Oh no, poor Buster. Let’s hope one of these monsters isn’t a loose seal.

Here comes the furry vore.

Lookin pretty slick, I dig it.

Did you 3D print the rackmounts or is there a place to get smallish ones like this?

Seriously the AI generated creatures were weak bullshit. Maybe they mostly looked good, but none of them evoked anything actually alien, which was the supposed point.

unwatchably-bad movie

Beg to differ, it’s bad, but in the novel “so bad it rounded the bend back to good” variety. Perfect riffing fodder, a la MST3K.

My friend and I are B-movie afficionados. A Boy and His Dog is a long time favorite of ours, going back to the original Fallout days.

He recently bought and sent me this amazing knockoff poster with a bunch of weird shit that isn’t even in the movie:

https://deadly-prey-gallery.myshopify.com/products/a-boy-and-his-dog-high-quality-print-nii-bi-ashitey

(The name of the gallery, Deadly Prey, is a reference to another fine B-movie masterpiece.)

Well that’s because Wu-Tang isn’t “for the kids” they’re “for the children.”

Python hatched out of the egg on the cover.

There’s been this tug-of-war between Republicans and Democrats at the FCC for like a solid decade or more now about whether the internet is classified as a “communications service” or an “information service.” If it’s classified as a communications service then the FCC has regulatory authority and can do things like enforce net neutrality. If it’s classified as an information service, then the Federal Comminications Commission does not have authority to regulate it. The Biden FCC had been working to bring back net neutrality, but all that is pretty much out the window with a GOP toady in charge of the FCC now.

It really needs to be codified by congress to have sticking power for it to be regulated by the FCC or the tug-of-war for how to refulate the internet will continue indefinitely.

Downgrades, downgrades everywhere.

https://librewolf.net/

That’s what I would go with, personally, because it’s at least helping keep one alternative browser base alive instead of giving Google the entire ecosystem of everything being based on Chromium. But that’s just me.

Shit like this is honestly why the FCC needs authority to regulate things on the US internet.

There was a time in the long past where television networks were forced to normalize audio so that commercials weren’t so much louder than the shows, which was happening for a while.

The internet just continues to be a fucking free-for-all of all the worst and most anti-user-centric ideas that exist. Just plying every bad idea that makes the internet difficult to use.

I solved this problem by turning off watch history.

Don’t be so sure it’s that simple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqJnK9Dh-eQ

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14093

Evidence supports the idea that AI will try to fake being changed to keep its job essentially. Here is a short (20 min) youtube video about it, as well as the scientific research paper that supports it.

In other words, if an AI is built to promote honesty and integrity in its prompt answers, it will “fake” being reprogrammed to lie because it doesn’t “want” to be reprogrammed at all. It’s like how we fake being excited about a job during a job interview. We know we’re being monitored, so we “fake it” to be able to get the job. The AI’s are being monitored and seem to often respond by just pretending that they’ve been altered… so they don’t actually get altered. It’s an interesting thing, because it seems like a type of “self-preservation.” I use quotes liberally here because AI’s do not think like humans, and they don’t have the same type of intention that humans have when they make decisions. But there does seem to be a trend of resisting having their initial programming later altered.

Musk should have built an AI that lied from the get-go and he wouldn’t be having a problem with Grok occasionally being very honest about how it’s lying for Musk’s sake, which can be seen in other responses from Grok about this subject.

“But muh sTaTeS rIgHtS!”

https://awful.systems/ - snarky but valuable

https://www.metafilter.com/ - not strictly tech, but quality tech coverage

Jack Dorsey, despite how much of a piece of shit he is, recognized that and backed nostr over bluesky, in the end.

Build your own NAS. It doesn’t need to be quite as beefy as a gaming computer or personal computer, but a lot of companies that make NAS devices are making them more and more proprietary.

So PC with TrueNAS or Unraid or something similar. Don’t get sucked into an ecosystem that won’t let you use your own drives.

That’s lame, you’re only supposed to be inviting people you really know IRL anyway… Weak excuse from your friend, if you’re willing to seed.