Especially now that Digg’s died once again.

I dunno? It sounds very plausible, exactly the kind of thing that Windows would do. I posted about it to Metafilter some time back and no one there seemed to think it couldn’t happen.

There was a story going around back in September ago about the person whose wife used OneDrive on her phone. It had taken upon itself to copy 25+GB of data on the phone into OneDrive, despite only having the free account tier, and copying it to their Windows 11 PC. There it completely filled up its small SSD boot drive, putting it into a condition of extremely low disk space, which in made it impossible for Windows to boot. Here it is.

Google indexes Reddit so highly because of bias, full stop. Reddit never had to put up with getting aggressively de-prioritized for bullshit reasons like Ask Metafilter did by the Panda update 15 or so years ago.

It was Google itself that made the commitment to try to index the Web roughly in real-time. I remember people being shocked when new web pages would show up in the index mere hours after they went live. Evidently they’ve fallen behind on that ambition in the time since.

The surprise is, there’s lots of people here. It’s not as big as Reddit yeah, but regularly top posts on the front page of lemmy.world exceed 1K rep.

I didn’t get banned or anything, but I’ve walked away from Reddit and for the most part haven’t looked back. Google still does this thing where they’ll put Reddit links near the top of search results, and sometimes it’s inescapable, but I will scroll down the page to find an alternate link with the information.

And hey, Lemmy’s much bigger than Digg’s reboot currently is.

It wouldn’t be difficult to make Lenovo laptops more repairable. I’ve had two, and both required taking the whole thing apart to replace the keyboard, the part most likely to have problems. I hate that about them.

Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs’ most misguided apprehensions, that it’d be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that’s Good Actually in three, two, one…)

Yes, although it will be a full ANDROID PC.

Took a bit but found it, it’s not ChatGPT but a small self-hosted AI with an open source model: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/

Trying to track it down…

He was sick and had a weak moment. He didn’t realize that it would just make the quote up.

Key is, used to be. Ars Technica is one of the best such magazines out there, but even their margins have to be razor thin. To stay at the top of Google search results you have to update super frequently. (Source: this Metafilter post: https://www.metafilter.com/212411/Ars-Technica-Pulls-AI-Article-With-AI-Fabricated-Quotes#8819559)

I think the executive in question is Kyle Orland, who I don’t know personally but I’ve interacted with sometimes. He’s pretty good! Again, as I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, maybe I’m too close. I’ve never worked for either of them, but I’ve encountered them on social media from time to time. I think I interacted with Kyle concerning a Storybundle book once.

I’ve interacted with Benj Edwards on social media for some time. He’s done lots of good work! He’s on (or maybe used to be on) Mastodon and Bluesky. He runs Vintage Computing and Gaming, and has written good articles for several prominent places. I’ve said as much in multiple forums, I feel like I’ve maybe been going on a crusade.

I haven’t seen many others defending him. I’m really torn up over this. They had a weak moment. They were sick (I mean, literally.). A few other people, notably Cory Doctorow and Paul Ford, have written LLM-defending places. And the AI hype has been deafening.

It’s amazing though, that so soon after he used AI, that it immediately hallucinated something job-ending. I knew it was really bad, but I didn’t know it was THAT bad. You get the sense, with so many people talking positively about it, that the hallucinations must be something that happens, what, maybe 5% of the time?

To me, it seems like the kind of mistake that he should be able to apologize for, promise not to do it again, and move on. But we’ve all had our good will taken advantage of for so long by malicious actors, like how Gamergate was used as a wedge to push loathsome politics onto a legion of young males. It feels like we can’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt any more.

I don’t know. I know I’m influenced by all the good work he’s done. I feel like that shouldn’t all be thrown away.

Any relation to Lucasfilm/Fujitsu Habitat/Habitat II? https://renoproject.org/

It was an early virtual world, running originally on Commodore 64s, later on PCs and (in Japan) Sega Saturn, with a look and style heavily inspired by SCUMM games.

What is a post doing on Lemmy’s top list with a minus 56 reputation?

The joke my friend made is, “Elf on the Shelf in your ear”

On the other hand… https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

You might try setting Google’s Web subsearch as your main search engine, or else put your searches through https://udm14.com/, which does the same thing.

City Trial is terrific, if’s among the best multiplayer games on Gamecube. There’s a channel on Youtube, Kirby Air Ride Online, where people use it as an eSport.

The premise is, from 2 to 4 players (including possible CPU players) roam a big city space (but not too big) on fast vehicles for from 3 to 7 minutes. Throughout that space powerups are constantly appearing. Some are weapons or health refills, but the most common ones are Patches, each of which is a small but significant improvement in one of a vehicle’s stats. Players vie to collect these patches, and also to change their weak initial vehicle for a better one, which also can be found randomly around the city. Random events occur, which provide various opportunities and difficulties.

Players can attack each other by colliding, using “quick spins,” or those weapons. If a player’s vehicle runs out of health it’s destroyed, causing it to drop lots of its patches (around half) and leaving that player to find another vehicle. Patches cannot be collected without a vehicle, so the attacking player can quickly score a lot of powerups that way.

After time runs out, all the players are thrown into a randomly-selected event. Many are races, but some have you attacking enemies or each other for points. A few involve flying. One’s an outright boss battle. The winner of this event is the winner of the whole match. You’ve been collecting patches and selected your vehicle for this moment, but you don’t find out the event ahead of time. You might get a hint as to the event during the city portion, but the game is known to lie 10% of the time.

With all that randomness, City Trial can be very chaotic, and never plays the same way twice. Kirby Air Riders is unquestionably the Switch 2 game I’m most looking forward to!