... to move to old-school open solutions like IRC and such and result in them learning a thing or two about computers, networks and administration. And perhaps they'll learn about anonymity and it's importance just like we did in the 80ies.

That generative AI is voiding 90%+ of jobs in media production should be obvious by now. What's interesting is that these jobs, just like software development, are only a (very) small portion of the workforce. I am just some wide and far between senior webdev getting ready to move into marketing or customer service and taking a ~15k hit on my income. No huge impact to society.

Just wait until the robots start driving our vehicles and replacing drivers. That's when the real fun starts.

It tries a tad to hard to be hilarious and is obnoxious in that way but overall the whole short film does lean into the major system level difference between W1ndows and macOS. It also shows how someone might actually solve the problem by quickly switching to macOS. They cleverly plug the Mac Mini as a gateway device for this. Which it actually in reality often is.

It pushes the diversity shtick/fad a little hard (the masOS geek that saves the day is a women - because of course _she_ is), but she is exaggerated in a plausible way. And they lean into the geek speaking vs. ords listening dichotomy rather than anything boss-baby. At least. All protagonists and situations are goofy enough as to provoke some laughs.

As a European I did notice how nearly all protagonists were (notably) overweight. I guess that's an accurate representation of the US population.

The 8-minute add is quite neat for such a thing and not a CWOT. Which is good enough I'd say.

... that by and large there is absolutely no lack of USB cables.

I don't use the ones that ship anyway. I have long thick ones with fabric isolation and little LED lights on the plugs that tell me if they are live or not.

... I love the UK and lived in Scotland for a while as a teen. It's sad to see the country go down the loo like that.

... about how epically f*cked the UK is. I mean we all knew that Brexit would hurt and the British who were in favor of Brexit would quickly get their doubts if Brexit was such a good idea, but looking across the canal right now I have to say "Holy cow, talk about screwing up even worse after leaving the EU." After all, the pro Brexit message was that they were going to fix all the problems they now have 5x more of.

Here's a good expert analysis that perfectly summarizes the UK situation.

It is common knowledge that the planets Albedo (Level of light reflection) has been dropping. The mean reasons are less snow and ice (a large portion of Albedo loss) and fever overall clouds. It's one of the runaway cascading effects of man-made global warming. This really isn't news anymore. Well, perhaps for some, I guess. ... Errrm, nevermind, carry on.

There are food additives that are "legal" to use in the US that are classified as 'effing bona-fide Toxic Waste in the EU and can't even be legally disposed of in regular landfills. There are literally thousands of additives that are flat-out _illegal_ in the EU that can be used in food in the US.

To me there is no wonder that you guys have cancer rates rising.

... towards the poles. It's clearly noticable here in Europe and the pace has picked up notably in recent years. I'm mentally preparing to relocate to Scandinavia if the need should arise in the future. 3 Years ago I took an extended summer trip to Portugal. The heat was unbearable during the day, I only could go out in the early morning or late afternoon and evening. Desertification of the Iberean peninsula is in full swing as is the water table dropping in more northern parts of Europe. The German Harz mountain region has abandoned winter tourism because there is no snow anymore to speak of. At the same time the dutch have fewer and fewer hours in which low-tide allows for water to be let out into the ocean again through those massive flood-gates they built. It is likely that we're going to have to look where we put the dutch during my lifetime. We're pretty screwed. How hard is still largely up to us but time is running out fast and my reluctant optimism is fading.

TFTFY.

The Internet was "messed up" before. Yeah, those cookie regulations are silly and obviously written by people overwhelmed with computers and digital networks, but fixing them would take 5 minutes and this bizarre cookie pop-up nonsense would vanish overnight.

Cross domain de-anonymizing tracking is prohibited.

There, fixed the law. No more pointless cookie bullshit.

As for the Internet: De-centralized crypto signed DNS as a replacement for the existing DNS. There, Internet fixed.

... and be glad it's not nearly as much economic damage as that recent absolutely epic hydrogen bomb of a Jaguar rebrand did. ROTFL!

Point in case: I dance Argentine Tango. There is a very specific evolved etiquette to avoid embarrassing situations for all involved when probing/asking a woman (or man) if she/he'd like to dance. It's a non-verbal cadence of positioning yourself within the space around the dancefloor, of glances and nodding or gently shaking your head while being friendly when glances meet. It's accompanied by other details to avoid misunderstandings and enable a completely non-verbal communication in a full room while dance music is playing. And it's an excellent place and mode to get (very) quickly get (very) close to beautiful ladies (and handsome men) you've never met before.

Anyway, in recent years the woke crowd and their flat-out toxic fad has started infesting the Tango scene and behaving as if it needs to push on it and reinvent a "consent culture" that in reality already has been around for 100 years. And it's effing terrible! They come up with all kinds of bizarre and convoluted rules instead of learning the old etiquette which perfectly solves just about every problem you could have in any social situation at a Milonga (the event where Tango is danced) and base their behavior on their own feelings rather than the classic and very efficient etiquette and display a somewhat more elevated level of immaturity due to that. It's become so bad that I've started avoiding certain events with young people(!!), because they've actually got way more of a stick up their ass than my at 55-year of age. True thing!

This persian culture thing seems to be of the same ilk. It's not really a surprise that cultures still deeply stuck in early bronze age revelation cults have this sort of convoluted ritualistic modes of encounter that are designed to hide real intensions, elevate dishonesty and often carve out petty short-term gains in social situations.

The natural cascades of man-made global warming have only kicked into overdrive in recent years. Basic common sense tells us that the rate is only going to increase in the foreseeable future. Meaning that regular heat itself will be the main problem. And way earlier than 2050.

Point in case: It's nearing the end of September and temperature and humidity was flat-out tropical this weekend in western Germany. The water table here has been nothing but dropping for the last decade or so with zero replenishment happening and it ain't looking like that's gonna change. Rains have mostly reduced to short warm drizzles or the occasional 3-hour long flash-flood with a years worth of water coming down in an hour in selected counties. And flowing away within 24 hours. The first farmers in Germany are starting to move towards dryland agriculture (in effing Germany!), the complete vanishing of alpine glaciers is due in 5 years or so, perhaps even earlier and the famous German forrest with their Beeches, Oaks, Sykamores and such are officially a thing of the past because the water-cycle can't support them anymore.

Tourists have been steering clear of the mediterranean in recent years because the water was too warm. Not the air (although that too), the effing _water_ was too warm.

So I'd say in 2050 smoke from forrest-fires is likely to be one of our lesser problems.