The year is 2030.
Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.
All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.
Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.
Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.
#TIL not one but *three* top-40 singles asked the question, "What is love?":
Haddaway, obviously, in 1993, and it reached #11, the highest of them all.
Howard Jones asked in 1984, but it petered out at #33.
But in 1959, the Playmates reached #15 with the question and some stereotypical objectified guesses.
AI nonsense, bluesky screenshot, mild lewd, cartoon guns, uhh
As is the norm, anyone could see this coming except for the people involved who are too horny for AI to think about anything
another CGA portrait, commissioned by @digikitty_x86@ambrosia.moe ! the background on this one was really fun to do!
if you like these and want one of your own, check out https://maple.pet/commissions !
Godwin's Second Law:
"Anyone who uses 'woke' as a pejorative will turn out to be a fuckhead."
indoors, no light to speak of, and in a cheap plastic shit camera, not to mention home c41 processing in a bathroom sink. superia still pulls a picture off it
Amazon is being sued by the FTC and 17 states for, among other things, being an illegal monopoly.
HERE'S WHAT WE'RE NOT GONNA DO. We're not gonna get mad at people for shopping on Amazon because of this, because *that's what you're forced to do when they're an illegal monopoly*.
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-ftc-lawsuit-antitrust-1b91bf8026cc3edf81e817cf8596c4bf
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Every Web browser sucks, but at least use one *not* designed to let everyone track you & install malware & fake warnings urging you to call 1-800-FLEECE-ME to remove extended car warranty viruses.
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