• mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Tech companies using the term ‘AI’ is like Porsche continuing to use the word ‘Turbo’ on their electric cars. Meaningless marketing bullshit. There’s no ‘intelligence’. It’s just the marketing buzzword of the year.

    I have a high-horse on this subject and by god there’s no way I’m getting down from it.

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      3 months ago

      oh zero argument here I’m just still megapissed because I’m old enough to remember the net before SEO and corporations jammed their dick unsolicited up its arse and yea, for a bright shining moment I used to be able to actually tell it “Give me a breakdown between A and B” and it would

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        3 months ago

        Oh I hear ya. I’m an old fart who started on Gopher, first browsed the ‘World Wide Web’ in Lynx in a Unix session and thought visiting AltaVista in Mosaic was the shit.

        The way the net (and tech in general) has been in a downward spiral for so long, when originally there was so much promise, infuriates me.

        Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go feed my horse.

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          3 months ago

          Two words my friebd: Fred Mail.

          In related news I just found out that google has decided to start ignoring the site:.au command

          So what little use i had for it on a commercial front is now utterly gone.

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          NNTP and IRC are still there. We could go back. We’ll probably go back. Like kids discovering HAM radio.