#everythingisterrible — Public Fediverse posts

I had a whole pithy mini-essay planned on LLMs, the "AI" scam that is attempting to build the ultimate dystopia, the companies pushing it, the workers and citizens who are its victims, and what it means for society as a whole.

Presentation was to be a "future history"-type approach, which I've always had a soft spot for in sci-fi.

And ... I just can't. Trump today decided that not only was driving the world's largest economy off a cliff the prudent thing to do, merely crashing it wasn't enough, so he decided to fill the backseat with lit sticks of TNT, and stick a lit rag in the fuel filler.

The streets tomorrow will be (only metaphorically, with luck) running with blood. People everywhere are going to be hurt, some devastatingly so.

I wonder if this is the kind of thing that Charles Stross means when he talks about the world stopping him from writing or finishing something he'd been planning on. It feels awful.

#AI #LLM #scam #dystopia #workers #victims #pithy #economy #crash #ICantEven #EverythingIsTerrible

🤣 at Microsoft today...

Replacing the Blue Screen of Death with a new Black Screen of Death, which now no longer contains *any* information about the problem that caused the system to crash and need to restart.

For the average user, it's now impossible to have even a hint as to what the problem is. Great job, everybody!

For power users, geez, I hope something made it into the event logs and onto disk before the system died. No? Oh well, you didn't really need to know, just reset and wonder how long you've got until it happens again.

EDIT / UPDATE: I've now seen a second article about this change. The first didn't include an image, and described the removal of all information related to the specific error. This second one shows a copy, and it still appears to include the filename containing the code that crashed the kernel and whatever Windows calls an errno value. It appears the first article is mistaken, and they've just removed the QR code that has been present for a few years?

#BSOD #BlueScreenOfDeath #BlackScreenOfDeath #Microsoft #Windows #crash #restart #computer #EverythingIsTerrible #debug

On a more positive note, I'm getting a lot more opportunities to use my "In short, everything is terrible" catch-phrase.

#CatchPhrase #terrible #EverythingIsTerrible #pessimist #MurphyWasAnOptimist #positive

On a more positive note, I'm getting a lot more opportunities to use my "In short, everything is terrible" catch-phrase.

#CatchPhrase #terrible #EverythingIsTerrible #pessimist #MurphyWasAnOptimist #positive

On a more positive note, I'm getting a lot more opportunities to use my "In short, everything is terrible" catch-phrase.

#CatchPhrase #terrible #EverythingIsTerrible #pessimist #MurphyWasAnOptimist #positive

On a more positive note, I'm getting a lot more opportunities to use my "In short, everything is terrible" catch-phrase.

#CatchPhrase #terrible #EverythingIsTerrible #pessimist #MurphyWasAnOptimist #positive

On a more positive note, I'm getting a lot more opportunities to use my "In short, everything is terrible" catch-phrase.

#CatchPhrase #terrible #EverythingIsTerrible #pessimist #MurphyWasAnOptimist #positive