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This is shitty behavior by the company (and a reminder not to rely on online services for anything, not even storing your shopping list). But it isn't Doctorowian enshitification. It isn't a focus shift from consumers to suppliers to then be able to hold both captive, squeeze them dry, and making the service worse in the process. This is just new management pissing off nerds.

First thing, disable all auto backup on your phone. This is step 1 for anything.

If you have access to a computer, log in to Photos through a browser and delete images there and it won't affect your phone's storage. Maybe test it with an image if lesser importance before you bulk delete.

You could also move your locally stored photos to a different, temporary folder. Then delete the backed up ones in Photos. Then move the local files back.

I wouldn't rely on the Google Takeout images. If the standard settings applied, the images will all be in Google's compressed format. Granted, most people in the world couldn't tell the difference. But it might be better to keep the best quality for the future.

And those folks aren't on here because they already do their socializing in person. A frightful thought.

Florida Man strikes again.

What's wrong with these people? The rabbi had time to sink to the floor, the priest is clearly passed out on the floor, why is the pastor still walking into the bar? Are they all blind and deaf?

The deeper message must be that just out of shot an imam and a Buddhist monk are looking at each other puzzled exchanging remarks like "They really cannot learn from each other, can they."

(I do get the bar joke, internet. No need to well actually me. This was very much tongue in cheek.)

I feel like the Atari 2600 is quickly becoming for so-called AI what the "how much is a gallon of milk?" gotcha question had become for politicians who run for office. A rather pointless bit of news.

As Scotty said: the right tool for the right job. An LLM is maybe not a chess engine and that's fine too. Why would we expect these models to be Magnus effing Carlson if they cannot reliably summarize an email or recommend eating pebbles?

Maybe 10 years ago I tried designing a font in Inkscape. It was possible but more of a gimmick. I then installed Fontforge and very quickly decided I wasn't going to learn how to use it, didn't have the bandwidth. But the tools are there. Both methods have a learning curve but I think have enough instruction resources online.

It's one study. It's pretty sturdy in terms of methodology but it hasn't been peer reviewed as far as I can tell. They also only looked at established software projects, not anything new. So this is a narrow scope and it doesn't prove that so-called AI cannot enhance productivity at all. It just indicates that pro devs can be fooled into thinking they are better off with it when they are not. But I feel like that's hardly news in these mad times.

Are you beginning to feel a narrowing of your throat?

Das war Englisch.

I think this has been true since the start. They have never not been in hot water financially.

No.