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Submission + - **The Odyssey? Like, Literally?**

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: Okayyy, so, like? Muse? Babe? Can you literally tell me about this guy? Because he's, like, the most extra traveler ever? He had, like, *so* many different vibes? And after he literally, like, completely obliterated Troy's super sacred citadel? Which is honestly kind of iconic? He basically got launched into the longest? Most chaotic? Most absolutely unhinged vacation-from-Hades ever?

He was, like, going to all these cities? Meeting literally everybody? Totally getting inside their heads? Reading the room? Catching the vibe? Meanwhile he's out on the ocean? Literally fighting for his life every single day? Just trying to get himself? And, like, his whole squad? Home in one piece? Which sounds exhausting? Honestly?

But then? His crew? Like... oh my God? They had exactly *one* job? Literally one? And somehow they were still, like, "You know what would be a fun idea? Let's totally eat the Sun God's sacred cows?" Which is honestly giving catastrophic decision-making? Like... babes? No?

So Helios is basically like, "Absolutely not?" Zeus is all, "Yeah, that's gonna be consequences?" And the universe is just, like, "Delete the entire group chat?" So literally everybody dies? Except this one guy? Which is... not exactly the homecoming they were manifesting?

Anywayyyy? Goddess? Daughter of Zeus? If you're not, like, super busy being divine? Could you maybe? Literally start wherever? Spill absolutely all the tea? Leave out none of the drama? Because this story is already sounding completely wild?
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Odysseus: "Hi? So I'm, like, Odysseus? Son of Laertes? Which, if you know, you know? My reputation is honestly kind of a whole thing?"

Comment The World According to Zuck (Score 1) 51

In the world according to Zuck, privacy is the last outdated human habit, like writing letters by hand or feeling sad without immediate algorithmic intervention. Mark Zuckerberg, that serene prophet of the metaverse, has once again peered into the future and seen a better, more quantified you. Not content with knowing what you click, like, or doomscroll, Meta has filed a patent for a wearable device that listens to you all day. Your sighs, your laughs, your half-muttered complaints about the weather and uses AI to determine exactly how you feel.

Your sadness is not a signal to call a friend, take a walk, or stare meaningfully out a window. It is a data point for a more optimized squat. Your laughter is not joy; it is training data. Your sigh while staring at the fridge is not existential dread; it is an opportunity for a targeted ad for mood-boosting protein powder. Meta, a company that makes billions targeting ads based on your data, assures us this is all theoretical. Patents are just ideas, they say. Relax. Breathe deeply.

In the world according to Zuck, the lunacy and sorrow continue. Only now they're quantified, synchronized, and served back to you in the form of a slightly better workout playlist. Wear the device. It cares. It really, really cares.

And it's always listening.

Submission + - In 503 New York City schools, majority of students failed both math and reading (freebeacon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "These are not schools teetering at the edge of success. They are schools that have been massively failing — persistently, systemically, and at staggering public expense — for years, and in many cases for decades," says the report, titled "By Any Honest Measure: New York City's Long Record of School Failure — and the Price We Keep Paying."

"The cost is enormous. New York City spent $40 billion on public education in 2024 — $36,293 per pupil, double the national average of $17,619," the report says. "The city is now committed to billions more to fund a class-size mandate that the evidence does not support, while propping up hundreds of vacant schools that drain resources at a premium rate with no return."

Particularly haunting is the appendix listing the 503 "double fail" schools, which are failing to get majority pass rates on standardized tests in math and in English. The schools are named after some distinguished Americans—abolitionists Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, Zionist Henrietta Szold, baseball player Roberto Clemente, founding father Benjamin Franklin, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, poets Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, and physicist Albert Einstein. Or they carry names full of ambition and ideals—"Leaders of Tomorrow," "School of Leadership Development," "Renaissance School of the Arts," and "Brooklyn Democracy Academy."

"Imagine a hospital where more than half of patients died from routine procedures. A fire department that failed to respond to more than half its calls. A municipal water utility that delivered contaminated water to more than half its residents, or air traffic controllers whose lack of oversight regularly resulted in massive casualties," the report says. "No other public institution would be permitted to operate in this way."

Comment J-Space: Access Without Phenomenal Consciousness (Score 1) 184

Grok: This doesn't "prove" machine consciousness; it's a functional analogy in access consciousness/reportability. It does not demonstrate phenomenal consciousness. The subjective "what it feels like" experience that defines human (and possibly animal) awareness.

Comment I love *NIX, but ;) (Score 0, Flamebait) 85

by Mirnotoriety (#66228882) Attached to: Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share
keywords: "cluster fuck" "fan bois" "pig with lipstick" "Ubuntu shit"

Is that you billg ;)
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phocutus: “Linux Desktop is doomed till . . . It can handle Multimedia as well as OSX. Till I can seamlessly move my mp3s and photos between devices (laptop, tablets, car stereo) and play/view seamlessly, Linux for a desktop is a pipe dream. Sure, Linux has players, but nothing that works "out of the box" like OSX.”

“I can have a functional music player and photo viewing app with all my apple products. Google? Not easily, the Linux distro of the week? If you feel like playing tweak the OS for hours till it's right only to have an update blow it out of the water. Even Windows is better than Linux in this regard, not nearly as slick as Apple OSX (which is a true UNIX that's predicable without so much fluff that we see in Linux now)”.

“This comes from someone who's started using Linux when 16 (Slackware, Redhat) back in 1996 and other UNIXs--Solaris SPARC/x86, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. since. I'm even a fan of Debian (not the Ubuntu shit with flac pack or whatever package bullshit of the week they have now). I love *NIX, but Linux has become the bloated Windows wannabe of the *NIX world”.

“Still no real filesystem as good as ZFS, they can't get their startup service manager figured out and people still split on it. Even OSX is a cleaner more predictable OS than the cluster fuck of Linux has become. But there will always be their Linux fan bois willing to admit a pig with lipstick is sexy. The ONLY thing that's kept Linux alive or progressing on the desktop is STEAM.”

Submission + - Valve releases Proton 11 with huge Linux gaming improvements (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Valveâ has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles.

The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from Proton Experimental into the stable release, and adds support for games including Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition.

Valve also fixed crashes in HELLDIVERS 2, restored No Manâ(TM)s Sky VR support, improved Steam Overlay compatibility with EA games, addressed KDE and GNOME desktop issues, and rebased Proton on Wine 11.0 with updated graphics components.

Submission + - Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI's GPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race. The new model, called Muse Image, rolled out with deep integrations woven into the Instagram app. As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.

Meta positions this feature as a cheeky way to personalize generations with images of real people. "Whether you want to design a custom event invitation, mock up a collaborative creative concept, or generate a personalized graphic, tagging a username lets Meta AI use public photos to build a visual that’s ready to post,” reads one of Meta’s announcement blogs about the new AI tool. [...] Instagram’s help center site includes more details about how this feature will impact users, saying that “people may be able to create content with your Instagram content using AI features at Meta” if you leave your account public and on the default settings. (A previously archived version of this page from 2025 does not include similar, AI-focused language.)

Comment Microsoft wants eyes into your business. (Score 3, Interesting) 17

They're embedding thousands of engineers inside client organizations not just to "help" with AI implementations, but to hoover up proprietary data, workflows, and problems then repackage those insights as shiny new "MICROS~1 innovations."

It's the same game Google played with search: results ranked by how many links pointed to a site. Now with AI, the answers you get are mostly remixed from other people's conversations and data, creating a convincing illusion of intelligence on the other end.

Forward-deployed engineering? More like forward-deployed surveillance with a consulting invoice attached.

Comment Cyber-defense operations center launched (Score 1) 45

> The article notes that in May the chief executive of California's Port of Long Beach "launched a cyber-defense operations center to thwart tens of thousands of cyberattacks daily, which jeopardize computer systems and all equipment connected to them."

If only there were a device that could isolate your private network from the public network. Something like a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Comment Dish: the AT&T reseller (Score 1) 22

The irony of Dish's Open RAN dreams ending with them becoming a heavy AT&T reseller is delicious. This is the classic "monetize it or lose it" telecom shuffle. Dish spent years (and billions) trying to become the fourth full MNO with its own Open RAN 5G network and Boost Mobile, only to hit the wall on scale, debt, and FCC buildout pressure.

Comment Ensuring Freedom, One Blob at a Time (Score 1) 20

This is the kind of long-game persistence the FSF does best. Grinding through 85GB of extracted firmware from 200+ LineageOS packages, dumping it all into PostgreSQL for cross-device pattern matching. The baseband maze is brutal: legal certification, FCC-style signatures, carrier lock-in. Every blob they document or replace moves the needle for existing projects like postmarketOS or Replicant. ref

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