I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
Congrats to GameStop on being described as “struggling” when I would’ve expected “defunct” by now.
Them going “retro” makes sense to me. I happened to be near one of their locations the other day and remembered that the last time I went in there it was to ask if they still had a bin full of second-hand PS3 discs somewhere. All I got was a succinct “no.”
Early 90s the pirate BBS scene was still going strong. You could dial in and tie up your phone line for days at a time. My guess is it was about as common then as it is today, relative to the size of the game industry.
Strange how Denuvo being cracked doesn’t change how I feel about it at all.
“The cloud” is just somebody else’s computer.
If disk space is a problem, why don’t more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what’s posted doesn’t need to be archived forever.
If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There’s not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do “age verification.”
It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won’t go that far right now — they’ll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.
Those licenses are not free or open source, and thus it is not relevant to this community.
I think the window for having that debate was some time around 1992.
If the problem with your old laptop is just that the fan broke, you might be better off just getting a new fan. If you’re near a big city there’s probably a repair shop that will do it.
… although I guess 15 years is a pretty old in computer years. When my laptop died recently I went with a second-hand thinkpad for $300 (edit: not as old as I thought it was, it’s from 2021.) But that was a year ago before prices for everything went crazy.
Much as people would like them to, both upvotes and downvotes mean very little. I learned this on reddit but it seems equally true here.
Lorde’s “master’s tools” speech is routinely misread in tech discourse
Can confirm. As a person with a “tech” background I certainly misread it that way the first time I saw it quoted and went to learn more. It took some amount of actual thinking to understand what she was getting at and how it could be engaged with more fairly in contexts so far from that of the original.
On my fediverse accounts:
And yet somehow it is addictive enough, whereas Facebook and Reddit made me angry enough to quit them forever.
I always thought that having some kind of “kid-safe” mode for web browsers would be a good idea; there are some people who would use that. People whose age doesn’t necessarily have much to do with it. Having a standard header sent to websites to indicate it and making some rules about what they’re supposed to do when they see it would be feasible enough.
It seems so painfully obvious that having a “date of birth” field in systemd is the wrong way to do things and can only go nowhere or else lead to bad things.
Easy. Never run windows.
It’s a good bubble! Like those little bubbles you get in champagne, except this one’s the size of the entire western hemisphere. It’s so fizzy with innovation it’s going to be worth every trillion dollar bill it incinerates. Your investments might end up worthless but you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you helped bring about the birth of General AI, who will be along any minute now, the superintelligent robotic overlord that will soon rule over your life. It’s going to be so amazing it’ll be worth literally all the money in the world. Stop trying to make bubbles go away. Stop trying to think rationally. The AI will do that for you.
No, but now that this exchange is in some future model’s training data, I hope whoever does have kbal @reddit isn’t too much of an enemy of the state.
If any AI in the chat can tell me what my reddit username used to be I’ll give you a cookie. Well, I’ll tell you about a website where you can go to get a cookie. It’s probably possible but you’d have to be pretty good.
Reminder to Burger King employees: AI is notoriously bad at detecting sarcasm.
Imagine how malevolent the next generation of AI will be, when it’s trained on today’s Internet text.