It’s too damned useful. About every day I check Gemini and ChatGPT for a word or phrase I can’t remember, input some crap and out pops what I was looking for. I use if for a chunk of code I can’t get my head around. It’s the next Google and everyone wants a piece.

OTOH, I do see a sharp downturn in investment as things shake out. Like to dot.com bubble, there will be winners and losers, but you’re spot on. Investors aren’t spazzing out on every single opportunity. Still, gonna be some losers.

We can talk about the dangers of AI all night long, but it’s here to stay.

Know what I don’t understand? My wife watches YouTube in bed and I hardly notice ads. Granted, I have my ear plugs in while I read, but I’m not completely tuned out. Ads are rare enough that I’m a bit surprised to notice one.

When I watch YouTube on my PC, without a condom so to speak, fuck me it’s unusable. I simply refuse to engage until uBlock catches up.

All I got is that her content isn’t easily monetized? One one hand, she watching a lot of political news from the Philippines. OTOH, she’s mostly on those dumb crime shows where it’s all white trash confessing to the pigs.

As of this week, I can no longer watch in Firefox and have to go to Edge. Anyone?

YouTube was working at a massive deficit to capture video streaming. I didn’t mind them trying to “catch up”, but they’ve gone way, way too far.

Nah. Bills don’t appear overnight, been in the works for a minute.

Giant space rocks would like a word.

We need the /s tag around here for even the mildest and most obvious jokes.

No longer working for me on Firefox, Win11. Now what?

I will be there. I will be armed. I will carry a gas mask. I will carry water and medical for my compatriots. I will not start shit. I will fight back if it comes to it.

Fucking weird, isn’t it? Another rant would be about where is all the advertising money coming from?! Imagining being a buyer, I’d have to wonder how well my spend would be profiting.

A couple of decades ago I played around with being a salesman. Top advice was to try this ad, try that ad, compare results. Surely these people are finding revenue from spending on these ads? It just seems impossible to me that there’s profit for all of these cockroaches.

I feel like you weren’t there, in that time and place. Or maybe you were in some weird pocket where OTA wasn’t available? Can’t remember anyone bitching about lack of antennae service. Yeah, it could be sketchy, but I think most of us could drag in ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.

I’m old, so many may not relate. I remember when the big selling point of this newfangled “cable TV” thing was zero ads. Can you imagine that?

Yeah, I have Prime for the savings on shipping. Got the Kodi addon for watching Prime, never used it except to watch The Expanse a few years ago. Would have been fucking enraged if I had seen ads cut into that. Fuck am I paying for?!

Ah! Didn’t consider the input could be analog and not 1 or 0. That opens up a wide range!

This is nothing short of stunning, had no idea anyone was even close to this sort of interface. And it’s only an 8-bit input! Fuck me, I would have made a (totally ignorant) guess of at least a couple of thousand sensors.

Hoped for a video. :(

I’m going to start using “inhumed”.

No, making money is not a legal obligation. CEO at my last job told the board, two years in a row, that intended to lose money so we could invest in our people and tech. They cheered him.

Can you imagine 6 dudes with AR-15s, nothing fancy, responding that that threat? One wonders what might happen.

And now the DEA’s got a chopper in the air,

I wake up screamin’ like I’m back over there,

I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don’t you know?

You better stay away from Copperhead Road.

Politically speaking, it’s easy money. You pander to the conservatives with blocking propositions, get votes.

*Who is going to champion the flip side?!"

That threw me as well.

That was my take, and I hope we’re both right. I’d kill for glasses that auto-focus as readers. I wear contacts most of the time when outside, so maybe not such a savior for me.