The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.

He didn’t use an IDE, but I don’t remember what he tried. He also wasn’t a fan of googling stuff. Use the man pages and nothing else.

Here is my story:

There were console outputs after nearly every line. I asked about them: “Oh, I couldn’t get the debugger to work, so I print everything to the console”

This was everywhere. The whole program was like this. On a standard Linux machine. It wasn’t even remote debugging or something. Just a local C++ program.

The filenames where written in 8+3. Again, on a modern Linux machine. His answer? “You never know where we’ll port this software to”

Onto computers that were outdated decades ago? To embedded systems? Of course he had no answer for this except “just in case…”

I could tell you more, that software was the stuff for nightmares.

Wich was, sadly, 5 minutes later (these are not the right clothes for skateboarding).

It’s not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights… Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

No.

Yeah, I wrote a comment recently how I would not be suprised by rich people hunting poor people for sports and this was mentioned as a reply.

Life is like: “bite the pillow, we are going in dry”

Might be the search function of a porn site. Or an uncensored image generator.

Is this the bad place?

His face looks like the school table of the disturbing kid.

As I said: not surprised.

Shootings in a war zone, who would investigate?

There are places in the world where the law breaks down. You wouldn’t even have to go to a war zone for that: If the super rich abducted some homeless people who would notice? Especially if it’s in a poor country with already corrupt police.

Hell even in “first world” countries the poorest are nearly unprotected.

Humans tend to push boundaries. For the super rich there are nearly no boundaries set. Breaking most laws only costs money, which doesn’t scale with the wealth of the culprit.

Drugs, legal girls, legal entertainment gets probably boring if you have it all the time. So they get more depraved.

I would not be surprised if some of them torture, kill and enslave people just for kicks

Uplifting News: US media resists Gleichschaltung, for now.

… I don’t think don’t think that news is really uplifting.

I mean I get it: that they resist is good.

It’s just that they have to resist against something like that is so much worse.

Yes and no one but crypto needs that. Everyone else is much better served with traditional databases.

Blockchain solves a specific problem: safe transactions without a trusted authority.

It has a lot of downsides to solve this problem without a trusted authority, so in any case where you can use a trusted authority (for example a central server) it’s much better to use that instead of a blockchain.

So everyone who added blockchains to their projects gained all the downsides while never having the problem it was meant to solve in the first place.

AIs, and I assume you meant LLMs with that, are a different breed. LLMs are new: never before could a computer handle natural language to such a degree.

Problem is, that it’s still new. So no one knows what the “killer applications” are or what monetization should look like, or what the laws about it will be.

People just throw every against the wall and see what sticks… And hope for AGI/ASI and to be on the side that rides that nearly infinite potential to the moon.

Or, you know, crash and burn in case AI reaches a wall/diminishing returns/systemic problems that can’t be fixed.

We will see.

I don’t know if it’s different in the US, but here the downloading isn’t punished, it’s the sharing that gets you in trouble.

Probably creates by a group of middle-aged men who never touched a console.

People with no idea about the product who simply looked at the target demographics and thought:

"What do teenage boys like? Sex.

Let’s go with that since research is hard."

Oh yeah, I overlooked that detail.

What the hell? If they just asked ChatGPT it would have been much better:

• Repository: A folder of project files on the internet.

• Fork: Your own copy of that folder to make changes.

• Pull Request: A way to ask, “Can my changes go back into the original folder?”