The earth was too scared to have him on it anymore...

With the increasingly intrusive legislated age verification and content monitoring being forced globally, I can easily see this as a catalyst to drive the Gemini protocol past critical mass.

They basically are, the algorithm is something like:

At the beginning of january and july, observe the difference between UT1 and UTC. If the difference is >= 0.6s, a leap second will be inserted at the end of june/december. Publish the results here: https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc

This is true. They look at how much the earth spun, and whether it was more or less than 86400 seconds/day average. This can't be done without external data. It's not a pure mathematical algorithm.

Waiting until Trump discovers that the earth rotation service exists and forces them to insert a negative leap second just because he can.

Oh thank God I thought I was going to make it through a thread on leap seconds without a political discussion

As those social justice groups like to say: "everything is political"...

Is it that surprising? Elsewhere in the thread, people are discussing the best smear tactics!

Remember, it is for the children. /s

Even a face scan is a hard no for me. I have no desire to make it easy for companies to start linking me (the person) to anywhere else, directly via my face metadata.

Especially if it lands in hands of Thiel. He's selling his services to governments, law enforcement and abusers like ICE.

I think we might have different risk/reward levels. For me, using VR can make me feel sick and vaguely disorientated for many hours afterwards. Almost nothing is worth that.

I love the idea of VR but my brain / balance system most certainly does not!

I.Don't.Care.

I enjoyed the narrative. It was true. Who cares if it was written by a ghost writer, an AI or anything else.

I did not read it because the prose was insipid. Maybe the project is interesting, but I won't know because I'm not going to read an infomercial. You must understand that this stuff is not to everyone's taste.

So if something is written by an LLM it makes it an infomercial?

Also, what are you comparing this post to? Because you should compare it to the author’s own writing and according to the author, his writing is not that good.

If the author cannot write then he should not write.

Move along then? Anecdotal datapoint but all the anti LLM comments in here are a lot of less than a year old accounts.

If you don’t like something simply move along. Constructive criticism is great but the volume of overly negative and honestly nasty replies like yours are not in the spirit of HN.

>Constructive criticism is great

Good, I will continue to voice it. Unfortunately it takes me several thousand times longer to complain about AI slop polluting the bulletin than it does to populate the bulletin with AI slop, which is the actual nastiness going on here.

Nope the only nastiness is how critical mean you are in your replies. All it takes is a quick hey I appreciate the article but not the use of a LLM to write it. None of the other words you have used are in the spirit here. Move along.

Right, no insider trading going on here at all /s

I hate the flat, borderless, barely visible scroll bar mess that is Windows 11. Just try to determine where one window starts and another ends with multiple overlapping windows open, especially in dark mode.

Windows UI peaked at Windows 7 and has been steadily in a race to the bottom ever since.

Windows 11 is going to be the final straw that prompts me to relegate it to a game playing or only-use-because-I-must secondary OS. Linux, here I come - if only I could decide which flavour...

I use Fedora Workstation. It's boring and less customizable than other distros out of the box, but I like it like that. I pretty much just add the extension 'dash to panel' and call it a day.

Microsoft has their own plans for where they want to go with Windows and it certainly is not catering to their users. The same could be said from most big companies I guess -- all about lock-in, value extraction, planned obsolescence. I see Valve/Steam as one of the few exceptions, probably because they are not publicly traded.

Been pretty happy with the PopOS Cosmic series so far.

Until you hit a knot in the wood and get kickback, which leads to exciting times... j/k I get what you are trying to say.