It was the style at the time

It’s a cat and mouse game. Google blocks them, devs find a workaround, Google blocks them…

So am I. We’ll have to beat them to death with their own shoes…

So it was Van Halen and you’re right, it was an easy way to be sure that venues actually read their contract which contained instructions to safely assemble their stage rig. But there was a parody of that story in Wayne’s World 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7kg5ZzDZo

Or when Ozzy wouldn’t go on stage without a brandy glass full of M&Ms?

Yea, that’s pretty much why turning it a machine off and on again works.

Maybe just for couples

I’ve got a pearl necklace to give out if anyones interested…

Thanks for the post. I have now decided that my new year’s resolution for 2025 is to learn to lucid dream.

I’ve been considering switching to Arch for my desktop. Is it worth it? Did you use anything else on desktop before switching?

Can confirm. I’m a Debian user and use a Cuisinart grind and brew I’ve had for ages. It’s actually the second of two of the same model after the first broke following years of loyal service.

But this is paying for a service that’s used to obtain content, not directly for the content

Maybe. But I have a feeling it’ll be a dumb single mistake that’ll make someone say “ah, shit” just before we’re wiped out.

When the Soviets trained anti-tank dogs in WW2 they did so on tanks that weren’t running to save fuel: “Their deployment revealed some serious problems… In the field, the dogs refused to dive under moving tanks.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

History is littered with these kinds of mistakes. It would only take one military AI with access to autonomous weapons to have a similar issue in it’s training data to potentially kill us all.

Possible or not I don’t think we’ll get to the point of AGI. I’m pretty sure at some point someone will do something monumentally stupid with AI that will wipe out humanity.

Beach - yup

If I had access to the human ones I’d have those for breakfast but until then I’m just going to be eating bird period on toast every morning :(

It’s the perfect crime, I’ll be unable to post about it on Lemmy.

All well and good for you yankee doodles. Still illegal here in the UK.

I had to quit when I started a job that tests.

Seriously? Supermarket workers get drug tested? What possible problem could using drugs in your off hours cause there?

Boss: Explain the weed and cocaine.

Me: Um, they’re awesome…

Boss: Hell yeah they are! pulls out a spliff and a mirror