You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.
Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.
We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized
WHERE THE WEB IS GOING: The convergence of LLMs and web advertising will lead to "ads" consisting of several hundred gigabytes of javascript containing a (weighted) neural network designed to generate unique per-user video advertisements—generated on your computer at your expense to ensure the imagery is unique and evades AI-based ad-blockers.
"AI spam" is an entire AI, squatting on your CPU and making it glow dull red as it works out how to capture your attention.
Welcome to the spamularity.
@argr the English did invent eugenics, concentration camps, Israel as a colonial project, Canada and (partially) the United States. The former British empire current American Empire political sphere is historically speaking the central wellspring of modern fascism
@jk I love the "will this cable have enough wires in it" lottery
hi, if anyone else is having problems, this is what worked for me: uninstall visual studio, then reinstall visual studio using the advanced settings (hold shift). then uninstall visual studio, then restart to clean up remaining files. then reinstall visual studio MANUALLY not using the advanced settings, so that when we're about to uninstall it again it'll clean up the environment files. once we've uninstalled it, begin reinstalling visual studio using the advanced admin script. then uninstall v
@wxcafe I Can Make That Myself
@wxcafe ... So water and aspartame?
@noiob normal app
Is there a really thin/small sbc with real gpu drivers under android and such? And a compatible (and also thin) hd touchscreen for it?
I used to make art for this site.
Helped a little with An Outcry, helping a little with Blanksword.
Starting to think I'm too disabled for real jobs, so let me know if you have a fake one that pays ok