Notices by ROTOPE~1 :yell: (rotopenguin@mastodon.social)

@philip @ryanc does one dare ask why the manufacturer made this necessary?

@mttaggart @mwl

@ryanc i want a Point to Point Pointer Protocol Powered over Ethernet (PPPPPoE)

@GossiTheDog

@GossiTheDog

@0xabad1dea that's a warning to malware state actors - do not get between a db guy and performance. They will fuck you up.

@thomasfuchs AI guys know that they don't have to make a machine that's smarter than the workers they hope to displace. They just have to make the machine smarter than the guy that pays the workers.

@thomasfuchs or Tesla would have doors that fall off, and Boeing would have doors that you can't open in an emergency.

@thomasfuchs I regularly see TV transmissions where the soundtrack is crushed into an underwater warble

@thomasfuchs there is also a "tv audio" problem, with shows being re-re-re-transcoded and then transmitted in a sub-channel with fuckall bits allocated to it.

@thomasfuchs you have seen the definitive edit, right? https://archive.org/download/dune-1984-alternative-edition-redux-fanedit-mkv-flac-subs/Dune%20%281984%29%20Alternative%20Edition%20Redux%20%5Bfanedit%5D%5BMKV-FLAC-SUBS%5D/

@thomasfuchs did you also get some pile of Japanese selling a botnet?

@thomasfuchs

@nixCraft imagine how hard it would be to get that kind of support if you were "literally not one of the company's founders".

@thomasfuchs whatever possessed them to run the cable into the keyboard that way?

@thomasfuchs is there any reason to expect the market to change, such that "producing a good or service that solves a problem for somebody" will become a valuable and rewarded economic activity?

@hacks4pancakes once it's my turn to be the Eternal God Emperor, then the fascism will really be working in my favour

@thomasfuchs don't you want something that's like a really big monitor, but more expensive and hurts your neck and sometimes makes you throw up?

@tess @mcc @Pashhur it's that way because of the law of Equivalent Exchange. Python added parentheses to print, so it had to take them from somewhere else to maintain balance.

@thomasfuchs @NanoRaptor @foone @jpm and a big red K'thunk K'thunk power switch