It's something like decision fatigue. You're constantly having to criticize every word because you know it will make stuff up out of whole cloth. Reading something you've verified to have come from a trusted expert or even just a human being is far less stressful.
That's probably the way things are going. All of the decoration on everything you get in a store will be AI generated. Personally, I would like it if the packaging looked little more than like what I imagine 1940 military food rations did: plain tin cans and brown paper packaging with nothing but a description of the contents in plain black lettering. You could have a photo of the contents but that's it. That might sound depressing, but is it more depressing than decoration meant to get you to buy, buy, buy? Alright, I guess the decoration is also for branding, but you can do that with black lettering too.
It was unusual. You can imagine the intrigue that would occur if Trump did something like this. Why the tan suit? What is he distracting us from? Step out of your subjective shoes for a moment. The blue team hates the red team. The red team hates the blue team. Just about anything out of the ordinary the other team does is controversial. It's exacerbated by the sensationalist media who want your ears and eyeballs to show you ads and by politicians who will make a big stink about everything to keep you paying attention to them so that you remember to vote for them in the next election.
In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.
Sounds familiar. The proof-of-work blockchain scheme which was the fad a while ago is also often described as a solution in search of a problem.
Three-in-one computer crime: prompt injection which instructs their agent to open inspect element in a browser and then download all of the scholarly works off of JSTOR.
The spike likely represents Statcounter being too slow to adjust their methods of filtering out bot page views after some brand new web scrapers appeared on the scene hoovering up all the data for AI training. 10% linux market share would be a cosmic event. You would hear about it in mainstream media if it were really happening.
Edit: I forgot about popular youtube channel Linus Tech Tips' recent videos in which they gave linux their highest praise yet. One was published in mid June, another in mid July, and their most recent and most favorable to linux was published on July 22 ("My Experience Using the Steam Machine as a Desktop PC"). There have also been videos on the Framework laptops. Vibes tell me that there's a trend of more people using mobile over desktop, so I would expect a higher proportion of desktop users to be the gamer or technically inclined type, enough to be influenced by LTT and give linux a shot, compared to 10 years ago.
Here's the data for the last 4 months.
Date Windows OS X Linux Chrome OS macOS
2026-04 66.39 17.04 2.94 4.42 9.21
2026-05 64.66 19.92 3.56 3.72 8.15
2026-06 59.08 24.06 6.14 2.19 8.53
2026-07 57.63 21.07 10.61 2.07 8.63
The data looks noisy. You would expect the lines to have consistent, regular annual patterns. You can see that with Chrome OS which seems to have a dip in the middle of the year corresponding to when schools are out for summer vacation, and if you scan upward, it appears Windows has a corresponding hump at that time. But there are still unexplained extreme swings. The lines look smooth up until 2012/2013. Maybe Statcounter doesn't have as many members/page views as it once did, leading to higher variance. We could see that if we had absolute numbers, but we only have percentages. That's probably affected by the advent of the LLMs. Nobody's going to the web anymore to find information.
Using reddit's stock price to estimate what fraction of the users are people. Sounds like a plan. The stock price is like a CAPTCHA for social media platforms. Are you authentically human or an empty husk of clankers gabbing at each other?
I've heard the reason for that is archive.today uses accounts to get around paywalls and the usernames for those accounts which appear on the page are hidden in order to not reveal to the scraped service which accounts are being used.
It's gothub.org. You linked to some dumb AI startup.
It's a sure sign of a bubble that a URL typo coincidentally brings one to a completely unrelated page for a completely unknown, in-beta AI startup with a dumb idea.
It's something like decision fatigue. You're constantly having to criticize every word because you know it will make stuff up out of whole cloth. Reading something you've verified to have come from a trusted expert or even just a human being is far less stressful.
That's probably the way things are going. All of the decoration on everything you get in a store will be AI generated. Personally, I would like it if the packaging looked little more than like what I imagine 1940 military food rations did: plain tin cans and brown paper packaging with nothing but a description of the contents in plain black lettering. You could have a photo of the contents but that's it. That might sound depressing, but is it more depressing than decoration meant to get you to buy, buy, buy? Alright, I guess the decoration is also for branding, but you can do that with black lettering too.
It should say rent instead of buy and give the expiration date corresponding to the date on which the license term ends.
"Rent. Unlimited viewing until January 1, 2027."
It was unusual. You can imagine the intrigue that would occur if Trump did something like this. Why the tan suit? What is he distracting us from? Step out of your subjective shoes for a moment. The blue team hates the red team. The red team hates the blue team. Just about anything out of the ordinary the other team does is controversial. It's exacerbated by the sensationalist media who want your ears and eyeballs to show you ads and by politicians who will make a big stink about everything to keep you paying attention to them so that you remember to vote for them in the next election.
I shall prematurely end this comment chain with the obligatory xkcd. Yes, you've seen it before, and you will see it again.
They're mentioned in the article.
The Evaporative Cooling Effect
Sounds familiar. The proof-of-work blockchain scheme which was the fad a while ago is also often described as a solution in search of a problem.
It's been a blast to see the death of the internet as fraudsters pollute the world with books they hope to make a quick buck on and which they did not write themselves. Real fun. /s
Three-in-one computer crime: prompt injection which instructs their agent to open inspect element in a browser and then download all of the scholarly works off of JSTOR.
This website has too many red flags. The entire thing may be AI-generated.
The spike likely represents Statcounter being too slow to adjust their methods of filtering out bot page views after some brand new web scrapers appeared on the scene hoovering up all the data for AI training. 10% linux market share would be a cosmic event. You would hear about it in mainstream media if it were really happening.
Edit: I forgot about popular youtube channel Linus Tech Tips' recent videos in which they gave linux their highest praise yet. One was published in mid June, another in mid July, and their most recent and most favorable to linux was published on July 22 ("My Experience Using the Steam Machine as a Desktop PC"). There have also been videos on the Framework laptops. Vibes tell me that there's a trend of more people using mobile over desktop, so I would expect a higher proportion of desktop users to be the gamer or technically inclined type, enough to be influenced by LTT and give linux a shot, compared to 10 years ago.
Here's the data for the last 4 months.
The data looks noisy. You would expect the lines to have consistent, regular annual patterns. You can see that with Chrome OS which seems to have a dip in the middle of the year corresponding to when schools are out for summer vacation, and if you scan upward, it appears Windows has a corresponding hump at that time. But there are still unexplained extreme swings. The lines look smooth up until 2012/2013. Maybe Statcounter doesn't have as many members/page views as it once did, leading to higher variance. We could see that if we had absolute numbers, but we only have percentages. That's probably affected by the advent of the LLMs. Nobody's going to the web anymore to find information.
Using reddit's stock price to estimate what fraction of the users are people. Sounds like a plan. The stock price is like a CAPTCHA for social media platforms. Are you authentically human or an empty husk of clankers gabbing at each other?
They're all forms of delay-line memory.
tom7 is a legend.
Old-school DRM
I've heard the reason for that is archive.today uses accounts to get around paywalls and the usernames for those accounts which appear on the page are hidden in order to not reveal to the scraped service which accounts are being used.
Nobody deserves to be bullied.
It's gothub.org. You linked to some dumb AI startup.
It's a sure sign of a bubble that a URL typo coincidentally brings one to a completely unrelated page for a completely unknown, in-beta AI startup with a dumb idea.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
The correct answer is C: the cube plops out and the object to which the blue portal is affixed flies off in the southwest direction.