In the mailing list and usenet days, people would tell you to RTFM if your question was answered anywhere in the documentation, and Linux was a thousand times harder to install back then. Never mind DMAs and IRQs, you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

I don’t know what would be sadder: if all the various people in this thread posting variations of the above are wilfully missing the point, or, if they genuinely can’t comprehend any other way.

OpenAI and Sam Altman are being sued by British Columbia over claims that the company could have prevented a mass shooting in the Canadian province.

Not sure how to feel about this one, on balance I’d say probably fuck British Columbia as well as the rest of them? A government suing someone for not snitching is major Stasi energy, even if mass shootings are horrific.

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to embrace data centers

Who the fuck is reading the blog of some Amazon executive who isn’t already on the kool-aid?

(also, lol at job title inflation finally reaching the “CEO” level. I see Amazon now has 3 CEOs and an “Executive Chairman”.)

It’s a blatant “flood the zone with shit”, dead cat on the table type move. None of them care about Nixon, they just care that you’re talking about something that isn’t releasing the Epstein Files.

I don’t think that’s true any more. It might have been a few years ago, but he’s legalized bribery with his shitcoins etc since then.

It’s such a pissweak defense because even if you did give it permission, it still made no sense for it to schedule a pickup and tell the buyer that he was in.

It’s not an example of AI usage being good, on account of it’s soulless garbage slop with unbalanced pacing, which adds nothing to the original strip that it was stolen from

Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don’t say any naughty woids!

I had a Samsung fridge-freezer from around 2012, and it developed a fault where it would stop trying to be cold after two days. The engineer diagnosed a faulty motherboard and wanted about 1/3rd the cost of a new fridge to fit a new one, so instead I fixed it with a timer plug that switched it off and on again every day at 3:15am

I hope the outcome is they unbrick it, not just do a payout. Reason being I own one of the recently-bricked models and it sucks donkey balls that I can’t download books I already paid for. :(

I wish. Sadly it was from the boss.

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For real.

I recently lost half a morning having to go through a slop requirements document and making a list of questions like “are you sure you want this? why do you want this? what does this even mean?”, to which the answers were all “I don’t know, ChatGPT wrote it”.

Like why did you even bother sending me this, you could’ve just sent me the prompt instead and saved me 2 hours of my life

It’s a vulnerability precisely because people always swarm to defend Signal in stories like this, as though using Signal means the authorities (or other bad actors) can’t read your messages. Seems like every six months there’s some story involving Signal users getting hacked, and every time there’s a rush of wellacshuallys explaining why it wasn’t really Signal’s fault. (that last one is particularly egregious because I remember people defending it as “it wasn’t Signal, it was their partner who they subcontracted and gave your personal data to”, which is crazy levels of mental gymnastics.)

Security is more than just encryption. If you flag something up as “hey use this if you want to hide from the Government” and have a personal phone number attached to it, that’s like a red rag to a bull.

(edit: LOL, it’s hilarious how many people think they’re making great rebuttals in the replies when all they’re doing is proving my point. One child even flew directly into screaming at me. Signal fanbois are even worse than Apple supporters)

We’ve had a very recent uptick in engineers submitting PRs of hundreds of lines across multiple files, for Jira tickets that only asked for a one-line change. The engineers involved have been using AI assistants for nearly two years now, but there seems to have been a change in the last month or so in how aggressive the new models are at changing code.

You would use it when reporting either on Mr. T’s activities, or when explaining where your balls went.

It doesn’t come up so much these days, but back in the 90s the eating of people’s balls by Mr. T was a much bigger issue.

Mr T Ate My Balls, a member of the Ate My Balls Webring

kids today don’t know what a webring even is

sucks that newgrounds get the credit even on the knowyourmeme page. Yeah weebl uploaded it there too, but I hate that people think “newgrounds” before they think the actual creator who ran their own site that wasn’t entirely made of other people’s stuff