What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players.
Now that the pathetic plastic laptop your mom bought you at Costco can play XBox games, everything is just ducky, bucky.
The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots
I wonder if the word clanker might be related to the word clacker, coined by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in their novel The Difference Engine? The novel imagines an alternative Victorian-era history where Charles Babbage's mechanical difference engine is successful, giving rise to a mechanical computer revolution in the mid-19th century. A clacker is a programmer, the word deriving from the sound that mechanical computing machines made in operation.
A clanker could be the degenerate sound that AI-generated code would make running on a mechanical computer.
In Firefox I can use the full uBlock origin. In Chrome I can only use the neutered one.
Important point. Firefox performance has never been an issue for me, but the ability to block ads and tracking is. Chrome may have better scores on performance benchmarks, but the fact that Google is an advertising company that will happily collect and sell my data any way they can, makes any benchmark wins moot. Put simply, it's not in Google's best interests to protect my privacy or allow me to shield myself for advertisements, so it's not in my best interests to trust Chrome.
Ars Technica explains that Trivy had "inadvertently hardcoded authentication secrets in pipelines for developing and deploying software updates," leading to a situation where attacks "compromised virtually all versions" of the widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner...
One has to wonder how this could have happened inadvertently. Breathtaking incompetence might be a better description. Just sayin'.
1 Word = 1 Millipicture
