It’s hard to avoid when all our parties are in favor of this garbage.

If they don’t vote they don’t get to complain. Vote or shut up.

Or download it in a bunch of other ways directly from Wikipedia.

Paying for an OS that phones home with incredible amounts of telemetry where you have to run adblock to get rid of the built in ads is just silly.

Microsoft was shit in the 90s and never stopped being shit.

*Usernames

I compartmentalised a lot using several sock puppets

Damn it, didnt even get a notice about this comment. It uses GANs, similar but not the same as the LLMs used by chatgpt trained on a large set of photos (I think it was trained on the ffhq set) to generate new faces. See youtube for cool videos that transition between faces.

All the faces on This person does not exist are more believable than any picture of the Zucbot.

I don’t think it’s dying. I hope it’s a paradigm shift like when it changed from wild west lawless chaos to three or four huge companies running all of it. Maybe we end up with everything replaced by different distributed services. It’s going to incredibly annoying when half the search results are dead links or links to reddit but that annoyance can drive innovation.