"Semantic Ablation" is my new favourite phrase.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
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Udhay Shankar
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you use Windows 11, you can update all your apps at one go with a single command. https://www.howtogeek.com/winget-is-windows-best-kept-secret-heres-what-it-can-do-for-you/
I discovered that an old laptop at home still boots, so I spent a large part of the evening putting Linux on it (Xubuntu, if you're curious). It struck me how painless the actual installation was, and how much effort I had to put into the prep work. Quite a difference from the first time I installed Slackware in 1996.
There appears to be a distinct lack of fecal matter here, Mr Holmes.
https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-is-losing-audiences-to-ai-fatigue/
When food geekery meets code geekery.
#TIL that 'ramen' and 'lo mein' are basically the same word.
QotD (referring to the AWS outage, but can refer to many other things also):
"Once you reach a certain point of scale, there are no simple problems left."
QotD: "Ethernet: because cables are ugly, but packet loss is uglier."
Hanlon's Razor.
