I was giving my cat treats and in a box on the shelf I found my old passport, Circa 2001.

My first reaction was: "OMG I was a BABY"

"Get a load of this infant! He probably has OPINIONS forming!"

And then how long ago 2001 was fully sank in and I am ready to decay directly intro the grave.

@Dryusdan Alternativement gemini avec un proxy terminal ça le fait hein. Ça coche aussi la case `c'est cool pour rien`

@hypercombogamer Boot Magazine, later rebranded Maximum PC, was my favorite publication in these years. I actually still have this very issue somewhere.

It's fond memories of a simpler time when clock speed leaps were sizeable enough between generations that it warranted front page.

Also delicious companion CD full of demos, software, and updates that would be irritating to fetch yourself over dial up.

Wild how I still manage to feel like we're one day ahead in the week even on a four days week after a holiday

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.

ive been forced to forward this to you, the unsuspecting victim, by circumstances beyond my control

with deepest apologies

@Dryusdan Ya une recrudescence de Gopher aussi, qui peut etre bien sympa pour le `old nerd cred`

Playing some more Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and I've only met Esquie for all of five minutes but he's already my favorite.

Anyone who opens with a heartfelt BONJOUR MES AMIS is immediately endearing

#clairobscur #expedition33

As a bonus, from the same friend, more environmental storytelling at one of his work sites.

I would say I'm at a loss for words, but I know exactly the words.

WHAT? HE DID IT? HOLY CRAP THE GLORIOUS MADMAN FUCKING DID IT???

Did he? I mean, I'd like additional confirmation it's truly complete and encoded in D. radiodurans. But wow.

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11511

@chabdpointcom Quelle belle histoire

Ça ma donné le flash d'avoir déjà en fait eu les baskets sonic qui clignotent quand on marche aussi. J'ai pas vraiment le souvenir de ce qui est arrivé avec, mais c'est probablement semblable comme expérience.

jesus: my child will use a proper daemon manager
satan: tmux ctrl+b d

@bugmanjones Also why is the dick so shredded? I'm not familiar with the lore of this bull but it feels excessive

@bugmanjones The fact that the scorpion goes for the bite instead of a sting makes this feel deeply personal, too.

As much as I love the job security, someone is going to have to stop these AI bros before they have us watering the crops with Brawndo.

I think about this comic at least once a week

This lady is taking FOREVER to tell this story and now I’m really regretting eavesdropping in the first place.

@Viss Practically, I haven't seen a shop run Oracle Java as a JDK/JRE in many years outside of a handful of "our terrifying ancient code is stuck on 8.x because we used private APIs everywhere and now we need to move off that codebase fully" cases.

Nearly everything just pops OpenJDK in and calls it a day, which is good.

Hopefully fewer people fall to oracle's scam than otherwise would.