It was a flash in the panhandle.

Thanks, I'll be here til Thursday. Oh wait, it's Friday. Don't eat the veal, it's gone bad.

It is going to evaporate, slowly....

You know Blender is free open source software, right? Slashdot even helped it to become free and open source many years ago.

The fact that this was modded up as "Interesting" instead of funny is pretty fucking scary. Of course, now watch my comment will be modded up as funny because that's par for the course these days.

I started playing Mines recently, which is just a plain old free open source game from the repos.
Speaking of which....

I remember back when we had chat bots like the Bonzi Buddy in 1999.
Now in 2024, we have the technology to run a full rendered chat bot, using local or online chat apis, but it still doesnt exist.
Tavern AI and other chat apps/services exist, but they are only static images.

Why no realistic person avatar for the desktop yet?

So this would have been perfectly fine if they paid for licenses to film the music video.

Its sad, dac/amps make headphones sound so much better. The LG phones had them, but LG is discontinued. Think the Sony and Asus gamer phones have them. Samsung tablets don't have headphone jacks anymore. But entry level samsung and motorola do. So the high end and low end users use wired headphones, but the middle class will gladly buy bluetooth?

Its strange, I can understand replacing sdcards since they could include a TB internally, but most are still cheaping out on internal storage.

But dac/amps are still light years better than bluetooth. I use one in my car to hook up my phone, its louder and better than bluetooth.

For a world with needs/options, removing a simple headphone jack seems very insulting to users.

Prob not a bad idea to keep AM around, since many rural communities still have AM.
Even better include HD Radio for AM, for better quality.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdradio.com%2Fall-digita...

As for cost, that doesnt really make sense, as they build everything in bulk for their car lines.
Its bad enough many cars dont include AUX jacks anymore.

Removing simple things that people use, to save a few pennies is kinda absurd.

I use IRC!

Oh, that's all, is it.

Yep, you're right 1 hour max /s.

Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.

Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.

Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <=== You are here

Bell Telephone made a film in 1958 called The Unchained Goddess and probably played on NBC back in the day in which they mention the looming threat of man made global warming/climate change: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

A really long time ago on Slashdot there was a poll for the worst tech movie and The Net (1995) won by a huge margin. However, it would seem that the scenario that it warned us about has come to pass, people trust what a computer says more than physical evidence and it leads to ruining people's lives.

Sounds like Netflix made some risky bets too.