froztbyte

did you know that humanity has been staring at numbers and doing math for millennia, and yet we still pay mathematicians? fucking outrageous, right? and yet these wry fuckers still end up finding whole new things! things in areas we've known about for centuries! the nerve of them! didn't they know we have computers to look into this now?!

the world would've been a better place if pike never got goog to greenlight his third attempt at neophp

imagine one day buying some shitpost novelty stickers from that one site you heard a friend mention sometime, and then getting them and laughing about it and forgetting it

all too rapidly the years pass: young trees shoot up, older trees start boughing their way past electrical lines, the oldest all already in their position of maximum comfort. whole generations of memes have been born and died. you no longer even get to make fun of your weird aunt for still sending the dancing baby gif (these days it’s all about the autotune clips of a decade ago..)

and then one day you get reminded that the shitpost novelty sticker web store exists by receiving an email from them

what the fuck.

DFE just made me think up Directed Finite Generata as a thing and now I am absolutely going to use it on some promptfondlers sometime to make them itch

also it looks likely to have other possible problems

Haha that’s a fantastic trophy to have :D

I don't really know if any chromium-based options are a real solution - there's so much code in there that a lot of times won't get caught (cf. brave etc for this very thing), and goog is actively working to push their own agenda and they have a lot more dev-hours than anyone else to churn shit out

ladybird and servo seem like the most promising alternative paths right now, and ladybird less so because chuds -_-

haha, I'll send word along

friend mentioned that dril has posted that it's a fake (but don't have link handy)

(happened to notice this while digging into something else)

upwork's landing page has a whole big AI anchorblob. clicking from frontpage takes you to /nx/signup (and I'm not going to bother), but digging around a bit elsewhere finds "The Future Of Work With AI"

so we're now at the stage where upwork reckons it's a good bet to specifically hype AI delivery from their myriad exploitatively arbitraged service providers

(they're probably not wrong, I can see a significant chunk of companies falling over each other to "get into AI" at pay-a-remote-coder-peanut-shells prices)

said, naturally, while triple-fisting some beers

presumes that people know there's better possible

soapbox.gif: you see a dynamic of this sort with a lot of people who have largely only ever interacted with "the internet" through vendor-mediated apps and shit. you can often pick up on it by people that speak in frames of "this app" - the app is their gateway to that engagement, and they have never known substantially otherwise. and it's a day-vs-night type difference in experiences in so many cases! there are some sites that I outright refuse to even open on mobile simply because the anti-nagblocker/etc capabilities that I have on RealComputer with RealOS (i.e.: not some artificially hobbled shit run by a monopolist fuckwad company) just completely block the annoying shit, whereas it is almost impossible to have that experience on mobile

and for so many people, the latter type (of experience/internet) is all they ever know