Microsoft … the poster child for Linux migration

I think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it’s meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.

An AI bot operator isn’t going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they’d attempt to use [NOT AI].

I’d also point out that while lemmy doesn’t (yet) support hashtags, any “tagging” would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.

Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new “normal”?

I’ll note that I’m not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we’re going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.

When you watch a movie in public with native audio and subtitles and you speak or understand the audio language, you’ll often hear scattered laughter before the main audience laughs because often the subtitles have a delay for the punchline of a joke, which means that those who already heard the joke laughed at the moment it happened, not a second or more later when the subtitles arrive.

Most of the time the subtitles match the audio, sometimes they change a cultural reference, or infrequently completely get the translation wrong for no apparent reason which can become a new accedental joke all on its own. Then there’s weird ones where numbers like someone’s age or the time are wrong.

Source: I speak multiple human languages to various degree … and way too many technology ones. I’m also going deaf, so I have closed captioning on most of the time.

Both have been prioritising “engagement” over “results” because it allows them to advertise to you more.

In case you didn’t realise, if the product is free, you’re the product and both have been doing an amazing job out of extracting value from your eyeballs.

Unsurprisingly, they’re both owned by the same company.

… and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …

https://xerbo.net/posts/investigating-transit-pt1/

Over the years I’ve seen people in high profile roles resign in protest, but I’ve never understood it. I still don’t.

Is the whole point to bring attention to an issue and then what, hope for the best?

Is it not being able to look at yourself in the mirror and resigning with extra steps?

Is it a public dummy spit?

How does resigning actually fix something, or is that not a consideration?

As I said, I don’t understand.

Anyone?

This is by far the fastest, safest and most complete option.

One tip: Make sure that all the things you want to export are ticked because by default they’re not.

You can even set this up as a regular process if you want.

Source: long time user

… and nothing of value was lost …

Nothing quite like creating a specific incentive for researchers to seek “alternative” sources of income as payment for their research efforts.

Microsoft tried this … seems to be working out for them … not.

Just like every website has a cookie alert. Meaningless, annoying and extra work for everyone.

AI remains top reason excuse for US job cuts for third straight month as employers axed 97,000 workers in May

Not at all.

A law that isn’t enforceable or actually enforced is stupid.

This is in my opinion a good example of a stupid law.

Yeah, that’ll work.

Edit: Truth in advertising … there’s a novel concept.

I run my browser in incognito mode. Each launch a script creates a new profile directory specifically for that launch. When I quit the browser it deletes that profile directory.

For every activity, email, a specific search, an online purchase, an issue report, accessing personal information, etc., I’ll launch a separate instance and within that instance I’ll restrict my tabs to only that purpose.

I don’t save passwords or bookmarks, both of which are stored elsewhere.

I’m not particularly worried about tracking by being fingerprinted, I’m much more concerned about data leakage, either inadvertently or maliciously.

Rebooting is an utter pain in the arse, but I put up with it and use the opportunity to clear my slate.

Edit: I don’t create the profile directory manually, it’s a little bash script.

FYI

https://ea.rna.nl/2026/06/07/anthropic-openai-may-be-spending-more-than-1000-for-every-100-you-pay-them/

Of?

US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason excuse for cuts by US employers: report

GitHub Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

Bean counters too stupid to understand Assumed Intelligence bought into the hype and thought that they’d save money. Just like with drugs, the first one is free, now that they’ve fired all the expensive experienced employees, they’re in for a serious amount of hurt, which they’ll pass on to us as “increased operating costs”, which they did to themselves.