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This absolutely made my morning.

Edit: Never mind, already knew about the Wayback machine. I thought it was the rest of the archive.

Still good news.


Not old enough to understand the difference between the internet and a dialup BBS, apparently.


I met a ton of friends via local BBSes in the 90s. A couple of girlfriends too.

And then there was how I got tons of warez and games… I had access to my dad’s university internet account, so I could get on Usenet and download porn pics. Then I would upload them to local BBSes and get super high ratios.

And then I had the porn and the software.



Downloading books you have to borrow from the IA is not easy these days.


I really hope the rest of the archive comes back soon. I was in the middle of a book and it was a book I hadn’t read since I was a kid.

Yeah, I could pay for it or wait for it to come via interlibrary loan (it’s not exactly a well-known book), but I really didn’t need a physical copy. And it isn’t even all that long.

Sigh.


I’m talking about things like movies and TV shows, not games. In fact, if you aren’t careful (or just have a game that doesn’t allow you to choose where it saves its data), you could have the write cycle issue with games.


I’m the person in the thread before the person who asked, but I’m in the same boat. In my case: videos, radio shows and comics.

A 4-season TV series in 1080p can easily take up 50-100 gb.


Yep, I can’t afford any more storage. I’ve had to start curating and weeding, which is a shame because I know there are things I’d probably eventually revisit. Oh well. So long, Duckman.


I don’t disagree with you, but on the other hand, this will be a huge boon for people who do things like sail the high seas and wish to keep what they acquire long term. You’re not constantly rewriting in those cases. You’re just slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) filling up the drive. Eventually, it’s essentially read only.

Considering how much I spent on 6 TB of regular hard drive storage for this reason a few years ago, I’d be all for affordable 8 TB SSDs.


Does Woz count? He’s CEO of the Silicon Valley Comic Con (or he used to be anyway).


So an optional update rather than one you have to do because of a recall, the thing we’re talking about? Because otherwise this seems like a “technically” sort of gotcha.


I have a 2016 Prius. I’ve never needed to download a software update. Somehow Toyota could handle making a hybrid without it being necessary.



I’ve never owned a car that needed regular software updates. Have you?


This is what we get because Atari fucked up with E.T.

(Atari would be owned by Disney by now, and thus also evil.)


Quality programmers

Bold of you to think that’s what they want.


The article is about how pen and paper are saving companies that haven’t had to use them in a long time during things like the CrowdStrike outage and ransomware attacks.



Our long international nightmare is finally over!


Musk and Vance?

Nah, Vance needs more cushion for the pushin’.


You’ve just given someone an idea. Next step: a Babbage difference engine.



Wait, your Canon printer needs a specific type of photo paper, not just generic photo paper that’s been around for inkjet printers for a very long time now? Have printers really become that enshittified?



Really? For me it only shows friends and groups I’m actually in.


Go to the sidebar on the left. Click on ‘See More.’ Click ‘feeds’ here:

There will be much less random junk.

Stupid, I know, but it does work.



They really need to name-and-shame beyond “Facebook Partner” considering we’re talking about fucking Cox Media Group.


Non-twitter is fine in any form.

Gotta disagree with you there when it comes to Threads. We have seen how Meta is also trying to influence global politics. Threads should not be encouraged either. On top of that, their privacy policy is a nightmare.

https://qz.com/threads-meta-delayed-launch-eu-privacy-policy-concerns-1850609340



I had a doggie named Max. He had bat ears. We called him BatMax. He died over two years ago. Now I miss Max.

Not your fault, obviously.



A lot of them are immigrants who will be deported if they lose the job. I know I’d rather live in either California or Texas than a lot of places in India. (Especially these days, if the immigrant is a Muslim.)


Aww. Poor Scout. We have to keep our big dog out of the kitchen with a gate so our little dog can eat his food before the big one eats it (he has a hole he can go through), but occasionally we forget we let her into the kitchen. 20 minutes later, we’ll see her silently standing by the gate, patiently waiting to be let out.


Did you read this?

I can’t wait to hear the “how dare he help someone in medical distress while he’s supposed to be campaigning!” screams from the right.

https://www.rawstory.com/bigdadenergy-internet-claps-as-walz-pauses-event-to-help-rally-goer-and-pass-out-water/



Oh damn it. I hate myself for that typo.


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/06/beacon-usa-gymnastics-therapy-dog
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So many kids with assigned school Chromebooks are going to get fucked over by this. You can apparently install Firefox on a Chromebook via the Google Play Store, but that was disabled on my daughter’s Chromebook. I don’t want her exposed to constant advertising while she’s doing her schoolwork. It’s bad enough that she’s exposed to it the rest of the time just being in America.



Guys, all of you are being really mean. Do you know how many cars he would have to give up buying if he didn’t lay all those employees off?

At least one. Probably.


Mine was an Apple ][+.

(And yes, that’s how you write it properly. I’m a pedant.)



No, 47. Believe it or not, the first PCs came out when I was a young whippersnapper.


Many of us who are old enough saw it as an advanced version of ELIZA and used it with the same level of amusement until that amusement faded (pretty quick) because it got old.

If anything, they are less impressive because tricking people into thinking a computer is actually having a conversation with them has been around for a long time.



Although I will use it to write resumes and cover letters when applying to jobs from now on. They use AI to weed out resumes. I figure the only way to beat that system is to use it against itself.







And she was so excited about it yesterday too. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ae002d68-992b-46f0-aaf2-9eaf56760211.png) Her name is Ghost and she's old and stupid and hates everyone but she's cute, so we keep her around.
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For you MST3K fans, this proves that cats are superior to Nick. Even cats get into Castleton.
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Uber’s new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route
Those Silicon Valley geniuses have done it again! Next week- "it's like the subway, but with AI!"
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Saw this today while attending a U.S. Civil War reenactment.
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![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/480ca74e-4cdd-4e89-97cc-97e381b9ec89.png) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/356ed13c-9757-45d5-9956-12ddb70ee002.png) It was about the size of my index finger. My cousin tells me it's a red-eared slider. All I know is it's super cute.
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The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’
>When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. But things got robotic. > >“The voice sounded similar to Siri,” said Ty, who is 29 and lives in the DC metro area. “It was creepy.” > >Ty realized they weren’t speaking to a living, breathing person. Their interviewer was an AI system, and one with a rather rude habit. Jaime asked Ty all the right questions – what’s your management style? are you a good fit for this role? – but she wouldn’t let Ty fully answer them. > >“After cutting me off, the AI would respond, ‘Great! Sounds good! Perfect!’ and move on to the next question,” Ty said. “After the third or fourth question, the AI just stopped after a short pause and told me that the interview was completed and someone from the team would reach out later.” (Ty asked that their last name not be used because their current employer doesn’t know they’re looking for a job.) > >A survey from Resume Builder released last summer found that by 2024, four in 10 companies would use AI to “talk with” candidates in interviews. Of those companies, 15% said hiring decisions would be made with no input from a human at all.
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>The most obvious example is the TikTok Shop. The company is pushing its eCommerce so hard you hear about it more than any other topic on the app, both in ads and organic videos from creators hoping for a share of the profits. The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular content and turn every single video into an ad. > >Then there’s the videos themselves. In a bid to compete with YouTube, TikTok is reportedly preparing to allow users to post 30-minute videos and prompting creators to upload horizontal content instead of the app’s standard vertical format. TikTok is even encouraging people to upload photo slideshows instead of videos altogether. On top of that, TikTok just fumbled a relationship with Universal Music Group, which pulled its music catalog off the platform and silenced any video featuring Taylor Swift, the Weeknd, and every other Universal artist.
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> As I listened to PR people try to sell me on an AI-powered fake vagina, I thought back to Andreessen’s claims that AI will fix car crashes and pandemics and myriad other terrors. In particular, I thought about his claim that because of this, halting AI development was akin to murder. It reminded me of another wealthy self-described futurist with a plan to save the world. > >The Church of Scientology, founded by the science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and based upon a series of practices his disciples call “tech,” claims that their followers will “rid the planet of insanity, war and crime, and in its place create a civilization in which sanity and peace exist.” Scientology “tech” is so important for mankind’s future that threats against it justify their infamous “fair game” policy. A person declared fair game “may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist.…” > >Sinners must be punished, after all.
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I've seen this movie and it doesn't end well.
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Looking forward to buying the robot I can send to the movie theater to watch the AI-generated movie for me and come back and tell me what happened.
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> An engineer hacked Apple’s infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying. Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.
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