That title is misleading. Maybe people didn’t notice that way Secure Boot was broken. But people certainly knows many other ways secure boot is broken.

Is that a new fringe edge compute mixture of experts from Antro-GPTx? Sounds gemini-flipiti-rad!

I hope this is sarcasm >_<

Look, if you know a way to convert a PDF to text with less than 500GB of VRAM and 2000W of power used for twenty seconds, I’m all ears.

I was gonna comment something about Linux distro also having a machine ID, but then I remembered that it’s not in a big database, and it’s so well enforced I routinely have multiple machines with the same ID pop up :D

If it was registered, probably. They use a mixture of that to allow re-enabling the same license on the same hardware.

It won’t move relative to the wall.

Search engine going downhill is mostly a side effect of AI enshitification getting in the way. Even google, which people keep saying is “dying”, works as well as before as long as you’re not using their default page which is filled with AI garbage and other automated content.

Also, Large AI models from large provider doing a fair bit of actually useful work would have to be confronted with other way to do said work. People burning tokens to edit PDF isn’t exactly that efficient compared to opening a god dawn editor.

Tiny violin company in shambles again, have a hard time facing demands.

There is a difference between using X amount of resource to provide an actual output that justify spending X amount of resource, and using X*1000 resources to provide zilch.

One pack is the correct size. Alone? One pack. Two people? One pack. Four? One pack. Above that? Two pack.

Easy.

“And now, for your enjoyment, I’m going to stab myself repeatedly in the eyes with this spork”

“Oh no, informing people allows them to decide for themselves, we can’t have that! I, sweeney whiney, must protect the world from informed decisions!”

• Tim Sweeney, wearing is burger king cardboard crown screaming in front of his mirror alone.

It’s really gone downhill. Like, in free fall.

Because the greed of corporations knows no limit. They sold you the (expensive) hardware, now they want to sell you the (specific, usually compatible but not really, and slightly buggy implementation) software. Can’t do that with open specifications.

Fuck advertisers.

Because we normalized self-censorship to make it more palatable to everyone. Which is stupid.

Eh, that’s actually crafty :D

I miss netiquette.

No, they won’t. They might try, mind you, but that’s not happening. I’ll sooner adapt to a piece of tape at the top of my screen than to this.