Murdoc
@Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
They have a series on Gates too.
The answer to OPs question is that these people they admired were just as bad, just better at PR. Unless you think that social media has had some kind of positive effect in outing these newer bastards. Being young and naive may also have been a factor (which I can personally attest to since I was a fan of MS back in the 90s before I learned about them).
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 3 months ago:
Jupiter was declared too big to fail.
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 3 months ago:
I think a TARDIS can do that.
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 3 months ago:
Dwarf continent
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
I’d guess that the down votes weren’t because it wasn’t true, but rather simply that the fact made them unhappy. Not the best use of down votes, but understandable.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
Which has its own downside, that being the up-front cost.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
“Press Play on tape.”
(makes lunch)
“File found. Loading…”
(takes a bath, goes for a walk, reads a book…)
Ah the memories…
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
But where to store it all now?
- Comment on Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over? 5 months ago:
Tell-us, so more like it looks I guess.
- Comment on Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over? 5 months ago:
I would; it’s too close to Telus (but pronounced the same), a terrible phone company where I live.
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 6 months ago:
😆
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 6 months ago:
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 6 months ago:
My favourite line from that song. 👍
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 6 months ago:
Saw that in a sci-fi rpg called Living Steel. An alien bioweapon unleashed on a human space colony called VISR, or Viral Indunced Sociopathic Response. It was interesting.
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 6 months ago:
Also the Genuine People Personality™ from the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
You wouldn’t download a car.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Linux pc (opensuse). They claim it should work but maybe I’m outta luck.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I’m trying to get stremio working, but it just gives me an error on startup and their support won’t get back to me about it.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 months ago:
Close, I had an 8210, my very first cell phone. Loved that little guy.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 6 months ago:
It’s not evil capitalists. It’s people acting rationally. The incentive structure leads to this behaviour.
IOW, don’t hate the player, hate the game.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 6 months ago:
Catholic^TM^ brand Holy Baptizer 2000 brought to you by BRANWDO! (The Thirst Mutilator!)
- Comment on Memes live in your brain 6 months ago:
Ah yes, that would make me want to watch now. Thank you and well said.
- Comment on Memes live in your brain 6 months ago:
Title: I know, it’s in the definition of them.
Description: Doesn’t make me want to watch the video and frankly comes off as click-bait.
This could be done better.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 6 months ago:
Chinpokemon all over again…
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 6 months ago:
Ever play Deus Ex: Invisible War? Yeah, they did that in there. A ubiquitous series of holoprojectors allowing you to seemingly interact with a particular pop star, who is super friendly and easily form a relationship with, turns out to be a sophisticated ai surveillance network doing exactly what you said. It even screws you over if you reveal too much to it.
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 6 months ago:
For some reason this made me imagine a game that is a cross between minecraft and super mario, where whenever you mine or hit a certain kind of block, a little coin pops up and you get a bitcoin from it. Real bitcoin mining!
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
😆 Good description of how ads appear to me.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 6 months ago:
It would if you kept the number of significant digits the same.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 6 months ago:
SCANNING AREA