So a hit piece is only effective when read by humans. This is a first of its kind example, and likely was at least prompted by a human, if not written by an actual human. Additionally while social media is full of bots, it’s humans who are actually affected by such a response.

If I say you’re “stupid”, it matters. You can ignore me sure, but at face value it matters. As far as I know I’ve never commented on a post of yours, so you could write me off as a worthless troll, but in theory it matters. But a bot calling you “stupid”? That really doesn’t matter. If you know you’re talking to a bot, as they exist today, then that really doesn’t matter.

Society may change on this issue, but as it stands now a bot publishing a hit piece… That’s worthless.

Silicon Valley is the sequel.

Many years ago I heard a comedian tell a joke, “I come from a long line of people who had kids.”

He was a funny guy, with a funny set, but that line always stuck with me.

Yeah, I mentioned fish, or zsh, only because day to day shell and scripting shell can be different.

If you want to script, bash is the way to go. For day to day, any personal preference is fine.

As you’ve mentioned in other threads, bash is a hard requirement for the OS, so if it’s already installed, and the default on most Linux distros, bash is probably the best option.

The dash shell isn’t designed to be user interactive. It’s a lightweight scripting shell/language.

The ksh shell is an older standard shell. Years ago I worked for a company that ran corporate Unix systems and on those systems only ksh and tcsh were available. Ksh was the default, and as someone only familiar with bash it was a bit different but mostly the same. So there is at least one point for maybe choosing ksh.

However my personal shell preference is zsh. When I write scripts I do so using bash. The two shells are 99% similar on a day to day basis, but I prefer zsh for a user interface. So I use one for day to day and the other for scripting.

Other threads have also mentioned fish, which is also a great choice if you don’t know where to start.

Are zsh or fish “heavier” or “bloated”, maybe. But remember to consider your attack surface. If your house is on fire it doesn’t matter of you fix the leaky faucet in bathroom or the kitchen.

To quote Jeopardy host Ken Jennings,

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Since we’re stuck with the two parties at the moment it’ll need to be a Democrat.

Mark Kelly has mentioned interest and seems to be willing to fight back, so I’m leaning towards him at the moment.

But it’s early so I’m open to candidates who meet the first requirement.

Wait…

I’m also not sure how you watch Better Call Saul without having seen Breaking Bad. It’s like watching Wicked having never seen The Wizard of Oz. Sure, you can do it, but a number of scenes, especially in the final season, don’t really make sense of you don’t know Saul’s story from Breaking Bad.

Also if you’re going to watch Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, while not a TV show, the El Camino film is worth watching as well. It’s a nice Breaking Bad epilogue that we didn’t need, but is well done and worth your time.

Phone call someone and during the split screen physically jump into their side of the call.

In contrast, Linux won’t stop you if you try to use a command that deletes every file on your PC (“sudo rm -rf /”).

Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don’t have a VM handy to test, but without the “–no-preserve-root” flag it should give an error.

(Don’t actually run that command on a machine you care about, I’m only 80% confident.)

Gives? They charged a high price for these TLDs.

I think it was fine to expand the number, but they probably shouldn’t have approved company names.

Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they’re a follower not a leader.

I feel pretty confident they were in the shower when they thought about this question.

Mirrors!

I don’t think it’s so much Nintendo in this case as Retro Studios.

Nintendo EPD co-developed “Metroid Dread” with MercurySteam and they fucking nailed it. Retro Studios developed the original Prime trilogy, so in theory they should have been able to figure out Prime 4. Maybe there is backroom drama, but Nintendo gave the original developer of the three original games the go ahead for a forth in the series and they ultimately delivered what they did.

Sometimes studios just change too much.

It’s possibly from people trying to help, but don’t understand AI hallucinations.

For example a Wikipedia article might say, “John Smith spent a year Oxford University before moving to London.[Citation Needed]” So the article already contains information, but lacks proper citation.

Someone comes along and says, "Ah ha! AI can solve this and asks AI, ‘Did John Smith spend a year at Oxford before moving to London, please provide citations.’ and the AI returns, “Yes of course he did according to the book ‘John Smith: Biography of a Man’ ISBN 123456789”

So someone adds that as a citation and now Wikipedia has been improved.

Or… has it? The ISBN 123456789 is invalid. No book could possibly have that number. If the ISBN is invalid, then the book is also likely invalid, and the citation is also invalid.

So the satisfaction was someone who couldn’t previously help Wikipedia, now thinking they can help Wikipedia. At face value that’s a good thing, someone who wants to help Wikipedia. The problem is that they think they’re helping, but they’re actually harming.

Genuine question, has your opinion changed now that the singer has died? In no way, shape or form is the person who sang the music benefiting in any way from you listening to it.

People often say to separate the art from the artist. In an acting role I kinda get it, because an actor is playing a different character. For music, it’s kinda the same. The music is its own thing separate from the person. Maybe?

No six months to a year is probably about right. They’ll have enough data by then to say “most people don’t turn it off” because realistically most people will use the default, which is on.

Twenty years from now Firefox will be in a new controversy that we can’t even begin to guess.

Plus, while I can’t predict when the AI bubble will pop, whatever they add in the next year will be removed within the next five years. AI isn’t like browser tabs, or extensions, stuff that will always be a great idea, it’s just the current fad.

Exactly, if you wanted the Internet, you got dial up. If you want to cross the ocean, do you want to travel by boat or by bicycle? A plane would be faster, but if I only have a boat I’ll take it.