latenightnoir

Completely unrelated to the discussion, wanted to thank you for the pic. Literally choking down laughter hard so as not to wake the neighbors.

The blob emojis were one of their best features, that's so true! I kid you not, every single time I've used Slack for work, for every single company which used it, someone had already uploaded the blobs! I really didn't understand that move, the current Smile emoji looks psychotic.

I honestly don't even know why I'm paying attention to Apple at this point, I think it's like digging my nail into a freshly scarred-over cut, just to tease that sting out a bit. It's the only way in which they have ever contributed to my feeling alive.

Jesus, yeah, I have a lot of friends in that position... I was lucky enough to be able to quit before things became outright quicksand and am looking into completely different professions at this point. I don't want to touch a computer for anything other than fucking about in my free time. Maybe some data entry, but that's it. At least the diversity somewhat negates the impact of just how dire things are, I guess.

I honestly don't know how we'll get ourselves out of this one if things keep going the way they have.

Dammit, I really need to rewatch that one, I think my brain always misses the point because, again, fast cars go vroom...

Need to rewatch the third as well, now that you mentioned it.

I'm sorry if it's a dumb question, but didn't Microsoft already do this with Vista and Win 7? And I'm pretty sure transparency has been a thing on Android for a good while now:-?

Ooh, well, thank you kindly for clarifying the first one, at least! I was always under the impression that, although oil (or lack thereof) caused that apocalypse, the nutsos were just driving around on diesel all day long, and it kinda' didn't make much sense to me:)) But, hey, fast cars go boom, brain happy!

It's like we've taken it upon ourselves to turn reality into THE stupidest version of any dystopia ever imagined by a human brain...

You want Terminator? Sure, but Skynet will be crap and people will die en masse due to infrastructure fuck-ups.

You want 40k? Sure, but the Men of Iron will be LLMs. Good luck figuring out those STCs once you develop beyond bonking pieces of wood together. Again.

You want 1984? Ok, but Big Brother is a Blackbox algorithm which has no idea what a human being is and just corrupts your feeds until it's nothing but inaccuracies and YouTube Poop and is selling your actual waist size and toilet paper preferences to random online advertisers.

You want Waterworld? Well, here! Have all the water you need! Good luck with your ocean based society once your flesh will start slow-roasting in about 30-40 years of living like this!

You want Mad Max? Well, better make it happen fast, because there won't be enough oil for it! Maybe solarpunk? Also, we're doing Waterworld first, let's see how you make it through that.

There are more, I'm sure, but I'm pissed off now.

This is just disgusting.

At this point, bricking a smartphone by flashing dodgy ROMs is a rite of passage.

Edit: at least it was before everyone started bootlocking like assholes...

While I disagree with your hardline stance on prioritisation of rights (I believe any conscious/sentient being should be treated as such at all times, which implies full rights and freedoms), I do agree that we should learn to take care of ourselves before we take on the incomprehensible responsibility of developing AGI, yes.

Said it better than I did, this is exactly it!

Right now, it's like watching everyone cheer on as the obvious Villain is developing nuclear weapons.