Agreed. That is a great quote; we need more of that spirit in both parties.
Author: Chill
Saps
The left’s belief that there has been no evolution/selection in Homo sapiens over the last 10,000 years is one of most fundamentally clownishly delusional bits of dipshittery I’ve ever heard of.
Told You So Times a Billion
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once.
In country after country the birth rate plunged after the introduction of smartphones, no matter what the previous trend was. The younger the age group, the more pronounced the downturn — a mirror image of smartphone usage patterns.
Told you it with the fucking phones, you fucking idiots.
Look Away
No one wants to see any of this. They wish to just pretend it’s not happening.
286
The computers I built back in the 1980s were always a Frankenstein’s monster of whatever my dad and grandpa handed down to me. I didn’t have enough money then to buy anything myself. So I had to make it work, whatever it was.
Compy stuff was 10x as expensive then as it is now, for reference.
I was incredibly grateful for anything they gave me at all. Back in those days, they could’ve just as easily sold it for fairly high prices.
So I accepted with thanks whatever they wanted to donate to me and got it to run. I was really freakin’ proud of my little 286 I built from parts all by myself when I was 10. It was slow, it could barely dial into a BBS even at 2400 baud without crashing, and it took an eternity to launch anything, but it was mine.
IRQ Nightmares
I spent $25 on a bit of nostalgia and will confuse the heck out of some youngsters today.
That’s right. But if you were lucky enough to have an AdLib sound card back in the day, you could avoid IRQ hell altogether that often came with having a sound card and a modem in the same box. The AdLib didn’t require an IRQ at all. I was not so lucky (my dad was, though), so getting my modem and sound card to play nicely in a new build was always a day of jumper-swapping. Some things certainly are better now.
I truly do not miss IRQ shenanigans.
Tacked
To be clear, passkeys are an attempt to force deanonymization and vendor lock-in. Those are their only actual purposes.
Everything else is tacked on post hoc.
Propped Up
It is distressing every time I realize how extremely susceptible people are to propaganda, and how willing they are to fight against their own interests if someone convinces them to do so. Passkeys is but one example; there is a new instance every day.
Will Pass
FUCK. THAT.
Passkeys are evil. I will avoid as long as I possibly can.
Redmond’s decision to kill off SMS verification comes down to the undeniable fact that text messages are no longer a secure way to protect your digital identity
Maybe, but that has nothing at all to do with why Microsoft and other large corps are doing this all at the same time. The reason is to eliminate the last vestiges of anonymity and the ability to control your own computer and experience. It’s a concerted operation that has many moving parts. Among them: attempting to eliminate any anonymous presence online via all the “think about the children” acts winding their way through the legislative bodies of various countries, hardware attestation, forced TPM, this effort, and many more.
In my daily workflow, the passwordless ecosystem is genuinely fantastic. I use Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Password Manager, and the Microsoft Authenticator app across all my devices. Thanks to the IR camera on my Lenovo laptop, Windows Hello face recognition makes logging into my personal Microsoft account a breeze.
Fucking Christ, what a dipshit. Well, most people are fully captured. Soon it’ll be hard to resist as hardware attestation comes to the fore and offering any pushback gets you debanked and things like that.
What a worthless propaganda piece. And what deep evil all this is going to be.
Diff App
Women typically give terrible, useless advice to men about dating women.
However, men typically give worthwhile advice to women about dating men. Why? I think it’s because men (as the approachers) absolutely must understand women and what they are looking for, while women are under no such obligation. Men come to them; they need to do very, very little.
Was just realizing this dichotomy. Well, life is never fair.
Itani Aline – Sólo Tú, Tú y Yo
Muy hermosa.
Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux.
America Needs to Build More Housing.
Student Loan Debt Defaults Hit $171B and the Average Borrower Is Now 40.
The world we grew up in no longer exists, and it's not coming back.
The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material.
The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam. Moronic.
Incellent
This is mostly wrong and bad advice. Though there is very little actual advice here.
The thing is, incels are substantially correct about their — and most men’s — disadvantages in the dating market. The majority of women really do attempt to date the top 10% of men nearly-exclusively, and unhappily settle for less when they turn out not to be at that tier themselves. Men really do risk life-altering consequences for making even a polite approach. I could go on. But suffice it to say, incels diagnose their own and society’s problems fairly accurately. Also, Noah’s data in his piece is very misleading, and designed to be so. Some of it just plain wrong.
We’ll ignore that for now. However, along with the incels being correct about their problems their noxious beliefs about what they should do in response follow. And those are farcically bad. Their suggested remedies will not help them, society, or anyone. It will only further embitter them and cause yet more ostracism.
Another impediment to proceptivity is the fear of rejection. In American culture, men are expected to take the lead romantically, and this means they’ll often end up getting rejected. A lot of guys are so scared of this rejection that they dread even trying to date in the first place.
The risk of nuclear rejection now is too high. Many women go ape on you just for asking them out these days. No guy wants their entire life destroyed because they asked some overentitled prick of a woman out for coffee and she ruins their life. And that is a real risk now.
Noah’s “advice” is non-advice, like nearly all such monitions from those who are reasonably successful romantically. What paltry guidance there is, it will not aid you, and will only cause more women to disdain you. Avoid this nonsense. It’s no better than dating advice from a woman, which is always useless for men.
Bubbling
What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In?
This post is wrong, but it is wrong in an interesting way. That is, it posits all these possible future states of AI bubble popping, but begs the question1 by assuming there is a bubble at all. This reminds me of people talking about the “cloud bubble” back in 2013-2016. Well, there wasn’t one. AWS, Azure and others printed money after that “bubble” proved not to be anything of the sort.
And the funny thing is that if this person is correct and the bubble does pop, AI will then be cheaper than it was before. Because that’s what happens when an excess floods the market. See housing post-2008 for a recent-ish example.
Real AI is probably the most useful and efficacious tool we’ve gotten in the computing space since the GUI. At the very least. My guess is that it’ll end up being more consequential than that due to spillover effects.
Oh, by the way, by “interesting” I meant “clownish.” Because that’s what the piece is. Doltish bien-pensant non-thinking.
No True Consc
Generative AI is not truly conscious because there is no such thing as true consciousness.