mattoxic

Darkstar did have a vicious but cute beach ball

They have a special place in my heart.

I recently described finishing Fire Upon the Deep as saying goodbye to a very dear friend. A great book.

Meta VR Glasses... and where they will be banned next!

Australia is blessed with quite the spineless government at the moment. I doubt very much that they would be doing anything (at all actually) as concrete as forging deeper ties with Europe - at least at the expense of the US. After all, it wasn't so long ago that Australia handed the US $800 million of its citizen's hard-earned for submarines that might not ever get built within an alliance that looks increasingly one-sided.

Very enjoyable. I was waiting for Aaron to have a heart attack, same outcome, less contrived maybe.

As Australian failed rich guy /scumbag Alan Bond said... if you owe 30k you have problems, if you owe them 30 million they take you to lunch. Or words to that effect

I would immediately walk way from you. Then you could label me as an uncooperative element in your database of people you've met.

These things are peak ick

Terry Gillam's take...

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*NFPp...

There absolutely needs to be stigma surrounding LLM generated work that is masquerading as creativity.

AI slop is AI slop.

Yeah, and he threw a huge bunch of cash to acquire them. pretty easy to acquire. Harder to build. He got lucky with facebook because myspace sucked. Good timing.

Having trouble following names? Read I Claudius.

Sure if you've signed this you've have added your name to a list, while someone in HR has added your name to another.

The tell is the the name. Full Self Driving.

And by "clean you out" you mean financially or both?

Taipei claiming a big chunk of the PRC. Probably go down as well as Ottawa and Mexico City claiming big chunks of the USA

That's very cool. But I really need to know how many people have visited the site as well as how long a page will take to download on a 56k modem.

I would have thought you'd need to be a druid

"Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump"

"It's not just this, it's a totally also that" Clause and CrapGPT love this phraseology.

<current government>, isn't really your <typical government>. Protest is warranted. And I'm sure that these serious people felt that their actions were justified. I'm glad they did it, and I'm glad I have read about it.

"Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM. Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump."

Christ, they even lead with AI slop.

Boggles the mind that corporates stick to expensive, inefficient, insecure and in so many ways crap software. SQL Sever, Office, Oracle (any product), Windows servers and workstations - yet demand peak efficiency from staff.

Another little corner of the internet is gone.

Had to check... but this is still here https://dack.com/web/bullshit.html

They dont have all the skills to do anything super complex in a sustainable way.

And that's stopped them?

With Apple, one can never quite tell if it's intentional.

This was my experience (You do it to improve your life...), and I'm very glad I did. It's almost the same feeling I had when after quitting smoking for a month, almost elation - I had really done it. The space that twitter occupied in my life was in amazing disproportion to the actual point of it. "Cred" doesn't come in to it.

Agree totally - though I do very much enjoy the occasional long wikipedia tour. For millions, Facebook is the internet, there is nothing beyond. Sad.

yeah, at the very least you won't get spit in your food

Assange did not help a rival state to gain an advantage...

Um, except of course Putin's Russia.

Can just see the kids running to the car after soccer practice and mum yelling "BLADES!!"

The Australian consumer has already lost. This whole country is an exercise in trussing up the public and making sure they pay the very most for the very least.

I've long given up on Australian journalism - at least in the main stream. Obviously the Murdoch papers are garbage, but the Age and SMH are almost (and becoming) as appalling. The ABC and SBS have been cowered to the extent that they jump at their own shadows and now _have_ to include cometary from utter fuckwits like Gerard Henderson or that vast twit Greg Sheridan lest they appear biased. It now seems that the ABC almost has to ask permission to publish a story. The Age was a great newspaper, now it's almost unreadable - apart form the NYTimes and Wapo stories they run.

Google are not the good guys. They are a rapacious monopoly that have their shareholders interest at heart, NOT the Google consumer. And in terms of "trusting them with our data" - like that's the very least we'd expect from a product that purports to do this - and they don't do this for free - WE pay for it.

Like cry me a river Google - like News Corp, they pay fuck all tax in Australia, and, just like Murdoch, are more than happy to take advertising from fake news and conspiracy pushers that does nothing but fatten their profits and damage society.

There is good media out there - Crikey, The Guardian, New Matilda, new Daily etc, but it isn't mainstream, one has to, dare I say, search for it.