EOM

When Reddit announced they would sell user-generated data to AI companies for training purposes, I went back to literally thousands of my old technical posts and inserted subtle nonsense in them.

They look legit, and a competent human being reading through them would very easily realize they're nonsense (you know, things like "Type taskmgr and kill systemd"). But AI doesn't, and I've already read AI-generated "help" pages containing some of the shit I seeded on Reddit.

So if you too want to debase AI, poison the well: it really does works.

I'm sure you won't if there's enough money to be made...

Today's TiVo is to TiVo of yesteryear what today's Sharper Image is to Sharper Image of yesteryear: a pointless company bearing the name of something great that used to exist for real.

... to move to old-school open solutions like IRC and such and result in them learning a thing or two about computers, networks and administration. And perhaps they'll learn about anonymity and it's importance just like we did in the 80ies.

That generative AI is voiding 90%+ of jobs in media production should be obvious by now. What's interesting is that these jobs, just like software development, are only a (very) small portion of the workforce. I am just some wide and far between senior webdev getting ready to move into marketing or customer service and taking a ~15k hit on my income. No huge impact to society.

Just wait until the robots start driving our vehicles and replacing drivers. That's when the real fun starts.

It tries a tad to hard to be hilarious and is obnoxious in that way but overall the whole short film does lean into the major system level difference between W1ndows and macOS. It also shows how someone might actually solve the problem by quickly switching to macOS. They cleverly plug the Mac Mini as a gateway device for this. Which it actually in reality often is.

It pushes the diversity shtick/fad a little hard (the masOS geek that saves the day is a women - because of course _she_ is), but she is exaggerated in a plausible way. And they lean into the geek speaking vs. ords listening dichotomy rather than anything boss-baby. At least. All protagonists and situations are goofy enough as to provoke some laughs.

As a European I did notice how nearly all protagonists were (notably) overweight. I guess that's an accurate representation of the US population.

The 8-minute add is quite neat for such a thing and not a CWOT. Which is good enough I'd say.

... that by and large there is absolutely no lack of USB cables.

I don't use the ones that ship anyway. I have long thick ones with fabric isolation and little LED lights on the plugs that tell me if they are live or not.

... I love the UK and lived in Scotland for a while as a teen. It's sad to see the country go down the loo like that.

... about how epically f*cked the UK is. I mean we all knew that Brexit would hurt and the British who were in favor of Brexit would quickly get their doubts if Brexit was such a good idea, but looking across the canal right now I have to say "Holy cow, talk about screwing up even worse after leaving the EU." After all, the pro Brexit message was that they were going to fix all the problems they now have 5x more of.

Here's a good expert analysis that perfectly summarizes the UK situation.

How about if this one guys is 1 million times better off and he uses his insane wealth to install a raging fascist in the White House who ruins everybody's lives and threatens world peace?

I can easily do without the technological disruption this one guy, and all the other guys like him, bring about.

is fine if it doesn't create obscene inequalities and equally obscene psychopathic billionaires. If that's the cost of disruptive technology, I'm perfectly happy to hamper it.

I was about to say the same thing. It's really a sad statement on the state of processor development when the metric isn't an awe-inspiring number of operations per second but a depressingly high power consumption value.

Did you even watch it before running your mouth?