bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

finger curls on the monkey paw

Inspiring! Mom and Pop have started a small business and are now franchisees of Megacorp Robotaxi. After financing and purchasing a fleet of cars, they can enjoy a steady and reliable income while only having to take care of vehicle maintenance, autopilot software license fees, accounting, possible municipal taxi licensing and other legal and clerical duties and liabilities of running a business.

Thanks to Megacorp Robotaxi's excellent reputation and customer loyalty and not at all because Megacorp Robotaxi has a de facto monopoly on taxi business, Mom and Pop are not worried about the competition, save for maybe some friendly and good-natured rivalry with other proud franchisees of the Megacorp Robotaxi family.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn't count on it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 31 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Also, I just now realized that Automattic (business model: Uber for not posting female-presenting nipples) is a pun on this guy's name.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 37 points 3 months ago (9 children)

So the guy running WordPress.com (business model: Uber for LAMP stack, not to be confused with WordPress.org, winner of Drupal's Drag Race) is angry that WP Engine (business model: Lyft for LAMP stack, not to be confused with MediaWiki, the engine of WP) offers hosting for the same GPL licensed CMS as they do, am I understanding this correctly?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

We have a protocol droid at home, it's called curl.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe one day self-righteous computer crackers will get over the V for Vendetta, apocalypse cult, latin chanting, hooded robes, "we are anonymoos we are a legionella we do not frogger" aesthetic and I can stop cringing about it.

Fucking goofy ahh KKK shit.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

I think in this case the crankery is wanting to solve a problem that doesn't even exist, i.e. "how to make sure the machine god is not evil"

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Training my militia of revolutionary freedom fighters to attack homeless shelters, soup kitchens, nature preserves, libraries, and children's playgrounds.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

I was going to suggest Vitalik Buterin for the Fake Nobel of Economics as a bit, but the coiners already beat me to it.

So my next choices for the award would be SBF or Bored Ape Yacht Club.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Will the rectum monitor keep track of the duration of my nocturnal erections? I need to find out if I can hit 179 minutes to flex on 18-year olds.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You know what's really good for mental health? Work that makes you feel guilty and politics you don't have any influence over.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Welcome to the club. They say a shared suffering is only half the suffering.

This was discussed in last week's Stubsack, but I don't think we mind talking about talking the same thing twice. I, for one, do not look forward to browsing Wikipedia exclusively through pre-2024 archived versions, so I hope (with some pessimism) their disapponintingly milquetoast stance works out.

Reading a bit of the old Reddit sneerclub can help understand some of the Awful vernacular, but otherwise it's as much of a lurkmoar as any other online circlejerk. The old guard keep referencing cringe techbros and TESCREALs I've never heard of while I still can't remember which Scott A we're talking about in which thread.

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