So it’s fair that you are neutral about them for your own use, clearly you know what you’re doing. It doesn’t make sense to be neutral about them, generally. On usability alone they are not good. There are so many people who don’t have a clue how they work, or their consequences, and just click okay when continually harassed into using them. Some will even go ahead and save one on a shared computers, or someone else’s, ‘because the website says so’.

JFC. An rm -rf /* because they didn’t check if a variable even had a value, let alone whether it pointed to a directory that should be removed. What a noob mistake.

Controls have to be put somewhere, and networked interfaces mean fewer physical controls that may be difficult to access, tampered with or fail. Having a standard control protocol means interfaces can be changed and improved without modifying the hardware. They’re not a bad thing.

However, having networked controls exposed on anything other than private, air-gapped, wired-only LANs seems rather foolish, to me.

Maybe. Reverse image search lead me to this, though, and her voice sure has potential Swiftie tones.

I don’t know where you got that idea. The vast majority of people I knew who passed around a copy of Adobe stuff or MS Office, along with a working key or keygen program back in the day, were most definitely not nerds who believed they were hackers.

Pirating Adobe products was common practice for poor uni students, or occasional users that didn’t want to pay exorbitant rates to fix an image here and there. Adobe made that much more difficult. Then you have us Australians that have been getting charged well above the US retail price for years; at one point it was cheaper to fly to America and buy a physical copy.

These slop apps will absolutely let people go back to doing that, and get back at Adobe for overcharging, because the open source tools either don’t work with the file formats required, or they just don’t cut it. I use LibreOffice & GIMP and they’re great, I love them. However, I’m not a graphic designer, and tools like Photoshop leave GIMP in the dust for professional work.

Close, it’s “Everything’s computer!” You can check the White House Auto Mall commercial.

Maybe I really am Miss Chanandler Bong.

Placing ads between and beside such content is pretty direct profit. Look at the cat, they get paid for showing you some cat food brand.

I cannot think of any way a coffee massive machine could be improved by connecting it to the Internet.

Let’s not forget that unfortunate Spongebob scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNsWbK4OkZw

I’m listening, but there’s a deafening sound of a little lady standing by a swab production line, occasionally giving in to her intrusive thoughts of randomly snatching a swab, licking it, feeling a tiny shiver up her spine, giggling briefly, and putting it back. Her heart fluttering each time she dreamt of her next lick.

Don’t worry, OP, no one will conflate you for an AI. You didn’t hyphenate “dystopian-ass”, which is a compound adjective (unless it’s meant to be “ass-time”, a compound noun).

Boys and Girls

How’s the synthetic heart holding up?

First, you must explain how one would go about acquiring a single pyjama.

It’s like how there are models that are trained principally on medical imaging and diagnoses. They’re getting very good at detecting disease. It’s what AI should be doing, not infecting as much user-facing software as possible, with shit that doesn’t have a net benefit.

It has abysmal support. All the places you’d need it to work without anything special, like link recognition in messaging apps and email clients, it rarely does. Even apps that could make good use of specific locations for inputs often don’t register a handler for the scheme. It’s been that way for years, and I don’t expect it to get a whole lot better.

First they came for the Hispanics
and I did not speak up because I was not Hispanic.

Then they came for the poor
and I did not speak up because I was not poor.

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