It’ll only affect 32bit systems with ancient operating systems storing dates in epoch time.

Not a small number. But nowhere remotely near what Y2K could have been.

Hopefully by the time we need to account for a 64bit rollover, I’ll be comfortably retired. But by that time, proton decay may be a more worrisome problem.

My argument is thus:

LLMs are decent at boilerplate. They’re good at rephrasing things so that they’re easier to understand. I had a student who struggled for months to wrap her head around how pointers work, two hours with GPT and the ability to ask clarifying questions and now she’s rockin’.

I like being able to plop in a chunk of Python and say, “type annotate this for me and none of your sarcasm this time!”

But if you’re using an LLM as a problem solver and not as an accelerator, you’re going to lack some of the deep understanding of what happens when your code runs.

PHP: You’re not a nerd. But you are at least trying.

I think that it’s absolutely fair to jump on Microsoft for this.

There is nothing wrong with this hardware. RAM and CPU clock speed plateaued a long time ago. The overwhelming majority of these systems being thrown away would run Linux flawlessly.

Microsoft has never given a damn about security before. These new security “features” do more to lock people in than they do to keep them safe.

My NeoVim (which can leverage VSCodes plugins) uses about 60MB for an entire project.

And doesn’t have the stink of Microsoft and its associated user tracking.

I’ll talk nothing over a terribly implemented Electron app that devours system resources and brings every other Electron app down when it inevitably OOMs.

My off the cuff thought is that it may be used to change the content on the tags. Show it a specific QR code and it updates the content.

They cynical side of wants to believe that it’s being used to gather shopping analytics and correlate it to facial data.

I was sexually assaulted multiple times at multiple churches.

Fuck you and fuck your trivializing.

Depends on how you interpret the Golden Age text. But you’re correct that the former is the light bringer and the latter is adversary/legal opponent.

But the silver age crap messed with that canon.

My head canon is that Lucifer was a member of the Q Continuum while Satan was a misunderstood Time Lord.

The Pope needs to have a sit-down with the folks at Disney to learn how to properly manage a shared imaginary universe.

My wife got prescribed Ambien a few weeks ago. She took one, completely forgot about it, and 45 minutes later had a glass of wine with me while watching Taskmaster.

She then became convinced that she was actually on the show and went around the house asking me to time her doing random stuff. Th next morning she had zero memory and was floored when I showed her the video.

So Alfred Hitchcock predicted DDOS attacks decades before they were a thing?

Ordered the iFleshlight. Looking forward to seeing the jealous looks I get at the coffee shop.

Bonus for Librewolf!

I love Firefox… But the listicle ads are seriously tacky and annoying. I do not want Pocket. And I do not want Pocket randomly re-enabled after a set of updates.

Except that you are literally saying that Chrome/Firefox doesn’t have the ability to stream HD when, in fact, they are. It’s just the shitty antics of one of the sleaziest companies in existence.

Which makes my incomprehensible notes to my future self an elaborate form of masturbation.

Some of us do care.

A product directly bankrolled by Peter Thiel? A project, not concerned about blocking ads but rather making sure that it’s their ads that you see?

If you’re on iOS. Maybe the EU will bail you out and force Apple to allow other web engines.

If you’re on Android, Firefox works perfectly well and Fennec is a fine fork.

If you’re on anything else, Librewolf is fork of Firefox without all of the Pocket and other privacy hostile default settings.

Same reason I dropped Firefox for Librewolf. I just want a browser! I don’t want an integrated shopping cart. I don’t want bespoke tracking. I don’t want to be bombarded by trashy celebrity listicles.

My key caps have been falling off my work provided M1 Air. Thankfully, the keyboard is so crap I can barely tell the difference.

Ended up repurposing an old XPS 13 that I found in a supply closet as my dev box.

Wayland+Sway == Infinitely better experience

And owned by Lenovo. Who in the past loaded unremovable bloatware reinstallers into their BIOS so that fresh installs always reloaded their shit.

If you want a Linux laptop, System76 is your best bet.

I have to disagree (but won’t downvote!)

AI porn is creepy. In multiple ways!

But it’s also a natural evolution of what we’ve been doing as a species since before we were a species.

Does imagining a different partner while having sex or masturbating count? I would imagine most people would say, “no”.

How about if somebody draws a crude stick figure of somebody they met on the street? Unless you’re Randall Munroe, this is probably harmless too.

Now a highly skilled portrait artist paints a near replica of somebody he knows, but has never seen in the nude. They never mention their friend by name, but the output is lifelike and unmistakably them.

Maybe a digital artist finds a few social media pictures of a person and decided to test drive Krita and manipulates them into appearing nude.

Or, and this happened to me quite recently, you find your porn doppelganger. My spouse found mine and it ruined her alone time. And they really did look just like me! Taking that a step further, is it illegal to find somebody’s doppelganger and to dress them up so that they look more like their double?

Like you, I don’t want people like this in my life. But it feels like this is one of those slippery slopes that turns out to be an actual slippery slope.

You can’t make it illegal without some serious downstream effects.

If you did, the servers will just get hosted in an Eastern European country that is happy to lulwat at American warrants.

I don’t have any answers, just more Devil’s advocate-esque questions. If there was a way to make it illegal without any collateral damage, I’d be proudly behind you leading the charge. I just can’t imagine a situation where it wouldn’t get abused, a’la the DMCA.