“Antitrust law is not doing this one specific thing i want it to do, therefor it doesn’t exist” sure is a take

Microsoft got repeatedly bashed over the head by EU courts for antitrust violations, including for forcing Internet Explorer on people.

There are countries other than the US

antitrust legislation exists and applies to proprietary software

Personally, I don’t use IrfanView for editing because there are far better alternatives (Rawtherapee, Krita, Gimp if must be) but it is great for browsing photos because it is so fast and versatile.

Scanning is pretty neat too.

pretty sure even smartphones can use USB audio interfaces these days with an OTG adapter

Höchstens in den Echtzeitinfos, weil Einsatzwagen per Definition keinen festen Fahrplan haben.

“E” ist “Einsatzwagen”. Also z.B. Verstärker und Umleiter.

I know, right?

The window seat is the singer from Limp Bizkit, who I am told is actually a pretty pleasant person IRL

The article cited by The Register cites this more detailed analysis in turn: https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code

Performance of the AI-generated version was 20,000 times slower on one specific benchmark, but “only” about 2,000 times slower when averaging over multiple different benchmarks (which is, imo, a better measurement of the code’s quality).

So I suppose The Register pulled from multiple sources (as you should) and just linked to the most top-level of all of them.