A while ago I tried to look for something similar to Reddit’s Tip of My Tongue/Joystick (looking for media/games you have vague memories of and don’t know the title), but didn’t seem to find one. And I suspect it’s a bit niche thing.

A lot of people are drawn to true crime because they think it’s educational - learning what not to do, learn about red flags, learn how to keep oneself safe.

Same reason a lot of people watch aircraft disaster documentaries while they’re afraid of flying. It’s not to get further scared due to the disasters themselves, but to learn what was done about the problems that led to the incidents.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.

So you’ve tried art, and discovered it’s not for you. That’s still better than not having tried art at all in first place. You at least know where you stand in regards to that question now. …Or at least I hope so.

AI is good at doing a thing once.
Trying to get it to do the same thing the second time is janky and frustrating.

I understand the use of AI as a consulting tool (look at references, make code examples) or for generating template/boilerplate code. You know, things you do once and then develop further upon on your own.

But using it for continuous development of an entire application? Yeah, it’s not good enough for that.

Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)

I’ve heard a lot of stuff on grapevine about various online services and how cool they are.

And then I visit the home page and it says “Powered by AI. You can be more productive with us. Because we have AI. Did we mention we have AI?”

And I’m, like, well, this service may or may not use AI in a meaningful way, but one thing is certain - they’re probably hiking the price, if not now, then soon. Sorry guys, I’m sitting this tech hype cycle out.

a purely financial decision

🤨 … riiiiiiiiight …

Remember: even in the most repressive autocracies, the leaders realised that jesters serve a purpose. Because if people can’t joke about how shitty things are at the present, they might see that as a sign that things are pretty bad, actually.

If the comedy is mucked with, that’s a sure sign that the politicians are getting a tad bit touchy.

I thought you were talking about Crusader Kings III

Local photo shops (yes, this city has a few) all sell albums and have print services and I think one of them even develops films (weekly, not really in a hour).

We also used to have a service where you could mail in film rolls and they develop and print and scan them. (Ran into a few floppies and CDs from them recently. Nostalgia blast.) They’re still in business! Though they just offer “Download our photo album design software and turn your photos into epic printed albums (or whatever)” sort of services.

(Ironically, read this post just as I was scanning 35mm negatives)

The sign on the door reads “Execution Chamber”

“We’re gonna see some serious shit. …Wait, this is a bit too serious.”

I’m in Finland. Over here every summer there’s always some streets that are being repaved or major public service buildings that gets closed due to “renovations”. Ha, I know that’s just a government cover-up. They don’t want us to know about the looting gangs who apparently have access to stealth technology!

I’m like, oh honey, we used to be able to do all this stuff. We had software for this. We had services in the web. Actually, I think we still do - hold on…

*looking at the national public transport route planning site*

*vague gesturing* this is peak technology and none of the AI bros have apparently heard of this shit, because they don’t use public transport.

The Web used to cater to the niche services, until Big Tech rolled in, and now they try to replace it with patently inferior solutions.

People will no longer laugh at the term “military intelligence” for the obvious irony. Now, they’ll say “remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster”

I wasn’t able to see this on my phone. Almost gave up hope. But. HOLY CRAP. Re-watching the LGR video on my desktop monitor and I can see the stuff again! So… thanks, I guess!

Tried various distances, that didn’t help too much. I’m afraid I have to hold to the theory that I’m officially old now and need bifocals.

It used double- and even triple-pointers to data structures

(old song, to the tune of My Favourite Things)

🎶 “Pointers to pointers to pointers to strings,
this code does some rather unusual things…!” 🎶

I can see them.

Or at least I could. When LGR recently made a video about them, I was having a very bad time viewing them. I was either too drunk or not used to seeing them with this TV setup or I just need new glasses. Probably the last one.

People can survive a Snailpocalypse.

The Turtlegeddon, not so much, because turtles are actually surprisingly fast.