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  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Brave New World needs an honourable mention for only looking more plausible a century later. We do like our horny birth control sex and not thinking too hard about sad things.

    I hope for cyberpunk, because Star Trek (post-WWIII) isn't gonna happen. Dune or a boring version of Terminator are also in the running, possibly at the same time.

    Edit: A cyberpunk phase might give way to a far future that's not exactly Star Trek, but that is similarly equal, tolerant and pleasant. I know that wasn't the question, but that's why it's the direction I'm pushing for.

    If it's Dune, the last couple centuries were a blip, and the kind of violent autocratic hell that existed before that is just what human civilisation naturally looks like, so it will keep going. If it's Terminator, hopefully the AI does something nice without us, at least.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

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  • Putting aside from the implied EV context, I'm not sure I'd go that far. They were repairable, but had a lot of proprietary design in them as well.

    I would still go with one of the "legacy" manufacturers for myself, though.

  • What would be a valuable thing to have memorized by heart?

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  • Keeping it practical, I'd like to know the basics about every regionally important city in the world. Capitals should be easy, I probably have most of them down already, and I have a few ideas about how to compile a list of the rest.

  • Why do you personally believe in your religion?

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  • made me feel I visited some sort of lnternet life coach with some mystical stuff on top.

    There's another kind that probably prefers a local language, and would feel very much like a Christian priest. It fills the same basic social roles in some places.

    Kind of like how there's actual shamans, and then the kind that tells white people what they want to hear before feeding them mushrooms. The West never stopped loving a wise noble savage.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

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  • FairCar when?

  • It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...

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  • In a scripting language, is there an advantage to no garbage collection? (I honestly don't know)

    Someone else also pointed out to me, when I made a similar suggestion, that ability to partially fail but keep going is desirable in a web context. I don't know, maybe there's some way to make Rust do that more automatically than C. Python seems the be the standard for general-purpose scripting, which is why I mentioned it.

  • Do you think there will be a point where the world stops letting violent aggressors get what they want or is that ingrained into society?

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  • I think the premise is a bit off, although it might just be your choice of wording. Only a very small subset of people at at any time tend to get away with violence, and it's not necessarily the most aggressive ones. Stick up a convenience store and see how well that goes for you.

    Violence seems likely to always be a part of life, at least in the background.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • X to doubt.

    About the "hurting the economy" part. Replacing more stuff = more economy is a well-known economics fallacy and they should know better.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • Interesting!

    I mean, science doesn't say it's not that.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • Hopefully none. I do hold some that you could call a-scientific, or something, because existing science has no impact either way. Like what kinds of foods are good or bad. Or morality.

  • It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...

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  • Invent a new internet where you can script pages directly in Python or TypeScript.

    Otherwise, you get to enjoy a silly toy language from the 90's.

  • Have you ever met a truly evil person? What happened?

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  • I've met people who managed to announce they were shitty in the first few minutes of our encounter. I've also gotten to know certian really shitty people pretty well.

    There's always a story they tell themselves that makes it okay, though, and it's always driven by some kind of weakness they have, even if it's rank narcissism. Evil implies a level of self-awareness that's never been there.

    I can't say they don't exist, but they're damn rare and I've never crossed paths with them. Even Nazis have been known to self-improve over time.

  • The myth of "consensual" internet

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  • So you don't want to go against the jerk, okay.

  • What's the oldest website that's still alive that you've found?

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  • Oh. It's a foundation that provided and provides free access to the new and exciting technology of the INTERNET. The most popular thing now seems the be shell connections to machines running historical OS's like Unix. There's also Gopher and dialup and an internet radio station and a bunch of other services. Lemmy isn't even listed on the main site, but obviously it still is online.

    Beyond that I have to admit I'm new and don't know it all. The foundation's website itself feels like a mix of a museum exhibit and an actual active front page.

  • The myth of "consensual" internet

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  • Thanks?

  • The myth of "consensual" internet

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  • Agreed. The point being that people aren't really upset about whether it's art or not. They're mad about money.

    And that's not exactly dumb either, making bread is important. It'd just be nice if it was admitted to.

  • The myth of "consensual" internet

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  • AI being appropriated for neural nets which might even do things unrelated to what we think of as intelligence is annoying, I'll give you that.

    What art is is kind of a huge can of worms, though. In any case, it's pretty clear they can satisfy potential clients a lot better than human digital artists, though, and that's where at least part of the butthurt comes from.

  • The myth of "consensual" internet

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  • It was, but doesn't that seem shortsighted now? When there's a change it's usually bad for someone, but no change since the 1700's would definitely be bad, even if there's a steady two pence or whatever to be made weaving.

    Sitting in 2025, we can identify a whole lot that was wrong with the world and conditions of labourers (including literal slaves) then. It seems kind of odd to blame technology for them, at least directly. But, that's where the luddites turned their anger, and Lemmy seems to slide into doing the same thing - although there's a lot of overlap with valid skepticism about things people claim AI do, that it actually can't.

  • What's the oldest website that's still alive that you've found?

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  • Since it's my instance and you can probably click to it through my username, I felt like a link would be overkill. But: www.sdf.org.

    That was honestly kind of rhetorical, too. It's been something you could connect to since the 80's, and it's still an everyday part of my life, which is related enough to mention even if OP wouldn't call that a website.

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    What is there to know about magnetic storage mediums?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    What's some good FOSS news?

  • Programming @beehaw.org
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    Is it better to start from scratch rather than refactoring?

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    The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com /notes/corrupted-skins/
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    Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic)

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    Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer”

    arstechnica.com /gaming/2024/02/fans-preserve-and-emulate-segas-extremely-rare-80s-ai-computer/
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    Kolibri OS - A modern OS that fits on a floppy

    iteroni.com /watch
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    What are your opinions of Guix?

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    How would I make my own bubble memory?

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    A test of artificial intelligence - Nature

    www.nature.com /immersive/d41586-023-02822-z/index.html
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    META

    What are the demographics of this community?

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    “Will AI Destroy Us?”: Roundtable with Coleman Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and Scott Aaronson