The GPT Era Is Already Ending

Had it begun? Alls I saw was a frenzy of idiot investment cheered on shamelessly by hypocritical hypemen.

*gasp!* He knows!

Ding!

“United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

Well, first of all fuck reddit, but secondly: if you appreciate actual human moderation in any significant sense - it’s hard work.

Getting paid to do it is rare (again - fuck reddit, they should get off of there) but on any site that’s actually trying to honestly build or host a community it takes time to check the reports, message the people, log the entry all that shit. It’s a huge pain in the ass when something blows up, which is why neither you or I will likely ever be mods. When it’s the scale of reddit it’s bound to be a lot of scrambling until shit cools off again.

Oh man, I feel that pain. But here’s where I’m at: after so many decades of really trying, really trying to get them to learn what a file system is and how computers, y’know, work, I’m done.

Obviously I don’t do that work for pay, but when I did I went with the assumption that people were just ignorant, not stupid. Now I think they’re just incurious - which is a kind of stupidity. And since the vast majority of their lives are now controlled, monitored, or involve these systems they can’t be bothered to learn - yeah, sucks to be them.

the developers have made a ton of questionable decisions.

Yeah, mimicking Windows being the first. The second is “pay $35 to ‘unlock the benefits’” is skeezy as hail.

But as AI expert Justine Moore pointed out on social media site X

HAhahahahahahah

In other news, science has indications the sun may be hot as a muthafucka.

I followed instructions to install Debian on a spare drive and gave it a go and do you know what, it was fine. It made me realise 90% of what I do is in a browser anyway, so why did I have a hang up about having the exact same browser experience in a slightly different operating system?

That’s how it’s done people. Alright let’s go 2025 Year of the Linux Desktop (Again)! Chop chop! Let’s move out!

I’ve been asking that for about 15 years. If you’re just now considering it, in 2039 you’ll still be asking it.

A fair point, though “a ton of money” is essentially 1% of their net profits for the year. Selling Chrome to someone who gets another .5% is not going to do anything at all.

So it is on firefox as well . . ? And also with Edge, for those poor bastards.

Why not just force them to pick a different default? Or something meaningful like splitting them out of Alphabet entirely? Or stop sucking? Okay, well that last one may be hard to administrate.

What the what?

“sell your browser, that’ll limit your search monopoly”

. . . HAH?

Yay!

HA!

What a joke.

Oh man there’s nothing i like better than rating some poetry.

True. But back then they made money on advertising. Now we’re funding them directly.

Do you part - cancel the service.

Death to Comcast, Disney, and IBM.

Okay! Bye!