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    • ?
      A Former User
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      Ivan Vendrov

      The Tyranny of the Marginal User

      The Tyranny of the Marginal User

      why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time

      Kind of illuminating read on the forces that inevitably lead to enshittification.

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      • Lob12L
        Lob12
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        My favourite weather website just changed their already super functional interface to some disgusting steaming pile of shit instead.

        [IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]

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          Blanks @Lob12
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          @Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

          My favourite weather website just changed their already super functional interface to some disgusting steaming pile of shit instead.

          Tell them to hire the expert UI programmers that did this award winning forum!

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          • TazzT
            Tazz @Guest
            last edited by Tazz

            @Blanks I think she botoxed her tits after she left Newsom for a Trump

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            GTFO

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              Blanks @Tazz
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              @Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              @Blanks I think she botoxed her tits after she left Newsom for a Trump

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              Last time I saw a clip of her she looked like a coked up blowfish.

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              • ?
                A Former User
                last edited by A Former User

                Mwmbl - Search

                An open source, non-profit, search engine with beautifully minimalist search results that returned exactly the only 6 links that exist on the obscure topic I just tested it with.

                When I saw it I almost wept (figuratively) after wrestling with Bing all day where it insists on shoe horning, massive and useless AI responses (and ads for the useless AI responses) into the first page results.

                It’s a pity that “mwmbl” is going to die on the vine because its creator idioticly gave it a name you can’t pronounce and won’t remember how to spell.

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                • KilemallK
                  Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @A Former User
                  last edited by

                  @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                  Mwmbl - Search

                  An open source, non-profit, search engine with beautifully minimalist search results that returned exactly the only 6 links that exist on the obscure topic I just tested it with.

                  When I saw it I almost wept (figuratively) after wrestling with Bing all day where it insists on shoe horning, massive and useless AI responses (and ads for the useless AI responses) into the first page results.

                  It’s a pity that “mwmbl” is going to die on the vine because its creator idioticly gave it a name you can’t pronounce and won’t remember how to spell.

                  It looks like the word mumble said while mumbling.

                  https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                  Never go full Lithu-
                  Twain

                  No editing is gonna save you now-
                  Wingmann

                  http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

                  http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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                  • ?
                    A Former User
                    last edited by A Former User

                    This popped up in Edge on Android just now:

                    Screenshot_2023-09-20-18-39-12-47_df198e732186825c8df26e3c5a10d7cd.jpg

                    I read up on it and it apparently blocks YouTube ads. A bit cheeky from a company who is putting their own ads in every spare inch of screen real-estate on Bing and Windows.

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                    • Gators1G
                      Gators1
                      last edited by

                      Sounds like the old Microsoft is back. The EU will be a bit richer soon.

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                      • Gators1G
                        Gators1
                        last edited by

                        Oops…

                        https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops

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                        • TazzT
                          Tazz
                          last edited by

                          I guess this is good but I have no idea what it is.

                          Sep 20, 2023  /  GPUs

                          Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay

                          Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay

                          The times are changing

                          GTFO

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                          • ?
                            A Former User @Gators1
                            last edited by

                            @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                            Oops…

                            https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops

                            I read a couple of days ago Microsoft had a link to 38 terabytes of private data up on GitHub for three years.

                            https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-ai-team-accidentally-leaks-38tb-of-private-company-data/ar-AA1gUoEZ

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                            • Gators1G
                              Gators1 @A Former User
                              last edited by

                              @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                              @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                              Oops…

                              https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops

                              I read a couple of days ago Microsoft had a link to 38 terabytes of private data up on GitHub for three years.

                              https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-ai-team-accidentally-leaks-38tb-of-private-company-data/ar-AA1gUoEZ

                              Yeah, I saw that one. I think the data they used to train their LLM or something? Wonder how many times you can find data that says “all obey your master Bill Gates!” in there?

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                              • Lob12L
                                Lob12 @Guest
                                last edited by Lob12

                                @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                @Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                I guess this is good but I have no idea what it is.

                                Instead of your GPU initially generating everything in whatever your screen resolution is, it does it at a lower resolution and then they use some AI tool to fill in the missing pixels.

                                It’s faster / less demanding and probably almost necessary for some situations where you have a 4K+ display and are running a AAA game with the highest graphics settings.

                                Yeah but it doesn’t render so good yet, especially with games with fast moving objects. Things leave a “trail” behind them as they move fast and as the AI struggles to fill the missing pixels.

                                [IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]

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                                • ?
                                  A Former User @Lob12
                                  last edited by

                                  @Lob12 yeah right. I’ve only read casually about it and won’t get to try it until my next laptop upgrade. Since I’m a tight arse, that will be a few years away unfortunately.

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                                  • Lob12L
                                    Lob12
                                    last edited by

                                    Tried it a few time since I upgraded my PC and always turned it off.

                                    [IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]

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                                    • ?
                                      A Former User
                                      last edited by

                                      Want:

                                      You Won’t Believe How Effective This Keyboard Layout Is
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                                      • ?
                                        A Former User
                                        last edited by

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                                        This Facebook ad seems legit. Also nice to see Google dogfooding their free Google Sites website builder.

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                                        • KilemallK
                                          Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Lob12
                                          last edited by

                                          @Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          @Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          I guess this is good but I have no idea what it is.

                                          Instead of your GPU initially generating everything in whatever your screen resolution is, it does it at a lower resolution and then they use some AI tool to fill in the missing pixels.

                                          It’s faster / less demanding and probably almost necessary for some situations where you have a 4K+ display and are running a AAA game with the highest graphics settings.

                                          Yeah but it doesn’t render so good yet, especially with games with fast moving objects. Things leave a “trail” behind them as they move fast and as the AI struggles to fill the missing pixels.

                                          This happens on some TVs with action movies and sports.

                                          https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                                          Never go full Lithu-
                                          Twain

                                          No editing is gonna save you now-
                                          Wingmann

                                          http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

                                          http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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                                          • KilemallK
                                            Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @A Former User
                                            last edited by

                                            @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            e3713de8-61ee-48b8-8a02-6d2ca3d089b3-image.png

                                            This Facebook ad seems legit. Also nice to see Google dogfooding their free Google Sites website builder.

                                            That thing is just another data vacuum that will capture all the data you are feeding it through. We are banned from even considering it for healthcare by our company.

                                            https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                                            Never go full Lithu-
                                            Twain

                                            No editing is gonna save you now-
                                            Wingmann

                                            http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

                                            http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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