This article is making the rounds, and I’ll say here what I’ve said elsewhere:

Cassettes are CRAP!

I did a lot of recording back in the day, using a good 3-head deck and good tape. I manually adjusted the bias for best results, and really pushed the format to its best. At the end of it all though, cassettes were never a hi-fi format and mostly sucked.

You want to own your music? Digital downloads are cheap and convenient. You want physical media? Buy CDs (audio quality, convenience, longevity) or records if you must.

Cassettes are loved by insecure hipsters. The rest of us actually like music.

I saw Jimmy at a festival years ago. Kinda knew who he was, but not really. Guy came out, OWNED the evening, and was just generally awesome.

RIP Jimmy. The world is better from having you in it.

Apparently it’s to call into question the legitimacy of Israel as a recognised country.

This is, as near as I can tell, AI slop amplifying AI slop, amplifying AI hallucinations.

There were three studies published by the University of South Australia in 2021 and 2022, none of which were four-year studies, and none of which were so unequivocal in their conclusions.

Until someone can come up with an actual study (not just a story about the study, based on a story about the study, based on some dude’s story about the study from Nov. 2024), this is going to get labelled 100% bullshit.

Google 2.0: as evil as we wanna be.

Sorry, yes they are.

The difference between “Reckless Endangerment” and “Criminal Negligence Causing Death” is one tiny slip. If you’re guilty of the former, you should be aggressively prevented from being the latter. Impound your vehicles, suspend your license for life, and fines in the six-figures.

If you’re street racing, I hope you only kill yourself.

A lot of people equate ‘the internet’ with the web, which would be 1989.

Others will point to when they got their first email address, some years before that.

Really though, you should be looking at the beginning of ARPANET, which goes back to 1969.

That is a completely worthless article.

So?

Nazi fucks love Nazi fucks.

I messed with a few browsers (Librefox and others), but ended up on Waterfox because it’s just Firefox…without much extra shit. It’s faster, lighter, and runs all of the Firefox extensions I love.

It was. I’m struggling to find anything that was an actual improvement in the UI. Most of the changes were trivial and change for change’s sake; but some were awful, and none are clearly better.

Mozilla has stopped working on developing and improving their products, and is now entirely focused on adding trendy terms and garbage, to feed money to their C*Os.

Just updated to 140.1. WTF?! This is ridiculously buggy!

I’m trying to narrow down the conditions that cause it for a bug report, but when replying, my backspace key adds a LF in the message.

Geekbench did some testing a month ago, and came up with ‘comparable to a gtx 660.’

If you’re not sure what my point is you’re not informed enough to present a legitimate argument.

Or maybe you didn’t present your point clearly.

Or maybe you’re just wrong.

These are entirely possible scenarios you might want to consider.

The premise of a web business model is that websites must make a profit - either directly or indirectly.

That’s utter bullshit. Some of us are old enough to remember when the web (or for that matter, the pre-web internet) was there for sharing of information, social interaction, and community. Schools, the government, and nonprofits provided hosting for free.

Later on, ISPs started to add hosting as part of their internet service - along with usenet access and an email address. The cost to them was negligible, especially vs. the benefits of being able to say “switch to us and create your own website!”

Nowadays you can run a site from your home PC in a VM, punch a hole through your firewall, and pay a modicum for DDNS to a custom domain for under a hundred bucks a year. If you’re a bigger site with more traffic, maybe you spin it up on AWS and pay ten or twenty bucks a month.

The very idea that “The Web” is a homogeneous, for-profit entity is a profound and fundamental mistake that is made by every money-obsessed organization around - not just the financial rags like Forbes and The Economist, but essentially corporations as well. Take a look at the support site for your favourite product and try to convince yourself that they didn’t just put the minimum required effort in to send customers into the arms of their competitors.

Such bullshit.

“AI is going to fix everything, so we need a new way to make money.”

1. AI is nothing but a delusional and unwanted waste of energy.
2. The web doesn’t need a business model, period. Money-grubbing billionaires are the only ones who need a business model.

Go to a female stylist. Problem solved.

Wrong.

It’s not random.

It’s not deportation.

The US government is trafficking humans.