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"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" (C.S. Lewis)

Is strong "AI" fanboyism a "psyops"?

But that's not "talking". That's sending commands to a program and then getting the program's output. The truly mentally damaging thing is thinking something like that is "talking" to "someone". I don't need to be "polite" to a glorified REPL. I'm not going to "insult" it either, of course. The whole thing is absurd. It's a computer program.

The autobots won't, but the decepticons might try.

Another funny euphemism for the collection.

It will tell lies more convincingly.

> Winamp will be reborn as a completely new player with its own premium subscription service

This does not whip the llama's ass.

Sorry, but a string of ones and zeroes will never "love you back".

My favorite part of the article:

> The only people who experienced slight increases in negative emotions when exposed to the words were those who scored high on moral elitism and a need for recognition. These specific personality traits reflect a persistent feeling of being a victim in social situations. For everyone else, the words had no measurable negative impact.

"Only" 1 GB of RAM. Man, I'm old.

Is "luddite" considered a slur? Clankerphiles use that term a lot.

Man, I miss mainstream phones with real, physical buttons so much.

> I am seeing huge leaps forward in AI intelligence as new releases come out.

With all due respect, nowhere near as huge as the leap you made in the two final paragraphs.

I, for one, welcome our new file-sharing overlords.

I can use 16,777,216 possible colors, and you want me to limit myself to a mere 140? Also, that Imperial/Metric analogy will probably only sound sympathetic in the USA, and rather backwards in the rest of the world. Unless that whole website is actually satire, that is :)

Just like the proverbial dog in the manger.

Nonhuman

On the other hand, what I want is the right to not being forced to talk to another human if I don't want to.

Editorialize much?

Chromium 138.0.7204.92 is dated June 27, 2025. Are there really any Gentoo users still running a browser older than that?

It's always Pluto, Pluto, Pluto. No one ever cares about poor Ceres.

That large header picture is 100% "I'm Sorry Jon" material.

Ah, yes. 9/11. The "war on terror". "Peak of humanity", indeed.

Because they are delicious delicacies, of course!

Remember the "Cloud to Butt" browser extension? Now we need an extension that replaces all instances of the word "AI" with "my butt".

The real, authentic Astérix comic died with Goscinny. Everything after "Astérix in Belgium" is non-canon to me.

Also bludgeoning human visitors using accesibility tools and/or text-based web browsers.

TL;DR:

  I’m not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. I like it, and I want it, so I’m using it. Maybe that’s morally questionable, or worse. But, as I said: here I am.

Sigh. I was so looking forward to finally being able to use Xfce in Wayland. Not anymore. Not at that price.

It's a self-demostrating article, then!

In general, whimsical stuff has been disappearing from software everywhere. 22 years later, I still mourn the demise of the "Cookies are delicious delicacies" message from Firefox's options menu. This might be a gross exaggeration on my part, but I genuinely believe that the long decline of Firefox as a browser started the day those words were removed. For me, that marked the moment when "the suits" started taking over.