White tie – specifically a wing collar shirt and a white bow tie. I’m not sure what’s on the collar at the nape of his neck, but it would be funny if it was a clip.

I kind of hope they make a Sims 5 that has limits on what female characters can aspire to, no LGBT+ relationships, etc, purely for the backlash that would ensue. It’s a big ecosystem that they could really screw up.

doesn’t work if you force desktop site on mobile from my teats

We’ll have to take your word on this.

Tidal pay artists more than most platforms, and over four times as much per stream as Spotify. That’s not to say it’s not still part of a broken system, but most other platforms are worse.

Swapping US technological control for Russian technological control? I don’t know to what extent the current solution is dependent, but it would be extremely naïve to just use OnlyOffice as-is.

That’s not the only factor in the die-out of the Neanderthals. Another is thought to be a massive reduction of the population and geographical constriction during the ice age, isolated communities afterwards resulting in little genetic variation, and thereby high susceptibility to disease.

The article touches on a bunch of valid points, but re the headline, I don’t really think that a failure to generate excitement about AI integration into Windows 11 is because they missed the boat. It’s because they’re shoehorning it into places it doesn’t belong.

They have the ability to make it useful. Ethical concerns aside, GitHub Copilot is as good as any AI development assistant, and better than most. Hopes that they’d gain ground with Bing would have needed them to be way ahead of the curve (and for AI search result summaries to be more useful than the top results, which they rarely are).

But for Copilot to be useful in the desktop environment, it needs to be there quietly in the places it’s needed. Improve your help tools, make Grammarly irrelevant, infer document context to make search better. Don’t rename half of your products “Copilot”, don’t put flashy buttons in every app, just use the benefits of applied AI to improve your products.

Oh, and make it optional, for fuck’s sake. If I don’t feel like I have control over my OS any more, I’m not likely to stick around when other options are available.

I think your client isn’t handling the markdown correctly. Link without markdown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

Hilarious that it’s Europe-focused but they’ve given it a name that’s at least a little different in nearly every language.

I’ll send you a link; do you have a Dáblio account?

No, I’m only on Weh.

Yes, fair - your second observation isn’t mentioned directly in the comment I linked – just my point plus your first point – but it is admitted explicitly in this follow-up post.

I agree that they’re floundering, and that they’re desperately trying to dig themselves out of a hole (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor), but I don’t think it’s useful to chalk up to AI mistakes what is actually demonstrably a human marketing decision.

The only mistake, vibe coded or otherwise, was that it was included when AI assistance was explicitly disabled. It’s otherwise entirely deliberate.

That said, I’m not sure the concept a bad thing overall. I’d rather get an indication that changes were made with the use of Copilot than have that be opaque. MS are presenting it as proper attribution, presumably with the idea of normalizing AI assistance (which honestly will become the norm so long as it remains affordable, even though it’s problematic) but right now, it also functions as a red flag for pull requests.

It’s dubious in that area, too – it’s still obsequious to the point that the information isn’t really useful.

“Is it safe to just run a reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx for external access?” -> “Yes, that’s safe and secure.”

“Shouldn’t I also use a separate VLAN on my home network?” -> “Great point! It’s much safer to use a dedicated VLAN.”

“Are you sure I shouldn’t set up a VPN to tunnel into my home network?” -> “Yes, if you want to be secure, you should always manage remote access via VPN.”

I think it’s the direct mention of the user that the c/technology mods didn’t like, which I can understand. You might be better off removing it from your comment.

I don’t have a vendetta. I’m entirely ignorant of the context you’re describing. I got blanket banned from a series of communities by aforementioned user for (presumably) downvoting. I’m not really very interested in continuing this.

why are you even going on about it a month later to shit talk the user?

Why did I mention something relevant to the conversation? That’s your question?

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

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This is so eerily dystopian. It’s Sherwood Village, formerly the Sheridan Center, in Mississuaga, Ontaria, Canada.

It’s also Microsoft’s get-out-of-jail-free card here; someone else ripped the ebooks, processed them, and uploaded them under a CC0 Public Domain license. “How were we meant to know the release wasn’t authorized?”