Usenet, Slashdot, Digg, Reddit
Everybody complains about public forums
Everybody says they suck

Maybe something else sucks around here, like the public. Yeah the public sucks, there's a nice Slashdot title for ya, the public sucks, fuck hope, fuck hope!

Because if it's the fault of all these public forums like Reddit, where are all the people to write and manage these new bright shiny public forums and lead the way?

We don't have people like this in this country. Everybody's at the mall, scratching his ass, pulling out a credit card, and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them.

It's not the lighting that makes office work so distracting.

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro (MBP) whose operating system abandoned it a while ago. Installed Ubuntu Linux on my MBP and still use it today! I was particularly impressed that my Wacom Intuos 2 tablet works 100% (including tip pressure and tilt) on Ubuntu, as Wacom abandoned this tablet with lack of Windows 11 driver support a while ago! No extra drivers nothing, just plugged in the tablet and it worked.

Yet E-Bikes have just recently popped up and all over the place. Nobody is issuing any citations nor confiscating them.

But because it can't be tied to Trump, Musk, or AI, it's not a topic for Slashdot anymore.

We're never going to change DST, ever, so twice a year we get these "well are we close to ending DST" year after year after year. So just stop these articles already

When we do attempt to change DST, we get this continuous stream of bullshit excuses from lawmakers instead. Some vague "federal government" issue, so all legislatures just sit there and go back to lining their pockets with money. And the average person is content to just sit there and post messages twice a year on some social media, then go back to dealing with DST.

Yes, and let's look at photography today. Billions upon billions of images already "out there" on the internet, and now AI can spew out even more variants of that. Took a picture which everyone likes and is novel? Well guess what, millions of copy-cat images will pop up, AI will train on it and spew tons of very close variations of this image, and leave your original wonderful image drown in the "noise" and fade immediately into obscurity. Leaving the photographer wondering "why am I doing this again?"

Yes this is the future I want to participate in.

Wrong. I modified my diet to reduce calories and lost weight. A year or two later, I ate _THE EXACT SAME THING_ and GAINED weight. I had to re-modify (lower again) my calorie intake to lose weight I regained. Again, a study shows that fat cells will reprogram themselves after you lose weight to store more calories (and gain weight back, hence the yo-yo effect). And that was just a study with fat cells, I'm quite sure the rest of my body (especially my brain) was altering itself to regain the weight I just lost.

So no, it isn't just a "life style" change. It's a life long struggle to fight what your body naturally wants to do and keep itself at the same high weight it was before.

Study says fat cells 'remember' how obese it was Science is just finding out that the body remembers how obese it was and actively TRIES to GET BACK to that state. Been through this several times, and actively struggling though this now. Ever part of my body, especially my brain is playing all kinds of tricks to regain the weight I just lost. I am actively fighting my hunger impulses as my brain keeps nudging me to eat...

There are more and more things out there which have non-replaceable batteries. Garmin Forerunner? Non-replaceable, toss when batteries are done. Waterpik? Non-replaceable, toss when batteries are done. It isn't just rings which are filling up the landfill, and fast!

So if a photo has been edited by AI based tools, including from Adobe, is it fair to identify it as AI based? That includes AI based tools such as photo sharpening and removing of elements... If not, why not?

AI generated images are getting good enough such that it represents an end to photography and digital art as an art form or business. The only reason to take a picture anymore is for personal documentation (family, etc). Even worse, anyone which actually does any novel photograph or digital art will immediately get copied a million times over by AI generated like images and everyone gets bored of looking at it immediately.

I especially hate when I go to some social media site and get overwhelmed by endless AI generated copies of Monet and the poster slaps a "Monet - [some random date during his painting era]" on the label. I don't even understand why waste the electrons and everyone's time having to see these.

So I did exactly that, and what was the first thing I saw on their web page? "SUV Season Sales Event"

Where at?

1986 DEC PDP-11 Minicomputer (youtube.com) 60-Year-Old Cobol Code? (pcmag.com) 'Doom' at 30: 40 years of Turbo Pascal Did Slashdot's algorithms just go off on a nostalgia tangent or what?