Modern Windows is a pain in the ass, but Windows 7 searching windows update for drivers it has locally is not exactly a walk in the park either.
Although at least that's a design nuisance and not spyware.

@honze_net @alcinnz there's a joke from Colbert that goes:

"I've had people say 'you must love it, the current administration gives you so much material to work with!'

you don't tell a janitor when someone diarrheas all over the walls of the bathroom that they have 'so much material to work with'"

and honestly I feel that in my bones.

@alcinnz
Brrrrrraaagggghhhhrrrrr.

I have my spare Xbox 360 motherboard.

Now how many decades before I do that flash chip swap.

The porpoise of a system.

@soatok "An appeal to engineers who want to be taken seriously: Stop hanging around on 'hacker' 'news'."

There are fewer chess players online than we think there are, fewer chess players online than we do today.

@soatok Such good points.

> If you do not understand people, you will fail to understand the harms that AI will unleash on the world.

> Distressingly, the people most passionate about AI often express a not-so-subtle disdain for humanity.

Once again, gutting humanities education to make everyone do STEM turns out to have its downsides!

No dogs, no masters

@xdub
Nějakej časotodleto tu někde mám... :D

Tak Jazz² Resurrection běží i na hodinkách s WearOS. A to včetně nyní experimentálního multiplayeru. 😁 (Foto přímo od vývojáře) #jazz2 #opensource #gaming #oldgaming #wearos

@spacelizard
Cat... Inside box. Snake... Outside box. Snake... opposite of cat?
@Unixbigot

@leguinian_utopia
Blub.

@morc
I
Cry
When angles deserve to MOOOOOORRRRRCCCCCCC

@lynn
Yep.

Carpe tunnel.

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

"AI is just like the early web!" ok but did Netscape ever do this https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/