Notices by Ministerofimpediments (ministerofimpediments@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft …depends…open to what? There’s a kernel of truth in every good lie…

@arstechnica I’m annoyed…sigh…I’m annoyed that I *have* to care because it’s a (potentially) communicable disease. I mean can we get them back onto bleach or horse dewormer…or arsenic pills or something? Arsenic is all natural…practically a vitamin. I’m good with them offing themselves but I’d just prefer it begin and end there.

@nixCraft [opens System Monitor in anger] “…I choose violence.”

@arstechnica “…spend $100 and ruin a perfectly good calculator to immediately get caught cheating when ChatGPT gives you some random bullshit answer when the real answer was ‘if I’m smart enough to hack a calculator I could probably just study and pass…’”

@nixCraft …umm…baloney. Number one; I’ve used/owned a metric ton of mice and it’s the buttons/cables/etc that wear and break…so ‘forever’ is a year or two and I’ll wager I won’t need a software update in that amount of time.
Two, to do it where it is profitable it would have to be both cheap and basically ‘loaded’. Which would make it worth cracking to enable everything without paying.
Three, if it requires a subscription to ‘use’ then their competitors will bury them.

@nixCraft Dunno what you are talking about. They literally have a hard button for that…it’s called the “Power Button”

@nixCraft
What it actually does…
“AIbios just leaves my computer on and unlocked until the battery dies. It shows a password screen, but will actually take anything you type in. The screen is always dim, fans run all the time, I have 32 128k partitions for some reason. It randomly sent plain text contents of the hard drive to every network it linked to. Until someone finally stole it…which was fine as the battery swelled, caught fire, killed him, and burned down half a block…so it works…”

@arstechnica
Aliens: “Well, the probe said a human named Benjamin Franklin was their leader, they all wanted death, and an animal species called a duck was a color called purple. Have we found the duck-animal yet? That’s last on the list…”

@arstechnica …no subtle shade here…with the stock photo of the sign slightly buried and covered in bird crap.

@nixCraft …but…that is therapy.

@nixCraft Only if it can randomly swap between ’space cowboy’, ‘gangster of love’, and ‘Maurice’.

@arstechnica realistically…(and don’t get me wrong…I hope it burns to the ground)…it doesn’t really matter what it’s worth. For the banks…they’ll move it around so their customers take the hit. For Musk and the other big money investors…it’s all basically monopoly money that they would just blow on something else. They could have done something useful with it but that was never going to happen anyway. They’re assholes.
Twitter will last exactly until the next president is sworn in. Count on it.

@ScienceDesk
…you wake up at 3am to pee because you were too drowsy/drunk at midnight to remember to pee before going to bed.

@arstechnica
“It’s not a bug it’s a feature.”
It’s all just Monopoly money…and largely not his. Several banks are taking haircuts too…they don’t seem to care. They’ll just pass the loss on to the rest of their customers.
So revenue loss doesn’t matter. If he makes people pay for the dumpster fire…then you’ll see numbers really tail off. People don’t like paying for things they originally got for free. Even Facebook figured this part out.

@arstechnica …that’s what you call a “twofer”.

@nixCraft Literally the first switch I’d flip. The only way I’d flip that switch faster is if it read “Danger: Missile Launch”. Human nature…

@arstechnica the article completely misses the point. The issue is that the work was not solely created by a specific tool under the direction of an artist (a brush, camera, or MS Paint), nor was the artist assisted by another ‘person’ as the “AI” is not a true AI but simply an amalgamation of other works that the tool reproduces in some part.
The work is more akin to a mural painted by other artists by direction, or a symphony performance…both without attribution/agreement of the other artists.

@arstechnica …because the OEM was the lowest bidder and *was* the lowest bidder because they used the “crap we already have lying around because we build for all the other knockoffs”-method of manufacturing.

It’s $500 because, hey, you might as well make something like a profit margin. That way when it’s discontinued for slow sales you get some small victory or whatever is explainable in a board meeting.

@itsfoss
“Brave Browser…making Mozilla look good since…crap…when was that crypto thing?”

@nixCraft I had it in college and it was hands-down the best and most effective way to really screw something up…until I leaned C which allowed me to screw lots of things up at the same time.
It’ll teach you how a computer works though.