I thought part of the point was to have a website work more as an application: one update to a piece of information results in that information being near instantly updated across the site.

Then I looked into the angular stuff the UI people were working on and yeah… something like 10 (costly) requests for the same exact fucking JSON. They were talking about doing caching on the frontend to optimize it. What are we even doing?!

Modern UI development is such fucking shit. I have no idea why they went with all of these heavyweight shit frameworks.

Just admit, like all people who smoke cigarettes do, that it’s bad for you and that you’ll continue doing it.

I don’t know why people can’t just do this. I drink — sometimes like a fish — and I know it’s not good for me and likely will take years off of my life. But I like it. So oh fucking well.

There’s a kind of law here that should be named IMO when dealing with LLMs:

In a long enough interaction with an LLM the probability that it generates a very incorrect, borderline insane response approaches 100%.

Time to dump GitHub for codeberg.

Including being good to hypothetical, unlikely trillions that may live someday if we colonize Mars.

Not gonna happen. Not with the effective altruist cult running things.

The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.

Dude, we are the country that doesn’t give a shit and throws stuff up there and we can’t do much about it. WE ARE.

This is fine IMO, because you shouldn’t use the smart features in the first place. Just get a 3rd party streaming box. The ONN one is like $25. (Or if you’re a giant nerd hook your computer to your TV.)

It does. I wound up buying two new TVs because of the thing OP is talking about here. You could actually get around agreeing and then opting out by removing the TV from the network and then restoring it to factory and never reconnecting it.

Where do you guys live? Is it America? Because I kinda feel like in America I’m never surprised that someone drove drunk.

(Especially before Uber.)

Can someone please come out with a phone that’s an actual computer and help stop this nonsense?

Phones cost a lot of money at this point and I’m completely sick of them being some locked down, surveillance ridden pile of crap. A reasonably built one would be able to replace a laptop at this point if it weren’t for these artificial constraints imposed by the stupid fucking suits running things.

Pathetic

Hahaha remember when they said nfts were going to be valuable because the artists involved were so innovative and cool? Then now the next GPU-selling trend is to rip off artists.

Why do we have to endlessly debate stupid opinions on social media in the first place? What possible good will come out of being exposed to more scam artists, bots, bigots, and pro-genocide accounts? All it’s done as far as I can see is make things worse in the real world and grown political movements that cause mass harm to others.

Most social media websites are putrid dumpsters full of Karens arguing about how many homeless and immigrants it’s moral to kill. Can’t we have one place that isn’t fascist trash?

If you feel like if you’re missing the trash just join X, Reddit, Facebook, nextdoor, Instagram, truth social, a news article / YouTube comment section, or turn on most cable news networks.

That shit is everywhere, and it’s spaces like this one and mastodon that are the exception purely for showing that not everyone is a bigoted, lifeless asshole who wishes harm upon others because they’re rotten inside, want to turn a quick buck, have no hobbies nor talents, and/or are anhedonic.

What are you even talking about?

Stop giving chat bots tools with this kind of access.

Meanwhile, here I am learning how to type em dashes manually on my work MacBook.

He nicknamed his unit “the giving tree”.

Why the fuck do schools start so early and let out so early? It’s like everything is engineered by some asshole trying to make everyone miserable.