Some Copilot functions are done locally on some computers with the appropriate NPU chips. But it’s Microsoft, so they’ll be sending data home either way.

Most people don’t realize how slow Windows is. When you try something else, you realize how much time you have been spending just waiting for Windows to do things. Our computers can be a lot faster than Windows lets them be.

Some senior exec at Microsoft asked for this.

Or looking for discrepancies in the actual stolen election of 2000.

They sound staggeringly incompetent. And anyone who bought their software without any investigation into its quality also sounds staggeringly incompetent.

It’s funny how this mysterious individual managed to get the AI talking about “white genocide”, only for it to debunk it as imaginary BS in every single response.

Under the current regime it will be used to suppress discussion of all things LGBTQ+, particularly transgender identity and healthcare, women’s rights and healthcare including abortion, Black history, indigenous history, Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, immigration, police abuses, and so on.

This is absolutely the worst time for such a bill, so of course it has a better chance of succeeding than ever before.

Finally, a SpaceX mission we can all get behind.

The hand on his heart really does make you think twice about the meaning though, just like it did with that other guy.

That’s odd. I’ve been running OpensSUSE Tumbleweed with a Ryzen 9 5950X and RTX 3080 with no issues. I don’t know what would be making yours, with similar hardware, function differently unless it’s the laptop stuff for dynamically switching between onboard graphics and the GPU.

I just have the regular subscription. I wouldn’t pay for the lifetime one. I want to support them but I am not confident enough that they’ll be around for the long term since video hosting is a hard business to make money from.

What kind of graphics hardware does your laptop have?

I have stopped buying lifetime subscriptions to cloud services unless they pay off within a year or two since you can’t guarantee that they’ll be honoured. Any longer and you stand to lose too much money.

Debian and Mandrake in the late 1990s. And I was already almost three times as old as you were when you started. These days I’m happy with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for daily use. I tried NixOS but it threatened to break my old brain.

The LLM isn’t trained to be reliable, it’s trained to be confident.

And it’s promoted by business people with the exact same skill set who have been rewarded for it. I would argue though that there’s nothing wrong with what LLMs are doing: they’re doing what they were trained to do. The con is in how the confidently unreliable techbros sell it to us as a source of knowledge and understanding akin to a search engine, when it’s nothing of the sort.

https://archive.is/7UQne

The song and the post are funny, but the thread full of redditors taking it seriously is a bit depressing.

Stadia was actually a good product

That’s how Google decides which ones to kill off.

It’s a basic protection against the government disappearing anyone they don’t like without trace, trial or legal recourse. So we have to understand that the US Government is equipping itself to disappear anyone, American or otherwise, innocent or otherwise, permanently.

Note that Trump’s people are trying to make sure no one they imprison without trial can ever challenge them in court again:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/politics/miller-habeas-corpus-immigrant-judge

The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 service members who identify as transgender out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify, under a new directive issued on Thursday.

Buoyed by Tuesday’s supreme court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender individuals in the military, the defense department will then begin going through medical records to identify others who have not come forward.

People, this is Nazism. They’re making lists of trans people and autistic people, and forcing doctors to rat on their patients. It is time to fight the Nazis again.