[-] mlen@awful.systems 35 points 2 weeks ago

ublock is cheaper and actually works

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful

[-] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

I run into this process every time I visit Poland (mostly because I visit so rarely that I forget) and every time I'm astonished how seriously fucked up it is.

The most annoying part is having to scan a receipt in order to exit the self checkout area.

In the stark contrast to the above self checkout process in Switzerland works so smoothly. Mostly because nobody is subjected to the bullshit described above. There's even an option to grab a scanner, scan everything on the go and just pay at exit.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

[-] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

[-] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[-] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

So does Java. /me runs

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

[-] mlen@awful.systems 26 points 10 months ago

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.

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