Rhaedas

As a conversational AI, I found this rather funny.

Wow, I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff. That I haven’t done. The glory of VPN (that doesn’t keep logs) is you’re behind the noise of anyone else. Sometimes it’s better to not be hidden, but be in the crowded plain sight.

It wasn’t that hard. Don’t ask how I know. 5 cents a minute doesn’t seem like a lot even in 80s dollars, but…well, time flies… And it’s true, that bill only shows up once a month, by then the damage is done.

The stock market is not the same thing as it was at the start, different players, different motives, and lots of failsafes. That time it was a signal that things were bad, this time we could continue to get worse and you’d never know it looking at the DOW.

Or species.

Forgot the call to dilate_pupils.exe

I was lucky, my dad had a top line Radio Shack system with full control and tape counter, so finding that perfect spot, doing fade outs, etc. was easy. The hard part was guessing when the radio DJ would stop talking and cut to the music.

Also, fake picture, as the typical reason for this there would be mangled tape pulled out of the cassette body.

You had to hold it at a bit of an angle. Sure beat using your fingertip for an inch at a time.

Good thing we can do more than a single thing at a time.

The original point of BLM was…one group of people shouting stop killing their own to a nation that was oblivious and/or not caring. Arguing that other people are also dying kind of misses the point and helps to hide what BLM was trying to show.

There’s always been plenty of human-made content that is slop. AI is just another tool to make easy content. Trying to categorize everything done with AI as slop is lazy and shifting blame, ignoring the difficulty in both moderating large volume as well as the lack of a definition of what is and isn’t “good”. Which really ends up coming back to the individual, who has means to shut out places that are regularly a problem to them.

Yeah, otherwise it would have been very hard before they came into being.

It was fun to learn how things work, and when things worked as planned (finally). It’s when they didn’t work that got annoying and frustrating, and with assembly language with basically no error codes or any help, it was just…nope, that wasn’t right. Maybe followed by cycling the computer off and on because it locked up. Still have my old Mapping the Commodore 64 book on the shelf. Huge resource.

I understood your point fine. I indeed started out with first Commodore BASIC and then into 6502, all using the manuals because there wasn’t much else of a source back then.

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

1 in 6000 chance for an American nickel, which has a thicker side than most. Just for others sake. I felt it was far less than just <1% and had to find out.

Been with several companies that have the first part in their policy. It makes sense to avoid, or at best minimize an external influencing factor in company activities. Basically they don’t want to mess with lawsuits. That’s what company policy is for, protect the company.

The rest is owner greed. He doesn’t want the gifts to stop, he wants them all without doing anything to get them. Either enforce a ‘no gifts, period’ policy or let people do what they will.

My spirit animal. I’d rather be blamed for disrupting things than deal with the drama.