As a counterpoint, ACAB, actually. The "good cops" don't report the "bad cops", so they're also bad. Cops are vastly overrepresented in areas like domestic violence (which ties into stalking, as we're seeing here), they form fucking gangs and cheer each other on when they kill people (look up LA sheriff's department gangs), when democratically elected mayors want to put some checks and balances in place, they throw a fit and just don't follow orders, when they go on strike the crime rate goes down, they're basically never held accountable for what for anyone else would obviously be considered straight up murder, yeah, ACAB, a thousand times.

This is not a marketing stunt.

Oh yeah? Well it sure as hell looks like one. All of these doom stories seem like coordinated marketing stunts, which simultaneously sells us the idea that current LLMs are so intelligent that they're actually dangerous, and also justifies "slowing down" development, which is a convenient excuse when they inevitably don't deliver on their wildest predictions within a year or two. Snake oil.

So macOS runs pretty happily on 8GB of RAM still, but Windows kind of doesn't anymore, and that's before you take into consideration that Apple's ARM CPUs are just really ridiculously fast for the price (and on the high end kind of just ridiculously fast period), so I'm not sure this is going to make a big dent. The Neo is kind of a genius move by Apple, as has been shown by them repeatedly selling out.

Tentacle incest porn, obviously.

This is the company name equivalent of that "Curtains for Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt" meme. I feel old.

The rule still holds, I see.

That's funny, MacOS works just fine with multiple buttons, and happily pops up a context menu when I right click on something. Oh, I'm sorry, it might be a bit slow to load this webpage back there in 1999, the last year when this wasn't the case.

Good thing this isn't the CIA, or Python's Benevolent Dictator for Life's cigars would mysteriously start exploding.

If "the lab's ambition is to create "godlike A.I. superintelligence."", shareholders should demand it's shut down immediately before it sucks up another 70 billion dollars with nothing to show for it. They might as well say "this lab's goal is to make everything we touch into gold".

On the contrary, more billionaires should be doing this kind of thing. They're smarter than the rest of us, and able to evaluate risk better. Normal safety standards should not apply to their projects, as long as they're onboard themselves to test, of course.

It's curious how these "AI" features, which are supposedly incredibly desirable and powerful tools for consumers, have to be forced onto them with huge payments to middlemen and distributors. It's almost as if no one would install them if they had the choice to do it themselves.

I see the word "woke" continues its march to mean "anything we don't like". Although I guess fiber does use TRANSceivers.

It's almost as bad as Texas?

It's unsurprising that 25 year old hard drives are failing. It's surprising, though, that no one's done anything about it before now. Audio files are not large. Hard drives in 1999 were, what, 30-40GB at most?

Current state of the art for backup is LTO-9 tape, which is 18TB to a tape, and the tape costs around a hundred bucks (less in bulk). That means 600 90's hard drives could be backed up to a single LTO-9 tape. The most expensive part of the process would probably be connecting the hard drives and copying data off of them, but once you've done that, it's easy to make multiple LTO copies for essentially no cost, which lets you store them in different locations, etc., and the fact that they'll take up maybe one thousandth of the physical space/weight has to lead to pretty good savings over time.

LTO tapes have at least a 30 year lifespan, and they don't fail all at once like disk drives do, so just plan to copy the data onto new (larger capacity) LTO tapes in 15-20 years, and you're golden. That no one has thought of this for 25 years, and just allowed these hard drives to sit around and rot, is pure negligence.

Trillions of megabytes, huh? Too bad there isn't a more convenient unit we could use.