The only thing that would make me switch is data loss.
Counterpoint: Take a look at consumer cellular. I would say it’s drastically cheaper than verizon, at&t, or t-mobile, but the customer support is better than all 3.
It seems like if ChatGPT had literally any other way to turn a profit, they would have done it before resorting to this. Kind of fees like this is their last ditch effort to show investors that they can somehow become…
Glad to see my sense of humor lines up directly with 18th century dock workers
Yes in that case there would be no data transmitted, and no risk. Another example: if the user turns off "Turn on when Windows starts up" or whatever equivalent, this would also be a non-issue.
The Alaska Mint is the only link I clicked that still worked
Is the idea that hackers can review the source for vulnerabilities? I would imagine any internet-facing application would not have any issues with a source code "leak" like this, as all inter-app communication is based…
> Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. This is exactly why we have AI assistants in the first place. The typical person wants the damn phone / computer / tablet out of their life, they just want to say…
Agree on it being AI, but what really screamed "AI slop" to me was the emojis. I don't know any tech bloggers who use emojis, but everything that ChatGPT or Gemini generates always has too many emojis.
> public WhatsApp API There is no public WhatsApp API. You need to sign up for "WhatsApp Business Platform" to be able to use an API to interact with WhatsApp. If there was a real API for WhatsApp, this probably…
I've used [batch editing in GIMP before](https://github.com/alessandrofrancesconi/gimp-plugin-bimp), to resize a folder of images, so the feature is there. Granted it is a plugin, not a built-in feature. I do agree…
> Despite Linux, llvm and Blender proving that open source can beat closed source, GIMP has failed for a very long time. As a GIMP / Inkscape user who hasn't used photoshop / illustrator, what is so much better about…
I don't know how anyone has enough patience to use Stack Overflow in 2025. Any LLM, even the one in Google Search, will give you a better answer than some stack overflow user that didn't read or understand your question…
> Robots still work: Your Neato robot will continue to function manually. Simply press the button once to launch a full house run. Your title is wrong
As a dev currently working at a company where getting an access request fulfilled can sometimes take weeks, I feel this author's pain. But it seems like an enormous security hole, even with a codeword "password". The…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03206-7 > This suggests that chronically elevated arousal in AnxDs may increase neurometabolic demand for choline compounds without a proportionate increase in brain uptake,…
Engineering is all tradeoffs. For this guy who spent thousands per month on AWS, using AWS makes no sense. For a guy like me whose AWS bill was 38 cents last month, AWS makes a lot of sense. Currently I have a small…
I think a transformer wrote this article, seeing a suspicious number of em dashes in the last section
I'm not an artist but I am decent with the pen tool, and for graphic design stuff I typically use AI art to give me a thing I can trace in illustrator with the pen tool, and fix any errors or imperfections I deem worthy…
I now have another reason to dislike Tailwind.
Alternative headline: Psychotherapist wastes more than 8 weeks talking to ChatGPT for literally no reason.
For example, homebrew will auto-update your formulae by default. If you install it with homebrew, you may not have ran `brew pin hugo` and it gets auto-updated.
The orange website is filled with tech-savvy people who understand all this. To play devils advocate, google is trying to protect the lower-half of the IQ distribution: examples given in the article are the folks who…
This person feels entitled to quality customer service. Maybe 30 years ago that was an expectation. Nowadays, if you want good customer service, you need to pick business that deliberately prioritize it, which often…
> Meanwhile, all the wealthy business owners are fascinated with it cause they can get things done without having to hire. I think you need to add the word potentially in front of "get things done". The venn diagram of…
The only thing that would make me switch is data loss.
Counterpoint: Take a look at consumer cellular. I would say it’s drastically cheaper than verizon, at&t, or t-mobile, but the customer support is better than all 3.
It seems like if ChatGPT had literally any other way to turn a profit, they would have done it before resorting to this. Kind of fees like this is their last ditch effort to show investors that they can somehow become…
Glad to see my sense of humor lines up directly with 18th century dock workers
Yes in that case there would be no data transmitted, and no risk. Another example: if the user turns off "Turn on when Windows starts up" or whatever equivalent, this would also be a non-issue.
The Alaska Mint is the only link I clicked that still worked
Is the idea that hackers can review the source for vulnerabilities? I would imagine any internet-facing application would not have any issues with a source code "leak" like this, as all inter-app communication is based…
> Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. This is exactly why we have AI assistants in the first place. The typical person wants the damn phone / computer / tablet out of their life, they just want to say…
Agree on it being AI, but what really screamed "AI slop" to me was the emojis. I don't know any tech bloggers who use emojis, but everything that ChatGPT or Gemini generates always has too many emojis.
> public WhatsApp API There is no public WhatsApp API. You need to sign up for "WhatsApp Business Platform" to be able to use an API to interact with WhatsApp. If there was a real API for WhatsApp, this probably…
I've used [batch editing in GIMP before](https://github.com/alessandrofrancesconi/gimp-plugin-bimp), to resize a folder of images, so the feature is there. Granted it is a plugin, not a built-in feature. I do agree…
> Despite Linux, llvm and Blender proving that open source can beat closed source, GIMP has failed for a very long time. As a GIMP / Inkscape user who hasn't used photoshop / illustrator, what is so much better about…
I don't know how anyone has enough patience to use Stack Overflow in 2025. Any LLM, even the one in Google Search, will give you a better answer than some stack overflow user that didn't read or understand your question…
> Robots still work: Your Neato robot will continue to function manually. Simply press the button once to launch a full house run. Your title is wrong
As a dev currently working at a company where getting an access request fulfilled can sometimes take weeks, I feel this author's pain. But it seems like an enormous security hole, even with a codeword "password". The…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03206-7 > This suggests that chronically elevated arousal in AnxDs may increase neurometabolic demand for choline compounds without a proportionate increase in brain uptake,…
Engineering is all tradeoffs. For this guy who spent thousands per month on AWS, using AWS makes no sense. For a guy like me whose AWS bill was 38 cents last month, AWS makes a lot of sense. Currently I have a small…
I think a transformer wrote this article, seeing a suspicious number of em dashes in the last section
I'm not an artist but I am decent with the pen tool, and for graphic design stuff I typically use AI art to give me a thing I can trace in illustrator with the pen tool, and fix any errors or imperfections I deem worthy…
I now have another reason to dislike Tailwind.
Alternative headline: Psychotherapist wastes more than 8 weeks talking to ChatGPT for literally no reason.
For example, homebrew will auto-update your formulae by default. If you install it with homebrew, you may not have ran `brew pin hugo` and it gets auto-updated.
The orange website is filled with tech-savvy people who understand all this. To play devils advocate, google is trying to protect the lower-half of the IQ distribution: examples given in the article are the folks who…
This person feels entitled to quality customer service. Maybe 30 years ago that was an expectation. Nowadays, if you want good customer service, you need to pick business that deliberately prioritize it, which often…
> Meanwhile, all the wealthy business owners are fascinated with it cause they can get things done without having to hire. I think you need to add the word potentially in front of "get things done". The venn diagram of…