if there was ever a moment for a robot to flip out and kill people, this was the one

just look at all the AI simps and the digital reams of text psoted over the last 3 years hyperglazing this shit

pretty sure you mean cowardly Iranian drones

i dont genuinely bellieve that /. is being paid to promote these thignsa, but why are they flogging this thing so hard right now?

((plz forgive typos, im typing with gloves on since the temp went from 85F to 27Fin a day)

this is, as they say, the way

6 x 4TB Z2, in a scavenged proliant with 64GB ECC, one 16T WD gold in a separate normal box as a backup target, and that machine has backblaze so it's offsite unlimited for $100 / year

initial 4TB drives bought as a lot of used ebay drives and replaced as they become marginal, but it's been years now and i've only replaced 2 of them with new red pros so far

everything's ticking along nicely, only thing i really need to do is switch over to Scale at some point. insane value for bits over time.

how will we afford to rent our compute terminal

if we blow up the moon first, then the asteroid can't hit it

win-win

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the problem is that everything worth having is scalped to hell and back now. "agentic commerce" is the back edge of that blade. in a world where everything is scalped out, how else are we to get anything except by paying even more out the nose that the already exorbitant prices being demanded by retailers.

have you seen the prices of [RAM, GPUs, SSDs] these past months?

they're hoarding the RAM and GPUs and storage now, in a few more years they're hogging the electricity and the water

don't miss that time he paid $5 to sign up a sockpuppet account on MetaFilter to defend and call himself a genius in the 3rd person

children shouldn't be allowed to drive monster trucks

"Oh, I'm gonna have your job, shithead. I'm going downtown to talk to Mitch and Murray, I'm going to Lemkin. I don't care whose nephew you are, who you know, whose dick you're sucking on, you're going out. I swear to you, you're going..."

was updating the preloaded CSAM

i've never been in one and the nearest is apparently 2h away, so i'm curious about this part in tfs:

> Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone.

i find it rather hard to believe that people do this en masse because of some "behave, we're in the costco" impulse. can anyone confirm this?

> Checkout lines form orderly queues.

on this other hand, this part does not seem particularly novel or noteworthy?

Pluribus is a starkly fitting show for this moment: a dystopic wish-fulfillment dark fantasy that allows the viewer to self-insert as a character who is the absolute center of the universe and simultaneously the victim of a unrestricted global conspiracy to undermine their sanity and agency.

I cannot think of a more perfect work in this modern moment to reflect the viewership.