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palordrolap

@palordrolap@kbin.run

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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palordrolap , to linuxmemes in Me when desktop hits 5%

You'll forgive me if I ever-so-briefly misread your boilerplate link as "And then I woke up."

palordrolap , to Comic Strips in "Beyond the Fishbowl" by War and Peas

No, this is an actual irony.

Humanity is unable to remember, for any length of time, a fact about whether goldfish can remember things for any length of time.

palordrolap , to linuxmemes in Redundant Safe

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palordrolap , to Comic Strips in "Beyond the Fishbowl" by War and Peas

Ironic, isn't it?

palordrolap , to Technology in FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register

The real punishment ought to be an atomic wedgie. For everyone who was a C-level for more than a month at that company in the last 10 years.

This ought to be the punishment for a lot of unethical business practices. You can't delegate that to a customer's wallet.

palordrolap , to Technology in NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics

If we tried this in the UK with someone like, say, the late David Coleman, I'm not entirely sure anyone who remembers him would be able to distinguish - other than, as I said, the knowledge that he's been gone for quite some time now.

Coleman, was considered a go-to commentator for decades despite being gaffe-prone even at the best of times. He was occasionally oblivious and apparently lacking any self-awareness too. (He did kind of learn to laugh at himself though and was a good, well, sport, about it all.)

Sounds very AI to me. Come to think of it, he may even have been kept around precisely because of the entertainment value.

I assume that Al Michaels is not of this bizarre calibre and it wouldn't take long for people to notice.

palordrolap , to Comic Strips in Welcome to Hell!

Other than the psychopath angle, there's also those who are mentally ill and/or delusional and believe they're terrible people when they're not far off average, maybe even better.

Likewise, perfectionists, but maybe I'm repeating myself.

Got to hope that you're not right for their sake.

Personally, I'm hoping for oblivion. Like it was for the billions of years before I was conceived, I assume, not that it's possible to remember that.

palordrolap , to Comic Strips in Words for an Epic Quest, Part 5

Fun fact: The past tense of "wend" was once "went", but that was co-opted for the past tense of "go", and the past tense of wend is now "wended".

"But what was the past tense of 'go' before that?"

Kind of hard to tell what it would be now, but "goed" does seem likely - like we might have said as toddlers - but irregular "yode" / "yoed" is closer to the old form and is also possible.

Evidence from other Germanic languages as well as "do" becoming "did" suggests a less likely "gid", "gig", "ging" or even "gang" (compare "sang").

palordrolap , to Comic Strips in Friendlier email

"Stop calling me Mark."

palordrolap , to Memes in Memetic Evolution

So I decided to go peek at the ragecomic subreddit. Yes, the very one-time ragecomic home-from-home outside of 4chan. Last post 17 days ago, using at least two "extinct" faces, got 600 upvotes.

It's complaining that there are no good tools to make ragecomics any more. (I have not checked to see if that's true.)

Y'know, I feel like they should stay there. Anything that'll mess up an AI should stay on that site for as long as humanly possible. smilingthumbsuprageface.jaypeg

palordrolap , to linuxmemes in GNU-Linux

Cygwin on Win7 back in the day was pretty close tbh.

palordrolap , to linuxmemes in bin or bin??

I don't know about that. Non-binary files have been put into bin directories for decades at this point. (Feel free to marvel at the analogy.)

Delete the contents and it's not just binaries going to the bit-bucket.

The joke here is more "Tony Lazuto said to execute these files."

palordrolap , to Technology in Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

That's called "time to get a new job."

Before I came in here, I assumed that's what "or else" meant, and I'm still not sure it doesn't mean that.

palordrolap , to Technology in Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges

Asking him to auto-cannibalise? I like it.

palordrolap , to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

One downside to this is that $10 is worth more to one person than it is to another, and I can't see how that can be fixed.

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