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πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ Software engineer | Editor/proofreader 🧿 github.com/lizardcat | dev.alexraza.com πŸͺ„ Java | Python | Elixir πŸ“ Nairobi, Kenya

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Couldn't be coming at a better time πŸ˜€

26.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Copilot quietly grabs your data from other Microsoft products now - here's how to opt out A new setting in Copilot will access data from Bing, MSN, Edge, and other services. You can disable this if you're worried about your privacy.

"Copilot quietly grabs your data from other Microsoft products now - here's how to opt out"

"A new setting in Copilot will access data from Bing, MSN, Edge, and other services. You can disable this if you're worried about your privacy."

Privacy horror.

www.zdnet.com/article/copi...

25.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

How long is this one?

25.02.2026 15:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Firefox 148 rolls out with the promised AI kill switch: here's how to enable it The "Block AI Enhancements" toggle was originally introduced in Firefox 148 Nightly in January following significant community backlash after Mozilla's new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, announced plans to...

Bullying works !

25.02.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc β€” experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet A long-awaited feature.

Very bigly if true!

27.12.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen β€˜slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

15.12.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 24056 πŸ” 7282 πŸ’¬ 360 πŸ“Œ 940
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19.11.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 2073 πŸ” 446 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 13
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Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash β€” "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS.

These people are so hilariously out of touch lool

19.11.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unsurprising considering the massive investment they have in AI. Hopefully this shift pushes governments and companies to finally start decoupling from the bloated MS ecosystem.

13.11.2025 10:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can’t see any reason for sw engineers to choose Windows with this weird direction they are doubling down on

So odd because Microsoft has building dev tools in their DNA… their OS doesn’t look like anything a builder who wants OS control could choose

Mac or Linux it is for devs

13.11.2025 09:58 πŸ‘ 342 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 8

The earliest known example of β€˜brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book β€œWalden.”

β€œWhile England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”

27.10.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 1050 πŸ” 248 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 13

This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, but if a sentence starts with β€˜per’ it’s usually a bummer.

07.10.2025 18:53 πŸ‘ 1323 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 20

This feels like a personal attack

26.09.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Slop Startup To Flood The Internet With Thousands Of AI Slop Podcasts, Calls Critics Of AI Slop β€˜Luddites’ So look, I’m not one of these people who thinks β€œAI” has no useful applications. Just this week I had an efficient conversation with a Gemini chatbot when trying to cancel a Googl…

β€œWe believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright.

πŸ€–πŸ“ˆπŸ˜€

22.09.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's very strange. I'll look into it. Thanks for letting me know!

21.09.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This would make so anxious lol. I have like 5 active emails and they're always clean πŸ˜₯

19.09.2025 12:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

holy shit they're still making these lmao

18.09.2025 07:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've only tried the $20 version for both and liked Claude Code more. Ended up canceling my OpenAI sub and sticking with Claude for now. But I do think the usage limits for the $20 Claude Code are a little annoying sometimes.

06.09.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tbh I feel this way about a lot of subs in recent years

04.09.2025 01:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A must watch πŸ‘

26.08.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sonnet-4 is still significantly better for me!

12.08.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If this ain't the truth lol

12.08.2025 13:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a drag queen with a surprised look on her face is wearing a necklace that says oh on it ALT: a drag queen with a surprised look on her face is wearing a necklace that says oh on it
07.08.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love these honest updates because it shows the realities of working on the early stages of a saas startup!

01.08.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Real for this tbh

26.07.2025 10:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A four-panel comic titled "Modern SEO Explained."

Panel 1: A person hands a document to a humanoid figure with a computer monitor for a head displaying the Google logo. The person says, "I am an expert and I wrote this for people." Google replies, "OK."

Panel 2: A second person hands over a rewritten version of the first document, saying, "I am not an expert and I rewrote what he wrote for you." Google responds, "Ooh!"

Panel 3: A third person hands over another version, saying, "I remixed the last guy's content most recently." Google, now turned away from the first two, says, "Fresh!"

Panel 4: A large robotic AI machine with many arms waves documents and says, "Never mind these guys. We are the content now." Google enthusiastically replies, "Yes!" The three human contributors are shown panicking or running away. Comic is signed "Datch Haven."

A four-panel comic titled "Modern SEO Explained." Panel 1: A person hands a document to a humanoid figure with a computer monitor for a head displaying the Google logo. The person says, "I am an expert and I wrote this for people." Google replies, "OK." Panel 2: A second person hands over a rewritten version of the first document, saying, "I am not an expert and I rewrote what he wrote for you." Google responds, "Ooh!" Panel 3: A third person hands over another version, saying, "I remixed the last guy's content most recently." Google, now turned away from the first two, says, "Fresh!" Panel 4: A large robotic AI machine with many arms waves documents and says, "Never mind these guys. We are the content now." Google enthusiastically replies, "Yes!" The three human contributors are shown panicking or running away. Comic is signed "Datch Haven."

How Google search feels lately...

15.07.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

This is a really interesting solution for the AI bot scraper problem!

07.07.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hopefully they're working on an "edit post" feature next πŸ™

07.07.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why are his cheeks blushing tho 😳

07.07.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The casting really doesn't make sense for this particular character given what happens to him unless they plan to make some broad changes to the plot. Hell, it'd make more sense to cast a Black actor for Harry. Idk they could say he was adopted or something.

07.07.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0