They’re behaving like a great example of your third paragraph (about making shit up).

They sell their soul to Satan.

Just kidding. They sell something that exists (their data) to something worse (megacorporations) - by installing one “lol app lmao haha” after another.

Being pedantic, a sycophant, 2deep4u and bird-brained annoy me. But the one that hits me the hardest is that it makes shit up. I call people like this “assumers”, and I genuinely think they’re worse than malicious but smart people; I actively try to remove them from my life.

ChatGPT’s output is the same - you can’t simply trust it for anything you won’t either review manually, or where mistakes wouldn’t matter that much.

Side thought/my own ramblings here: Has there ever been hosting where the information is scattered across the world rather than one localized spot? That seems like it might be helpful, but I honestly don’t know enough about site hosting

In a certain sense we are using a system like this, due to federation. I don’t think the exact same model would work well for Wikipedia, but it could try something similar.

“What I can tell you is that over the years, conservatives, libertarians, were just pushed out,” Sanger said. “There is a whole…army of administrators, hundreds of them, who are constantly blocking people…that they have ideological disagreements with.”

“Oh noes, people in Wokepedia aren’t willing to accept my opinion that gravity doesn’t work on Fridays!”

“Wikipedia is losing its objectivity @jimmy_wales,” Musk posted in 2022.

If you’re really, really invested on 2+2 being five, then 2+2=4 becomes “subjective”.

In my opinion Wikipedia being hosted in USA is a liability. Or even being hosted in a single place, whichever it is.

If a megacorporation could profit nine zillions and fifty dollars, and instead it’s profiting only nine zillions, its shareholders are already screeching at the CEO “YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL, YOU’RE ROBBING US FIFTY DOLLARS!”.

You were upset because you were hangry. Eat another cookie, and you’ll find inner peace.

Red panda is being goofy and giving no fucks.
Be like red panda - allow yourself to be goofy sometimes.

But in about 420 issues from current, this meme can be made real!

And life imitates art memes!

It doesn’t look that bad. But that’s coming from someone who loves head cheese (I picture this tomato refresher has a similar texture).

I guess you could smash them with a spatula, and then use molten M&M’s to glue them together? Just make sure to use the blue ones only. Ah, and to crack their shells because it’s sugar, it doesn’t melt as good as the chocolate inside.

Not yet. But I really want to try. Around the internet people describe their taste as earthy and really savoury, with a creamy texture. Some also compare them with blue cheeses (something I love).

Century eggs. They get this colour from being alkalised for a few months. (Not “a century” but whatever.)

Using them for an omelette would be a waste though.

Of course, he’s using the wrong eggs for the dish! You’re supposed to use these:

The answer is simple: Linux falls behind Windows when it comes to hardware support and software compatibility.

And as usual for simple answers, it’s dumb and assumptive and wrong.

The core issue is cost of switch: learning new things takes time and effort. This would still apply if Linux and Windows had equivalent hard/software support.

For contrast, consider language learning. No language is so hard you won’t see a bunch of 6yos speaking it; and yet a lot of adult L2/L3+ learners fail to go past the basics.

The slippery slope of dual-booting

Dual boot is not a “slippery slope”. It’s simply paying that cost in instalments vs. paying it all at once.

And if the user is not willing to pay that price, they’re likely to fail migrating even without dual boot. They’ll instead struggle frenetically with Linux for a week, burn out, and say “I got shit to do with my computer, I’m not some basement dweller to waste time with this shit”.

Some users may also believe that Linux is inherently more complex than Windows, so instead of even attempting to take a deep dive into the system, people will try to follow the path of least resistance, by making the transition less costly and less scary by providing a safety net of familiarity.

Emphasis mine. The author is being assumptive, again. About something they cannot reliably know: what others “believe”.

This approach seems wise and therefore appealing because it reduces the perceived cost of switching, but in reality, it’s a form of procrastination

Yeah, just like poor people “procrastinate” their debts. It’s all laziness. /s

…I’m being cheeky to highlight something here: doing things slowly is not procrastination, as long as you do them.

And believe me

Stopped reading here. If your arguments don’t hold merit on themselves, calling the reader gullible through a “chrust me lol lmao” won’t change much.

If you want to encourage someone to migrate consider tutoring them. Just having someone patient to help you out is a godsend.

This was damn cute.

Even then, for cloud storage; cryptography is an additional layer of protection, but all this data should be kept offline as much as reasonably possible.

It’s a feature when you use it, but a bug when your competitors do it.

If I were in charge of the defence department of a government, there’s no way I’d ever allow closed source software to even touch machines with sensitive data. Or even pre-compiled software. Because the problem is not what you see, like personnel; it’s what you don’t, like bribery and backdoors.

Let alone use “cloud” computing. Come on… it’s someone else’s computer.

Fair point - I completely forgot to take the 3D geometry into account. I guess this could be solved by either making both sp³ (sub the Si-O with Si-Cl) or both sp² (sub the H-O-Si with H-N=Si)? But then writing data becomes more complicated than just adding or removing hydrogens that, as you said, isn’t as simple as it looks like.

There are already several synthetic DNA base pairs that can be used instead of the naturally present bases.

Like the dNaM / dTPT3 pair, right? That’s perhaps more viable, at least to increase information density.