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sockmeistron Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload

If you haven't seen it before, I'd recommend Dan Luu's blog post about Ballmer:

Archive mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20260121081507/https://etn.se/in...

sockmeistron Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line

They're still going, are nice and litigious, and actively defend their trademarks. I'm kind of surprised they haven't sent a cease and desist already.

sockmeistron JavaScript Trademark Update

But it was never a Sun product? Java was a Sun product, giving JavaScript a name with "Java" in it was the mistake that created this whole mess.

sockmeistron “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

For what it's worth, I do hate people pasting their AI summaries to the comments. Not only are they adding nothing, they are actively detracting from the conversation; they have just pasted a wall of text without fact-checking it. And in fact, this "summary" misrepresents the article; it completely ignores the humor and presents it as a serious scientific endeavour.

But judging from the rest of the comments, it seems like most people barely managed to finish reading the title, so perhaps there's no need to worry about them reading this AI slop...

sockmeistron 20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"

I just wanted to second this recommendation - while the video is nearly an hour long, it feels much shorter and is well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

sockmeistron Enhancer for YouTube for Firefox is gone

Are you sure it's really gone? I can see it on en-GB:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-...

Edit: Nevermind, it now seems to be gone from the en-GB site too!

sockmeistron Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

Are you thinking of the "Indie Wiki Buddy" extension? They have already added support for the new minecraft wiki: https://getindie.wiki/listings/

It's pretty incredible that Fandom/Fextralife have driven people to developing browser extensions just to avoid everything they touch...

sockmeistron You don't have to engage with people on the Internet

The context is that they work for Tailscale. (I'm guessing you assumed they were FAANG?)

sockmeistron Google is shutting down Stadia

You can export your savegame via google takeout, but often these savegames will only work on the stadia builds of games, and aren't able to be loaded into stadia. (Source: https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/stadia/sp-tech...)

sockmeistron Minify your container

Isn't this incredibly dangerous? I know everyone likes to pretend they have perfect code coverage, but just ripping stuff out that wasn't called during 'probing' feels like the perfect way to make rare code paths even more dangerous.

sockmeistron Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting

RE:Twitter, I suspect that's because Germans get a different report form than other visitors - Germany has some specific laws (e.g. NetzDG) that apply to visitors from Germany, rather than visitors who speak German.

sockmeistron GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

There's an RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3834

sockmeistron Considered "18+"

No offence to the other members of haxx, but I suspect Daniel's site is the only one that gets enough traffic to be considered for filtering.

sockmeistron Should I Use a Carousel?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

sockmeistron How we built the unbeatable Dota 2 bot

It doesn't understand the value; from the article: "We also separately trained the initial creep block using traditional RL techniques".

sockmeistron The NHS's 1.2M employees are trapped in a 'reply-all' email hell

Approximately 9% of US workers are in healthcare. (http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/health-care-employment-...)

The UK does have a private healthcare sector, although smaller than the NHS.