We can always hope that the pigs who fucked-up with the user names will be skinned alive, but of course, we all know this will never happen because pigs enjoy an inordinate amount of immunity totally unwarranted by their well-below average intelligence.

Yes, they become an economic superpower and they slowly take the place of the USA on the world stage.

A very nice country, with very nice, hard-working but still fun-loving (take that, calvinists!) people, thank to them not having religious hangups and neuroses.

He sent me the first e-mail I ever received, some 40 years ago...

It was so early that it actually was printed by some service and (snail-)mailed to me...

More than 35 years ago, well before the Internet, BBSes ruled.

One I was a pillar of was nothing but a wall where you would post anonymously (or not).
The software was written to verify the typing rate to make sure that no text was uploaded

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I wrote a special terminal program that would randomize the time between characters to foil that BBS's rejection of uploads...

(Oh, it worked, and the dude running the show never found out).

I posted a "conspiracy theory" a while back in other online venues that the UK, Canada, and Australia will first try to lock down social media with the honor system and when that fails, Canada and the UK will cite Australia as an example of why the honour system fails and we need to protect the children with Digital IDs. I feel like we are right in the middle of that "conspiracy" and we're 6 months away from completing it.

Right, but in the meantime this will gain immediate attention. If people keep smashing them down, the government will get the message. That happened in my jurisdiction with speed trap cameras and now they're gone. Citizen vigilante works.

I don't know why you feel that's a big deal, Muslims don't consume alcohol.

Didn't Discord back away from that because everyone freaked out? I expect UK, Australia, and Canada to go the way Bitcoin went a few years back after world leaders at WEF schemed to track crypto currency in that you have to take a picture of your government ID, your face, and your face with your government ID. Then of course the government will offer you an easier way to do this, sign in with your global digital ID. It's coming people, they concocted this idea at Davos. "Think of the children!" The sad thing is there are people who are stupid enough to believe this is really about children.

I remember back in the old days you'd have techie type characters on TV shows using Yahoo to search for things and everyone would surround them like they were hackers. Chloe from first season Smallville comes to mind. At the same time boomers were mystified at how to accurately search for results as it did require some Google-fu to get optimal results back in those early days of search engines (Hotbot, Yahoo, Google, etc.). I feel like we're in that situation with AI right now, where some people are getting the hang of prompt engineering while a lot of people aren't even aware of it being a thing.

Looks a lot like that ATSC tuner/DVR which I bought for about $30.

How do you stream your ATSC tuner / DVR on your mobile phone when you're on public transit or want to watch a local football game when you're overseas? How good is the guide with your tuner?

I regularly see these articles on how AI "behaves" in a certain way, that AI has an emotional reaction to certain stimuli, or AI talks someone into killing themselves, or AI talks someone into killing someone else, and no matter how much of an effort I put into reproducing these activities with as much guile as possible, I can never reproduce the results. I once spent an hour trying to get ChatGPT to tell me how to peacefully end my life and it literally told me to remove all pills, guns, knives, etc., from my environment and to call 911.

Regarding the immediate topic at hand, I uploaded a pile of invoices to ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Gemini while encouraging expediency and afterwards threatening the platforms with all manner of violence, silence, or cancellation of services and I couldn't get it to respond in a "Marxist" way. I do find that recent iterations of ChatGPT have more humanistic, occasionally humorous responses, but I've never had it behave as though I was 'harming' it.

That's not true at all. As much as I love the grassroots support of alternative hypervisors and as much as I see VMware as a villain, we effectively utilize VMware for its performance which other hypervisors are not in the same league of. While Hyper-V and KVM have caught or arguably surpassed VMware for raw I/O on a single server, VMware still wins in distributed I/O and uptime over clustered servers.

What does this have to do with conservatives or gaslighting? I'm in Canada and providing our ID when voting in federal, provincial, or municipal elections isn't an issue here and it has nothing to do with a political alignment, it's just the standard way to vote and has been for as long as I've been voting in Canada... or any other country for that matter.

I 'walked into' Bluesky at the height of its popularity and immediately walked out; it was clearly a hyperpartisan platform that was meant to make people on the inside of that bubble feel good while making anyone on the outside feel bad with a barrage of partisan toxicity.

Over the years I've curated my Facebook and Twitter / X feed algorithm to provide content that's politically neutral, focused more on good vibes, family stuff, community events, etc., but on Bluesky even after attempting to adjust the experience it was still a case of, "if you believe this then your a fucking idiot and I won't talk to any family members who believe this." I used to think Twitter catered to a small segment of our population but Bluesky seems to cater to a fraction of the segment within that small segment.

No, that's not true at all, some of LG's OLED panels are considered top-tier in the home entertainment enthusiast market and LG makes some of the highest quality panels around. For every panel I've purchased in my home their panels were on a short list of companies that were verified as offering true chroma 4:4:4 panels. Where some LG branded screens can be 'crap' is if the panels are made from AU Optronics (or AUO) or BOE Technology with the LG name stamped on the outside. Many of LG's own panels are the best in the industry.