FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 9 days ago

I'm not sure if it's still around or how to find it, but there used to be a website that existed to explain the joke in comic strips and they were constantly baffled by Marmaduke.

FlyingSquid , 9 days ago

You misspelled 'should.'

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

The Space Shuttleworth law?

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

He may be billionaire or drag queen or whatever

You left out bigot and fascist.

Is it because there's no "may" about it?

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

Big example- the "free speech absolutist" does any sort of censorship and banning Modi's fascist Indian government requests.

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

I really want him to do this. Could you imagine the fallout from the war between Musk's lawyers and Apple's lawyers?

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

There's always BeOS.

Remember BeOS and how it was going to be the future?

Poor BeOS.

(Yes, yes, Haiku. But who uses it?)

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

29.2 tweets a day?

The brilliant businessman is clearly hard at work.

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

It's probably a good OS, but I doubt it will ever become the dominant new OS was hoped BeOS would become.

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

Back in the early 1990s, I would go to Goodwill and pick up whatever ancient computers and related machines that people had discarded there. I amassed quite a collection. But at some point, when you're hauling a useless VT240 terminal home and you realize it's just going to sit in the garage, you conclude that you're really not doing a smart thing.

I would say the person above should keep the ones they're talking about and get rid of the "other computers" unless there's a good reason to keep them.

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

Sometimes I have to pee. And I can't use a computer because it takes both hands. Hey-ooooooo!

FlyingSquid , 10 days ago

I have to imagine there's an option that weighs less than a large concrete block.

FlyingSquid OP , 12 days ago

1930s Superman didn't have heat vision.

FlyingSquid OP , 12 days ago

There used to be a website devoted to that called superdickery.com, but it looks like it's gone now sadly.

FlyingSquid OP , 12 days ago

It's the "explanation" for the image on the cover of Action Comics #1, Superman's debut:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/217a6143-2056-4547-b3b4-fe2dbd4c39f2.png

FlyingSquid OP , 12 days ago

You don't really need a car if you can fly.

Although Wonder Woman can fly has an invisible airplane. Also, you can see her while she's inside it, so I don't really get the point at all.

Edit: Apparently she couldn't fly at the time. The invisible part still doesn't make much sense. I guess she just wanted everyone to think she could fly? But sitting down?

FlyingSquid OP , 12 days ago

And no kryptonite. That was developed for the radio show because Bud Collyer, the voice of Superman, got sick and they needed a reason for him to not talk but still have Superman around, so kryptonite took his voice away.

FlyingSquid OP , 11 days ago

Not just that, but they were often told what to put on the cover first and then make up a comic that somehow related to it.

FlyingSquid OP , 14 days ago

This is true.

FlyingSquid , 14 days ago

But the C-suite folks think it's a great new way to spy in their employees, so I'm guessing it's here to stay.

FlyingSquid , 14 days ago

Why? Their company, their computers.

FlyingSquid , 15 days ago

I was wondering what was going on. The Internet Archive is an incredibly important asset beyond archiving websites because it has things like the Prelinger Collection, which is the largest archive of industrial, educational and other ephemeral films, which would be only accessible via commercial sites like YouTube otherwise.

And that's really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the audio, video and texts available.

I hope this gets resolved soon.

FlyingSquid , 15 days ago

Do you need AI or do you just need to use the term AI? Because it seems like the latter is usually enough.

FlyingSquid , 15 days ago

The glue on pizza one literally came from a Reddit post.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Hey, go boo the actual bad shit Musk is doing.

Ok. Boo.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-new-space-race-could-be-harming-the-earths-atmosphere

https://www.space.com/rocket-exhaust-pollution-upper-atmosphere

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612

FlyingSquid , 14 days ago

And the lower stages?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

I asked ChatGPT who I was not too long ago. I have a unique name and I have many sources on the internet with my name on it (I'm not famous, but I've done a lot of stuff) and it made up a multi-paragraph biography of me that was entirely false.

I would sure as hell call that a hallucination because there is no question it was trained on my name if it was trained on the internet in general but it got it entirely wrong.

Curiously, now it says it doesn't recognize my name at all.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

It's only going to get worse now that ChatGPT has a realistic-sounding voice with simulated emotions.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Where Google absolutely fails for me now is if I ever want information about a product beyond where to purchase it, especially if I want a review. I have to go through pages and pages of shopping links before I can hope to get relevant information, if I ever do.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

"For good."

Until Google finds a workaround.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

How do you people remember your ICQ numbers? I don't remember what I did last week half the time.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Fair. My current mail signature has a dead link in it and I can't be bothered to do anything about it.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

What are you talking about?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I could, but I don't feel like it. Why do you care?

FlyingSquid , 15 days ago

Well that can't be true. I don't care because I'm lazy and you're making an effort.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Oh fucking great. My daughter's online school requires her to run "Windows 8 or greater," but we got her a used laptop that can run 10 to make sure it can keep up with security updates. I don't even know if it is powerful enough to run 11 because I didn't even consider the possibility when I bought it. Now we're going to have to buy a new one in a couple of years?

Fuck you Pierson and Microsoft.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

If I could afford a lawyer, I wouldn't be concerned about having to buy a new notebook for her.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Thanks, I'll look into that. I appreciate it!

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

It does not unfortunately.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I don't particularly care to risk my daughter's education by trying to figure that out.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

As a mod of Lemmy Shitpost, you're welcome.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Is there a 'best social media' for anyone?

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

And then Edgar Rice Burroughs used that time machine technology to go even further back to 1912 and started the serialization of A Princess of Mars.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I hate that I have to keep saying this- No one seems to be talking about the fact that by giving their AI a human-like voice with simulated emotions, it inherently makes it seem more trustworthy and will get more people to believe its hallucinations are true. And then there will be the people convinced it's really alive. This is fucking dangerous.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I plan to. It really upsets me.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

You are entitled to your incorrect opinion.