178376790 comment Comment to paraphrase a well-known adage (Score 1) 55 by Thud457 on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:59PM (#65520456) Attached to: Zuckerberg Pledges Hundreds of Billions For AI Data Centers in Superintelligence Push AGI can remain intransigent longer than you can remain solvent. Winter is coming, Mark.
178355702 comment Comment Note to Benjamin Franklin Gates: (Score 1) 116 by Thud457 on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:24PM (#65513416) Attached to: Senator Calls Out Texas For Trying To Steal Shuttle From Smithsonian That belongs in a MUSEUM!
178318088 comment Comment Paging Dr Ian Malcom (Score 1) 50 by Thud457 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:51AM (#65507102) Attached to: Peter Jackson Backs Long Shot De-Extinction Plan, Starring New Zealand's Lost Moa Didn't Australia lose a war against Emus? Moas are even bigger.
178269696 comment Comment I minus 1 (Score 1) 67 by Thud457 on Thursday July 03, 2025 @08:37AM (#65493450) Attached to: A New 'Interstellar Visitor' Has Entered the Solar System What's Randy Quaid been up to lately? For a few years there he was making good progress transforming into a real-life Russell Casse.
178259686 comment Comment I found your challenge verbose (Score 1) 93 by Thud457 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:17PM (#65492134) Attached to: Lorde's New CD is So Transparent That Stereos Can't Even Read It Thanks anonymous reader for telling us who Lorde is. sheesh.
178041235 comment Comment THRILLHO (Score 1) 51 by Thud457 on Friday June 13, 2025 @03:02PM (#65447837) Attached to: Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins Give me ECoin or GO TO HELL!
177945356 comment Comment BNPL for food?! U.S. is so PHUCKED. (Score 2) 141 by Thud457 on Friday June 06, 2025 @11:11AM (#65431766) Attached to: Consumers Are Increasingly Turning To Buy-Now-Pay-Later Services For Groceries Always remember to get a receipt when going to the bathroom.
177944516 comment Comment a perfect shitstorm a'brewing, just you wait (Score 3, Funny) 93 by Thud457 on Friday June 06, 2025 @08:59AM (#65431476) Attached to: Proxy Services Feast On Ukraine's IP Address Exodus Fuck Everything, We're Doing Sixteen Octects
177910039 comment Comment Year 2025 : GNU was was begin (Score 1) 245 by Thud457 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:38PM (#65424779) Attached to: Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software ArduPilot is GPL3, dude.Since the drones were end-user devices, you can direct your complaints to /dev/nul What you need is the Soldierbot v2.1 license, but that has different, questionable, encumbrances.
177901949 comment Comment De-Americanize Dr Who (Score 1) 77 by Thud457 on Monday June 02, 2025 @12:33PM (#65422433) Attached to: 'Doctor Who' Regenerates in Surprise Season Finale. But Will the Show Return? Back in my day, I remember: Dr Who figured out the plot using reason and logic. He didn't run around waving his sonic screwdriver like a magic wand.Less running around and explosions.Occasionally he would have a companion not from 20th/21st century Earth.Also, CGI has gotten so cheap and effective, it's being over used. I've got my asbestos longjohns on as a precaution, but you know I'm right.
177831357 comment Comment throwing gasoline on a fire (Score 1) 65 by Thud457 on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @10:16AM (#65410499) Attached to: Robot Industry Split Over That Humanoid Look Canonically, we don't know that Data didn't self-accessorize after his construction. It seems like he would have been perfectly capable of doing so. Not sure if we should hand this discussion to a grad student or AI.
177830513 comment Comment you know why (Score 1) 65 by Thud457 on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @09:24AM (#65410295) Attached to: Robot Industry Split Over That Humanoid Look I agree that robot designers should embrace carcinisation , but we must be pragmatic and recognize the obvious need for tentacles.
177783153 comment Comment Re:FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi... ? (Score 1) 107 by grub on Monday May 26, 2025 @11:20AM (#65404733) Attached to: FreeBSD: 'We're Still Here. (Let's Share Use Cases!)' OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.
177782897 comment Comment Re:FreeBSD blog claims they're still there (Score 1) 107 by grub on Monday May 26, 2025 @11:10AM (#65404717) Attached to: FreeBSD: 'We're Still Here. (Let's Share Use Cases!)' Came for this comment.
177680393 comment Comment Being poor sucks. I reccommend not doing that. (Score 3, Insightful) 95 by Thud457 on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:34PM (#65393975) Attached to: AI Set To Consume Electricity Equivalent To 22% of US Homes By 2028, New Analysis Says In a fair world, companies chasing AI would be paying market rates for electricity, with no increase on other customer's rates. In this world, poor neighborhoods get to choke on pollution from AI datacenters.