They just get a translator, and you're screwed. No amount of complexity between any two real, actual languages will make this "good" encryption. That definitely includes Japanese, most of whose quirks you could get lectured on by any teenager with a passing interest in weeb culture. What you want is encryption, ideally something that can pass below the radar, languages don't do that. Even the hardest, clusterfuckiest of constructed languages don't do that.

PRs are too inflexible. I don't need 4 eyes on every change, especially in a universe where LLMs exist.

^w

It works but a bunch of the UI is clunky. A bunch of stuff ends up there when people should've been using a wiki or at least forum, and as always it's pretty stupid to be centralizing on a proprietary platform, let alone one that's run like Discord.

Ah yes, the stigma against AI, the stigma that is actually pretty well founded given how it's dogshit at anything other than BS-ing. The stigma that's an obvious reaction to shoe horning a hype fueled scam into every fucking thinkable thing. That stigma?

It's easy to make you do it, that's all.

I try not to think like that, tbh. Anything sufficiently unusual that you're sufficiently not into is going to mean you're just not a good match, why not leave it at that? You don't need to understand anyone's kinks. Very nearly by definition that's why they're kinks

Youtube is gradually making itself unusable. It's not even just enshittification (although obviously it is that too), it's just fucking stupid.

"We will be GLAD to return when Christians & Those who fear God and HATE evil! Thank ------ You,"

... yeah, that seems about right.

You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.

Hell, they weren't doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy "we know better" vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it's made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.

As the joke goes, "Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later"

(Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)

And if you're one of those people who think that Office is superior to LibreOffice because of its ribbon interface, the TDF thinks you're wrong and that you only tolerate that layout due to a psychological normalization effect forced by Microsoft.

The UX engineer seems to be in charge of PR too. Not that it's completely wrong, just a fucking hilarious thing to be saying.

While in many ways it's genuinely hard to navigate neurotypical society with all its prejudice, it's also actually relatively easy to just not go there

"Less blatantly unethical than the US" is not that high a bar, to be fair.

You know you're just enabling their trolling at this point, right..?

You know a fad genre is well and truly dead when Forbes is reporting on it

They don't.

We already have mechanisms for all of that. Any security it provides you can have without it, the only difference it had going for it was "it has blockchain" and that was the Arbitrary Magic Hype Word at the time - like "AI" is now and "cloud" was before. In reality that means it's a huge unwieldy system that wastes tons of resources for what's often really poor reasons.

I tried this... bunch of stuff kept getting repeated like I was the most hyperfocused person on earth, so I go into the history and remove a bunch of content related to it. Surely that's driving the recommendations, right?

Well, the instant result is that it just recommended me back everything I'd deleted. Slow clap IRL

And, in a truly shocking development, it turns out the UX for trying to manipulate your history and recs is dogshit

If you substitute "end the war" with a bunch of clichés about crime, drugs, immigration and, lately, culture war bullshit, it's still the exact same playbook being used all over the world by right-populist dipshits. Me big man, fix big problem because me many clever.

They're beautiful. But it also looks like the photographer just said something grossly inappropriate at dinner

Pretty smarmy - yes, I get it, google, you're being bitchy because I dared, I had the temerity, to try to watch some shit in a private window. Do you expect me to hand you a straight setup for the lecture just because of the "hey, this sure is slow eh? nudge nudge, wink wink"