[-] mlen@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago

Polish commentary on Hitlergruß: https://bsky.app/profile/smutnehistorie.bsky.social/post/3lgaoyezhgc2c

Translation:

  • it’s just a Hindu symbol of prosperity
  • a normal Roman salute
  • regular rail car
  • wait a second
[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s

[-] mlen@awful.systems 33 points 2 months ago

ublock is cheaper and actually works

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

[-] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

[-] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[-] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

So does Java. /me runs

[-] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[-] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

[-] mlen@awful.systems 26 points 1 year ago

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.

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