I imagine there are fan groups for Our Flag Means Death.

The term, “enshitification” is getting bandied about a lot. But the bots and corporations are an inevitable part of capitalism. Make money at all costs, never be satisfied with what you have, and treat everybody that isn’t you like a stepping stone.

Scammers and sociopathic c-levels are missing something fundamentally human. A complete lack of empathy. But this has always been a part of our species. The difference now is that we have a system that dramatically rewards that sickness. And that’s not even getting into how being able to be evil at scale is going to make the next few decades interesting.

Pop verification neck to continue.

Janeway would straight up murder them. She’s done worse for less reason.

My argument is thus:

LLMs are decent at boilerplate. They’re good at rephrasing things so that they’re easier to understand. I had a student who struggled for months to wrap her head around how pointers work, two hours with GPT and the ability to ask clarifying questions and now she’s rockin’.

I like being able to plop in a chunk of Python and say, “type annotate this for me and none of your sarcasm this time!”

But if you’re using an LLM as a problem solver and not as an accelerator, you’re going to lack some of the deep understanding of what happens when your code runs.

PHP: You’re not a nerd. But you are at least trying.

It takes nearly as long to decrapify a new Firefox install as it does to compile Librewolf.

Install uBlock.

Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

Disable “sponsored” stories. AKA, listicles designed to draw in idiots who want to see which 8 child actors from the 90s turned out to be the tallest. Alarmingly close to the tacky crap that you might see on a fresh Windows install.

Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

Now disable Pocket. Remembering to go into about:config to really disable it

Disable telemetry.

Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

Remove Amazon, Bing, et al. from the search engine list.

Remove “suggested” and “sponsored” autocomplete.

Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

Remind yourself that, despite this crap, Firefox is still a better browser than any Chromium knockoff.

My NeoVim (which can leverage VSCodes plugins) uses about 60MB for an entire project.

And doesn’t have the stink of Microsoft and its associated user tracking.

I’ll talk nothing over a terribly implemented Electron app that devours system resources and brings every other Electron app down when it inevitably OOMs.

I was sexually assaulted multiple times at multiple churches.

Fuck you and fuck your trivializing.

Depends on how you interpret the Golden Age text. But you’re correct that the former is the light bringer and the latter is adversary/legal opponent.

But the silver age crap messed with that canon.

My head canon is that Lucifer was a member of the Q Continuum while Satan was a misunderstood Time Lord.

The Pope needs to have a sit-down with the folks at Disney to learn how to properly manage a shared imaginary universe.

So Alfred Hitchcock predicted DDOS attacks decades before they were a thing?

Montana, here.

Nothing quite like when it hits -45°F and you have to start closing off rooms and stuffing blankets into registers and doorway cracks.

Any kind of outdoor airflow can burn so bad that skin necrosis can begin in just 5 minutes.

Summer in Arizona is shitty. Winter in the Northern Rockies will straight up murder you.

The accuracy required for the ink droplets just isn’t there for prosumers.

I can (and have!) built multiple extruders for a variety of 3D printers. Some of my own design.

Sadly, the tolerances for an inkjet are at least an order of magnitude greater.

I have zero doubt that a few clever hardware hackers could design an open source inkjet printer. But A: They’d get sued back to the mesolithic by every printer company with a patent. And B: the process would likely involve micro machining your own hardware.

I’ve just said, “fuck it” to the entire industry. I’m in my early 40s and I’m reasonably sure that my Brother laser will outlive me. And possibly the heat death of the universe.

I’m two states away from Utah. But because my data terminates to L3 in Salt Lake, half of the porn sites that my wife and I frequent want our Utah driver’s license or passport. For a state that claims to hate stepping on sneks, they do love forcing their “morality” on everybody else.

No. Just fucking no. If I want my morality policed, the last place I’ll go is to a religious institution.

Thank jeebus for VPNs.

PTSD…

I once destroyed a CRT monitor by misconfiguring X11.

Nowadays Linux just works to the point where my 72 year old mother is able to deal with Pop_OS without issue.

But man, those early days of unstable drivers, slow dial-up internet, and navigating through Usenet and IRC for decent support was a nightmarish labor of love.

The silky smoothness that we have now was built on caffeine and the backs of millions of greybeards.

(For the record: “Greybeard” is a nerdy term of endearment that I’ve seen adopted by people identifying all across the rainbow. Kinda like dwarfs on Discworld).

Pinterest can eat every dick or dick-shaped object that has ever existed in the multiverse.

I would happily, happily give up months of my life to build a robotic body for each of their servers so they could dig their own shallow graves. Where a line of image searchers will kick them unceremoniously into their unmarked holes.

Which makes my incomprehensible notes to my future self an elaborate form of masturbation.

Service guarantees citizenship!

Unless those working people happen to be LGBTQ. Then red and blue does matter.

Same goes for: The educated. Brown folks. Black folks. Women. Post-birth children.

Huh… Turns out that both sides are not the same after all.