At least on Steam you can give people clown awards

Nasty workaround confirmed: launching from the shell with --ozone-platform=x11 returns to the expected behaviour. Phew!

I KNEW IT
issues.chromium.org/issues/45747...

Me: need to get my drinking under control, back to a bottle of wine a night

Documentary on Richard Burton: at this time he was drinking 4 bottles of vodka a day

I have never seen a more "Draw the rest of the fucking owl" approach to educational materials in my fucking life, all I want is to right click something in nautilus and throw clamscan at it but nooooooo

Just read an article about how Gnome Extensions have resources for answering "all questions" to make development easier and that has to be the funniest thing I have read in months

I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more

Is it just me or is Chrome's default scroll speed somehow slower in the latest version?

Anyone who’s had an MRI can tell you it’s virtually impossible not to know what part of the body was scanned

They put heavy plates over the affected body part.

If it’s your head they lock it in.

If Trump doesn’t know what body part he had scanned, his mental status should be called into question.

I hadn't considered that, having to use words as a single source treated critically and purposefully like that is a great insight! I need to meet and talk to a lot more aphantasics.

Maybe this is just me but if I had to periodically take a test where they showed me a picture of a giraffe and I had to say "that's a giraffe," I think I'd probably keep that to myself

Lately I'm wondering about people with aphantasia or no inner monologue or a propensity for believing marketing/propaganda/outright fascism or experiencing challenges with empathy and theory of mind or falling for sycophantic AI bullshit and, specifically, how much of that Venn diagram is a circle

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

I will *never* forgive search engines for messing with my beloved quoted search terms.

No, I don't want something sort-of similar to this, I don't want you to guess what the average user might have meant with that search term, I want the results with this *exact* string in them and only those!

I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.

It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"

I've told you about this before, stop stealing my spell sheet!

XBox keep emailing me that I haven't verified my age (Spoilers: I won't) and the latest round of pleading for my blood type and inside leg measurement explains restrictions will prevent me from chatting to or sharing game invites with people who aren't already my friends. This is a DESIRABLE FEATURE

The truth lies here, only we are in a time of post truth and particularly on COVID. Over 250k now have lost their lives. How many would still be here had we the proper guidance for covid is airborne. Yet again fobbed off with the lockdown narrative.

One of the few things Escape From LA really nailed was the US Presidency

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

There is a reason a good number of AI's largest proponents are crypto-fascist Silicon Valley oligarchs or wannabes, & that is because art poses a direct challenge to fascism. Not that all art is anti-fascist, or that fascists can't make art, but plurality complicates singularity.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

I've forseen a *lot* of weirdness over the years, but I never would have guessed a timeline where "Microsoft cuts out the middleman and allows their AI which nobody wants to install your malware for you" and "Valve literally steamroll console and PC gaming by shipping an Arch box" are both things

"What if we relied on the stupidest thing ever to do the thinking for us?"*
[Everything breaks forever]

*See also right-wing voters

Another week, another example of a company heavily pushing AI slop taking out a significant chunk of the internet

AI cannot output art. Using LLMs to generate images or audio or video is simply the biggest loser behaviour imaginable, second only to knowingly consuming it and thinking it’s anything other than garbage.

You’ve got all of recorded human history at your fingertips to engage with.

Bro the DLC is on season pass broooo

When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.

First day we've needed to put the heating on. It's halfway through November.

It’s impossible to convey the crippling fatigue of chronic illness.

Naps don’t help.

A full nights sleep doesn’t exist. You’re plagued by pain and other symptoms that mean you can’t remember what it felt like to sleep through the night.

Wired & tired is your new normal.