Wait, I can use an rss feed for this content? where?

I’ve always thought that moving to the internet was the worst thing to happen to consoles. Now they have all the downsides of PC gaming, with all the downsides of console gaming.

I’m fairly happy with my Linux phone. Not too worried :P

https://thestinkingrose.com/

Why would they go after their friends and bosses?

I have a script to lookup the whois info for the sending IP address. Forward the message, with headers to them, saying “unsubscribe”, then block that IP with a firewall.

It only loads a picture, and about a paragraph for me.

The “hype” is just marketing

Copying is not theft:

https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft

At a previous job, I had to build laptops that would multi-boot DOS, Win95, Win98, and XP, all on one laptop. Our field-tech’s software had to have those specific versions of windows for the machines that they serviced, because of how the software interacted with USB and embeded floppy drives.

If you want to scare yourself:

As a hard-of-hearing person, I need either subtitles, or super-loud volume. But bad sound-mixers in todays movies make everyone mumble right before giant explosions.

And I really hate that Meta fucked up smart-glasses for everyone. We could have had IRL subtitles for people like me on local-only glasses, that don’t record people, but they had to make it creepy.

…every communist regime has brought only oppression, murder and starvation…

/me looks around from inside the US

I guess that Americans aren’t supposed to know how to avoid debt.

Of course not, that’s kinda the point of our financial system.

I had half a semester of ‘home econ’ in my seinor year of High School ~2000. We didn’t really cover much that was useful for actually balancing a checkbook. The class was clearly a checkbox that they didn’t actually expect us to do anything in.

Good on ya!

I used to be like that too. My SO helped me get over that habit. I really wish we were taught the basics of this kinda stuff in school…

I’m not sure you do. You just referenced a document where you didn’t know half of what was going on under Biden.

I had racist relatives who never stopped saying the N word in public. Trump winning made them even more detestable to hang around.

But they’re dead now, and the world is a better place for it.

I ran Debian on one of the surface pros a few years ago. It took a bit of hardware hacking, but it was great.

I use a TWM and spend most of my time in the shell, so I didn’t get to utilize a lot of the OS features. But things like reading comics, and surfing the web were pretty cool.

I always wondered if Gnome would be a better interface for it. It seems like they’ve been leaning that direction for a while.

It’s also weird to me because, if we take it at face value: Shouldn’t an AI-built system be super cheap to build and maintain?

If big-tech was telling the truth about how great AI is, it shouldn’t need all this funding or support. The fact that they needed to pump a lot of money into it is pretty telling to me…

Although I agree with you, I had that issue well before AI was a thing:

“I dunno, I just copied it from this StackOverflow post…”

<cut to me raging that someone would do that>

Agreed. I think they should have pushed for stronger disclosure requirements, but I also realise that isn’t actually enforceable.

I also find it very telling that people will talk about the negative parts of AI, but not acknowledge other automation tools that perpetuate the same problems. My experience is that most people’s complaints have a real basis, but they are just mis-diagnosed.

The problems seem to be our economic and societal structures, and AI is the new fancy tool that exacerbates those problems. But I’ve not heard a good reason why AI itself is that problem.