“Guys, we’re scaling back on AI! Honest! Isn’t this great publicity?!”

“Also, totally unrelated… but today we’re launching SchmoPilot Assistant for Notepad!”

Unfortunately, like GPUs during the cryptomining era, consumers have shown their hand as to just-how-many-people will pay insane exorbitant prices. Remember when you could pay $200-300 every 2 years and get about double the GPU power? (It was only 5 years ago…) Nvidia & AMD learned that they no longer had to offer that anymore.

RAM prices have quadrupled in a year. Yet 25% of gamers still plan to upgrade this year, and 40% in the next 2 years. Even if we make believe that the previous status-quo was “everyone upgrades every year” (which is obviously a gross overestimation), this is a huge “line-going-up” scenario for the RAM manufacturers.

Why would they even bother lowering prices until forced to do so?

No, no, no… That’s actual genocide.

I want someone to say Elon/Zuck/Gates did a genocide because they took away the option to keep the Start menu on the left side.

Oh, shit… Honey, get in here! There’s a Bernie post in the technology community.

Quick! someone mislabel something you don’t like as “genocide”. I’m just one square away from my Bernie Bingo.

While I sympathize with this issue…

Boy do I dislike articles where the entire headline is “____ is angry about ____”.

And people click it, because they’re all, “Oh boy, what do I get to be mad about today?”

Looks like they’re not going down after all?

Nevermind about the shutdown, we will be working on turning monochrome into a legal bring your own music app. we plan to support subsonic, local files, and the ability to bring accounts from other services. This will hopefully only take a week (though longer if needed). please stick with us during the time being.

https://monochrome.tf/

Welp, now I know why MusicGrabber (a recent-addition vibe-coded single-track downloader) quit working. It relied pretty heavily on Monochrome.

It was fun while it lasted…

What the zuck…

“Every workplace everywhere uses Microslop? Quit your job! Be unemployed! Lose your home and your family! That’ll show 'em!”

Very useful and totally reasonable stance.

slash-s.

If I recall, the hardware isn’t actually “bought”.

Altman just signed super-not-binding pinky promises with Hynix & Samsung that he’d mop up all of their DRAM inventory.

And now that data center buildouts are getting shitcanned, we’re seeing Micron stock tumble, because they threw it all away for that sweet, sweet AI payout.

Wasn’t r/all just Reddit’s “Ragebait Algorithm Central Hub”?

I get that we Fuck Spez and whatnot here… But this doesn’t seem terrible?

I’ve been noticing a lot more definitely-AI-generated “blogposts” and full-on ads in my Mastodon hashtag feeds.

It’s a fairly new thing.

75% of the accounts I’ve had to ban in the roughly-two-years since I spun up my instance have been AI slopfaucets that popped up in the last 2 weeks.

Hey, you do you.

This sounds like the kind of stuff that breaks Steam Deck software after random system updates, though.

I believe the last time I had to do a Windows re-install, I was nagged THREE times to enable OneDrive. Each time, the opt out button was increasingly difficult to locate, and the verbiage more & more resembling “you’re an idiot if you don’t enable this”.

Even after refusing to use it x3, once Windows was installed, OneDrive was still sitting down in the system tray, ready to fuck shit up.

Seriously, we need to convince him that all of the AI companies are saying mean things about him. Then maybe we might be able to afford RAM.

I knew WB’s HD-DVDs (remember those?) were a timebomb. I didn’t realize regular DVDs were, too.

I’ve always used Transmission, since there’s a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.

https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/

That said, it looks like it hasn’t been updated in over a year… I wonder if there’s anything else out there that does the same thing as this. (EDIT: Yes. Google brings up plenty of choices.)

The sad truth is that the vast majority of people WANT an algorithm to tell them what they like.

Mastodon requires you to actually have your own opinions going in, and follow material based on that.

I legitimately don’t understand why the U.S. isn’t the only locality where it shows up as “Gulf of America”.

Set the en-US string to “Gulf of America”. Leave literally every other region’s text string untouched from what it was 6 months ago.

When the next Democrat U.S. President gets sworn in and immediately Executive Orders it back to “Gulf of Mexico”, change the en-US string back to that.

This is all so stupid and melodramatic.

It was all about “fun” in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.

Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that “their” politics “won” on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.

So, it’s all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.