What are you even talking about?

Stop giving chat bots tools with this kind of access.

Meanwhile, here I am learning how to type em dashes manually on my work MacBook.

Same

The “you’re holding it wrong” of open source software.

Eh, not really dude. Linux cannot possibly account for each and every unique hardware combination that is put to market – some of which are being invented as I type this sentence.

Some hardware is written with firmware that falls outside of standards and specs and some hardware producers are actively hostile to people providing support for their hardware on alternative platforms. Computer hardware and peripherals are a huge market with lots of players. I’m saying if Linux support is important to you, then make it part of your evaluation criteria when you buy new hardware. Or don’t if it isn’t.

Linux doesn’t have significant enough consumer market share to pressure hardware manufacturers into providing support for them, and it also is a free operating system – not one helmed by a massive multi-national corporation that can use billions of dollars to pressure hardware manufacturers into following their whims.

So it’s not software that doesn’t work but hardware that’s weird then? Sure, makes sense.

Next time you buy hardware look it up. Once you’re on stuff that’ll work in Linux you should be able to jump over easily then.

I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort.

Anything that isn’t a game can typically be run on a virtual machine.

I guess the future really is female.

The thing is: I am 100 % sure those people use LLM answer not out of disrespect but because they honestly believe that an LLM produces a better argument than they possibly could themselves.

And I have zero confidence your 100% because you have zero backing for your claim other than believing people have good intentions.

Totally agree. When someone sends me some AI slop about a topic I have knowledge about – which I’ve had this happen to me recently during a debug session – and asks me to read it, I think to myself “this person does not respect me, otherwise they wouldn’t be telling me to read stuff that may or may not be accurate that they themselves never read.” It’s like a new, worse version of “let me google that for you” but without the sarcasm, and without the results actually being helpful.

Even with little usage it was fairly obvious to me that the probability that an LLM will output at least one very strange response over time approaches 100%.

By themselves, they’re just sophisticated chatbots and only stream out some characters or binary in response to a prompt.

Those working in agentic AI frameworks with things like “MCP Servers” provide these things with “tools” that enable them to do things like execute shell commands and go through your inbox the same as if it were chatting with a person or another bot: with the same prompt and response paradigm.

That’s where it seems extremely obvious to me that the proper approach is to code these tools – which in any sane framework are built using regular code – with the governance in place to prevent these things from doing bullshit like this.

The LLM is formatting your computer or deleting your inbox because some dumb fuck thought it was a great idea to code up tools that hand a chatbot a root-capable shell or complete access to your email system instead of the doing the obviously safer thing and coding the tools with the governance or safety in them so the chatbot going haywire isn’t any kind of emergency at all.

This is the 2026 equivalent of running Windows XP with its abundance of open ports in its default configuration on the Internet by running a cable modem directly into the computer with no router or firewall in between to protect it.

It’s pure slop, pure recklessness, and any company that produces tool chains that function this way should be ridiculed until the end of time.

And humans also built the fucking power plants and pay for the energy they use, asshole.

And those “real” posts

Albert Einstein

At this point, it’ll cause a disaster and they’ll still keep going.

Yep there is a deep attachment amongst AI boosters to certain doom and gloom scenarios that stem from their philosophical “think tanks” which use imaginary problems (e.g. “AGI ‘misalignment’ destroying the world through turning everything into paperclips”) to lobby and alter our laws to benefit their real bosses – anthropic, open ai, and friends.

Profitability has pretty much nothing to do with stock prices these days.

Give me trailers but worse and with extra steps

The infinite scroll goes hand in hand with that type of algorithm. Even if there isn’t more content, some versions of the infinite scroll keep loading assorted shit you’ve already seen before.

It’s also part and parcel of a mindset switch from looking at some content on a fixed number of pages and then moving on with your day, to pushing the screen up forever even if you’ve already seen most of it.

It also usually makes it so that you cannot bookmark the state, and the state often reloads fresh when you hit back and you’ve lost what you’re looking at.

In other words: it fucking sucks and I hate it.

Because all infinite scrolling does is remove to annoyance of hitting next page

That is definitely not all it does.

YouTube comments are almost never worth reading in the first place (top comment is usually: who is here in <<current year>>? 😆). I never look at the descriptions, and the only time I watch YouTube is for either music videos or concert captures or links someone has sent me. Congrats YouTube, I don’t care about any of the features you turned off.