I used to wonder, in the early days of the transformation, how much was Drew changing moderation and selection criteria, and how much was becoming popular enough to attract a critical mass of political junkies. It's been a long long time, but my memory says it was a fast transformation, days or weeks rather than months, but not overnight, and could have cut either way. I sent a few emails, never got any response, and quit logging in as often, and soon not at all.

Same here. Fark's only redeeming quality was poking fun at everything and everyone. Then the political junkies swamped it, and I stopped visiting. I'd forgotten all about it til now. Tried my old login. Says the password has expired.

*shrug*

I thought it was still popular in embedded systems that don't need 16 and 32 bit architectures? Don't some MCU's run Z80 instructions? I guess the chip is different as it probably includes RAM and other goodies because that's cheaper than using separate chips.

What kind of CPU's and chipsets does one find in small and cheap gizmos?

...blueberry marshmallows!

Probably. Quality is not bots' strong point so far and maintenance is almost always the most costly part of software.

I wonder if it can be diced up and used for amalgamation plastics where esthetics don't matter much.

> I've started making music using AI. I already have an album of 23 songs

I'm curious, what tools do you use and which have you tried and rejected?

And new PC's cost an arm & leg thanks to the AI bubble.

The price thing is important. What I suspect is that when companies can no longer subsidize bot use via investor funds and per market-share fights, users will balk at prices and look for cheaper alternatives, which may result in better model compression and/or overseas commodification, meaning the US data-centers won't be competitive, and those investors will get screwed, possibly triggering a Wallstreet crash.

"The Choppah deleted my tumah!"

Claude, do it on purpose this time! Go ape-shit!

There's a difference between asking an overseas consultant "what buttons do I push to un-jam the purple gizmo?" and between "Enter these new users for me."

Let's hope Voyager lasts until November. The duct-tape is falling off the chicken-wire.

Pluto is the largest of thousands of frozen, rocky bodies called trans-Neptunian objects

Rumor is DOGE scans spotted "trans" in the document and thus cancelled the program for being "woke".

Maybe your stack and shop style was bloated and poorly factored. These kinds of shops are where AI does best because bots have piles of repetitious bloat to learn from and ape.