I don't know if I was just in a bad mood or if it's AI fatigue, but I watched too little of VisionQuest to have an honest opinion. It just felt like a chore, without any outlook of getting better.

Have you had a similar feeling but were strong enough to fight through more of it, and can you tell me the minute the investment pays out?

A hacker was once a computer enthusiast, and the media made it into a name for criminals who break into other people's systems.

Decades ago, people started using baud when they meant BPS. Not many technical people back then, but it wasn't possible to correct the few who made the mistake. Even one top member of the CCC (Chaos Computer Club) said it's just “baud” now, no matter the real meaning.
(baud = symbols per second. A symbol can transport multiple bits, so a V.32 modem with 9600 bps worked at 2400 baud, 4 bits per symbol.)

GIF is an image format. Multiple frames stored in such a file can get played like a video. But today every video without sound gets called a GIF.

AI is an old term. But today most people say AI but only mean genAI.

It's even more absurd: There are gamers who demand computer games without AI. WTF?

AI was always part of computer games. Even the early computerized board games. I remember Half-Life fans loving the enemy AI. And I think one of the games in the Wolfenstein franchise had enemies that found cover when shot at. That's normal, old AI. Not genAI.

If AI is really lost, how do we discuss the thing that was once considered AI?

Take a car with an internal combustion engine and replace everything that is needed for an electric car. Now you have a no-nonsense car.

Instead, we have a rolling data center that feels like a smartphone.

I was checking the labels of my posts with SkyTrace, and it's funny what some vibe-coding kids have created.

They use heuristics (or AI?) that have false positives that make you chuckle.

Please post some of your greatest posts with a wrong label.

Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38689184/trivia/

Source: https://layer8.space/@douglascrockford/117167831730013642

Douglas Crockford is best known for his book “JavaScript: The Good Parts” and for specifying the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format.

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

When I search for “PieFed” on DuckDuckGo, I get the expected results. https://join.piefed.social/ is the first one, of course.

On Google, the first result leads to a 403, and the second one is a Reddit discussion. https://join.piefed.social/ is nowhere to be seen.

I can't paste images into the body anymore, so here's a link to one example: https://piefed.zip/post/1645895#comment_6124522 (user “makeshif*”).

This appears twice in the HTML code:

        <span class="fe fe-warning red" title="Very low reputation. Beware."> </span>  
            <span class="fe fe-warning red" title="Very low reputation. Beware!"> </span>  

I just realize it's “… Beware.” and “… Beware!”. Two different texts.

I searched the web, but it seems I'm the only one who sees it like this. I love “The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition” and have played it for many hours. The art style looks grittier, and more tangible than “The Outer Worlds 2”.

“The Outer Worlds 2” looks so sleek and clean. There's something missing, and I can't put my finger on it.

Nur hydriert übersteht man diese Hitzewelle!

After only 237 hours, I finally finished the game incl. the DLC Burning Shores.

What now?

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/danhon.com/post/3mo2khnoihs2z

Fefes Blog ist nun wieder nicht erreichbar. Davor war es einfach nur leer.

Ich dachte, Fefe geht's etwas besser?

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/yiannisbab.bsky.social/post/3mnej3sjbp223

Our investigation revealed it’s an AI-slop report based on fewer than five complaints on forums.