the clickbait so god damn annoying now. it’s like yesterday when there was an article that PewDiePie made an AI to rival ChatGPT and it’s free. no. he vibe coded an LLM workspace. that’s it.

Or the Nostalgia bait articles “the Zip Drive was amazing!” no, no it wasn’t you weren’t there.

safety concerns…like the safety concern of not selling enough Coca Cola products, got it.

well if you want to get SUPER specific you had to be taught how to be a force ghost by Qui Gon directly. he first taught Yoda, then eventually Obi-Wan, and I don’t know how the fuck/when he taught Anakin. post death I guess? picked it up in like an hour or so? and then I guess all 4 of them taught Luke and Leia at some point.

*except banks and corporate landlords. In Toronto it’s all over oxford, brookfield, and CF properties as well as banks. that’s it. Scotiabank Arena had their sign set to pride colours…yesterday. Today it was back to red.

it’s not really an “answer” to chatgpt or other LLMs at all. it’s a workspace. you still have to plug your own AI into it be it locally hosted or subscription based.

It’s like saying “PewDiePie has made a FREE Engine Mount that looks to be an answer to Honda’s Civic Engine” that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

I just don’t think people are buying RAM/other PC parts period. new or used.

I’ve have a listing selling a couple year old sticks of 16gb (32gb total) of DDR4 ram for $120 for like 4 weeks now and not a peep from anyone. I’ve seen other listings for ram at similar price points that have also been up for weeks.

So i’m not sure if there’s an actual shortage or people just simply aren’t buying.

bingo. I live in Toronto and i’m a contractor that is doing code reviews with a focus on LLMs for startups and other small tech firms. I’d say 9 out of 10 times my reports can be summed up as “this could have all been avoided if a team of devs had remained on staff” and then I fix it.

They’ll keep trucking along with AI and then hiring people like me for a premium because in the long run it’s still cheaper than having a team of 5+ devs on staff and that line will go up. the AI isn’t improving anything, it’s hindering them but it’s still slightly cheaper than having humans on board. broken and delayed product be damned, their still saving a couple nickels.

as a Canadian: “Oh no!..anyways…”

yeah, these “threats” aren’t very threatening anymore. we just don’t really care.

i’m not in anything specific but like ##anime on libera.chat. i’m sure there are active ones for specific stuff on there.

I just use libera chat and quakenet. been on quakenet for like nearly 30 years. I just go into the various linux/distro channels, web dev ones, and some other random channels.

IRC still exists my friend, I’m on it daily. this past year alone I’ve met quite a few people that I talk to almost daily. Message boards also, i’m active on a few. the Internet of old still exists, it never went anywhere, you just stopped visiting it.

geez where do you work where the the best safety measure is “turn on airplane mode and don’t use a VPN”

yup just went on “vacation” consisted of spending 2 nights in Niagara Falls and then a week at the cottage fishing and drinking beer. that was it.

don’t forget randomly scattering around typewriters and ink ribbons. gotta save our progress.

yeah you know what with the way things have been going at this point it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the Umbrella Corporation actually existed an the T-Virus was a real thing. I’m just waiting for them to announce a couple dudes named Spencer and Wesker being named to some position in the administration.

in like 2010-2012 I was making 68K a year and paying $700 in rent a month for a large 1 bedroom flat. I had more money and space than I knew what to do with. My only bills were rent, phone, and internet. that’s it. no debt, no credit card, nothing. so all my monthly bills combined was like $800. Every Tuesday I’d buy pretty much every new game release. all of them. I’d eat out or order in daily, I didn’t bother cooking or do grocery shopping. I’d buy dinner for friends, offer to pay the bill, etc. I was never broke. I had friggin 58k in disposable income!

Now if I was making 68k a year in the same city I’d be struggling. my rent for the same place would have more than tripled, probably way more. phone and internet would have gone way up. the fact that it’s gotten so much worse so rapidly is incredibly scary. At one point in my life in my early 30s I REALLY wanted kids, I really wanted to get married. now? forget about it. I’m in my 40s now and while I’m comfortable there’s no way in hell I’d ever want to expose children to this and the eventual future. I’m not bringing someone into this world to only say “welp, good luck!”. So I don’t even bother being in a relationship anymore, there’s no point. I consciously made the decision a few years ago to stop dating. When I get asked out I politely decline. I’ve lived with two different women on two separate occasions in my life so I experienced it. I’m good. Now it’s just making sure I earn enough to keep a roof over my head, my stomach fed, and my computer functioning until my body decides it’s time to go. I don’t care about eating healthy (i’m not over weight), I still smoke cigarettes, and I rarely go to the doctor even though I’m in Canada. I’m just making zero effort to prolong my life at this point because…again…what’s the point? I’ve lived it, I’ll slip out when the 'ol ticker decides its time. I don’t want to keep living this bullshit economy and i’m tired of seeing the younger generations having no choice but to struggle. honestly if I croak before I hit 50 i’ll be happy.

As a Canadian I would love this to be able to travel and live in European countries much easier. But, also as a Canadian, I wouldn’t want Europeans to have to then share a border with the US.

I mean even at 16 he still looks like he has dwarfism. dude looks like he’s 5.

yeah I started with “The Black Echo” and been hooked on his stuff ever since. finished two other Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer books in a week. I love how all his books/characters share a same universe and they all cross over with each other. I haven’t watched either of the two shows yet on bosch and haller but apparently they don’t share the same universe as the books.