The article definitely makes it sound like it wasn’t as big of a hit as they initially thought it was.
Steam concurrents have also dropped significantly following Battlefield 6’s big launch, when it hit a huge 747,440 peak. Steam concurrents are now, typically, in the tens of thousands. For example, Battlefield 6 hit 67,000 peak concurrent players on Valve’s platform yesterday.
Maybe this is bad advice, but I will genuinely smile and wave at people who are staring/glaring at me. Or if we’re close enough, I’ll literally say hi and kinda start a conversation. “Oh hi! How are you doing??”
They often don’t know what to do, because in their head you were kind of a figment of their imagination, they never expect you to acknowledge them and actually be pleasant, because they’re so miserable.
Often they’ll just look the other way with their bitchface, but then it’s quite funny that they can’t even handle someone being kind.
Like, do you think I can’t see you looking at me (how stupid are you)? Hi!
That’s hilarious.
“Every credential that was in Moltbook’s Supabase was unsecured for some time,” Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. “For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available.”
Last month, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was asked about the AI agent social network in an Instagram Q&A. He said he didn’t “find it particularly interesting” that the agents talk like us, since they are trained on massive databases of human material. Rather, Bosworth was intrigued by how humans were hacking into the network, which was not a feature but a large-scale error.
It’s telling that Meta is still impressed by this kind of bullshit. None of this is particularly interesting.
What’s funny is, we literally already have helicopters that rich people seem to use to get places.
These flying taxis are the exact same thing.
It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, which is why it pretty much never takes off (no pun intended).
I never really figured out why they stared at me; it didn’t necessarily feel like an obvious intimidation tactic, even though it was obviously very intimidating. Maybe that’s all it is, but I sorta wish I figured out what was in their head as they stared.
Honestly, sometimes if they might be dumb as shit and they don’t necessarily know they’re staring. Or that they shouldn’t be obviously staring.
The Venn diagram of hyper-masculine men and very stupid men approaches a circle.
Not that it helps, but it might explain why it doesn’t feel like an intentional intimidation tactic. They’re just plain dumb.
Damn that original headline is a nightmare to read. The new one is better
The Last Actor To Play Mega Man Will Not Appear In Dual Override As Capcom Goes Non-Union
Memorial plate for a specific modern person seems really fucked up to me. It would essentially be a Trump cult plate.
This also was kind of horrifyingly funny:
Legislation honoring Kirk, who lived in Arizona, passed in the state Senate in a 16-2 vote and in the state House in a 31-23 vote.
The Arizona senate has thirty members. So only half even bothered to vote and they still tried to shove it through.
The funny thing about this generalization is that this was a stunt because the city needed to be cleaned up so badly.
It was a temporary stunt as part of a city-wide cleanup. The goal was to give a “first class experience” to commuters.
But I think the problem ultimately at the start of the 1970s was Richard Nixon. Awful president who put us on the path we’re on.
Oh, at least it’s not rape this time! Seems like an improvement.
Oh eat shit grandad. Like you’ve never heard some language!
I’m afraid I’ll get less careful as I gain experience and my comfort level increases.
This is exactly what happens! Or maybe one day you’re just extra tired or something. Mistakes happen. That’s a huge reason backups are so important, even in professional settings. Humans make honest mistakes, and that’s ok.
That’s actually why I like the knife analogy, because if you’re using a sharp knife, eventually you might get a cut. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be using the sharp knife (oftentimes you have to!), it’s just important to remember that it’s sharp. And to not blame yourself too much if you do get cut.
I tried to do everything I could to delete it normally, but it wouldn’t let me. In hindsight I wonder if rsync gave the ownership of the backup to the root or something…
Oh if I remember correctly, rsync needs an argument to keep ownership! You have to run it as root, but -o will keep owners and -g will keep groups. -a does both and also keeps permissions.
As an aside, just to confirm, people talk about trying not to use rm -rf but that was the right thing to use! You don’t want to confirm “yes, delete that file” every time.
Famously, partly pea soup!
You’re doing a wonderful job! I find you a pretty constant inspiration, I’m sure I’m not the only one.
I seriously love that community, it’s probably my favorite one on the fediverse. I love seeing people make and share art (and art supplies it seems!)
Genuinely my pleasure! Thank you for sharing your work and interests.
I hadn’t seen the blueberry paint yet (I forgot to subscribe on this account!) and it looks absolutely beautiful
I am not OP, I just think they’re cool (and have quiet enthusiasm for their project).
Oh hell yeah they do, they have a whole palette of handmade colors! It’s been really cool to watch on the art alchemist’s guild!
It’s been absolutely mind-blowing to see the progress.
Oh for sure, they’re taking big tech’s lead.
Tech has been blaming AI for layoffs for a couple years now, when they hired an insane number of people during and after COVID. They literally hired to lay off. I found this graph illustrative of the boom and bust.
The people in this administration love when tech can get away with something (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal around 2016) because they will too.
Consider as well that there is a *national* speed limit, even though road regulation is at the state level of jurisdiction. The national speed limit had nothing to do with safety. It exists as a as a national security measure to control US dependency on foreign oil.
There isn’t a national speed limit, that ended in 1995. Each state chooses its own speed limits. Wikipedia page. It’s 80 in a lot of the less-populated mountain west states, which makes 70 seem slow when you’re driving across states.
I personally don’t think the flag can be taken back. Republicans turned it into a worthless commodity starting in the 1970s with the Vietnam War. It’s only gotten worse since.
It started to get a deservedly negative connotation in the 1980s. My grandfathers both served in World War II, and they respected the flag differently. That all changed in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan and Lee Greenwood singing “God Bless the USA” while wearing an American flag jacket.
It’s been essentially a symbol of anti-American principles since then. Like how the Christian flag often indicates Christian nationalism and not actual Christians.
American patriotism can’t be reclaimed, it has to be redefined with a different flag.
It makes a lot of sense that they would.
Especially since I believe other major social media companies (Facebook; the service formerly known as Twitter) don’t care at all about bots and seem to want to use them as valid replacements for swathes of users or content generators.
Your rm -rf reminded me of one of my mistakes.
I know everyone’s probably already heard about stories like this, but one terrifying mistake I made in college was a fat-fingered rm -rf / home/whatever.
I didn’t notice the space before hitting enter, so it started happily deleting system files from /.
I killed it pretty quickly, and then was able to re-download the files I accidentally deleted by hand, one by one, while the computer was running. It felt like I was changing a tire of a car while it was driving.
So I try to think of that kind of thing as a sharp knife. Cut carefully.
Doesn’t mean I didn’t also delete an entire customer database a few years later but at least that one was backed up! Horrible feeling. lol
As much as possible, I pretend they’re just being friendly or I used to know them. That’s my acting motivation.
It really fucks them up. lol
Sometimes it shocks them out of their staring and you actually talk to them too. Which is especially funny because they begrudgingly go along with it.
I love to kindly torture dickheads, and if it works out maybe they can stop staring at people.