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So is everyone, not just Apple users. Except for specific use cases 3 years in the context of a computer is no time at all now, and hasn't been for at least a decade.

Why is this website so completely devoid of information? Why is there only one page. Why is the only link to GitHub?

How old is this? Why are all the examples in the screenshots on this extremely limited page so out of date (Non-Chrome Edge, Skype for Business, Office 2016, etc). Is this a dead project? The Releases page makes it appear to not be, but the website is so ancient that's the initial impression.

The GitHub page contains almost no additional information and the same ancient screenshots.

"What are the alternatives" is the wrong way to look at this. Morally, patronizing twitter with your time, attention, or money means supporting someone amplifying hate speech and conspiracies and trying to delegitimize democracy. It is clear that participating on twitter is morally untenable.

So Step 1 is to not use twitter, period. Step 2 can be looking for alternatives, sure, but Step 1 is to leave, no matter what.

Elon Musk is very deep in the right wing pro-Russia conspiracy hole. And he's a proven liar.

For the love of real freedom, stop using twitter.

Because it's just a pivot from one scam to the next.

What an asshole.

This is one of the best games I have played in recent years (I love a walking simulator). The voice acting is wonderful.

Our group runs The Lounge, and at this point only a couple people use standalone clients any more (and one person with a Matrix bridge). It gives you all the above (except perhaps the company wide persistent history, I'm not sure) and it's still IRC.

I don't trust cloudflare at all. Why would I trust someone trying to monopolize all internet traffic?

This is all the case in Denver as well.

The benchmarks presented in this fairly trashy post show the title to be a complete fabrication. It "wins" on some benchmarks but "loses" on others including single core performance and gaming.

Have some class.

So trustworthy they are believed to have been used to exfiltrate classified data from the US to Russia.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/01/15/2154250/very-high-l...

Bite me. I hate all the useless cold emails I get and I will hate yours too. I'm sure they also think they are relevant.

> RAW files, by nature, are hefty. A single photo can take up several megabytes, and if you're a prolific shooter, this quickly adds up to gigabytes of precious storage.

Was this written a decade ago? Storage is cheap, and a single jpeg from my 24 megapixel Ricoh point & shoot is 10-15 MB on its own.

> Not only does storing all your RAW files take up a lot of space but it makes your storage devices cluttered. The more files you have, the longer it takes to find what you need. By decluttering your digital workspace, you streamline your workflow.

This seems like bad advice. I recommend storing photos in a structured approach, such as by date and event, and using software that allows for tagging and flagging of pictures.

In fact this whole thing seems like bad advice. Like most things, organization of photos can be highly personal, but this smacks of faux minimalism written by a fairly naive person.

Nothing you say here is a defense of this industry. Some of it is an indictment. Was that your intent?

What a terrible idea. Can you say "Amazon Fire Phone"?

I bowl in a league and have for years. We used to bowl at a Brunswick Zone which wasn't awesome but had good lanes and a lot of leagues. Now it's a Bowlero and it's complete garbage. They don't seem to maintain their lanes at all, it seems totally focused on expensive drinks and poor service.

We're at a 40-lane independent house now. It's fantastic, a real gem. And they fill almost all of those lanes with leagues, often 2 or even 3 a day. The loss of independent houses and the growth of trash like Bowlero is bad for the sport.

That claim is just another pile of Elon Musk branded bullshit. We all know it so why amplify it?

Because "X" is a completely useless tire fire if you don't log in (and I will never create an account) this post is 100% utterly and completely without context. Don't use X.

The best part of this is "X" is such complete garbage that that post has literally zero context to someone unwilling to ever have an account on the tire fire that it is.

These tools are designed for and marketed to lawyers to use. These are not generalist LLM products. Your "this is why lawyers exist" statement makes no sense in the context of these products.

One of the models studied markets itself with "AI-Assisted Research on Westlaw Precision is the first generative AI offering from Thomson Reuters and will help legal professionals find the answers they need faster and with high confidence."

Another says "Most attorneys know Practical Law as the trusted, up-to-date legal know-how platform that helps them get accurate answers across major practice areas. Its newest enhancement, Ask Practical Law AI is a generative AI search tool that dramatically improves the way you access the trusted expertise from Practical Law."

A third says "Transform your legal work with Lexis+ AI"

I'm not creating an account to read the full story, making this a useless link.

We can't know before clicking whether it's a single image, single statement, or 800-tweet essay that should have been a blog post. (Unless someone tells us, as you did here).

All too often it's the latter, meaning anyone without an account can't see the content, meaning it has zero value. No way in hell am I creating an account. So the conclusion is twitter links are now useless.

No one wants this.

That doesn't follow. If the hottest temperature ever is 53.5, and the previous record was 52.8, then temperatures that cross 52 degrees don't sound "not uncommon" at all.

For comparison, the highest temperature in Denver history is 105 F (40.6 C). Denver gets 3-5 days above 100 F (37.8 C) in a typical year based on recent history. The total number of 100 degree days in Denver in the last 150 years is 105. The total count at 103 or above is 13. (source: https://www.weather.gov/bou/DenverSummerHeat).

The problem is drivers, every single time. DRIVERS hit pedestrians. If a pedestrian avoids it because they hear a motor that's a NEAR MISS that STILL needs to be addressed by drivers. Drivers have all the responsibility.

This is not an electric car problem. This is a DRIVER problem. And needs to be addressed from that perspective.

Just yesterday I was nearly hit by two drivers. One turning right on a full red who didn't slow down any more than they would on a green light. I was in the crosswalk. Then a driver turning right at a stop sign who didn't even look to their right. I was in the crosswalk.

Don't talk to me about TECHNOLOGY. Tell me how we fix DRIVING.

Forceful bend tests for large thin tablets feels like a pretty BS way to measure durability. I have an old iPad Pro (first model) that is bent, scratched, and dented from rough handling and never once being put in a case, but it still works perfectly. Is it "not durable" just because I could truly bend it if I went out of my way to do so? I could probably break my Remarkable tablet the same way if I tried. Maybe we should note that my pen is "not durable" because I could break it in half if I wanted to. Maybe my coffee mug is "not durable" because I could smash it on the ground. Maybe my Jeep is "not durable" because I could probably dent the doors if I kicked them hard enough. Maybe my 40 year old bicycle is "not durable" because if I really wanted to I could bend the frame out of shape or stomp on the wheels to put them out of round.

Durability is about lasting, about working as expected during normal use without taking special precautions. About being able to recover from minor incidents. It's not an expectation that it can be abused to extremes and survive. Some things aren't durable, certainly, but a "bend test" on a large thin sheet is hardly representative of the actual wear these tablets go through.

Them and everyone else.

You create a bullshit generator and show it off by linking to a sign in/sign up page? Ridiculous.

First, this kind of crap devalues writing in general. No AI tool writes high quality text. "Content creation," honestly. What a horrible way to look at writing.

Second, this kind of presentation is completely useless to sell anyone on anything. Even if I wasn't against this kind of useless tool I'm sure as hell not signing up for anything with this kind of landing page. Particularly one with no explanation, no examples, and ToS and Privacy Policy links that literally go nowhere.

I'm giving it to you straight. Feel proud if you like about the SaaS aspect or that you built something. That's fair. But don't fool yourself that this "product" does anything actually useful.

I read a couple of the example ebooks and I also got a few previews on topics I am familiar with and unsurprisingly it's inane, generic, regurgitated crap. There is no learning to be found. Certainly not "efficient, thorough learning" as you claim.

The "Drug Legalization and Harm Reduction" example is exactly the type of topic that requires citations along with data including tables and charts to illustrate the points being made. The Space Exploration example jumps around wildly, going from 1969 to 1990 as if nothing happened in between, and places "The Race to the Moon" in the "current technologies" section which makes zero sense. It then becomes incoherent fantasy in the "future technologies" section. The Ethics and AI example makes numerous claims about the things that AI can do that seem to hit a wall with the simple question "How?". Each of these reads like a bad essay that would struggle to get a passing grade were it written for a class.

This has no value for learning. In my opinion you are doing a disservice to knowledge and learning with this.