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We now go live to the dream that Ive and Altman have both been having for the last several years:

This is the paradox of scale that four decades of consolidation, and regulatory encouragement of consolidation, have left us: one big company whose software is supposed to work at every level from single users at home to organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees and millions of user...

As a 20+ year software guy, it can still shock me when I stop to think about it. This is the worst product launch in software history, a three year running clusterfuck of wild promises and terrible delivery. And one has to assume, based on the track records of the people involved, that they did...

I just went through all ~100 comments here to upvote everyone who liked VI. I guess I'm in the minority, but I thought VI was a clear improvement on V, mostly because they implemented the hex board much more thoughtfully and made it possible to build wide again. Just checked my Steam account and...

As a small phone wanter, seeing the low end of the market at 6.6" and 6.7" inches is a bummer.

Bring back text only BIOS interfaces! Then we'll see who the real computer nerds are.

One of my private conspiracy theories is that Google continues funding Mozilla as a way to keep regulators and anti-trust investigators away from Chrome and Chromium.

Translation: we fucked up Starship so badly, including destroying our own launch pad over the objections of lots of people who told us our plan was stupid, that it is now costing us real money. This is definitely not our fault, please help, our family is dying.

I find it difficult to square this: With this: I am sure both the code and the hardware will get more efficient over time, but the fundamental way these things "think" is computationally heavy, probabilities stacked on probabilities, math of enormous complexity with no more obvious...

One of the quietest disasters of the Bush Jr DOJ was when they unilaterally dropped the Microsoft breakup plan in 2001. The FTC was all set to pry Windows and Office apart into two different companies after years of court fights and the new Administration just decided not to. Hard to imagine...

"What do these things cost to run?" has been my #1 unanswered question since the current round of AI/LLM hype/hysteria started earlier this year. I haven't been able to find anything on what the compute/power requirements are for ChatGPT or anything else, which struck me as somewhat telling when...

Yeah, they've very clearly decided to stop tiptoeing around monetizing the Start Menu and crash right in. Live Tiles is back in the form of huge picture links to clickbait media and can we personalize this for you? They're making it harder and harder to turn off and I see BREAKING: LATEST ON...

The word "essential" is the giveaway here. As much as Microsoft would like to blame intransigent users for Windows being that way, many huge and overlapping chunks of power users need every kludge MS ever added for reasons great and small. When you, the big invincible monopoly, remove essential...

Someday CBS/Viacom/Paramount/Whatever will finally wise up and pull the TNG reboot again: skip everything forward 80 years or so, present a new crew on the Enterprise-I/J/K whatever letter, and give us ~20 episodes of self contained stories where our nerdy heros go to some weird...

First of all, that is a great image. I don't know if the original creator prompted it to add that cummerbund thing, but it gives it a real vestment-y feel and definitely sells it as plausible at a glance. More importantly, I'm not sure how much of a freakout is warranted here. All that actually...

If we're getting nostalgic for pre-FMV Wing Commander this morning, let us not forget Privateer, a great space shoot 'em up with a fun story that is currently only $6: https://www.gog.com/en/game/wing_commander_privateer

That's an apt comparison. If Cameron has one calling card as a director it's that he sweats every last detail, Mazin and Druckman doing the same here really comes through on screen. Mazin's Chernobyl similarly went to significant lengths to really place the story in the USSR down to playground...

I'm sure Microsoft has a clearer picture of how people use their start button/task bar than I do, but I see a lot of other people's Windows desktops either as part of my job or just personally when something breaks and I cannot recall a single person ever saying anything nice about all the extra...

About a year ago my Dad went to the AT&T store without me and got himself a new phone. He came back with an S22 and has regretted it ever since. I knew that Samsung had this awful version of Android, but seeing it up close and trying to get it usable was really astonishing. It is a...

Same here, no real interest in switching from Fenix for all the reasons you list. May give Fedilab a look. Have enjoyed being on Mastodon for local stuff the last couple weeks, and if I could keep an eye on some Twitter lists in the same app that'd be great. Thanks.