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M.R. ducks.

M.R. not.

O.S.A.R.

C.M. wangs?

L.I.B.

M.R. ducks.

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It doesn't have to, it'll just hire some schmucks on Fiverr to do what it can't.

Mark my words, in the near future you WILL be encountering people whose marching orders came completely from an AI.

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Kbin.social has y'all beat in the downed website department. Every click is a gamble on whether or not you'll get an error page.

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And TempleOS will take the place of BSD.

Millions of colors and separated CPU ring privileges are overrated anyway.

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mount, finger, fsck...old school UNIX dudes were some fucking horndogs weren't they.

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Those are LCDs at OLED prices. It's almost double what an equivalent smart TV is.

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I thought Web 2.0 was just dynamic Javascript and AJAX, as a step up from static webpages of the 90s. Am I missing something here?

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All my fellow edgy 90s goth/headbanger friends: "He called it 'Nine Inch Nails' because that was the size of the nails that were used to nail Jesus to the cross"

Then watching an interview with Trent in a documentary 20 years later: "I just thought it sounded cool at the time".

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Unpopular opinion: I think "Hurt" itself is overrated, and everyone just likes it because it happened to become one of the hit songs off the Downward Spiral. I think songs like Mr. Self Destruct and Eraser are what you really want if you want a display of raw, fucked up emotions.

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Remember the famous meme scene in Skyrim where you wake up for the first time?

Debian is the horse and cart you don't even pay attention to but faithfully and reliably carries you where you need to go. It may be old, but its careful and safe and won't harm you.

Arch is just an angry pissed off dragon. Very powerful. Good luck taming it.

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Don't you love freezing when you go to bed, waking up in the middle of the night in a pool of sweat, and then several hours later freezing again?

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*Nintendo quietly shows Apple Yuzu's corpse in their trunk while staring sternly and slowly and audibly tapping a bloody baseball bat against the ground behind their back... *

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Dude I worked for in 2008 (small IT support company) insisted we store all the domain logins and passwords for all our customer's networks on our internal Sharepoint system and forward a port to RDP on all their domain controllers. It was a fucked up place to work with every procedure pulled out of someone's ass on the spot.

/randomrelatedstory

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Also who the hell thinks it is a good idea to send nudes to Meta?

It was eye-opening when I realized I'm the only one in my circle who gives a shit about online privacy. You and me and most of the Fediverse are a rare minority. This is normal to people now. If you told people in the 90s about this they'd rightfully call it a dystopia. I remember my mother being super paranoid about me going online back then. Boiling frog situation here.

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https://i.imgur.com/qeccUlZ.png

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Me, not much of a gamer and not a movie buff and having no issues with the way monitors have been displaying things for the past 25 years: No.

When I could no longer see the migraine-inducing flicker while being irradiated by a particle accelerator shooting a phosphor coated screen in front of my face, I was good to go.

It was exciting when we went from green/amber to color!

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Hooooeeeeeeeeehoohoohoohoooeyyyyyyyy

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If it's got a full general purpose CPU and OS, yeah it can be vulnerable, but a lot of IoT stuff use microcontrollers that run one monolithic program. There's usually no other OS services or hidden exploits to use, I'm having trouble imagining how you'd break out of such a device once you've taken control of it, if you can at all. Can a smarter person correct me if I'm wrong, and explain how chips like the common ESP32 and ESP8266 are vulnerable to attack? Maybe through the RTOS and Wifi stack?

I'm an embedded hobbyist so I'd like to learn about securing my own devices.

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I set it up to alert my smart speakers when it's done so my family doesn't leave their laundry in the washer to mold and rot all day. That's about all I use the smart features for. And I do it through a 3rd party open source home automation solution.

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This argument was settled with electronic music in the 80s/90s. Samples and remixes taken directly from other bits of music to create a new piece aren't plagiarism.

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Did you have somebody overwhelming you with the minutiae of research and “things you have to understand” when you got into PC building?

I just kinda started plugging shit in where it fit. This was in the days of the ISA bus and mobo DIP switches. All my technical knowledge was learned through breaking something and trying to fix it.

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Don't disrespect Skynet by comparing it with our trash pattern-storing-and-matching "AI". It figured out time travel all on it's own after all.

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Seems like a trivial programming task even my junior noob ass can handle.

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I knew a pretty well off dude who used a flip-phone...in 2018. If he wanted to do computer-type stuff, he just used a computer.

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You know, the room inside your monitor full of little hamsters with tiny paintbrushes that speed paint everything onto the screen from the inside. They used to have a lot more room, but we had to breed the hamsters way smaller.

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I live in Baltimore. If one more automated website algorithm smashes the news of this bridge into my face I'm gonna scream out loud. I have to constantly click "not interested" on my YT front page. "Oh, this dude lives in BMore, I bet he wants to know about the fucking tangled wreck he can literally see every day from his house 24/7".

Not because of you, OP, you're cool.

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There are two tunnels that carry 95 through the center of the city, and the other side of the 695 beltway that takes you around the city on the opposite side of the bridge. That bridge was mainly used by shipping companies from all the distribution centers and warehouses on the southeast side, so now they'll all have to go an extra several dozen miles around the other way and making normal traffic a nightmare.

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Anyone up for some D&D?

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Yeah, but those aren't required dress code or anything. Most of us just make some shit up out of our heads that sounds cool and go with it. Then we'll fill all our online gaming and social media account profiles with it.

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Well, my Dad used to kick MY ass on the Atari, it's only right to pass down the tradition and kick my son's ass on PC.

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Also, this'll blow your mind too, Doom wasn't actually 3D. It was a clever trick involving the lack of the ability to look up and down. They used some sort of algorithm (I forget how it works exactly) to turn the 2D walls, doors, and platforms that appear from the top-down view in the map into vertical stacks of lines that "look" like 3D objects in front of you. The sprites are also all just 2D projections overlayed onto the game.

This system introduced all kinds of wierd quirks in the game, like the trippy effect you get when you activate no-clipping and clip through the edge of the map.

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Linux From Scratch. They started it, but never figured out how to finish it and get it fully working.

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Brb, gotta tell my wife I'm lesbian now.

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More like https://i.imgur.com/UhC0g18.jpeg

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At that point, what are you using Mint for? The Cinammon DE?

IMHO, KDE feels much more modern, while Cinammon kind of feels like it's stuck in 2003. It reminds me of the stock gray boxy Windows 9x/NT/2000 interface.

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Nick, nick, nick, nick, n-nick NICK nick, Nick-el-odeon!

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I was playing Quake 3 and Unreal Torunament 2003 in the early 2000s, they had native versions. One of the first mainstream Linux gaming pioneers.

I used to use Second Life on Linux too with a third party client.

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Or do while making sure you 100% know WTF you are doing. Some modern tech, like onion routing and encryption, are still very useful.

But if you're not the kind of person who can convert a 32 bit hex number to decimal in your head or recognize a JTAG port on a device when you see it, then yeah stay away.

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Sometime in the 90s:

"What are we gonna call it?"

"GNU Image Manipulation Program/GIMP. Huehuehuehue. trollface

"Yeah sure, whatever, it's not like millions are going to end up using this thing."

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NDISWrapper: we're just gonna trick the Windows driver into thinking it's running on Windows and intercept the system calls.

That was certainly an era.

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According to what I just looked up, they pay him a weekly salary of $50 so he'll show up every so often for special events. Hardly raking in the big bucks.

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It's also a cartoon. Vitamins, supplements, treadmills, stationary bikes, weights, and rowing machines exist.

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Because these people are trying to get an OS running on 15 year old dumpster dived laptops. It's kind of a Linux thing to get it running usably on the biggest old piece of shit you can find. I've done similar myself with a Pentium II machine from the late 90s in 2015.

People with modern multiple cores and dozens of GB of RAM are not usually worried about these things.

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As a person who stares at a lot of text up close, 4k makes a difference. I don't notice antialiasing pixels anymore, my eyes finally see it as a smooth blend and it looks like I'm reading actual print.

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Up close, it's my computer monitor.

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

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Until it becomes part of the samples/loops for a whole new genre of music two decades later. Like the TR909 drum machine and the popular "amen break" rhythm line.

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General AI doesn't exist. Intelligent systems and agents very much do exist.

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OMG, that's horrible. Back in my day all we did was set a screenshot of the desktop as the wallpaper, and then hide all the icons to prank people.

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