It was Aliens. They were out there raking the sand making it all smooth.

When you feed it a giant cesspool of invalidated data (The internet) you should not expect a single response to be accurate. none of these AI's are fed a carefully curated data set.

But companies are expecting to replace all their programmers with AI.... What could possibly go wrong?

Meh. It's not used anymore now.

Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

lol. Not sure you know how 'far left' looks for everyone else in the world. The 'far left' in the US is much closer to right-of-center parties in europe, for example. I guess that makes me far-left, which validates your point. Ignorance is great!

Thus spake the master programmer:
                "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
                be maintained."
                                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.

Because my friends are on Xbox and if I want to play with them I have to own one. Games like Halo and Division 2 PC players decimate Console players because the mouse and keyboard is a massive advantage so you cant have them all in the same servers.

Hehe yeah. Depending on my mood Dosbox or the 64 (or Vice)

When i'm down, i tend to fire up Dosbox and some games from the 90's (i like playing the original System Shock every couple of years around Christmas), and if i'm really pissed, i turned on Vice -- and now the real 64 -- and play with that.
Don't have that many real floppies around now, and not everything runs from my SD-Card reader, so right now i have:

* Krakout
* Rock'n'Roll
* Mega Apocalypse
* They Stole a Million
* Giana Sisters (of course ...)
* California Games
* Boulder Dash

and some more stuff on .d64 images.

What i can't find is International Karate+, but now someone mentioned "Spy Hunter" below. I need that! :)
Though i got only one Competition Pro Joystick left, don't know where the second one went.

Revived mine some weeks back. Was sitting in a closet for 25 years.

Got a new case, pulled the chips from the original mainboard and put them on a C64 Reloaded Mk2 Board. My 1541 i just had to recap / change the voltage regulators / rectifiers, otherwise it still works.

Now i still suck at Boulder Dash like before.

That weird dude with the greek name and bad hair isn't sayin' it's aliens. But it's aliens. Or a Reisflugscheibe.

The Pylon Show! https://thepylonshow.com/

Honestly anyone with any security education did not trust any drive built in encryption.

what is the silicon valley tech cartel that you mention exactly?