Technology

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”

Probably a lot of us are tired of Musks ramblings but I just thought this is clearly showing why he is so dangerous.

I think Musk may be more of a psychopath than Donald Trump, who is more of a narcissist but hopefully not a full blown maniac.

This is one amazing blog post. I don't think I've ever identified so much with what they are saying here.

Some quotes from the beginning of the article:

Instead, the tech industry has evolved into an absolute mess. And it’s getting worse instead of better! Our tower of complexity is now so tall that we seriously consider slathering LLMs on top to write the incomprehensible code in the incomprehensible frameworks so we don’t have to.

Programmers today are impatient for success. They start planning for a billion users before they write their first line of code. In fact, nowadays, we train them to do this without even knowing they’re doing it. Everything they’ve ever been taught revolves around scaling.

In modern computing, we tolerate long builds, and then docker builds, and uploading to container stores, and multi-minute deploy times before the program runs, and even longer times before the log output gets uploaded to somewhere you can see it, all because we’ve been tricked into this idea that everything has to scale.

This could be promising!

In case you still visit reddit from time to time, here's how the get rid of their ads (i.e. "Promoted" posts):

If you use Brave, right click anywhere in the page and select "Brave -> Manage custom filters". If you use uBlock, click on the toolbar icon, then settings (gear icon), then go to the "My filters" tab.

Enter the following code:

www.reddit.com##[id^="t3_za\="]

Save and reload the page. Promoted posts should be gone now.

First of all, sorry if there is a better place for this post, but it seemed fitting.

I can't tell you how recent this update is, but it's certainly not a welcome change. I would never, ever, under any circumstance voluntarily hand over all of my computer's data to a remote server in who-knows-where. I'd literally rather burn the hard drive myself than just give it away for free. I'm honestly insulted they think that is something we all want by default. Can't be uninstalled via Programs and Features, nor can it be viewed or rated on the windows app store in case you have that turned on.

There is probably a way to locate it and make a firewall rule to block it, might be in the SystemApps folder.

EDIT: It was in the \Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy folder, you can go to Windows Defender Firewall > Advanced Settings > Outbound Rules, create a new rule, select program, block and then do the same for Inbound. Hopefully this permanently disables any chance of MS' cloud getting their greasy grubby stripy shirt button cuffed hands anywhere near any file that you've even glanced at.