Yah, it’s the EFF, they get significant latitude from their history.

Hmfhh, quite so, dropped this…

/s

Nice.

optimal solution (lol)

The older I’ve gotten (or the further into late stage capitalism), the less I’m inclined to accept “Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by incompetence” (- Napoleon, perhaps) and the more I subscribe to “Why not both?”.

Eh, it could be just a vibe code blunder, given this hit a suitably large number of others.

Which would be equally damning.

Unless you want multiiplatform.

Cheap fuckers cheaping out, shocker (context is (V)RAM). AI speedrunning enshittification, who’d of thunk.

I know, but capturing business logic in spreadsheets is a different error I didn’t want to get into here… You do what you can.

Yup, seen it too, sucked, don’t think it’s the way forward though. Europe seems to agree, should be enough momentum.

Perhaps you underestimate people.

May I suggest Python ?

By the time you get tits deep in Excel to the point where other spreadsheets can’t hack it, you may as well be using a real programming language instead of VBA…

If you can do advanced Excel, you can do Python (and numpy will crush Excel in ways that aren’t even funny, well OK, it’s funny too).

Yeah, but it’s this way in Australia and most (all?) of Europe where it came from. Nothing stopping you piling on the watts yourself to go faster, or downhill, but no power after 25.

Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

Jury’s out on that, they may be using the large US company play of undercut your competitors until they crash and burn then seize the monopoly (e.g. Amazon and bookstores…) then ratchet prices up and enshittify, but with the bankroll of a huge country.

But they can’t vote and persecuting them appeals to the LN core demographic of miserable bastards. /s-ish.

Also look at the world we’re handing them, JFC, give 'em a break.

Beyond stupid, straight up backsliding a useful, accessible mobility form to appear strict on teens. The law as it stood had anything powered at more than 25 km/h or greater than 500W power illegal (arguably already overly restrictive, I can see a case for 30-35 km/h). All that was needed was to enforce it, which was happening, if sporadically. But nooo, car brain go brrrr. Not to give them ideas, but analogue bikes are allowed on roads without license or medical check, what difference is a motor at that speed ?

Rutting LibNats in QLD just can’t help fucking shit up since Jo, hopefully back to Siberia for the next decade yet again next election.

That just sounds like what’s already happened with social media, Murdoch journalism and ‘fake news’. So, SNAFU…

Passing the shit event horizon.

It’s already to the point it’s too late.

Until they overreach, and the backlash cometh. The pendulum of history keeps swinging. Here’s hoping it’s a doozy.

Marketers / advertisers are corrupt psychologists (the competent ones anyway), or to use oldspeak propogandists. Some timeless words for consideration.

“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945

“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945