The Tech Random Crap Thread

[PatrThom]

" Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. "

It was a computer so caked with cigarette-stained fuzz and dust that it looked like someone had decided to artfully glue dried-up, dead decorative moss to the case to make it look like a miniaturized skyscraper building you'd see from a post-apocalyptic video game.

--Patrick

 

[PatrThom]

--Patrick

 

[figmentPez]

--Patrick

I saw this yesterday and the trolling part near the end had me .

 

[GasBandit]

Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm

You can now play Doom on a CAPTCHA, in case you wanted to for some reason.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

 

[GasBandit]

&UDM=14 - the disenshittefication of Google

 

[Tinwhistler]

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.

thehardtimes.net

 

[PatrThom]

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.

thehardtimes.net

Dana White, John Elkann and Charlie Songhurst to Join Meta Board of Directors | Meta

Meta today announced that Dana White, John Elkann and Charlie Songhurst have been elected to the company’s board of directors.

about.fb.com

I'm sure it's completely unrelated.

--Patrick

 

[Sara_2814]

With the Tech sphere so full of terrible things these days (the misuse and abuse of AI technology, social media destroying civilization, etc.), here's something hopeful. Dami Lee has a new video about tech being used for Good. Very insightful stuff about technology design.

 

[figmentPez]

Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback

Google open sourced PebbleOS, and the original founder of Pebble is planning to make a new model very similar to the original. No word on pricing or release date, though.

 

[GasBandit]

Technofeudalism.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

I haven't clicked on the video yet, but I listened to an audiobook last month called Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis that talks all about this. It's possible the video cites this, but yeah, it's scary watching the trajectory capitalists like Musk are following.

 

[GasBandit]

I haven't clicked on the video yet, but I listened to an audiobook last month called Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, by Yanis Varoufakis that talks all about this. It's possible the video cites this, but yeah, it's scary watching the trajectory capitalists like Musk are following.

Yep, he cites Varoufakis a lot in the video.

 

[GasBandit]

Apparently 30% of Australia went offline today due to dumbshittery. Reading an imgur comment thread about it, I suddenly started having a twitch response.

 

[GasBandit]