Oh sure, all the time.

A computer running public auditable software refined by some of history’s top computer scientists…is still just a computer.

We taught spicy electrified rocks how to help us fill out tax forms.

It’s going to fall short every so often.

Dentists do this because they are posers.

Record scratch

Uh…okay. Sure…?

Edit: I’m hoping/realizing this is a typo or autocorrect thing, and not another sign that I am no longer “with it” and “hip to what is up”, as I’m sure they’re still saying.

I’m going to leave my response though, so you can all enjoy my confusion.

I want you to know that I read your comment first, before clicking your link, and then I knew in my heart that your link would be the original opening theme song lyrics. Well done. Bravo!

Mom is going to have something to say about this, for sure.

Supply and demand sounds nice, but then innocent citizens can still get arrested for following their own economic interests and chipping in on a GoFundMe whose only crime was hiring a ninja to threaten these RAM company assholes who are too rich for normal laws to keep them in check.

This is a joke, of course. I would never do anything like that - because I don’t understand how BitCoin works. I mean, because of moral and good citizen reasons. That was another joke, your honor.

Yes. And I need to watch Elisium again.

Pencil pushers gonna push pencil.

I’ll be surprised if we learn there was actually no dark web back room deal providing this stuff to anyone who didn’t appreciate the law getting in the way.

Great write-up. This technique has helped me, as well.

Circle ain’t the problem it’s me not being able to accept love.

I feel that. I had to fake it till I could make it. I don’t know if that can help everyone, but it helped me.

I made rules for myself about how I would choose to respond to love, and first they became habits, and then much later, they came with the kind of feelings that I suspect many people got for free from day one.

Great write up.

That’s how I cope, as well.

I didn’t even realize I had the highs and lows going until this year. I just found that aiming for small incremental improvements to situations that sabotaged me was the only way for me to get by.

Edit: This year, someone pointed out to me that certain personality types seem prone to burts of high activity and slumps of low energy - and that I matched most of those traits.

I’ve been coping through my low energy times with various habits and routines, while I write a to-do list to remove obstacles, which I systemicly work through. Of course, during high energy times, I get much more done against that list.

Yes. I was worried while I read the list, but known assholes top to bottom. That’s nice, I guess?

Thank for for this list.

I was prepared to add to my boycot list, but I guess sometimes the biggest assholes are exactly who we already expected.

lol. Yes.

I will sign up for Mullvad tomorrow if he actually does something meaningful about it.

I haven’t even looked up the price, but I’ll keep my word.

Only I won’t have to, because the odds are this guy is another spineless piece of shit.

At the very least set up a Mastodon account somewhere in addition to those.

Yes!

I want to get a huge banner flag with this sentence printed on it, and pay someone to run past various offices with it each day.

Could be those Flock cameras, with all the enshittification going on, just fall apart on their own.

I heard that too.

Yes. His Mom looked shifty. Not enough evidence to convict.

Expect an import ban on Chinese made ram to be coming soon.

Yes. I do half-way expect that.

Of course, I also look forward to investing in novelty keychains, which just coincidentally come with a free teddy bear, which itself has a couple of RAM sticks sewn inside.

Fair point.

A skill I spent 25 years developing suddenly is full of morons who think they know as much as I do because they can have Claude vomit out something resembling software.

Gosh yes.

Its the same product with/without.

AI copies from the middle of the curve of quality averages, throwing out the highest and lowest quality examples (for being different).

Use of AI does have bearing on quality.

A skilled team can undo that harm, and a particularly unskilled team may be better off with AI than without.

But it is incorrect to claim that AI has no impact on quality of outcome.