They all use algorithms – that’s what software is – but equating what’s been done for decades in software with AI is disingenuous. By this definition of AI, that was baked into Quark 3.3 and Photoshop 5 (not CS5, just 5).

I’ll attempt to be civil here.

They can fuck right the fuck off.

Didn’t take much time for the pro quo to follow the quid. Must be nice to have all charges dismissed by a judge incredulous with the prosecution dropping the case for political reasons and then have the nerve to demand $3.4 million for his troubles.

My first year at the college paper, we had the photo credit in the cutline box in the library filled in as Tungsten J. Smith. The “J” stood for statinum, as in, right the fuck now, playing off tungsten being W on the periodic table. One of the other designers was into chemistry.

WJ getting credited in print introduced me to the problem of using something that at a glance seemed plausible on deadline. This was after my disastrous “just write something” hed on a sports feature of “My leaking heart” that the editor did not revisit.

There is an element of truth.

claimed metric kilometers

As opposed to imperial, customary or nautical kilometres?

That’s the one! Awesome! Thanks for the link.

I didn’t realise he was from Niedersachsen … that would explain how I ran into it in Hameln.

I got the most badass mousepad I’ve ever seen in Germany. It was a cartoon of someone trying to sell an abacus to the king with a mouse (an actual one) with its tail nailed to it, and his advisor suggesting he wait, as in (some number of months – I got it in 1995, so details are a bit hazy) it will cost half the price.

I only remember some of this verbatim, but it was absolute gold because of double meanings.

Ihr solltet noch warten … inclusive Maus … auf Festplatte

The mouse is easy enough to jump language comprehension (though “inclusive” is pronounced differently), but Festplatte means both a wooden board, as the base of the abacus was, and hard drive.

Problem: Not enough AI training data. Solution: Start scraping everything people type in Notepad, errors and all.

I have all Meta domains (that I’m aware of) blocked at the router level. When Facebook went from MySpace 2.0 to a feed that deprioritized posts from friends and acquaintances, I was done. And I’m too old to have ever had interest in Instagram; Twitter has always been a shitshow to my mind. That Facebook and Twitter also played major roles in killing the production of local news did not improve my opinion of either. I was on a group chat with overseas family members on WhatsApp but deleted that as soon as the acquisition was announced.

I cycled through a number of distros a few years back on my mini HTPC before finally settling on KDE Neon. The amount of customization with panels and such is insane. I started by trying to recreate the Windows experience (which is dead simple) but soon branched out to having multiple panels, which can be autohidden individually. Settings on the left side of the screen, power options on the right (both set to hide), system tray up top, and the task manager at the bottom.

I tried vi in college and still haven’t been able to exit. (exaggeration, of course, but dear god, that made Notepad seem user friendly) When in Linux, I tend to use Kate and nano.

I still have my Reddit account(s) for niche areas as well as local news, but I’m an old fart and don’t much care for spending time exploring Lemmy to curate a larger feed after running into frustration on that front after the API imbroglio that led me here. If I want a firehose, Reddit does that just fine (for now). I come to Beehaw to read curated news and relax.

It’s certainly an advantage of the Fediverse that I can use it the way I like, as can you. There’s no “right” way to experience federation.

I prefer unreasonably dank memes.

That’s true of anything posted to the Web, though.

To be honest, I just stick with Beehaw. I have a .world account (that I’ve not opened in months), but I really don’t make use of federation. I like that this feels more like an old-school site where you recognize most names and reference past interactions. Tech’s fetish for scale inherently means enshittification, whereas a small instance feels like a community.

This seems a pretty straightforward regex blunder. “Palestin” with a wild card would have done the trick.

One doesn’t really “invent” sounds so much as compose them. Inventing would be more like creating the theremin.

As to the iconic Law & Order sound, damn, that’s a pretty sweet gig. Do something once and ride it for decades.

Bee Nice.

Using Facebook to connect with family and friends is a valid idea … during the Obama administration.