Asking the machine to think for you makes you stupid. Incredible.

And no, you can’t compare that to a calculator or any other program. A calculator will not do the whole reasoning for you.

They activated Gemini at work to auto-complete stuff in emails. I work in IT, and I was not aware of that. I was typing the sentence “we will need some help” and was about to add “in the project blah blah” but Gemini came with its amazing auto-completion and added something like “in the street where they sell sausages”.

AI was a mistake, and I didn’t use it since that day. Waste of time, waste of everything.

I’ve been training my own mental model with TPB and a VPN for years. Thanks Facebook for showing me that it’s the legal way to do it!

They can take the salary of the CEO to fund the browser, they can ask for donations that go directly to the browser, they can make subscriptions with useful services. So many ideas that they didn’t try in the past 10 years. But it’s easier to get free money from Google and do nothing.

Same for my last job. My bosses and managers harassed and insulted me. They said I was useless and stupid.

I quit with 3 months of “notice” (standard in France to help you find a new job). They didn’t care during those 3 months. In the last week they panicked because they could not find a replacement that did everything I fixed every day.

I also interviewed my replacement, a junior out of school with big diplomas. When I asked if he knew Linux, he said “not really.” I thought “they are fucked with this guy.” They wanted to hire him because he was the son of some guy. I said to my boss that he would be a perfect fit for the company.

Unknowingly I was the kill switch. I sent them one last email with all the information they needed and told them to go fuck themselves in a polite way.

Yes. Tim Apple gave the $1M bribe to Orange Donald.

Make sure that the aftermarket brand is fine with your model though. I have been buying recycled toners at half-price for years and never had any problem.

Also yes, I’ve seen it a lot but playing with toner is described as getting instant cancer, don’t do that.

I can’t sing well, but I see singing as mastering the flow of air in your body, the control of that body, and the recreation of emotions for an audience. That’s a job that is already difficult enough and exhausting.

Yes, Sinatra too. He is obsessed by the 60/70s first rock music (the real kind, not the fake stuff of the 50s) and he’s stuck there.

You know what’s worse? He is listening on a regular basis to singers he hates because they wrote their own songs. Having pure principles is more important that liking something. Yep, he’s fucked up in his head somehow.

No one ever asked that question about an opera singer

I actually have asked this specific question to my idiotic boomer father recently (not MAGA but almost). He “knows” (or religiously believes) that people must both compose AND perform, otherwise they suck. I had some free time with this moron so I kept on trying to find examples until I went to your question.

An opera singer cannot “write” lyrics because they sing Mozart stuff and Mozart is dead. My father answered very seriously that, yes, even the best opera singer is still a failure because he’s singing songs from dead people.

Now you know, Bocelli and Pavarotti failed at life.

Let’s say that we have a complicated relationship, he never was a father to me, and I’ll grieve him for 30 seconds when he dies, but some people do believe that. Sorry for the rant.

“You’re scammer and a liar, you’re a disgrace, you failed at being a decent human, you disgust me,” said no one ever.

No one gives a fuck, making music, arts, singing and stuff is about having fun or expressing your emotions. Keep on doing that, and remember that the opinion of others do not count unless it comes from loved ones or friends. Trust me, I’m old enough to have wasted way too much time on wondering that kind of thing.

Also I’m a computer programmer but I’ve never written an operating system. I know a billion other things though, I still have fun every day.

It’s a great combo between 1984 and “this place is fucking boring.”

They could have left 10 year ago. They didn’t and never will.

They should collaborate with IBM, they know how to handle that kind of thing.

Firefox is the kind of software where I would gladly pay $10 a month to support its development.

Dismantle Mozilla, give the money to Firefox, profit.

I can’t find it anymore but they had the same experiment around 2015 I guess. If you upvoted too many trolls or far-right people, you could be punished for this. The idea is not new.

Which is one more stupid thing from Mozilla. Imagine if, 10 years ago, they had made a combo of: Firefox, Thunderbird, email hosting, maybe some kind of online office thing and a drive, Sync… That could have been the ultimate productivity package for “Office” stuff inside one convenient subscription.

Instead we now have Office 365, Google Docs, and nothing more.

It’s weird because I remember Reddit implementing that maybe ten years ago. If someone can confirm.

I like it when the only useful piece of information is missing: https://github.com/electronicarts

The resources are missing but you could already have those everywhere else on the internet.

I’m eagerly awaiting the new version but I already like it. They now admit that they are sharing and sometimes selling private data (anonymized or not, same thing).