Spyke
piefed.social

I remember one with toilets I guess. Oh and the bad dog one that defaced the desktop was really cool too!

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jqubedreply
lemmy.world

I always loved Particle Fire; I actually bought it with a postal money order as a teenager. The company released it under the GPL at some point a few years ago. Maybe someday I’ll be able to use it again on other systems!

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Man I remember playing with the settings on a similar if not the same screensaver for HOURS.

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I remember when screensavers were a whole subculture within my friend group haha. Bad dog was one of the best.

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That's nothing, I've seen the DVD player figure out the exact angle to land the icon perfectly in a corner.

With AI having that type of aim we have no chance

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[PIPEGEN v0.42] Initializing procedural pipe renderer
t=0.000s
Origin pipe spawned at (0,0,0)
Radius: 1.00
Color: teal
Direction vector: (0.00, 1.00, 0.00)
t=0.217s
Pipe extended to length 3.4 units
Current position: (0.0, 3.4, 0.0)
Color: classic teal
Specular highlight: implied
t=0.491s
Elbow joint inserted
Rotation: +90° on Z-axis
New direction vector: (1.00, 0.00, 0.00)
t=0.944s
Secondary pipe spawned
Parent junction at (0.0, 3.4, 0.0)
Radius: 0.85
Color: common teal
t=1.302s
Primary pipe length: 7.9 units
Secondary pipe length: 2.1 units
No collisions detected (optimism high)

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Oh hey, it's the alien that spontaneously generates or something in that one star trek episode! 

(I know it's just that screensaver but it reminds me of that alien too)

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This is simply AI trying to escape The matrix. There's no worries please look away comrade.

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lemmy.today

Is that thing drawing a geometric structure on your screen? Because that's not that impressive. AI has real dangers, or what we are calling AI, which is not the AI that could be, LLM's are a lot less than we are led to believe. But they are good at sorting through data and pulling out like terms.

And even if they aren't good at it, our leaders think they are good at it, and will task their half baked Palantir operations to give us secret social scores to decide everything about how we are treated in business and government, without us knowing, or being able to challenge it.

Naturally the people setting it up will leave a way for them, and connected individuals, to put the names of people they don't like into the fuck you list for the program to score badly. That goes without saying really.

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Feydreply
programming.dev

Sir this is a Wendy's/it is a screensaver from 1995

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hectorreply
lemmy.today

Can I ask what is that sir this is a wendy's from? Because I see that everywhere but don't know the reference.

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Interesting thanks, so The Office seems to be mostly the genesis of the joke when Michael is given list of woman to call for a date and calls a girl called wendy and it's a wendy's restaurant. Which is mildly funny sort of.

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AI hasnt built anything. The pipes screensaver builds so much that it literally runs out of room and has to start again.

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You reached the end

Still better than that hellish Wolfenstein | Spyke