Notices by Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔ (wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net)

Hm. I guess Richard Strauss is also public domain? (though having this be only a few years after 2001:ASO seems extra-special lame/asking-for-trouble...)

#Monsterdon

So, who does the best laptops these days?

(realizing I haven't bought computer hardware for 5 years now, contending with dying laptop battery on my broken HP, + with Frys out of business there aren't good stores for going and playing with shit anymore)

notes:
(1) Windows/Linux only;
*NO* Apple, sorry (*)

(2) Just need performance for software work and largest possible screen.

(3) I'm NOT a gamer; if it can show movies, that's good enough.

(4) Officially tired of HP (3 consecutive laptops with hinges that broke in the first 6 months), *was* really great at HW reliability but should never have been allowed to write software (read sick of bundled crap that doesn't work). Also remain annoyed at SONY for discontinuing the VAIO.

@Conan_Kudo @Di4na

"You are not buying from a supplier; you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code."

@Lizette603_23 @panamapauper

*This* Margaret Hamilton would have been 3 years old when the Wizard of Oz came out.

@jimcarroll

Do I want to know what "OPP" is?

@timnitGebru

"“Consumers need to be shown that generative AI has value and can be trusted,”

because heaven forbid they figure out it doesn't and can't be.

@ColinTheMathmo

Also? Spend a few months in the bowels of Autoconf + M4 and I guarantee you'll stop complaining about Perl...

@ColinTheMathmo

"Perl is the programming language analog to vise-grip pliers:
Nearly always the *wrong* tool for the job, but wow is it useful..."

@spocko

so...

he was going to drive her to the end of I-110, and then *sit* in a line of cars waiting to get into Mexico, with a fuckton of *armed* border patrol guards RIGHT THERE inspecting vehicles and asking for passports.

Yeah, this makes perfect sense as a kidnapping plot.

How much do we want to bet this person has literally *never* been through a international border crossing before?

@jimcarroll

what is this wall surrounding (evidently some place that somebody wants people to keep out of, but what)?

@jimcarroll

Evidence for *what*?

If ChatGPT is acting as a witness of some kind, on what basis would it be deemed competent? (we already have rules for expert witnesses. I'm already finding it hard to imagine that something for which we can't say what algorithm it's actually using and is already known to readily produce bullshit and lies will ever be considered admissible)

@jimcarroll

Re chatbot evidence at trial:

This is not a new issue. Photoshop has existed for a while and courts have learned to cope (chain of custody now matters a *lot* more for photographic evidence)

@jimcarroll

well, if you want to feel like a *real* youngster, there's always this group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/internetoldfarts

which seems to be where all of the people who predate *me* by 10+ years ended up.

@jimcarroll

Rather a lot depends on definitions. Do we start with the current DNS (1985, when .com/.org/.edu/.net got rolled out) Or adoption of IPv4?

My brother got his first Arpanet account in 1978; mine was 1984. I sent my first email in 1982 but it was via UUCP.