Actually Fabio 🇨🇦

lol just saw a business defending itself by saying they "HAD to use AI to keep up with the competition," which is like saying you HAVE to eat that big pile of horse shit because the guy next to you just put TWO scoops on his plate and now there's hardly any left

As of now, your choice is use Windows or use something remotely secure. I’ve never been one to proselytize any particular OS, but Windows has become dangerously incompetent at its core job.

THIRD IMPACT

I was once a mobile content producer - aka I made ringtones - and I played with this quite a bit at the lab

so did he suck the dick or not

Two people talk to each other. A man, in a striped polo, with an Apple II for a head. A woman, in a blouse, with a Disk II disk drive. They're using their hands animatedly. Illustration drawn by Martin Cannon.

Some people say I focus too much on Commodore computers, but they're just sour appleheads. (Source.)

I think this will be the thing that makes me buy a Steam Machine instead of a Switch 2

Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox Firefox will get more AI.

This is why I'm trying @vivaldi.com as my main driver. @mozilla.org has sold out to the AI hype machine.

www.theverge.com/news/820196/...

YouTube video by Fabio Neves First attempt at Strudel (kind of a mess)

I had the day off so I decided to finally try and lean Strudel!

Kind of a mess but it's my first one: youtu.be/SIGcCv7sKLQ

#strudel #livecoding

"When the war ended, I don't know if I was more relieved that we'd won or that I didn't have to go back. Passchendaele was a disastrous battle—thousands and thousands of young lives were lost. It makes me angry. Earlier this year, I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Charles Kuentz, Germany's only surviving veteran from the war. It was emotional. He is 107. We've had 87 years to think what war is. To me, it's a licence to go out and murder. Why should the British government call me up and take me out to a battlefield to shoot a man I never knew, whose language I couldn't speak? All those lives lost for a war finished over a table. Now what is the sense in that?" Quotation from the British WWI veteran Harry Patch, in November 2004

The only thing I have to say on this Remembrance Sunday is to quote, verbatim, what Harry Patch had to say about the First World War:

The thing that really sucks about the inevitable AI industry collapse is how much we're all going to suffer from the fallout. Like watching a slow motion car crash from the inside of the car.

Computer programmers are working class.

Stop. Before you argue, consider:

We labour long hours on machines we don’t own, and the product of our labour is taken from us, no different than a coal miner or machinist.

Recalling Norman Rockwell's "The Gossips," a slew of computer users share a disc made by a user, each user sharing it with someone else until it ends up in a new machine, beginning the story anew. Artist: Mike Hagel, RUN Magazine Mar/Apr 1991

Pass the word!

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

Late 1800s French ad with the Michelin Man exactly as described

Just discovered that the Michelin Man used to ride a bike while wearing slutty little red boots and smoking a huge stogie. I don't know where else to put this information except in the Cool Files

This whole thing with Trump throwing a hissy fit because of the Ronald Reagan ad is too funny

a panel of the original marvel comic slightly edited to have lyrics from Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam"

while your feet are stomping

I don’t know about you but I’d never use a browser made OpenAI (or Anthropic for that matter). Total privacy nightmare.

The allure of this technology is skipping the learning curve but then you don’t actually know how to do it

Edwardian butt-plug. Certain leaders today should look into this decidedly no-nonsense design.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for wealthy corporations in the west.

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

If I earned a nickel every time Spotify did something shitty, I’d finally be making real streaming money.

Fascists in 2024: Ah ha ha!! Run to Bluesky, you pussies! Twitter is OURS now.

Fascists in 2025: it appears I have misunderstood how much I need attention

Proud of you, gang

4 panel comic Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

the US government has arrived on bluesky

Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.

Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.

bsky.app/profile/eva....

Block fascists. There's no reasoning or arguing with them, you might as well debate with spoiled leftovers. Don't let them bait you. Block fast, block often, block fascists. Let their accounts mummify.

I will not be going to any of the No Kings protests. Because I live in Canada and thus have a King. His name is Charles. He’s okay for a slice of Wonder bread.

I’m unbothered by the fascists in power in the US getting Bluesky accounts.

I am bothered by the fact that it’s highly likely that the moderator team will treat them with kid gloves and not enforce the rules on them.

A photo of a building with a long row of identical large posters on the wall. The posters say "DON'T OBEY" with a drawing of the Portland inflatable frog's face.