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have-you-been-here

Forth Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Voting ended onJun 9

#the deeply disturbing experience of seeing somewhere I actually have been

eebie

I just ate one

eebie

You can lie when you name things

annabelle--cane

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

bugged-ubuntu

Watched a video of a guy "porting" windows ce to the N64 last night, and the concept is cool, but the video was so fucking stupid. Everyone's talking about how cool he was for doing that, but the video is 50 minutes of him typing into an AI prompt. He literally does nothing himself, he even asks chat gpt how to wipe his own ass.

When I watch videos of Matt KC, or MJD, or Nathan Baggs or Laurie Wired or Veronica Explains do something cool and weird and impossible with computers and software, I don't watch it because the end product is amazing, but because the technical breakdown and the explanation of why things work the way they do is fascinating.

People might say that if vibe coding works then who cares, but in the case of running windows ce, no one was crying out for that end product, you might download a github repo and doodle around yourself for a few minutes, but you're really watching the video to see the insanity of the process. It was sooooo disinteresting to see this guy say "well, that didn't work, Claude, fix this," ad infinitum

People might also say "well, should he just not be allowed to make videos if he can't code this himself?" And no, he can do whatever he wants, but I'm not going to pay $20 for a slice of Safeway cheesecake just because the baker at a fancy restaurant doesn't know how to bake but still wants a career in food.

I made a video about writing a roguelike in the language Brainfuck, and could you imagine how much less satisfying that video would be if it was just me asking AI to write a roguelike in brainfuck? People watched it because that's an insane fucking thing to do, and everyone was in my comments giving me ideas to make my game better, and people were expressing they had gotten interested in the language as a result.

What an absolute nothing of a video that was, its not worth watching, instead here's a video on programming for the Saturn DSP

charl0ttan

is it good if this is the best praise you could have used for your movie commercial

shrimpbackshin

seat-safety-switch

People who don't know much about computers can get overwhelmed by all the lingo. When well-intentioned networking types start throwing around crazy jargon like "server," "keyboard," and "what the fuck are you doing cutting those cables," it can seem like they're speaking a whole different language. That's why we've developed this handy wad of information that you can shove into your information-intake orifice and slowly digest.

There are many kinds of computers out there, ranging from the humble WebTV to the advanced iMac. Someone in Germany has even constructed a computer made out of Tinker Toys, which is mostly used to calculate how angry the K'nex company is at missing out on the deal. Computer scientists tell us that all of these computers are the same thing, which is definitely not something any other kind of scientist would say about their field.

First, it's important to know how computers themselves talk. Much like your dad when he's visiting his special OnlyFans friend, computers are only allowed to say "yes" or "no," regardless of how much it hurts. Through this high-speed series of Twenty Billion Questions, computers can emulate the concepts of numbers, letters, and animated pornography. Keep this in mind for the future chapters.

Once you've got that basis of computers under your belt, you can start telling them to do other things. Horrible things, to people you don't like. And you can do it very quickly, forever, often without your direct involvement. This is what capitalism has decided computers are for, and we are not currently in a position to say any differently. Check your notebook now for the term "inverted totalitarianism." You'll need this for the exam at the end of this class.

Congratulations, you've understood the basic fundamentals of computers! In our next course, we'll teach you how to design, source parts for, and assemble a high-energy radio frequency (HERF) gun in order to destroy every computer you meet.

probablysomethingtm

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

probablysomethingtm

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

probablysomethingtm

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

probablysomethingtm

garbage-empress

I just think it's funny when search engines want to use AI "agents"(fancy name for chatbot) to gather information without links because even if they correctly summarized information (which they don't) you've completely disincentivized a reason for people to put information online in the first place. Why should a company put information about a product on a website if you're just going to scrape the data and remove the link?

muffinlance

...And a reminder that these models are wrong upwards of 30-40% of the time as an inbuilt feature. So having Google only feed you its scrapped, possibly hallucinated data is just. Literally asking tech companies to control your entire reality. Which is likely the point (along with getting you used to out sourcing your basic research skills so they can eventually sell them back to you as a subscription), since there's no other reason to actively sabotage their own money maker. If they're not going to make money on advertisements anymore, they're certainly planning to make it somewhere else...