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I can personally remember seeing “Gonads and Strife” in 2001, and “Winnie the Pooh: Satan Worship” in 2000!

Just to add to the list of ancient internet videos.

Scratch is a visual programming language that is intended to be easy to learn for younger people.

You can read more about the language on Wikipedia here and you can play around with the language here.

I liked this article, but I think the author is conflating her personal experience with a general experience.

There was no pressure to convert your experience into proof for someone else. You didn’t have to optimize your time in a place, check off a list of must-dos, compress Bangkok into a 30-second reel detailing the perfect itinerary.

She is misremembering entire swathes of time. People have been taking pictures and videos on vacation for decades now to brag to others about their trip. This is not new.

That’s how many people did trips in the 80s, 90s, and the early 2000s. They just used guide books instead of the internet and made photo albums or (literal) slide shows. Lots of people seemed to travel just to say they went, since at least the 1980s.

I even went on trips like that with former partners where it was carefully scheduled to hit all the sights. That’s how she traveled, trying to do all of the popular things in a place. In 2001.

Isn’t traveling like this kinda the plot of National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)? All the different stuff Clark wants to do on vacation? Making “good time”? There was also an Adventures of Pete and Pete episode about something similar in the 90s.

I even clearly remember thinking about how I could avoid being that type of tourist when I first traveled anywhere, in the late 1990s.

It’s a bad year for Revenge of the Nerds actors! Robert Carradine died in February.

Donald Gibb is also great in Bloodsport, of course. Always seemed like a nice guy, glad to hear that he was.

I appreciate the title change.

The way The Verge (the original author) has been selling this story is gross. “A Hacker Ran Me Over With a Robot Lawn Mower!!1”

I thought they were better than that but I was totally wrong.

This is an article written by AI, with an AI-generated thumbnail, working hard to convince us that AI is totally replacing 92,000 tech jobs.

All rights reserved

Yeah a lot of people lining up to duplicate this masterpiece

Yep, people were reporting that it was marking code they wrote by hand as “Coauthored by Copilot.”

There are some comments on the original pull request, such as:

ringoz commented last week
I am not using copilot, I have “chat.disableAIFeatures” and co-authored by copilot still gets inserted into commits.

I also thought that this was interesting, from the above article:

Earlier this week, Vasyura shared an update on the “co-authored by Copilot” issue. The Microsoft engineer said the forced co-authorship resulted from a bug in the code that Redmond employees did not encounter in their testing environment. The default AI attribution was eventually disabled, but is now returning in a different – hopefully less disruptive – form.

“These materials aren’t just operating system releases in the traditional sense. In several cases, the listings represent point‑in‑time working states and hand-written notes, preserved by Tim Paterson himself. Think of them as a printed commit history of a Git repository."

No one’s going to be using these releases for real work. However, they’re still remarkably instructive for anyone who wants to understand how operating systems were structured on first‑generation 8086 hardware. DOS 1.0’s small size and feature limitations make it a comprehensible codebase that can be understood almost end‑to‑end, especially compared to today’s sprawling operating systems.

As Microsoft stated, “The listings include sources to the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, several development snapshots of the PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, and some well-known utilities such as CHKDSK. Not only were these assembler listings, but there were also listings of the assembler itself! This work offers rare insight into how MS-DOS/PC-DOS came to be, and how operating system development was done at the time, not as it was later reconstructed.”

Cloudflare has revealed it will farewell 1,100 staff, due to its current and future use of AI.

In a blog post that oozes Orwellian “doublespeak”

…this entire article’s premise is based on the “doublespeak,” though? You are literally pumping AI fear and hype based on a company’s blog article because it benefits you.

This is a plain old layoff, just like all the others. CNBC talked about it last October. The LA Times talked about it in March of this year.

It’s not hard to understand if you don’t benefit from AI rage bait like The Register does.

Hack “journalists” like this are the reason the AI hype won’t go away. He’s too stupid to read between the lines or understand that he’s a huge part of the problem.

The Cloudflare CEO even contradicts the “it’s AI, I’m telling you” narrative, right in the same article:

“We have seen that there are roles at Cloudflare that are not the roles we need for the future,” Prince responded. “Just because you are fit does not mean you cannot get fitter. Over the last six months especially, the productivity gains from the people directly talking to customers and directly creating code have been incredible, and a lot of the support roles behind them are not going to be the roles that drive companies going forward.”

Doesn’t matter though, The Register can squeeze another AI layoff article in there to get people riled up!

You’re not a coward, that comment is horrible advice.

It’s good for “oh I oughtta…!” online, but in real life there are significantly more professional/adult ways of solving the problem than asking semi-rhetorical questions that barely make sense in the hopes of guiding someone toward the desired outcome. Please don’t actually do that.

Asking “what does the employee handbook say about X??” isn’t a “gotcha.” You can literally go look, then tell us.

It’s ok to ask not to be recorded in a small meeting. You don’t need to bring up your unfamiliarity with the employee handbook.

I turn off notifications for every device I have, other than things like text messages.

I don’t know how people can stand all the badges and stuff.