https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/reverse-flynn-effect-hits-gen-123020869.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-the-first-generation-dumber-than-their-parents-neuroscientist-claims/

This quantum leap could be just the breakthrough Firefox needed to set event coordinates during HTML 5 mouse drag events.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521

The most valuable position in the market right now is as a substitute of search enginesm

The second most valuable position in the market is as a tool to speed up work for already skilled people.

I perceive them as having equal value. In each case the technology is forced on users in a top-down way and results in worse outcomes.

I don’t expect you’ll agree; that’s not the same as what I wrote being “Not really true.”

That is true but does not pertain to what I wrote.

To be more precise, LLMs’ present valuation in the market is not based on their being a skill so much as the end of skill.

The problem with “LLM requires skill to use correctly.” is that LLM’s are not being sold as a skill but rather the end of skill.

The other practical side of this is enforceability.

There is likewise no way to tell, just by examining code, that it was not plagiarized.

Non-point elements removed to help you focus.

It is enough to make one wonder in what country the Baelis reside.

On that note, OpenBSD appears to be a likely refuge now that Linux has been abandoned to slop.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411620801633&w=2

AI has fundamentally changed how you do CS in industry, it’s completely unavoidable at this point and not using it in some capacity is doing yourself a massive disservice

If it was in truth inevitable then there would be no need to constantly shriek “It is inevitable!”

There is also evidence that deferring critical thinking to an LLM causes cognitive atrophy.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Much of open-source development relies on the honor system. There is likewise no way to tell, just by examining code, that it was not plagiarized.

Honor that needs to be enforced is not honor. It is something less.

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On the old client you could disable the integrated browser using the “-no-browser” command line switch.

For its next trick, Valve should make Steam as performant as it was before they made it Electronslop.

Indeed. Steam client is an Electron app that can display advertisements, too.

https://i.imgur.com/08dhZb5.mp4

They are each bloatware that insists upon itself.

If Steam had not acquired a userbase by vendor lock-in it would be no more popular than any other “game launcher”.

Thanks for the heads up. I thought I could add a thumbnail to the article but apparently I don’t fully grasp Lemmy’s UI yet.

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Recompilations are excellent.

The slop-based recompilations are worse than useless because:

1. They discourage humans from making recompilations based on the hard work of understanding the target software, since “There is already a recompilation.”

2. Slop recompilations “authors” typically don’t understand the target software well enough to implement the typical 10% of functionality the LLM fails to furnish.

3. The LLM generates such unreadable code that not even god could debug it. So it might as well be a binary itself.

It better feature Horsecock or I’m not watching it.

The cops fight to withold the bodycam footage. The news pauses the clip before showing the actual crime even after the footage is released. But I bet they will air SecDef Kegbreath’s state execution without any cuts.