bitofhope

joined 2 years ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 week 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 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

And please folks don’t downvote me for asking an honest question.

"how bout i do anyway?" from Bill Wurtz's History of Japan

 

Are you for fucking real?

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