GDPR is a start, but we need to actually ban it, not just annoy people until they click Accept at the 20th popup of that tantalising offer to share your details with 1473 trusted data partners.

And all the CIA ones.

And then block all cookies and tracking.

Still rocking an i5-8400 and a 1060. It’s fine for FFXIV and most other games.

Until GPU prices come down, the CPU is the least of my worries. I’ll play anything that needs decent hardware on my PS5.

If you’re not running the latest games it really doesn’t matter at all.

The problem with money being involved is it’s an invitation to spam crap everywhere.

One of my relatives has recently taken up “AI travel videos” and “AI cute videos” as a “hobby”. No doubt based on the first thing that came up when I searched for those things, a video titled “make $10,000 a month spamming up YouTube with your AI slop”.

Oh, and it needs you to buy the AI slop generating tools that they happen to sell. How convenient!

I mean, this also happened with broadcast TV, where we suddenly went from like 4 channels filled with programs and things competing for space, to 200 channels, where the rush was on to fill the gaps between the adverts as cheaply as possible with reality show tat. And that’s all YouTube is now.

I agree, but it’s still a step up from dropping a laser guided bomb on a 10 storey apartment building because somebody in Hamas might be there.

That should go well, since the Secret Service are renowned for having a good sense of humour about this sort of thing.

Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History

And everyone knows that can’t be amended.

His goal is but another amendment away.

I could never get on with the weird shaped triggers.

Couple of billionaires die in a makeshift sub with a MadCatz controller, and they’re still investigating over a year later.

2000 immigrants die every year crossing the Mediterranean, well who cares? They shouldn’t have been there anyway!

I think it’s because pagers (at least one way pagers) can’t be tracked.

They receive only so there’s no triangulation possible.

It’s got to be the last one.

Makes you wonder how bulky you can make some electronics before anybody notices it’s filled with C4.

It doesn’t sound like the death toll is particularly high, but for sure it’s put a lot of people out of action, and they’re going to need a job lot of prosthetic hands.

“Pro-life”

The point is not how much it costs.

The point is that a poor person needs punishment, and if they’re lucky, they might get to shoot somebody.

You lose weight in the kitchen.

You gain muscle in the gym.

The first of those is honestly harder, which is why I’m still overweight.

This is my unsurprised face as 40%+ of them continue to vote republican, just like their parents always have.

Next you’ll be telling me the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is truthful in only one of those words.

It’s quite common for political parties to include things in their name that they’re not the slightest bit interested in.

The Libertarian Party is, as far as I can tell, a bunch of conservatives who want to pay even less tax.

COVID also inflated a lot of tech stock massively, as everybody suddenly had to rely a lot more on it to get anything done, and the only thing you could do for entertainment was gaming, streaming movies, or industrial quantities of drugs.

Then that ended, and they all wanted to hold onto that “value”.

It is a bubble, but whether it pops massively like in 2000, or just evens off to the point where everything else catches up, remains to be seen.

“The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” are wise words for anyone thinking of shorting this kind of thing.