I think part of it is also that a random stranger in a star wars shirt can be anyone. A random stranger in a star trek shirt is a nerd, and therefore more likely to be a cool dude.

Both Wesley and Nog(?) were written as a ‘look kids, a cool kid to relate to’ character. Which was very forced and off putting.

Oh, this is great.

Users noticed that Google had too much bad results because of SEO and spam flooded search results.

Users added “reddit” to their search terms, so they get results from reddit, where spam and astroturfing were… there but manageable.

Now the SEO people and advertisers target reddit with AI tools, until it is so enshitificated that we have to find something else (rinse and repeat)

“No, don’t leave, we just finished saturating the space with ads!”

“Why do you think we leave?”

Without looking: “Computer, eject the warp core”

I have a similar theory about star trek. In one scene there was a blurry picture and to sharpen it Ricker said: “Computer implement recursive Algorithm”. That is equivalent to “Computer do something”. So now my theory is that there is an intelligent ship with a genius AI that carries around humans that have regressed to toddler intelligence because the AI does everything for them.

The ship is basically human daycare with lots of blinking buttons and moving pictures to keep the humans occupied while the ship does the actual (and probably boring) science.

Starfleet Academy is basically teaching them technobabble and looking great in a uniform while the AIs do the real work.

These AI PCs/Notebooks aren’t even able to run the really big models. For those you’d need a 5000$ card. And for the smaller models a good graphics card is often enough.

For a real AI PC we would need new technology or graphics cards with more ram (the last one would suprise me with current ram prices)

That’s in the past.

To their credit: when they changed their motto, they clearly announced that they will do evil.

There are not many companies who announce their switch to the dark side.

There is evil and then there is comic book evil. I guess they go for both.

There are two bubbles. One is the bubble made by every company under the sun trying to shove AI into their product without any sense of why or how. And wallstreet is buying it up.

Then there is the second bubble. That is the big AI players trying to get AI ready to replace large parts of the workforce. It’s still unclear if that is possible with our current techniques or if we need a scientific breakthrough that might be years or decades away. Still, the tech companies spend money as if that is just around the corner.

Who knowes if these bubbles burst at the same time?

The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.

He didn’t use an IDE, but I don’t remember what he tried. He also wasn’t a fan of googling stuff. Use the man pages and nothing else.

Here is my story:

There were console outputs after nearly every line. I asked about them: “Oh, I couldn’t get the debugger to work, so I print everything to the console”

This was everywhere. The whole program was like this. On a standard Linux machine. It wasn’t even remote debugging or something. Just a local C++ program.

The filenames where written in 8+3. Again, on a modern Linux machine. His answer? “You never know where we’ll port this software to”

Onto computers that were outdated decades ago? To embedded systems? Of course he had no answer for this except “just in case…”

I could tell you more, that software was the stuff for nightmares.

Is it okay to discuss this publicly? As funny as it I’d, I really don’t want Russia to get informed.

Ah yes! One step closer to servitors. Praise the Omnissiah!

How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?

Of course a hand drawn image by someone who can draw well is better - the artist practiced for years and took hours to draw this. On the other hand whoever took second place used a few minutes and had no training to produce something that was probably quite nice, too.

It’s this ‘everybody can produce art in seconds’ that is both good and bad. On the one hand I like how I can get a image of whatever I want for pennies, on the other hand I can understand how artist fear devaluation of their art.

Sinnlos im Weltraum, a German fandub

Resistance only makes us harder.

The ‘S’ on IoT stands for security!

And how did no one think about a fallback in case of a outage? I bet some of the tech people thought about it and management said: “No, we don’t want the consumers to have a functioning unit without internet access. We need the data!”.

Btw. same with the new Windows 11 setup. There’s no technical reason for a computer without internet access to deny the installation.