Because we’ve seen 30 years of the Web? Because streets used to be (and some sill are) nothing but a place to put up billboards and ads? Because corporations are led by psychopaths and they care absolutely nothing about your well-being or personal health in your home?

OF COURSE if they can put an ad in your kitchen they’ll by all means put an ad in your kitchen. It’s literally the goal of giving out brochures and pamphlets of ads: to make you take the ads into your home. Why are there brand names on everything? It’s advertising all the way down. Giving them an Internet-connecting screen they control in your kitchen is just asking for ads to be displayed in your private space.

Never 51. Elbows Up, my friend.

You hate to do it, but when the other persons gloves come off Canada answers the bell.

Having PERL be a shell style environment was hilariously slow. Entertaining, but slow.

I feel bad that I read that page in Chrome. I’m a failure of a techie.

Tomorrow I must atone by teaching more students terminal commands. Maybe using web API calls with cURL. Or get and some eviloverlord.com quotes?

During the era it wasn’t rare to upgrade components on the motherboard and ISA/PCI bus cards. We’d had some relatively stable CPU socket standards and you’d do things like change out CPU and ram for upgrades.

Was this a stupid marketing gimmick? Oh yeah. Was it unreasonable to talk about upgrading a system at home? Not really. We did do it for a while.

“I tried switching to Hannah Montana Special Arch Edition and it wasn’t easy!” – Is it ever easy? I dunno, but computers are complex things so trying any new approach is expected to take work. Picking a weird, unsupported, and possibly out of date software package isn’t going to help the effort.

Look at that: putting remotely accessible sensors in your home opens it up to attacks. Who’d have thought?

I bought a single €2 snack while walking through a Christmas market. Other than that, it was a day of riding public transit (monthly pass), walking through parks, and eating a packed lunch.

Out of pocket total: €2.

People not knowing when to use ‘is’ and ‘are’ in English.

For reals, though? Mostly energy put into conversations, who spends the effort to initiate topics, and whether someone actually has hobbies other than just watching TV.

I used to eat my Jimmy Johns sandwiches like that a decade ago. Back when they were big and cheap sandwiches. It just made it easier to no have it fall apart as much.

I never stopped halfway, though. Once you begin, there should be no survivors.

London is on the cusp of having such a wonderful treasure of a city space. Oxford Street is so beautiful and having it be pedestrian only will make it so much better to linger and stroll around.

Removing the cars will make it a jewel of England.

“The bombing of civilians will continue until you agree to be conquered and owned.”

By bombing them into submission!

“The killing will continue until you submit to Mother Russia”

Just leaving this here in case @op needs to check the weather where they are: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@2016590/ext

Just leaving this here in case @op needs to check the weather where they are: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@2016590/ext

And now we’re surly adults! No goatee anymore, though. They itch too much.

Peter’s The Evil Overlord List is a treasure of the long before times: http://eviloverlord.com/

Copyright 1997

“The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord”

Mandatory reading for anyone trying to be an Evil Overlord.

Yes. All surfing is between your client and the server running the web services.

The problem is that many many companies/developers used cloud services to host their websites. It’s where they out their computers/services that determine the reliance on the big hosting platforms or not. Your client really has no say in the matter.

I use the Internet all the time without cloud platforms, but it’s because I host tools on non cloud systems. Having Cloudflare or AWS down doesn’t affect my own tools because I’m not hosting them on those platforms.

“trust is” says marketing.

You’re sitting on the Chinese Translator problem, and to some extent the basis of the Turing Test (mostly the translator problem).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Knowledge != Intelligence

Regurgitating things you’ve read is only interpolative. You’re only able to reply with things you’ve seen before, never new things. Intelligence is extrapolative. You’re able to generate new ideas or material beyond what has been done before.

So far, the LLM world remains interpolative, even if it reads everything created by others before it.