LOL at a network card. Most users were on SneakerNet (TM) with 5.25 or 3.5" floppy disks.

Followed the link on the Gizmodo article, and came here gearing up to disagree with the following claim that it was an amusing poem, before even reading the poem.

Having already experimented with ChatGPT, I was pretty confident the poem was the absolute dregs of drivelish doggerel, because that's all ChatGPT can write. And on that count I was not wrong. However on reading the line:

...I had to concede in humility that ChatGPT has undeniably generated "an amusing poem."

...at least on some level, I mean it's just a stupid puzzle game. But at the same time after they paid that much money they are fully entitled to ruin it if they want to, the same as every other giant company that buys their successful competition. The old Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish" and cf. Musk and Twitter. People can complain about the cutesy turn, and they may or may not listen, most likely not.

Rather than banning accounts or censoring by deletion, they are delivering the message and letting the recipient opt in to seeing it.

A.I. needs to remain our servant, not our master. Heartwarming to see tech used like this.

...our new party balloon fueling energy overlords. Seriously, this is awesome news, and the helium thing is icing on the cake. Hopefully it isn't the proverbial 10 years away.

Sleep cycles affect digestive activity - your gut motility drastically reduces while sleeping. It seems like the thousands of species of bacteria living symbiotically with us have profound effects on our lives, affecting things like obesity/metabolism and nutrient absorption.

"We've discovered a critical weakness in the Death Star. We are beginning early stages of preparations with our Rebel fleet for a mission to exploit it, and in the meantime have published to the whole galaxy full details of the weakness. It happened that The Empire had several questions in response about how we planned to exploit this, and our analysts were happy to fill them in with full transparency."

A harsh lesson taught yet again for anyone paying attention. I disagree that this is a fundamental failing of cryptocurrency, though any number of criticisms of the whole ecosystem may be fair, and I do kind of vote with my feet as I'm not a crypto speculator myself.

If you entrust someone else to protect your password, you have to be prepared for when they fail to protect it.

Somewhere there is a line to be drawn between guilt by association on one extreme and provable participation in crime on the other. I wonder whether this court drew it in the right place. The "tragedy of the commons" is pretty much a law of nature. If you participate in Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and, yes, Slashdot, then you are participating in a system where troublemakers inject illegal and immoral content.

Is it reasonable to hold people responsible for a community's inability to police the rules 100%? Should all of Facebook shut down when one illegal post is made? Like anything, this kind of thing calls for balance and common sense.

...bought off Ebay before they became such collectors items that Chinese printers began selling counterfeits. It is a fantastic and tangible object lesson in economics, along with the hyperinflation of German Deutschmarks of the early 1920's and of Venezuela from 2017-2021. The broad principles of economics are not that difficult, however government corruption is a tough nut to crack.

RIP to a truly humane product designer.

Perhaps in some jurisdictions, and perhaps in secret by the ATF or other agencies. But guns are not officially registered everywhere in the US, and any attempt to make it official would get a lot of push back.

"The artists she most admires are Yoko Ono..."

Doing my best to stay on a serious note here, I'm guessing that the AI's preloaded opinions are more about social statements being made by the robot's creators than a blank slate digital intelligence discovering the world. The art isn't the painting that's happening, it's the whole installation. (And as far as that goes, I legitimately find it appealing and interesting.)

So many frauds are hugely easier to commit remotely than in person: Craigslist/ FB Marketplace purchases, elderly relative rescue payment schemes, impersonations in general.

Remote transactions and remote work are inevitable, but not everything will be sunshine and roses.