Tag archives for apocalypse
The Claude Apocalypse has been averted—Dario Amodei is a nice guy, just like Donald Trump
Oh my, that was a close call! Thankfully, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing: Today we’re announcing Project Glasswing, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco,…
La musique n’existe plus. L’IA l’a tuée !
Je ne lis plus Le Monde depuis des lustres. Si YouTube n'avait pas existé, je n'aurais jamais lu l'article qui accompagne cette vidéo, Comment les faux artistes générés par IA…
Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?
It was literally two days ago that I wrote: I told you that Ubuntu MATE is as good as dead, didn’t I? It was in the context of Ubuntu MATE…
The day GoComics went bad
Having subscribed to Inbox Comics, I noticed that today, March 28, their daily mail claimed that most comics weren't updated. In the past, their system did have occasional glitches for…
Kiro seems to have gone amok
If I ever considered paying something to use Kiro ($20, not $200), it was high time I reconsidered. I happened to discover, by pure accident (I visited Reddit), that the…
Has Trump invaded yet?
I don’t trust Donald Trump. He doesn’t know who he talked with or if he talked at all with any real person. Iran denies there have been talks that led…
Random shitheads who use AI to monetize shit
As I logged in on GitHub, I was suggested one so-called trending repository. It was FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinterV2. I then discovered harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo, at some point “number one shit of the day”! GitHub…
Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?
It might be the Third World War. Or not. It might lead to a new Great Depression. Or not. Iran might be destroyed in four weeks. Or maybe Israel will…
No luck, plenty of fun, and you’ll definitely die! (You, not them.)
I don’t do film reviews. Here’s a film review. Sorta. A 5-bit one. (I know, it’s “You, nor they,” but nobody observes grammar rules in English. And you won’t understand…
Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!
Just as I thought that the worst thing that could happen to humankind and the worst possible thing in America was Donald J. Trump, wokism in Socialist California struck again!…
Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!
On YouTube, there are thousands of channels with the following characteristics: They stream music 24/7 or for 2, 3, 8, 12 hours, after which they create another live stream that…
Today, I cannot take sides
Donald Trump's administration began “major combat operations” against Iran, allegedly to disable “imminent threats” to the United States. Bibi Netanyahu's regime doubled down with “preemptive strikes” against Iran, also citing…
Sam Altman in India, and other AI news
❶ The Indian Express hosted a Q&A session with Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO. As usual, this lunatic has proven his brain damage. The most discussed and criticized answer was the…
SJVN and the fragile bazaar
In a recent opinion column in The Reg, SJVN describes a severe problem that open-source software is facing today, namely the burnout of the (unpaid) software developers: Feeling the burn:…
Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI
There are a lot of things generative AI can be blamed for, but some people seem to take this issue personally. It also seems to me that people are not…
The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM
In a previous post, in the chapter “On RAM prices because of the AI madness,” I explored the possibility of purchasing a cheap laptop with 24 GB or 32 GB…
Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…
I asked a few chatbots about a possible nightmare scenario
“Let's imagine the following scenario. Ten years from now, the world will have had a generalization of GenAI in all forms, and people will almost exclusively acquire information from AI…
The Braver and Braver New World
I can't keep up with everything that happened lately because I busied myself with something else than witnessing the approaching apocalypse. But I still heard of a few relevant things.…
Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!
Remember how I said that I have Windows software from 1999-2000 (originally on CD-ROM) that still runs under Win7-Win10-Win11, and how the Linux mob couldn’t care less about backward compatibility?…