Maybe 1985, but 1986 and 1987 were good too.

Keep spreading the good word, brother. Amen.

Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:

Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.

I’m referring to the ageism implied in the statement, I don’t care about C vs Rust any more than I care about vi vs emacs or KDE vs Gnome.

Old fuckers have experience, they have seen many next big things come and go, that’s why they seem slow to adopt new stuff. Of course this annoys new fuckers a lot, as they want to play with their new shiny toys now.

Patience is a virtue, young grasshopper.

Old fuckers exist to protect young fuckers from throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Thank you for the link, it was very interesting.

Even though analogue neural networks have the drawback that you can’t copy the neuron weights (currently, but tech may evolve to do it), they can still have use cases in lower powered edge devices.

I think we’ll probably end up with hybrid designs, using digital for most parts except the calculations.

Every genre is deeply connected to the time it appeared and the events that shaped it.

I don’t expect punk rock to have a resurgence any more than I expect disco music to come back. They had their time and function. They will influence new things to come as did all the stuff that came before.

Having said that, I expect everything will become a mishmash of AI slop, so who knows?

This was bound to happen. Neural networks are inherently analog processes, simulating them digitally is massively expensive in terms of hardware and power.

Digital domain is good for exact computation, analog is better for approximate computation, as required by neural networks.

It’s a quiet life.

Finally, an optimistic view of the situation.

I’ve been gaming in Linux since the days Unreal Tournament had a Linux version, or even before that.

The only game I want to play that still doesn’t work is Heretic II, which probably is based on some cursed DX9 engine or something.

Newer games I don’t even bother to check before buying, they just work.

Edit: Hexen, not Heretic.

It was very much something my generation feared. It permeated pop culture in the 70’s and 80’s

What’s your point? If Windows is working for you, keep using it.

I guess AI is the new mandatory buzzword in every piece of software out there.

In games you can probably get away with adding some more variables to a character and simulate intelligent behaviour from simple formulas like attack = strength + rage - hunger - fear, you don’t really need to push a neural network into the game.

It could be worse.

You could have lived through the 80’s and 90’s when we were on the verge of global thermonuclear war, but at least the music was great. Imagine living through that and now having to deal with this shitty dystopia with even shittier music…

Intelligent Artificial Intelligence?

How I’m doing it: setup nginx-proxy-manager as frontend and put all services behind it, using different names (cloud.home, media.home, etc) but with the same IP (the proxy IP).

Sony Black Trinitron was peak TV.

I feel this is true about much of what you see online currently. Videos that could have been an short how-to, articles that contain mostly AI generated filler. Also, if you want support on that you better join our discord.

I have genuine gratitude to people who share their in depth knowledge online using old fashion HTML.

It’s great fun.