Original definition: using AI to create a small bespoke kinda-crap-but-it-works apps or games for personal use. It’s a shitty proto but it’s interesting.

(My reaction: ooo not my jam but that sounds neat I guess)

Modern definition: it’s a multi-quadrispillion dollar industry and it’s the future according to some very important board members.

(My reaction: …capitalism ruins fucking everything)

The problem isn’t that the data is already public.

The problem is that the AI crawlers want to check on it every 5 minutes, even if you try to tell all crawlers that the file is updated daily, or that the file hasn’t been updated in a month.

AI crawlers don’t care about robots.txt or other helpful hints about what’s worth crawling or not, and hints on when it’s good time to crawl again.

My favourite part of Microsoft login experience:

Me: “Hi, I’d like to set up 2FA.”
MS: “Sure, you can use Microsoft Authenticator on Android.”
Me: “A separate app? (Grumble) Okay then.”

(A few years go by. I get asked to do 2FA absolutely zero times.)

Me: “…Damn, this 2FA settings page is hard to find. What happened to the app? It’s no longer in Google Play.”
MS: “What app?”
Me: “I believe it was called Microsoft Authenticator?”
MS: “Oh that app! It’s long obsolete. Don’t worry about it. You can now just use your favourite TOTP app.”
Me: “Sweet! Let’s set up Aegis.”

(Several years go by and Microsoft still hasn’t asked me to use 2FA for any fucking thing)

“Hey boss, about that load of bricks you asked me to haul here so that the protesters would grab them and we would then arrest them? Uh, some construction worker dude just showed up with a truck and stole all of them. …No we somehow didn’t catch the license plate. …Well the surveillance video is pretty bad, the dude just looked like a construction worker, not much to go by. …I mean, of course nobody did a thing, it was a construction worker, no one gives a shit if a construction worker picks up a pile of bricks. …No, I don’t know what he’s going to do with them. Build a house, probably, the bastard - none of them build giant walls, like they should.”

I can’t remember [Alphabet] having any innovative ideas since PageRank back when they were founded.

Oh come on, they made Google Wave, that was pretty neat! And… Um… That’s it I guess?

…Thanks for the clarification. Oh cool, all I got in my instructions was “here’s our crappy set-top box, you should plug it in the ‘ARC’ thing if you have one.” Does this set-top box have output options? Well it’s a crappy set-top box, what do you think. *sigh* One more reason I’m canceling that service the moment the contract allows.

Lemmy and Piefed support profile pictures. They show up in the web view. It’s just that the mobile apps don’t bother with them. (At least the good one doesn’t. I’m talking about Voyager)

Stereo racks like this? This is childhood home stuff.

Me? When I moved on my own for university, all I had on audio front was a CD/cassette boombox.

And it never got better. Had 4.1 speakers for my computer at one point. Now, not even that.

(Side note: I swear, people who came up with HDMI don’t know what they’re doing. Ethernet? Who the hell asked for Ethernet? We have Ethernet cables for Ethernet. Anyway: in a sensible design, televisions/monitors would have HDMI Audio Out ports. Which you then could wire to your brand spanking new digital input based amplifier in a giant stereo rack. Or a D/A converter box that feeds your ancient amplifier. Do any TVs and monitors work that way? Of course not, we have janky audio output nonsense. New TVs and monitors don’t necessarily even have headphone jacks. Why.)

(Edit: Apparently I was talking nonsense. I definitely should get my morning coffee now.)

I also thought that newer Halo games aren’t as good as the old ones, simply because in Halo 3 and Reach, the game said “Welcome!” in the beginning of the online matches. I was, like, thank you, happy to be here.

Doom did have text chat, much in the same vein as Quake later on.

However, Doom originally didn’t have TCP/IP, it only supported IPX/SPX networking on LANs. (Though, why use chat when you can yell.) It also supported point to point modem connections, for which the text chat was probably useful. Later versions of Doom and all modern source ports support TCP/IP though.

As a turtle fan it’s always cool when you can look at a diagram and suddenly spot a turtle on it! 🐢

It’s like looking at the H-R diagram and going “ooo, Discworld would be right about there, possibly”

they malfunction and destroy civilizations

…much like politicians these days!

I’m usually like, ooh, I have a Swiss army knife in my pocket. And another on the keychain.

…Except when I’m home, the keys go to the tray and I switch to indoors pants, so when I actually need the damn things I usually need to take extra effort to go grab them anyway.

US Copyright Office ruled that AI generated content is not eligible for copyright.

Therefore, AI generated beer is actually Free Beer!

This is an interesting legal strategy. Let’s see how it goes.

Linus was a bit of a trendsetter what comes to standing desks. In an interview he also commented on the walls, saying the paint colour is also used in mental institutions because it has a very calming effect on the human mind. (Goodness knows Linus needs all the chill he can muster.)