So the plot of Johnny Mnemonic?

Here’s one. And their profits went up when they replaced their CEO https://www.forbes.com/sites/sherzododilov/2024/01/11/can-ai-become-your-next-ceo/

20 years ago while learning web development Dreamweaver was going to supposedly eliminate the need for code on websites too. lol

But sadly, the dream of eliminating us seems like it will never die

Oh yeah. I remember this episode of Mr. Robot

Although FediDB claims we have about 418k active

Nope, that’s gotta just be registered users. We’re kidding ourselves and don’t even have 200k active users

*update: this is just Lemmy users, but OP was talking about all of the fediverse *

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I’ve been wondering about all this tech and what’s going to happen to it. Surely some other company would be interested in buying it and taking over where they left off. Maybe Redbox?

Now that streaming services are jacking up their prices and people and cancelling, it seems like a perfect time for a resurgence in physical media rental, ironically.

Yep. It’s also compatible with most all Thunderbolt 4 functionality. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/breaking-down-how-usb4-goes-where-no-usb-standard-has-gone-before/3/#h3

USB 4 can already do 80 gbit, why are they even bothering with a competing standard anymore?

Google has had monopoly power over both search and online ads for well over a decade, it’s way past time

IBM has been working on optical chips since the early 2000s, but still hasn’t released one yet. Maybe this news will get them to show off what they’ve got now if they’re still working on it

Yep. I got one of these messages last weekend. So what did I do? I created a new replacement community here and pinned a post to the re-openned subreddit encouraging people to migrate.

But I created it over a decade ago, grew it myself from nothing. I’m not giving up mod status