I'm struggling to even bother with slashdot these days - first time I've checked the home page in about a month.
The first story I notice is almost a week old, this one.
I guess the fact that the UI and UX is still stuck 20 years in the past says it all.
The glory days of slashdot are LONG behind it.
Just think of the children!
... when you pry (or take) it from my cold, dead hands
I know, because I'm running Linux Mint with Steam and games and stuff.
Totally the year of LOTD.
> it's universal economic disruption combining with cultural inertia causing societal collapse.
This.
We're in a perfect storm, because at the same time, climate breakdown or rather rapid climate change is also going to lead to societal collapse.
Multiple events happening almost simultaneously could in fact result in civilization collapse, rather than societal, although the two are somewhat intertwined.
Any thinking person born within the last century who has had the benefit of education has known, since being able to figure it out, that humanity is rushing toward a civilization ending point.
You can argue that's the default, fair point, but this time around, it'll be a global event.
It's not looking good, even without an extra AI card being played.
That card is just one more on top of a small but growing pile of existential threats.
I guess it's always been thus anyway - asteroids, volcanos, viruses, ice ages, hothouse earth - we've just slapped a few more onto the pile
Within the next decade we _will_ reach a point where the _only_ thing that you can be at least somewhat certain of, is what you see with your own eyes in "meat space" - by that, I mean excluding _any_ media.
The alarming thing about this is that we've kinda been in this space already for all of humanities history, it's just that now, there'll be no way to even begin to verify anything outside of immediate physical interactions in your own local space.
It's the speed and volume that's the problem, the reach of media - right in your pocket, beaming into your brain as you doom-scroll.
Right now we're in an age of anxiety - that's been coined by many people and it's just so damn true.
Everything is making people anxious, the news cycle is out of control.
We're headed for the post truth age where nothing is verifiable, which means there's no way to objectively navigate life on a wider scale.
At best, it will result in insular behavior.
"Because I can't trust this information, I'm not even going to participate anymore"
At worst, it results in thuggery. The lowest common denominator, out there to just kick the shit out of anyone who won't accept a version of truth laid down.
So, yeah, Orwellian.
Has anyone noticed that investigative journalism is all but dead?
Hell, journalism which has the potential to enlighten and change things for the better is totally dead.
We are so close to post truth - LLM's are going to push us over the edge into the abyss - after that, there's no going back.
If you have the luxury of being able to, become a luddite and retreat to rural areas, because the very near future is going to suck really badly.
Yeah, I'll troll on this one. For damn sure.
I get it, I really do, Americans have had a raw deal for so damn long it's not even funny.
The democrats and the liberal elites are so out of touch with reality it's a big joke.
Completely ignoring the plight of the average American for decades.
It matters not that the Republicans have done the same - moot point.
In comes Trump - again - and lies to the American public - again - and gets his second term.
He was helped out by a democratic party that IGNORED a HUGE percentage of Americans.
They thought that a conveyor belt of celebrities sending out a message to America would win them the election.
They ignored the poor, the needy, the backbone of America - the workers.
Totally ignored them.
Trump wades in and USES them.
He knows that demographic, if he whips them up into a biblical or wrestle-mania frenzy, are going to go out and vote.
But he doesn't care about them.
They are a means to an end.
When I was a young'un my Ma and Pa told me "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach."
It was a rubbish saying - total wank really - but that's how some people think.
There's perhaps a tiny kernel of truth in it, just as there's a kernel of truth in:
"Those that can, do. Those that can't get into management."
There's a huge amount of sentiment around how terrible management can be and generally is, but the bottom line is it's all about middle management.
Middle managers are usually people just trying to forge ahead in their career after hitting a ceiling as workers.
They are often coerced into management roles they simply don't have the ability to fulfil.
Then there's the "Manager class" - these types have no problems with being clueless, their remit is to boss people about.
They use optics to get ahead. Say the right things, kiss the right boots, lick the right arses.
And their jobs are worthless in a WFH culture - totally worthless.
They can't perform the optics.
So now they are crawling up the arses of the top brass, licking the boots and leading the charge "back to the office"
I'll put the beers down now...
I've been computing since 1981.
There was no satire in this comment, just the stereotypical grey beard moronity.
We all know Apple can be damn awful - they are awful a lot of the time.
The marketing is a cringe fest. iCloud is monopolistic. Apple "invent" things already invented and claim them as their own - e.g. "Apple Intelligence".
Having said that, it pays to be the bigger person in all of this and recognise when good stuff is made.
The OP deserved to be insulted, because they are insulting the intelligence of everyone else by posting utter bunk.
> This isn't a computer for using, it's a thing for owning.
That insults me. I'm using the damn thing now. I use if for coding, for graphics, as a daily driver and it's frikkin' awesome.
I have a Linux box, which dual boots into windows.
I have several Raspberry Pi's
I use all sorts of hardware and operating systems because I'm genuinely interested in them.
Anyone who comes along like a right wing nutter and spews volumes of crap is going to get both barrels.
I've had enough of remaining silent when I see shit like this going down and will point it out.
You can take your lawn and shove it up your ass.
stealth_finger:
Who cares about usability when the main objective is to be pretty? This isn't a computer for using, it's a thing for owning.
Really?
Is that the best you have?
And this fool got voted up to 5?
It's a 5" x 5" x 2" hunk of hollow aluminium with innards that pack an almighty punch in terms of compute power with a crazy low power consumption.
Are you stupid?
Did your parents drop you on your head?
This is MAGA levels of idiocy and delusion, but then again, slashdot has always attracted the crazies.
"Vice President of Games"
What a title, what a guy!
"once in a generation inflection point"
You go Mike! - get those buzz words spewing out of your perma-tan pearly white toothed gob, ya filthy animal!
"planned transition"
See, Mike, I reckon this is a "planned transition" from your brain direct to the garbage can.
News Flash, Mr. Verdoooo, it's real hard to make good games and "Gen AI" is currently probably about good enough to make a clone of "flappy bird"
In one fell swoop, Netflix has written itself out of the serious business of games production until such time as one Mikey Verdoo'ski is given a two finger salute by the Netflix CEO when it is finally realised the guy is one giant douche bag.
Let us just listen to some music, 39 minutes should do.
There, that's better.
What was the question again?
Where am I?
Steve? Steve? Hey, Rubell! - great club man.
We're gonna win bigly.
Isn’t it pretty normal for a car to give you a few seconds or minutes of grace when you drive at low speed before you start getting beeped at about seatbelts? My three Renault Zoes have all worked like this. I’m also based in the UK.
Oh, yeah, sure - my Audi does give me some grace - about a minute.
However, it "locks" the "handbrake" - quoted, because it isn't actually a handbrake, more a fingerbrake
Pushing it down and holding will release the brake.
I guess it's a reasonable security feature even if it does annoy me.
In the days of owning cars with the old fashioned "pull up" handbrake, I did on a few occasions roll backwards. Once in my old VW Beetle, the handbrake failed and I had to leap out the car to prevent it rolling down hill. Luckily my brother was in the car too to help me.
... getting their kicks.
You know what, let them get their kicks anyway they want, but really, just STFU about it after and save us all the blowhard bullshit, because 99.999% of us are never going to get these kinds of opportunities.
I drive a manual car - not sure we call them "stick-shift" in the UK, we just call them manual - and the stick-shift we call the gear lever.
It's all I've ever known, in 36 years of driving. I have never actually driven an automatic.
My wife switched after 40 years of driving and she's fine with automatic - I guess it helps it's a fancy SUV work issued stupidly expensive vehicle.
I really don't care about this aspect of cars, I worry about more and more tech in cars - tech that "phones home" or "adds security", the kind that will constantly monitor and digitally chastise you with beeps for doing things wrong.
My 2016 Audi has a smallest amount of that crap that I can deal with - it'll beep if it gets close to something when reversing and it'll beep when seatbelts aren't on.
It will also try to prevent you from driving without a seatbelt, which is a pain in the ass when you want to just reposition the car when parking up. Easy enough to override though.
It also has a standard good old fashioned manual key.
Right now, in the UK, car theft is reaching crazy proportions - in some areas, 1 in 50 chance of having your vehicle stolen.
The vast majority of this theft is down to keyless car technology. Thieves either use the relay technique, which boosts signals from your keyless fob in your house, or they purchase programmable kits that target specific makes of car.
That's the kind of tech I don't want - I actually WANT a key I have to put into my car and turn in order to start it.
I guess the day will come, much like with Television sets, that there are NO cars available without a ton of tracking and automation tech, that you can legally drive.
If that happens, I'll just get a frikkin' horse.
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