@GossiTheDog Satya begging us to "stop calling it AI slop" was actually a call for help

Microsoft are extremely exposed if the AI bubble bursts. Copilot is being rammed into everything and metrics being added for millions of hours saved in dashboards etc because the farm is being bet on it, basically.

@jwz Jesus. Makes me feel better about moving to Waterfox/Librewolf, as they at least strip out the crap Mozilla throws in. Upstream is still always a worry, but at least there's an emergency hatch for the moment.

Mozilla has 1.4 BILLION dollars that they are spending on some AI bullshit.

That's billion with a B. So if you held out hope that filling out surveys or shitposting through it might turn this ship around, no. That much money has an event horizon.

Mozilla is cooked.

https://jwz.org/b/yk2n

The unexpected neurodivergent rabbit hole of listening to all the music cues in The Price is Right and realizing so many of them absolutely slap.

As a company that has long boasted about its commitment to principles, Apple has had a bad several months. It removed ICE Block from the App Store. It let X remain, empowering its users to create child porn, which is apparently “free speech” now. After two American citizens were killed by ICE, Tim Cook responded by attending a special screening of the Melania documentary. It’ll be hard to believe that Apple believes anything it says after all this. When principles mattered, Apple collapsed.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115974050817264132

This is why I drew a line in the sand.

The industry wants to turn the browser into a concierge between you and the web, interpreting and filtering your reality. They call it delegation - I call it a loss of agency.

A browser should be a tool you wield, not something that makes decisions for you.

@arstechnica maybe worth mentioning us as an alternative ;)

@matt_ellery @GossiTheDog I also do this when in extreme distress.

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

All the Apple Vision Pro has to do to be successful is to allow me to have Yu-Gi-Oh duels like in the anime with the holograms, the duel disks, the whole nine yards. That's how easy it will be, Tim.

https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/state-of-the-windows-what-is-going-on-with-windows-11/

Just saw a commercial advertising an AI company with "AGI" in their name. Real smart idea to put a fake promise in your company name.

My IT superpower is remembering random times that Microsoft/Apple changed OS-level keyboard shortcuts or gestures for no good reason. Example: In Windows 7, Desktop Peek used to be Win + Space, but in Windows 8 and beyond, they changed it to the much less ergonomic Win + comma. Apple meanwhile had really good trackpad gestures in the 10.6 days but for some reason mangled them from 10.7 onward.

When the CEO is doing nothing but publishing 500 word blog posts chastising people for calling their AI slop "AI slop" yet they push garbage like this, they have no right to talk.

I have no idea why Microsoft thought it was a good idea to activate a poorly functioning automatic autocorrect in Teams by default, but I hate it. It doesn't do a good job. It changes correct words and grammar to the wrong things. This is not correct behavior for a mature company like MS.

@Rajiv uBlock Origin / SponsorBlock / LocalCDN / ClearURLs are a great starter pack of extensions. Also consider Librewolf for more hardened privacy and security defaults.

@atpfm I'm glad John's take on the menu icons is more middle of the road. I was reading that Tahoe icons article and was disappointed at how it was treating the ancient early 90s HIG document as borderline untouchable gospel. I really like having language-agnostic icons next to text-based menu icons, largely because I feel they fill an accessibility gap in which icons can communicate better than words when done well. Are Tahoe's inconsistent/random/poorly designed menu icons ideal? No, but I do understand what they were going for by adding them in. Now if only they finished the job and made the icons a little more recognizable...

"Preliminary root cause: We identified that the issue was caused by elevated service load resulting from reduced capacity during maintenance for a subset of North America hosted infrastructure.”

Trillion dollar company......

@darkuncle cs_italy ASMR