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For a site that values science, a lot of people here sure do value poorly validated secondary sources over original research. It takes literally no effort to find circular sourcing on many Wikipedia entries, yet so many people treat it like peer-reviewed research.

Wikipedia is literally Generative Human Intelligence. There's no unqiue research, thoughts, or conclusions in there. It's a human-generated response to a request for information that uses other people's thoughts and works as its foundation. Being opposed to GenAI doing the same thing is perhaps...

"Journalism" in 2025 is wondering why a historically corrupt administration does a thing without any explanation and not pointing out the thousands of times they've accepted "gifts" for "favors"...

Same. I started reading them and was like...none of these scenarios are areas of my life where I need help, so even if it's not niche (though I suspect it is), it's not universal. 🙃

Literally the plan by the oligarchs. Keep the poor whites stupid, weak, hating other minorities, and make them breed to keep the demographics in their favor.

I came here to make a "hedoesntgetmyfeed" joke or something similar. Though for what it's worth, Reddit's advertising controls let you block off categories and I stopped getting that crap when I unchecked "religious ads"

I gotta say, it takes some guts to write something so blatantly anti-consumer as this in 2025. It's not quite to the level of anti-consumerism as the current administration, but it's a good first effort.

All the people in the comments thinking that un-hiding file extensions (something you can do) will somehow protect users. It's like you're all new to the world.

Legitimately angry at the two people who downvoted this. This is not the Ars I've loved for the last 20 years.

My first thought is that someone needs to send this to the anti-vaxxers and raw milk advocates so they can go bottle splashpad water as the next big health trend. I'm tired, guys. So tired.

Or better yet, people could just write code without bugs! That's it everyone, I solved all our problems! We can go home now!

I bought the Brother printer you linked to earlier this year. It was on sale for $99. It's worked perfectly since the day I got it. Fast, quiet, duplex printing, no software shenanigans. HP lost me years ago.

...and I didn't!

I think after all these years, it's officially time to change the saying to "If it's Boeing, it's not going." 😞

This is why picking your vendors carefully and demanding that they provide evidence of their security practices and processes needs to standard practice for companies. There needs to be some level of disclosure about how these companies actually practice key pieces of supply chain security for...

The irony here is that the old monopoly was SO BROKEN that when some competition finally popped up, it broke them so badly that instead of a competitive landscape, they just got replaced by the new monopoly. NASA and Congress let this happen over 20 years, and now we're reaping what they've sown.

The only thing more exhausting than a Vegan True Believer is a Markdown True Believer. The number of times I have watched a project jam Markdown into its editing suite just so every bit of formatting gets a bit more obtuse and worse to read...sigh.

It'll be exciting when police departments start using this to generate fake confessions to cover for their mis-handling of evidence and cover-up of their gross malfeasance.

The problem isn't that there aren't a number of solid alternatives to VMware out there. The problem is that an entire generation of IT Professionals and IT Leaders have built their careers and reputations around justifying, building out, and managing large VMware deployments to their board of...

Of course, the way so many organizations replace Excel is to custom develop an application for their special snowflake needs, and then the person/company they used to create that snowflake app goes away, and now their critical data is in a system that they can't update, extract from easily, or...