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New comment by cosmical65 in "Death by AI"

cosmical65 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:52:42 +0000

> I'd say this isn't just an AI overview thing. It's a Google thing. Google will sometimes show inaccurate information and there is usually no way to correct it.

Well, in this case the inaccurate information is shown because the AI overview is combining information about two different people, rather than the sources being wrong. With traditional search, any webpages would be talking about one of the two people and contain only information about them. Thus, I'd say that this problem is specific to the AI overview.

New comment by cosmical65 in "The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public"

cosmical65 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:12:54 +0000

> Highways.

In my European country you have to pay a toll to use a highway. Most people opt to use them, instead of taking the old 2-lane road that existed before the highway and is still free.

New comment by cosmical65 in "Stack Overflow Community Is Not Happy with the OpenAI Deal"

cosmical65 — Thu, 09 May 2024 12:47:16 +0000

Bur what happens after a long time, when most of the content on the internet is AI generated and thus knowledge is limited to what the AI knows?

It might improve productivity in the short term but when we start experiencing the long term effects, it might be too late to go back.

New comment by cosmical65 in "Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years"

cosmical65 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:40:47 +0000

In my experience, people tend to say that macOS "looks good". I have not spoken with a mac user who said that macOS is more usable or the workflows are more productive. Also, Apple has convinced everyone that they always know what they are doing, so when something is wrong in the OS it's users who think they must be doing something wrong.

But with Microsoft turning Windows into a big advertising billboard, I can see it becoming a valid reason.

New comment by cosmical65 in "A new Debian package helper: debputy"

cosmical65 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 14:23:31 +0000

For me rpm was relatively easy to grasp, it's basically a shell script and each section has a specific job (building, preparing, copying files etc.)

No matter how much I tried I could never grasp deb packaging. The documentation is very sparse and the debhelper commands seem like magic. I couldn't find out what all the different files like .dirs or .install did, so I just gave up.

New comment by cosmical65 in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

cosmical65 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 22:27:56 +0000

In the US you have two choices, so you see them relative to each other. You consider democrats left wing and conservatives right wing.

In Europe there is a plethora of parties all throughout the political spectrum.

New comment by cosmical65 in "The Internals of PostgreSQL"

cosmical65 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:19:32 +0000

Would be awesome to have an EPUB version of this. The scaling on the website is really weird for me.

New comment by cosmical65 in "Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip"

cosmical65 — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:33:27 +0000

Yes. My bank offers NFC payments through their own app instead of Google Pay.