns the value as a string
return str(user.id)

Some comments are

# returns the user id as a string because ZenDesk's API throws errors if it gets a number.
# See ticket RA-1037
# See ZenDesk docs: https://etc/
return str(user.id)

I noticed this some years ago talking to a friend on AIM. He’d end most of his messages with lol

People are emotional creatures.

People also don’t seem to accept that you often get something for paying taxes. Infrastructure, schools, food inspectors, whatever.

There are some things I want to know about that may or may not be considered advertising. Stuff like a band I like going on tour, or a video game I’m interested in releasing.

Maybe in your world those could just be like opt-in newsletters.

Does Japan not have the fervent anti intellectualism that we have in the US with our right wing? And it’s not in bed with racism to fuck public education together?

I bought a fancy desktop PC recently so I’m not in the market. Otherwise I would consider it, but only if the desktop environment was usable for general computing. I believe it is, but I’m not sure if its version of Linux would be best for like software development.

I feel like contextual ads, where you serve ads based on the surrounding content instead of who the individual user is would be about as effective and tremendously less expensive, complicated, and invasive.

Run football ads on football websites. Run music ads on music websites. That’s how it works in TV, radio, and so on and has for years.

That is a bizarre and ungenerous conclusion. Do you think adults having sex with 15 year olds is okay? What point are you trying to make?

Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don’t have.

It does. However, it was a technical news website so I assumed the audience had a higher than average technical affinity. This seems to have been a bad assumption

That said, installing Linux is easier than people imagine. Most of the time you download the image and follow some short instructions.

Admittedly, the minority of the time you might have to troubleshoot.

Shit’s expensive and salaries aren’t great. And the ownership class wants to fire even more people to replace with AI

Sometimes the word “Interesting” causes my brain to recall the character generation in Morrowind. The guy says something like ““Interesting. Now before I stamp these papers, make sure this information is correct.””

Conservatism, mostly.