The Usenet post I linked to claims it’s originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that’s accurate or not. I actually can’t find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it’s usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90’s

Some plans less so than others.

Also, I like this framing of users as the enemy. Matches my experience, really.

Wasn’t expecting a fucking rainforest

Orders a

It just irritates the fuck out of me when people write an obvious swear word but either omit letters or “censor” them with eg. *, like that somehow makes it not swearing even though EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT FUCKING WORD IS.

Either don’t swear if you think it’s so bad, or just write the naughty words out instead of pretending “f*ck” isn’t a bad evil naughty word because you hid one letter like a fucking mentally deficient child.

FUCK.

Oh look it’s the short incel who is convinced that clubs ban short men.

Dude, your problem still isn’t your height. Your problem is that you’re a bitter and unpleasant husk of a person, who would rather blame everything and everyone else than actually do some self reflection, because that’d mean facing up to the fact that you’re the problem – feeeeeeeeeeeemales don’t avoid you because you’re short, they avoid you because you’re you.

These people point out how they want female attention at these clubs, only for these women to deliberately ignore them and go up to taller men instead, and start seducing them, like a bunch of sluts

“I was entitled to feeeeeeeemale attention but didn’t get any, therefore the women are sluts.”

Your problem isn’t your height. Your problem is that you’re an unlikeable misogynistic cockwomble

Well, only one session left for that to happen. Let’s see, who knows?

Jesus fuck, I didn’t even know about this. That’s an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that’s bad – here’s to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn’t get signed by eg. EU countries, but I’m not exactly feeling hopeful

Javascript bad.

Applause please.

💫 the magic of the Fediverse ✨

Hah my sneaky brain edited that right out, didn’t even notice until you pointed it out

Yeah they obviously got the Russians to help

And it’s usually the people with room temperature IQs (and I’m talking Celsius) calling everything AI. You know, the type who can’t recognize actual AI pictures and probably also thinks the Moon landings were faked

1st AI trash band!

Doctor of Computer Science

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yeah that tracks.

Oh I’m barely a Julia programmer 😅 I learned it a couple of years ago just to check it out, started writing a personal project with it but got a bit irritated with how interfaces are defined informally and you have to dig through documentation to find out the methods you need to implement, and then just sort of drifted away. Will definitely use it in the future for eg. some signal analysis thingamajigs and so on though, it was a fun language to use with notebooks.

I usually prefer type systems that make me beg for mercy, heh.

Oh yeah definitely; a lot of the AI crap out there hasn’t gotten rolled out to the EU yet – some of it because of the GDPR, thank fuck for that.

I’d practically guarantee there’s a nonzero amount of suits out there who think it’d be a fantastic idea, and have at the very least tried to make it happen, and that it’s only a matter of time before one of them talks somebody into it if they haven’t already