tl:dr I'm to r-slurred to understand this but you will probably be affected by this

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It was always bad, there just used to be cause for hope.

The tech world has always been cursed.

Do you remember when official rumor spread through the Tech World that "Don't be evil" was part of some corporate minutes somewhere in Google-land?

Did you buy the propaganda? Did you believe Google would be a force for good?

I didn't but only because I read enough about corporations to know they were essentially the living arm of the devil we know. Yes I mean to say the corporation is the means by which the devil drives us to destruction; can you dispute me?

The things that companies put in their internal slideshows are aspirational. The reliable fact is that the corporation would leech the life from everything it touched.

Do the math, you end up here, not surprised that Google has since become this dystopic felbeast let loose upon the world like something between a Titan and a divine force. The offensive thing about Google is that it attempts to become god by approximating omniscience. This is a barbaric temptation to which they have succumbed. Understandable, very human.

But what I mean is still: the corporations claim to be God already, why then do people fret about an AI God? It makes no sense.

Anyway a whole bunch of new rich people were minted out of Google. They entered the long game. This is the end of a round in the long game.

I wonder how they did?

I wonder how many companies are worthless?

A lot. The reaper comes.

It's not a bad system, these tides. As these systems go. Capitalism has its soft side. (It also has teeth. True capitalism has never been tried. If we're lucky they won't bail the things out this time, though of course they will. Let the corporations succumb to flame. It's the American way.)

By the time middle america hears about the stock market, that's the easy money entering the casino, heats it up nice and good. At this point the smart players in the long game make their exit or place their bets. The losers become poor. It's a fun game!

Anyway just here to pour another one out for hope. Because back then while Google was already BigCo, you still had Wikipedia and Twitter was doin something fancy in the Middle East. Our generation had entered the workforce and it was time to make things work the way they should.

To believe in a brighter, more free future that the Internet would bring us.

This, the misery of age in the age of mass misery, commodify cacophany is military-industrial complex at work, our allies get the best guns...

TLDR nothing really changes except piracy becoming legal in the country.

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im able to do 99.99% of what i need/want to do but is fricking there ever like 1 specific thing u need to do but it just doesn't work on linux, b-word? then u google the fricking problem n its a fricking guy from 2009 who never got an answer or updated the fricking post, b-word? then stack overflow tells u to move to canada n seek maid n reddit neighbors get their answers from other reddit posts so u end up just giving up, b-word?

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Congratulations on being the first person to do something with AI that will directly make my own, personal life worse. You are a monster.

An AI that makes the internet even worse than it is! Congrats to the team.

You're a horrible person. Your mother should be crying. You're the vanguard of a trend that will damage the mental health of millions or billions, especially if taken at all farther.

AI posing as human customers to promote your product on the web is fraud, change my mind.

This should be illegal.

Nobody wants this

You are helping to ruin society , not that you care

There's a whole load of flagged comments talking about how society is degenerating. As ever, make an account and enable "show dead" to see them.

One such fellow is Steve76:

No one likes a drunk engineer, surgeon, pilot, or roofer.

Go to the poor part of town and look closely. Same houses but the people make them poor.

There's no fixing them. von Mises, Cowperthwaite, the Asian miracle really does have pain underneath all that sudden prosperity. Those harmed seek it. Their drunkeness is a decades long suicide.

Life gets harsh quick. "If only ..." is a teenage denial.

One brings down many. I do not retaliate. Instead I leave them behind to a very extreme degree. What a convenience the riots occur so close to medical research labs.

Their collateral damage from my personal medicine means less and less. They go up in a full on nuclear exchange? Oh no, the drunks. Oh no, the rioters.

Okay that seems a bit , let's see what else this guy talks about. His account was made in 2018 and he's been shadowbanned. All of his comments going back months are dead.

I own the world. Not from the law but because I'm better than everyone. Anyone who wants it is free to try to take it.

Drunk. Sober. Dealer. User. None of it matters. All that matters is I win.

If my political opposition sides with commies by shooting dope, guess what? Those people die.

If Asia gets its butt on its shoulders again through hard work and austerity? Guess what? I'm hitting that continent with an asteroid load of dope, drugs you wouldn't believe. Those people die.

They fashion themselves better, beyond conventional morality. They're not the savage. I am. I am the ghost in the darkness. I am the demon of the jungle.

Uhh based I guess?

Wherever authoritarians go people flee like an ogre is attacking their village. They are completely incapable. All they do is erupt in occasional animal violence and leave the world barren. All for their endless quest for a world without rules.

Other people live here, not just me. It's their country too, not just mine. I walk away from power. That gives me the ability not to accept everyone else's problems. It's a much stronger leadership position than some ignorant foreigner getting hard at bossing everyone else around. Whether tyrants did the crime or not, they are guilty. Everyone's problem is there problem now and they will never solve it. They are a pathetic measly gang, truly standing against a brutal world which will devour them.

The day isn't work for me. I do things like space launch and genetic research because I like to do it. I work better and more dedicated than anyone else in the world. They can't. They hate each other. They hate themselves. They spoiled great hope for the world because they are diseased moronic bullies. Dealing with them is cleaning with filth. You just spread it around and make a bigger mess.

It's time to leave them behind. Go into fusion, microreactors, space, genetics and don't share it this time. The world fooled us. We bailed them out from a horrible famine in the early 90s. Once we saved them, they just used it to attack us. Let them tear each other apart, die, and go away. They ruined my life enough already.

Yeah okay he's just nuts. He has comments going back years that are all like this. Let's see where it all began. Was Steve76 ever normal? Will we witness his slow descent into madness?

And to add to that comment, so much of modern life is due to that. In the problem of Theodicy, I blame the drunken s*x glutton, not nature.

No, he was always nuts

(RIP BlackPeopleTwitter)

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!peakpoors Go dunk on them while you still can

So apparently if someone knows / guesses the name of your S3 bucket - even if it's private (!) - they can just bankrupt you by sending infinite PUT requests and there is nothing you can do about it.
> requests get rejected
> but AWS still counts it as a write operation against… pic.twitter.com/oFavRPau2N

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I use Bluebubbles to sync my texts between all my Android devices and my iPhone. Uses my Mac server as a imessage forwarding relay. I have 6 phone numbers and keep the main number in the iPhone, call forward to my primary Galaxy Fold 5.

My main girlfriend turns 21 Tuesday. I'm taking leave from work for it, but sleeping in before taking her out. She sent me a text for my birthday at like 1am saying she wanted to be the first to tell me happy birthday.

I go to bed early, not staying up to send a text. Just scheduled that shit to send from my server. Automating thoughtful gestures, lmao.

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It is maintained by three people. They don't allow outside contributions.

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