[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I will be back to the theaters for this. Sure, I just got my home theater setup how I like it. And yes, classic films in my collection are showing daily at whatever time I damn well please. And my snacks are both superior and cheaper.

I forgot where I was going with this.

Oh right. To the other room to watch a movie without any fucking ads.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 31 points 1 month ago

Spooky. I thought that was my fridge for a minute, but this is just silly. Guns go in the crisper drawer for freshness.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 45 points 1 month ago

I'm pleased to report that all those other promised utopia frameworks turned out perfect, and aren't in any way still a huge daily pain in the ass. I expect no less from this time around. Computers are finally smart. It's great.

It's the AI that is prone to delusions, or was that just me?

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 61 points 1 month ago

A little more time and a lot more money. But the savings will be huge. The savings will make the current era of extravagant burning piles of money look like a sound investment. You'll be glad you got in on the ground floor...

We do need a little more time, though. And money.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago

if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

In fairness, it can be expensive to stock the holy water necessary to fend off the demons that inhabit all printers.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago

My partner and I used to use location sharing pretty much 100% of the time. We just felt better knowing we could find each other.

But today, we do not, because the trust is shattered.

Google just cannot be trusted with our locations.

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[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have good news!?

...This isn't a particularly gendered problem.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 66 points 3 months ago

Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

Yes. This sucks.

The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

Unlikely.

The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)

Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 63 points 5 months ago

Protect the Dolls, for those unfamiliar. Neat.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's a couple of them, I think.

I found this one:

https://lemmy.ca/c/witchesvspatriarchy

Edit: Better link:

!witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca

Thanks!

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Altair Basic was released in 1978 for hardware that sold around 25,000 units..

I'm sure glad computing remained exactly equally complex since then, with exactly the same number of users, and same minimal diversity of use cases. (This is sarcasm.)

Everything should still take 10 days. Anyone who tells me it takes longer probably believes all that crap about the Internet being more than a passing fad. (Still sarcasm.)

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be buying one at the first opportunity.

My other action figures are going to have to stand in the shadow of the glory of "it's just Jack Black, I guess".

(No sarcasm. I'm really going to buy this. I love the idea of Jack Black just playing "Jack Black".)

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