bitofhope

joined 2 years ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

You know the old saw that half the money spent on marketing is wasted, just nobody knows which half? Thanks to AI we now know it's the half that's spent on AI.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

What I like about this definition is that the lint in my navel is about 15% closer to AGI than OpenAI, having produced zero dollars of profit for them.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, it's another Urbit isn't it?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

The xn-- URLs are punycode encoding, which is how non-ASCII domain names work under the hood.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

I've used rolling distros professionally on my one-man workstation and they've been fine. I wouldn't want it on a server without a regular update schedule, rigorously followed.

"Polished" is not what I'd call the bits of Omarchy I've come across.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

Nothing. You should only look out for things when you notice a need that is not fulfilled by what you're currently running.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

What he got wrong is that the emotionally stunted boss man in charge of executing the plans of the shadowy elite conspiracy was a grieving widowed wife guy and not just the most divorced man in the world.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We need to fight capitalism with giant mechs modeled after wealthy white leftist intellectuals. Here's my proposal for project Friedrich Evangelsion Unit-00

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

I try to leep my bullshit detector well-maintained; I see some AI crap being forced and think: "Well that's some bullshit!"

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

You know what, that's fair enough. I was talking about a pretty narrow definition of openwashing, but obviously something just being libre software doesn't make it good.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Lenovo Thinkpad laptops are generally well-supported (at least the mainstream business oriented product lines). The Linux support for Lenovo's consumer oriented budget laptops is just as much of a crapshoot as other manufacturers'.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not sleeping on the job, I'm solving problems by lucid dreaming.

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