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Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

oh, they're putting reflective material on those windows now

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:02

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# ? May 26, 2024 15:52

Truman Peyote: Oct 11, 2006

what's wrong with wearing short shorts

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:08

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

but seriously what the gently caress device was that? idk if a better description was a bulky PDA or what, it had a qwerty keypad but was built like a blackberry had sex with a brick

also I only wear long longs tyvm

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:37

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I was sitting next to a guy on the train that was using what looked like a ruggedised blackberry with no joke a terminal window open on it, or maybe something like irc chat? Idk. I can't decide if it was extremely cyberpunk or, because he was wearing short shorts, extremely terrible.

like a motorola MC or something?

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:39

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

Jonny 290 posted:

like a motorola MC or something?

no, bigger. I swear to god it looked like he was running a terminal window in it because of how small the text on the screen was and the classic magenta and green on black scheme

is there a military UNIX combat division? it looked like what they'd use

e: ok I think it was this https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket

Running gently caress knows what

Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Jul 18, 2023

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:43

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

Truman Peyote posted:

what's wrong with wearing short shorts

hotswap pants

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:48

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

no, bigger. I swear to god it looked like he was running a terminal window in it because of how small the text on the screen was and the classic magenta and green on black scheme

is there a military UNIX combat division? it looked like what they'd use

e: ok I think it was this https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket

Running gently caress knows what

holy poo poo that page immediately started playing ringtones ive never closed a tab so fast

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:50

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

Jonny 290 posted:

holy poo poo that page immediately started playing ringtones ive never closed a tab so fast

idk I guess adblock stopped that for me but also sorry u got hacked jonny

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:56

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

oh i use linux on the desktop, i am protected.

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:56

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

Jonny 290 posted:

oh i use linux on the desktop, i am protected.

well then how did you hear anything? checkmate.

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:57

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

a solid swing on the slowest pitch

# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:58

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

Truman Peyote posted:

what's wrong with wearing short shorts

who likes them?

# ? Jul 19, 2023 02:26

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

we, i'm told

# ? Jul 19, 2023 02:28

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Midjack posted:

who likes them?

i was led to believe that we like them

# ? Jul 19, 2023 02:28

Analytic Engine: May 18, 2009; not the analytical engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wDpigy4eFE&pp=ygUVYWltcHNvbnMgc2hvcnQgc2hvcnRz

# ? Jul 19, 2023 02:31

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

that fuckin grimy saxophone

# ? Jul 19, 2023 02:38

Crusader: Apr 11, 2002

Analytic Engine posted:

https://twitter.com/declouxj/status/1680580527567298560?s=46&t=2w7hcz5FPFygLmBT4UVItg

holy hell

as a kid this movie terrified me so i should rewatch it now

# ? Jul 19, 2023 04:30

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

HOLY poo poo PISSS (from 1985)

Imagining the STREETHAWK visor view but its snow and trees going past at 300MPH

# ? Jul 26, 2023 15:51

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

feels like i'm wearing nothing at all!

# ? Jul 26, 2023 16:29

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Looks like a dude you play in an MSX game

# ? Jul 26, 2023 21:33

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

Alan Smithee posted:

Looks like a dude you play in an MSX game

looks a little bit like kurt hectic

# ? Jul 26, 2023 21:47

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

isn't that the character from Nights: into dreams?

# ? Jul 27, 2023 22:03

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

isn't that the character from Nights: into dreams?

Nights: Into Skis

# ? Jul 28, 2023 02:07

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

it's actually metal sonic with knuckles bod

# ? Jul 28, 2023 09:51

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

Alan Smithee posted:

it's actually metal sonic with knuckles bod

don't post your fetishes here tyvm

# ? Jul 28, 2023 10:53

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

name av post trifecta

# ? Jul 28, 2023 10:56

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

google has revealed an AI model that can detect your posts

# ? Jul 29, 2023 19:40

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

it's gonna try to hold the soldering iron by the hot part isn't it

# ? Jul 29, 2023 19:50

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

"your monitor is off"

# ? Jul 31, 2023 06:43

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

https://twitter.com/JL86265528/status/1684352168579461121?s=20

# ? Aug 1, 2023 17:58

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/JL86265528/status/1684352168579461121?s=20

matt levine posted:

Maybe the most important paper in economics is the one about how people sometimes give themselves painful electric shocks just because that is an option that�s available to them:

For 15 minutes, the team left participants alone in a lab room in which they could push a button and shock themselves if they wanted to. The results were startling: Even though all participants had previously stated that they would pay money to avoid being shocked with electricity, 67% of men and 25% of women chose to inflict it on themselves rather than just sit there quietly and think, the team reports online today in Science.

All of human culture is explained by that result. Anyway, three questions:

Would you let an artificial-intelligence mogul scan your irises with a chrome orb for purposes of his own, if in exchange he gave you $50?
Would you let him do that, if instead of money he gave you some crypto tokens that he made up and that have uncertain value?
Would you let him do that, without the tokens?
When I put it like that it seems like the answer to at least the third question would be �no,� but if you have ever met a human you know the answer is �yeah I guess whatever�:

From Manhattan�s Oculus [6] building to a co-working space in Southern California, Americans are getting their irises scanned by a chrome orb that Sam Altman helped create.

Unlike the roughly 2 million people around the world who�ve completed similar scans in exchange for payment, these US registrants aren�t getting much of value from Worldcoin, the OpenAI chief executive's latest crypto project.

Drawn by a promotional blitz for an undertaking that has raised privacy and ethics concerns, a few orb pilgrims in New York, Los Angeles and Miami hoped they'd get some crypto for their troubles, while others were drawn by Altman himself.

Alex Chung, a user in Los Angeles, planned to make a YouTube video about his experience.

�If I scan my eyes, I can get 25 coins,� he said. When he learned that wasn�t true, he said he hoped to get the tokens �some day in the future.�

Worldcoin's token launched on Monday at $1.70 and jumped as high as $3.58 before falling to around $2.18 on Friday, data compiled by CoinMarketCap showed. � Outside the US, Worldcoin hands out a few of its own crypto tokens, in increments worth about $50, to entice people to share their biometric data. In the US, where Altman has said the crypto regulatory landscape is uncertain, the reasons for signing up are still mostly hypothetical.

�Sam Altman is interesting � he�s not only motivated by money,� said Alberto Simon, who came through a downtown Manhattan store called the Canvas for a scan on Tuesday. �I like random tech stuff.� �

�I don�t think I have any actual use for this right now,� said Ben Deeb, who stopped by to offer up his irises in Los Angeles. �I just like trying out things. Plus, I�m a TV writer on strike. I figured I got the time.�

Nobody is going to turn down getting their eyes scanned by a chrome orb, that is just science. Oh a guy is building a superintelligent AI and also compiling a permanent electronic identification database of all humans, that�s great, that�s not an alarming science-fiction premise at all. I feel like if you made that movie you�d have to have some plausible back story about how the AI convinced people to hand over their iris scans to the AI, but in the real world you don�t.