The OFFICIAL programming thread

Yeah for most people, IE got uninstalled by MS sometime after Edge switched to the Chromium version. Some companies have still been running it (and paying MS extra money for support I believe) because they have old bespoke code that requires it. I’m pretty sure IE has actually been out of regular support for many years already. Maybe the June 15 date is MS saying to the laggards, enough is enough.

Tazz

Change!!

Web browsers over the last 28 years

Gators1

IT assholes are stealing our freedomz!!! Kind of an interesting debate on whether these companies can lock down your hardware basically in the name of security or whether you should have the ability to put whatever you want on there and end up spreading viruses all over the internet? There is so much theft and fraud out there now that it’s begging for a fix. Then you throw in the whole handing control over to big tech assholes though and it seems like viruses might be the preferable thing.

Windows 11 Must Be Stopped - A Veteran PC Repair Shop Owner's Dire Warning

Kilemall

I already figured out, security is the ultimate virus.

Tazz

AI is taking over

Jam

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

AI is taking over

As if that graphic were not bad enough in it’s primary warning, it suggests the end of tits as we know and love them as well.

I’d call that regressive!

Tazz

Tazz

@Tazz that doesn’t seem at all ergonomic. I did myself switch to using 3 screens this week (laptop screen + old 24 inch + new 27 inch) and I’m very happy with how much it’s made my work easier.

Gators1

I think we should let AI govern us…it can’t be worse than it is now. Either that or freak out and burn anyone who ever worked on developing AI. I will pay a trillion Lithucoin bounty for each head.

Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim

Kilemall

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Longcode!

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I think we should let AI govern us…it can’t be worse than it is now. Either that or freak out and burn anyone who ever worked on developing AI. I will pay a trillion Lithucoin bounty for each head.

Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim

It seems the consensus is that this guy’s claims are bogus. People who know more about it than me say he was fooled by a very powerful/clever chatbot. But I dunno.

In general though, the AI singularity or whatever they call it is probably inevitable. I give it 50/50 odds on whether it will help us or end up enslaving/destroying us but, yeah, we’re not tracking real well managing shit ourselves.

rote7

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Longcode!

Nope: Long Linux Kernel boot messages

Kilemall

@rote7 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Longcode!

Nope: Long Linux Kernel boot messages

I was going to say it reminded me of a card boot deck.

Tazz

Jerraye

Not sure if this belongs in here, but since we don’t have an OFFICIAL crappy special effects thread, I can drop a gif of my crappy smoke effect in here:

Kilemall

@Jerraye said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Not sure if this belongs in here, but since we don’t have an OFFICIAL crappy special effects thread, I can drop a gif of my crappy smoke effect in here:

Highly relevant, many programs pretty much are special effects that do nothing.

If you had added mirrors, pretty much every product demo ever.

Tazz

When your code is shit but it still works

Jerraye

I managed to make a thing for rotating a thing back and forth.

Tazz

@Jerraye that’s very good