NutWrench

NutWrench, 2 days ago

A little too “pseudo” and not enough “random.” :)

NutWrench, 2 days ago

These are the sort of accidents you get when you mix a child-like worship of billionaires with cheap, sheet metal construction and a failure to grind down exposed sharp edges because there was no rule saying that the billionaire had to do it.

NutWrench, 2 days ago

Both strongly resemble Boston Dynamics’s “Spot” robo-canine.

I’m betting that’s exactly what they are, with some glued-on plastic detailing.

NutWrench, 2 days ago

Here’s the sooper-secret search result algorithm for whatever you type into Google:

YouTube results, followed by Reddit results, followed by “Sponsored” results, followed by AI-written Bot results, then a couple pages of Amazon results and finally, on page 10 or so, a ten-year-old result that’s probably no longer relevant.

NutWrench, 2 days ago

There’s a native Linux version of Steam (at least for Ubuntu / Mint) that works great. It also uses a proprietary Wine wrapper called Proton, that’s pre-configured for all your Steam Library games.

NutWrench, 3 days ago

Cartoon could use a “priest” as well. Spouting Prosperity Gospel to keep the rubes in line. “My friend is rich because God has chosen him to BE rich, so his wealth is proof of God’s favor!”

NutWrench, 3 days ago

I can’t think of a single reason why I would need detailed snapshots of everything I did with my own computer.

But I can think of plenty of reasons why corporations, advertisers and governments would want that.

NutWrench, 3 days ago

I think the problem with big companies like Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, etc is that once all the smart & creative people have gone, all you have left are the “line must always go up” business idiots, who have no idea what their company does or how to fix it.

CoPilot is exactly the kind of End-stage, “let’s screw our customers to death” idea the CEOs come up with right before their company implodes.

The reason I know that’s true is because when this stupid idea for CoPilot came up, there were no smart people who immediately said, “do you have any idea what a terrible f*cking plan this is?”

NutWrench, 4 days ago

Your Steam games will go to the grave with you

Just like my porn!

NutWrench, 4 days ago

I think this is what happens to every company once all the smart / creative people have gone. All you have left are the “line must always go up” business idiots who don’t understand what their company does or know how to make it work.

NutWrench, 4 days ago

You know, The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that if you chain a room full of monkeys to typewriters and let them all beat the keys at random, for an infinite amount of time, they will . . . eventually . . . through sheer random chance . . . produce the comple works of William Shakespeare. Maybe in 10 trillion years or so. THIS is current state of “AI.”

What Musk is proposing is like building an army of very expensive, very wasteful fusion-powered robots to beat the monkeys in the hope that the monkeys will work just a little bit faster.

NutWrench, 4 days ago

Wallace and Gromit went to the Moon. I think they decided it was made of Wensleydale.

NutWrench, 4 days ago

The cheese. ;)

NutWrench, 4 days ago

And all that avocado toast! I mean really!

NutWrench, 4 days ago

Also, do you really NEED sleep?

NutWrench, 5 days ago

Isn’t AI amazing?

NutWrench, 5 days ago

Funny story: a guy brings his car into a repair shop for service. Starts watching porn on his phone in the waiting room. Meanwhile the Bluetooth speaker in his car is giving everyone the full audio experience.

Make sure you know what your phone is paired with. Especially if you watch porn.

NutWrench, 5 days ago

What program did you use to make the live usb stick? (I use Rufus, myself). Did you create a persistent partition?

(I’m wondering if “access beyond end of device” is happening because there’s no storage space on the flash drive for new data, like remembering/configuring a WiFi connection)…

NutWrench, 6 days ago

Behold the wonders of AI! Now, we don’t have to pay human beings to edit webpages for us! Thanks to AI, you can just sit back and watch the money roll in!

NutWrench, 5 days ago

Or lawyer-bot cites some sovereign citizen crap as if it were established legal precedent. “You can’t prosecute me in this court! Your flag has a gold fringe on it!”

NutWrench, 6 days ago

This isn’t the first time Microsoft has pushed telemetry and malware in its OS. But I think they have finally crossed the line with CoPilot. What they want to do with it is so incredibly obvious and intrusive that most people just won’t stand for it.

NutWrench, 6 days ago

They also highlight the fact that Google’s AI is not a magical fountain of new knowledge, it is reassembled content from things humans posted in the past indiscriminately scraped from the internet and (sometimes) remixed to look like something plausibly new and “intelligent.”

This. “AI” isn’t coming up with new information on its own. The current state of “AI” is a drooling moron, plagiarizing any random scrap of information it sees in a desperate attempt to seem smart. The people promoting AI are scammers.

NutWrench, 4 days ago

Yes, but everyone recognizes the NAME GooseCorp. Surely, that alone will be enough to make it profitable.

NutWrench, 4 days ago

And this graphic is from the Holocaust Memorial Trust? Well, isn’t that just exploding with irony?

NutWrench, 4 days ago

Many fallout shelters also had food rations and cots that doubled as stretchers (they had handles at the top and bottom). A few even had radios and Geiger counters.