Now, I’m just using it for my crippling addiction to pornography

Bless you for keeping the spirit of our forbearers alive.

Once upon a time we thought that inviting people to join the Information Superhighway would bring them together and herald an age of unity and shared purpose.

We didn’t realize that we were opening the noosphere to subversion and attack.

It wasn’t long before weaponized memes were deployed to deepen societal divisions. Old antagonists brought their wars to the digital frontier. Commercial entities outcompeted their FOSS forefathers and to reshape discourse. Engorged vectors emulated human creativity and threatened to forge new underclasses.

Was the utopian dream wrong? Were we naive to believe technology could unleash humanity’s potential? Or are these mere birth pains of the future we were promised?

When an online conversation is getting too heated, stop responding for a while. Give everyone a chance to calm down and get perspective.

It depends if they were supposed to be there or not.

I don’t know how kids today manage it tbh

So many hours spent wargaming how to buy porn from cornerstores.

We had a couple decades of slow acclimatization: crappy black and white scans, weird CGA scans, glorious 16 colors, all of which had to be painstakingly downloaded at 2400 baud or less, then finally lifelike 256 color images. And then tiny gifs or videos that would take all night. In the semi modern era, there was crappy filesharing where you could type search strings in and hope for the best (and enough seeds).

But these poor bastards are going from zero straight to pornhub.

Imagine being an adult raised without all-you-can-stomach porn and suddenly getting access to the Internet.

SO. MANY. BLISTERS.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That is horrific

Remember when you just needed to count teeth to detect AI images? Those were good times.

Most of the jobs I’ve gotten were through friends I made at uni. Thanks to my education, I’m capable and skilled, but the friend network I made at school has gotten me in for interviews.

According to my sister-in-law’s then boyfriend (who was a biologist or an insect guy or something), spiders and insects can have lung-line organs called book lungs. So they have options. Creepy buggy insecty options.

A thirty-something woman was trick or treating at my town’s trunk or treat. She’d put effort into her costume. 🤷‍♂️

They could do a lot of things.

The Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Pebble, and Samsung Watch have shown that attracting developers to build high quality apps for an OS is hard.

A compatibility layer would make a lot of sense, but at that point, why bother with the new OS?

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The campaign is ongoing and Microsoft tracked emails “sent to thousands of targets in over 100 organizations.” The emails contained configuration files for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that are connected to servers controlled by the hackers.

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Even security keys and point of sale devices could be affected by opening the RDP attachment. The access would allow hackers to install malware, map the victim’s network, install other tools and gain access to credentials.

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The campaign was particularly noteworthy because the use of RDP configuration files was a novel advancement in Midnight Blizzard’s tactics. Microsoft noted that both Amazon and the Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine have seen similar activity.

I’m surprised that using RDP is novel for spear phishing, but Microsoft knows more about it than I do.

But it gets the spirit right

/s

I remember getting these for games. They were awesome, but they never fit my keyboard.

Some examples

In this example, the speaker said, “as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried….” while the program transcribes that as " It’s fine. It’s just too sensitive to tell. She does die at 65….”

In this example, the speaker said, “and after she got the telephone he began to pray” while the program transcribes that as “I feel like I’m going to fall. I feel like I’m going to fall, I feel like I’m going to fall….”

It’s feature complete, but there are bugs.