kryptonianCodeMonkey

Then come the “saviors” of the internet that blame it on illegal aliens, women having rights etc because according to their logic we had it good in the 70s so we must reverse everything back to the way it was in 70s.

The problem isnt just the "saviors" and their message. Those people have always existed, always had the same blaming strategy. The problem is that the internet has made it easier for those messages to reach a global audience, has made the messenger faceless and unaccountable and given the presumption of legitimacy, has made it easier to get absorbed into isolated communities saturated in this kind of messaging, and made it easier to warp the worldview of the community to something antithetical to reality. If you run into a dude saying wacky shit in a bar, and he just seems to be some drunk asshole, you're not likely to give him much credence against all of the other messaging around you. But if you find an entire community saying the things he says, and they welcome you in, and you get a sense of comradery and purpose from it, that same messaging holds a lot of sway over you.

Isolation has always been the secret sauce to radicalization. Exposure is the antidote. Humans have always had cultural feedback loops that reinforce a specific worldview. And meeting with other cultures often causes conflicts when those worldview collide. The promise of the internet was a more global culture wherein we have a shared reinforced world view. But that didn't really happen for everyone. What we are seeing now is that same feedback loop phenomenon in a digital space, but often with dramatically different worldviews, even within the same local physical space. That still causes conflict when those communities collide, both online and in the real world, but now that conflict happens everywhere, even in your own household sometimes.

We're losing physical communities, friends and family for our online echo chamber communities. People are definitely driven more into those digital communities as their physical life is more of a struggle financially, socially, etc. Relieving those struggles would certainly go a long way in remediating the problem, but it won't go away.

How can you stay mad at a face like that? Also, nobody disrespects my boy, Data.

The older I get, the more I think that the internet was a mistake. It had a lot of potential for good and has delivered on that in many ways, but it has also unleashed an uncontrollable onslaught of radicalization, hatred, isolation, and mental illness. It's harms have outweighed the good by orders of magnitude.

Their misguided religion was maybe going to lead them to attack Isreal and the US someday, so Isreal and the US preemptively attacked them unprovoked instead, guided by our superior religions. The hypocrisy is completely lost on me, as well as the irony of, again, justifying their antagonism towards Isreal and the US in the first place for the umpteenth time.

They are useful tools. I use copilot quite often in my work routine. Mostly to generate boiler plate code for me, add explanatory comments, review code for syntax and logic mistakes, etc. They can handle analysis and debugging quite well. They can usually write code based on plain language input if you can describe specifically what you need. And they can write documentation fairly well based on it's own analysis of the code (though sometimes it's missing context).

They're still not a silver bullet by any means. If their training on a particular language is limited and/or documentation is not accessible, it often makes up stuff wholecloth that looks like it might work but isn't correct syntax (it was basically useless with Dynatrace Query Language when I was learning the syntax last year). Sometimes it doesn't follow instructions exactly. Sometimes even when just refactoring code like to reduce complexity it ends up making unintended changes to the logic. Sometimes I end up spending as much time or more debugging AI generated code as it would have taken to write it correctly the first time.

It's handy, but it's no silver bullet. The fact that these guys got something so novel and complicated out of it is quite impressive and probably required a lot of data input, precise mathematical instructions and, frankly, luck and a lot of iterations.

Tunic is an amazing game. Definitely go in blind as much of the fun is discovering all of the secrets in the game, many of which are hidden in plain sight. The use of the old school game manual is chef's kiss for both creativity and nostalgia and remains a constantly important tool. I don't think i technically 100%'d all of the hidden stuff but I was really close.

Fuck off

I was sold when in the first episode the captain was introducing himself to his new crew, offered to take any questions, and the pilot's only concern was if they were allowed to have a soda on the bridge because the last captain wouldn't let him. It set a funny non-serious workplace comedy sort of tone, which was a great divergence from traditional Trek. But it also delivers on heavy serious story arcs at times too, surprisingly well done and thoughtful oftentimes for such an otherwise irreverent show. It's a compelling mix.

Oops have to double newline on my phone, for reasons... fixed

Sci fi dramas: Severance, and Pluribus Sci fi comedy: The Orville Just fun: Taskmaster

I was thinking more Ren and Stimpy aesthetics.

Obligatory call out to Hank Green's "The Fix" and his amazing fact-based intimidations: https://youtube.com/shorts/J8fmQ8E7rhE