Kagi is a great search engine that I’ve found to be worth paying for.

Maybe consider for more than 0.2 seconds before making such sweeping assertions.

What an unnecessarily adversarial, and rude, reply. Maybe consider for more than 0.2 seconds if being an asshole is necessary.

The Internet was pushed on everyone. AOL and all other ISPs would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited. You’d buy a new PC and there would be a link to AOL on the desktop.

Are you 15? If so, you might read this and believe the above is true. Those of us elderly folks who lived through the 80s and 90s laugh at this AI shill propaganda.

They “would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited” - yeah, that was called advertising, because there was huge consumer demand and a race to be the company to meet that demand. AOL sent CDs (incredibly inexpensive to manufacture) as advertising hoping consumers would choose AOL instead of the competition, by making AOL the easiest choice - consumers already had the required software (software distribution was a challenge in this time before internet was ubiquitous).

The dot com boom was not the claim of a new technology being pushed onto consumers, the dot com boom was the opposite - a new technology existed and consumers were embracing it, and many companies speculated on how to gain ownership of markets as they shifted online. (The following bust was fueled by over-ambitious speculation on scales and timeframes.)

Anyway, AOL mailing CDs was late in the era, it was much better when they were mailing floppy disks we could reuse.

“It got almost all of it right, only hallucinating when it came to details I had to fix.”

What does this even mean? It did a great job, the only problems were the parts I had to fix? 🤣

I agree with StarvingMartist, it really is much easier to be an enabler than it is to give a shit about values. It’s easier than you might think.

That’s a perfect analogy, I love downloading weed from websites.

There is a real Salad Fingers vibe.

steel wool socks keep the toenails in check

It’s too bad that the first things to be automated are the tasks that people don’t mind doing, leaving the real shitty tasks to be done by people. Riding around on a lawnmower has to be one of the most enjoyable forms of manual labour. Now the robots get the good jobs and we’re left with the backbreaking monotonous bullshit.

Speaking of Contra - there is a new Contra out March 12, 2024 (today! or tomorrow depending on timezone), Contra: Operation Galuga. I haven’t played the game yet, but the trailer looks amazing!

Thank you for this learning experience, before now I was not aware of weather. Continue your valuable contributions.

Nobody dare making a comment on the internet without taking Winnipeg into account!!

Clever photo, great idea. The “flame” effect is brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

I like this, the tilted camera adds a “fun” aspect, the low perspective captures the bird well, pretty colours in the background, the softness of the background is great as well, nice separation of foreground and background without destroying the background. Also, the bird is not smoking, so it is nice to see it following the rules. Good balance of chaos and rules. Thanks for sharing.

The animation with the C:\ prompt is great! I hadn’t seen this before, but that’s one of the all-time greatest game openings!

Very nice composition, the lines of the guard rail and of the highway trailing into the distance, the balance of the sky and the ground, mysterious beauty of the fog, the glowing sun, I really like it all. The bare trees in the near-distant fog are wonderful too.

Thank you for sharing.