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I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but virtually every post here about a new version of Firefox coming out had dozens of comments asking why they were still wasting time on Pocket and nobody used it or knew what it was for... which wasn't entirely unfair.
I'm still not entirely sure what it was for, some sort of bookmarking thing? It felt like the pet project of someone major at Mozilla who couldn't articulate what exactly it did but felt that only if people understood it everyone would want it, and who kept pushing development despite the lack of use.
You weren't before, why would you be now?
Mosquitos provide an essential service to mankind by keeping the rapacious humans out of vital wetlands. These are inhabited by mosquitoes with malaria, making the area uninhabitable. Remove the mosquitoes, you remove the malaria, then in a decade or so the swamp has ben drained, the remnants converted into slash-and-burn agriculture, and soon after it's a desert, which it will remain.
An ecological disaster. Mosquitoes are good guys which prevent devastation for the profit of a few humans for a short time. Let them remain for centuries to come. REmember what happens in the petri dish when all limits to an organism's growth are removed.
They should just be permanently struck off, and get other careers.
There's multiple problems with what the lawyers in these cases are doing that means their attitude towards advocating for their client reflects long term issues with their professionalism. They're willing to take short cuts, they aren't checking verifiable facts, they're putting themselves in a position where they can easily mislead the court despite having the ability to avoid it. In the UK (as I suspect is the case elsewhere, though everyone assumes otherwise) a lawyer, yes, has to stand up for their client, but they can't misrepresent what they know. At best they can get away with sophistry or avoid emphasis on things they don't think helps their case, but issues as simple as a client confessing to them cannot be covered up (if you go to a UK lawyer and say "They caught me stealing a priceless Rembrandt, can you get me found not-guilty?" the answer is "Not anymore I can't, find another lawyer and don't mention the fact you were actually stealing")
And this is important. Miscarriages of justice can result in untold damage for the victims of it, and a lawyer who takes shortcuts and doesn't verify the facts in front of them is going, inevitably, to cause one.
So if a lawyer is caught red handed doing something that reflects that attitude, they need to be struck off and it needs to be permanent. Not "Re-do their law degree", but "Learn to code" (well, maybe not THAT....)
What's doubly weird is that it sounds like the message about not using LLMs to build legal cases isn't getting out there. We're currently in a situation where virtually everyone is having LLM-generated-output shoved down our throats - just doing a Google query will result in an answer from Google's 50% of the time - and where the LLM generated output is usually unwanted, irrelevant, and maybe 50% of the time incorrect even on its own terms; we've had numerous HIGH PROFILE cases of lawyers being admonished by judges for using LLMs that cited non-existent cases, and yet people are still using them for situations where accuracy is important. And I'm probably going to get reply-bombed from the gaggle of LLM-boosters to this very comment who reply to every slight criticism of it either denying the problem exists, or pretending it'll be fixed RSN now because all they need is more contradictory input and we must destroy the entire content generation industry to get it. Because not even a tech forum like Slashdot has a majority population who understands that spicy autocorrect isn't how you get facts.
That regulation the AI companies insist shouldn't be necessary? It needs to be brought now, world wide.
The war's over, Curtis LeMay. You did it, you used nuclear weapons against the defenseless civilian population of a beaten foe. And then planted that flag on Iwo Jima and built a statue of it so everyone will remember who's good: you whites, and ho's not: the J**s and the sl*nts. They're treacherous and untrustworthy by their race, just like Russians (yes Rus is an ethnic group, detectable in DNA, just like Jewish).
Nah, they're the worst kind of locusts. They fouled their nest, so they move to Texas to get away from the mess they created. They still vote Democrat, nothing will ever change that. So they're just going to fuck Texas up and turn it into the shithole they fled from. They've already done it. Enshitification just takes a long time, decades. San California didn't turn from a golden state that regularly produced great AmeriKKKans like Ronald Ray-gun(the fascist) overnight. It took a long, long time for it to be transformed into a literal shithole with used needles littering the streets. They already ruined Austin, which used to be a wonderful place to live. The bad drives out the good. When I lived in Austin(I'm a native Texan) it was a Texas city through and through. Now they say, "oh, it's not really part of Texas!" We never had "keep Austin weird" bumper stickers, either. You know why? We never needed 'em.
Austin was just its own thing and that was OK. It was all part of the Texas family, like an uncle who is a bit daffy but you love him all the same. Now, the Californians ruined it and it will never be the same again.
Stay the fuck out of Texas. And Florida too. We don't want you. You are not welcome. Also, we vote Trump, own guns and are the worst people in the world: racists. If you got a table with one racist and eleven people talking to her, you got a table with a dozen racists.
Even if you're a racist too we don't want your kind.
The fact that you blame AmeriKKKans for being so stupid as to not be able to see the obvious correctness of what you're saying IS WHY YOU LOST. That, and the child-sacrificing mutilation cult for 12 year olds. Oh, and calling us stupid. Well, you've just done it again. Maybe calling people who are against pedophiles and surgical mutilation stupid isn't a winner. Well, you're morally right, and that's what matters in the end. Have all the "moral victories" you want. We'll take the real victories. Like finally prying open the corrupt ocean of USAID and finding out it was funding all sorts of harmful social movements in America and in other countries.
Something that has gone largely unnoticed is that the people who used to litter Slashdot screaming "racism" have disappeared. They have not gone away, but they have suddenly been marginalized. They spend their days on sites like Bluesky wondering why no one seems to care what they have to say anymore. The sites that used to pay for them to be pests are no longer interested in their material.
This, the Washington Post, the community newspaper of the blob, doesn't want you using Yandex. That's enough of an endorsement to use them. Search is a commodity today, just getting away from Google is a big win. I've been using Yandex for a while and it's fine. Google's heyday is long past. B-B-B-But muh Rooshins! Yeah, no Rooshin gives a shit about you. I'd rather they have my data than Google, which regards me, a middle American who voted my conscience, either as property or as ENEMY. Be sure to check under the bed for TEH ROOSHINS tonight, though. I use Deep Mind too (oooh!) and it's great. It's wonderful doing the exact opposite of what authoritarian state media tells us to do. WaPo (and all the rest) covered up Biden's dementia and actively lied to us. No Rooshin ever did that to me, eh. It's like The Chap said: "No Viet Cong ever called me N."
Isn't it odd being a dissident these days? All the former dissidents come up to you and shout at you to obey the US government and lick those boots.
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I took Typing Class in school. This was long before the idea of typing on a computer ever crossed my (or anyone else's) mind. I just thought it would be a useful skill to have.
Even though it was called Typing Class, it was more of a secretarial course. How to type, certainly, but also how to manage a filing system, how to format a letter, memorandum or pres release, how to take (and give) dictation, even things as mundane as how to properly fold a letter to fit into an envelope (which almost nobody seems to know how to do).
Ever since then I've always thought that Typing Class was the single most useful class I ever took in school outside of basic reading, writing and mathematics. I've used what I learned there literally every day of my life ever since.
(And yes, I can still type like nobody's business, and when I put a letter into an envelope you can bet it'll be folded properly.)
Special characters were never really designed for touch typing. Sure you might be able to reach them, but they are inherently low accuracy positions.
For writing notes and similar things sure, but not quite sure how I would consistently type a tilde or braces on my keyboard with touch typing. Even minus and equals are a bit tricky, but that is mostly a keyboard issue.
If you have a customized programming keyboard that works well with an IDE then heads-up, fingers on home row typing might make more sense.
And yet they're failing.
Virtually everything that's described as "malware" by Android users - unwanted apps that violate privacy - was installed by the manufacturer. Play Store and side loaded apps are sandboxed unless you root the device. Nobody is mandating rooting.
If you think sideloading apps enables malware, you must have a pretty low opinion of Apple's quality standards for its own OS.
I suspect the EO you're referring to was the one about social media where laws preventing social media companies from promoting posts that promote violence, for example, will result in people from those countries being punished if they visit the US. (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F05%2F28%2F201215%2Fus-will-ban-foreign-officials-to-punish-countries-for-social-media-rules)
It's not so generic as to punish any action against a US company that holds them accountable, but it is still absurd.
As an aside, your comment is not flamebait or troll and shouldn't have been modded as such.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
