[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep! JustHTML was entirely written by LLMs.

I found the article he links to about “vibe engineering” pretty interesting!

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Firefox has actually become less stable for me, which is crazy because it was stable for several years.

It had gotten bloated and unstable when Chrome first came out, too.

Why does Mozilla always trend toward mediocrity?

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 days ago

Yes please! I would create it today but I have to go to a stupid Christmas party.

https://hyperallergic.com/why-are-there-dead-birds-on-victorian-xmas-cards/

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 days ago

Does anyone else think it’s intelligence-insulting to use AI?

“Ultrathink. Don’t ask me any questions.”

I know “UltraThink” is a keyword, but the fact that you have to constantly tell it to do a good job is hilarious.

What a waste.

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 6 points 4 days ago

If you’re sitting here claiming to be a Strongerman and wearing the gear

Oh no, “wearing the gear?”

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Vigilance and education (and vigilance in education) seem important, that’s all I got.

If anyone has the chance, I really do recommend reading the book. It looks academic but it’s really easy to read despite being written in 1953.

The author was Jewish, but kept that totally hidden while doing the interviews to avoid the obvious.

Which makes the above even more crazy. “I thought I’d hit paydirt” because someone was finally going to talk about killing his people. Nope.

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 84 points 6 days ago

Reading that book really opened my eyes to how this kind of thing happens, how long it lasts, and how deep it goes.

The countries that think they’re safe are merely naive.

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 175 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Many of the true-blue Nazis didn’t really see the big deal after World War II.

When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.”
I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, “What do you mean, ‘what it would lead to,’ Herr Wedekind?”
“War,” he said. “Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war.”

None of them ever heard anything bad about the Nazi regime except, as they believed, from Germany’s enemies, and Germany’s enemies were theirs. “Everything the Russians and the Americans said about us,” said Cabinetmaker Klingelhöfer, “they now say about each other.”

From They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer.

Highly recommended.

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 29 points 6 days ago

It wouldn’t surprise me if Ford literally produced the vehicle because of subsidies.

If they could get a portion of the EV tax breaks, they wanted it.

Now that the current administration is obviously still obsessed with burning oil, it no longer matters.

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 27 points 6 days ago

This comes across as absolutely bizarre to me. It’s a for-profit company that is owned by CD Projekt.

If it was an actual foundation it would be different, but “donating” your money so one of the most profitable game companies can make more money seems like a weird thing to do.

The Video Game History Foundation has existed for close to nine years and is actually a non-profit.

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