Similar story, but I was the guy. Kinda.

Broke up with my gf (both about 50-yo) who lived across the street. (Dumb situation, I KNOW.) We were still fuck buddies. Our friend down the street was having a Christmas party. Told her we’d go as a date, just for the night.

Friend had a couple of young girls over no one knew, but he was, most literally, banging one in his bedroom. Flesh smacking, spanking, walls shaking, all that. Yikes.

My girl was out back talking to a mutual friend. The 20-something girl whose friend was getting banged was mad jealous of her friend getting laid, so she was hitting on me. I was looking sharp, wearing a tux, all that. (Picture for reference, not that night.)

My god. It took ALL my willpower to fight her off.

“I’m sorry, but I agreed to be with my friend tonight and I’m not going to hurt her.”

<grabs me and sticks her tongue in my mouth>

Heaven

“I’m not going to hurt her like this.”

She smelled and tasted like life itself. I now know what melange is. I could see through time.

“I can’t do this. Maybe another night?”

<grabs me, kisses me>

Rinse and repeat for 30 minutes.

Anyway, my ex and I went home and had freaky, tied-up-in-heels-and-fishnet sex. Very memorable. But I’d still kill or die for that 20-something girl. She gave me her number, blew me off the next day. Fine. :(

Anyway, after all the drama my ex caused me a month later, I should have fucked the other girl.

Anyway, I still have some little faith in my moral strength.

Anyway, still mad.

AI code is great for getting over a hump, something you’re stuck on. Used ChatGPT (not the best for coding, I know) to help on a PowerShell script. There was exactly two references on the internet for what I wanted to do (Google Calendar/Sheets integration). Spent hours on the problem.

ChatGPT gave me two things: One solution I didn’t know was a thing, another was a twist I hadn’t thought of. For giggles, I plugged the whole script in. Guess what? Failed instantly. Because of course it did.

No. LLMs don’t write working code. Yes. They can help you, assuming you know what you’re doing in the first place. But here’s the crux of using AI:

It does not, and cannot, give a shit about edge cases, user error and security.

I wrote a simple PS script to swap my TV screens around for work, play and movies. Rolled it out in 30 minutes. Took me 2 more hours to stupid proof it, test it, wrap it an exe, make an icon, deploy it, all that. AI can’t do any of that.

This is like the fuck up with redacting the Epstein files.

“Oops! Sorry!”

I’m still astonished people think these events are screw ups and not intentional.

Very cute. I already have it on my RAID array. Take me down.

I would hardly call crustaceans sentient, let alone conscious. FFS, they hardly have brains.

Worked at Red Lobster back in the 90s. The cook would just flip it over, split it down the middle and gut it. 5 seconds, it’s dead as a rock.

Changing one’s face enough to fool biometrics is so rare as to be discounted. Those bastard Tleilaxu Face Dancers though!

They farted around, shot some shells, went to the place to check it out, bla, bla, bla.

And of course the media making this out like Seal Team 6 level of planning.

In America, if it has loads of legs, and preferably fuzzy, it’s a caterpillar. There may be exceptions, can’t think of one in any region.

I’m 54. Cancer was a death sentence when I was young. Cures? LOL, how about detection? Forget it. You weren’t getting diagnosed until it was way too late. And we had jack shit for medicine once we caught it.

In the 90s magazines used to publish articles about a “silver bullet” for cancer. Exactly the sort of thing you’re talking about. We collectively woke up and realized there would never be such a thing. LOL, the articles stopped overnight. :)

Remember working with a guy in 1993 whose skin was hideous with skin cancer. Haven’t seen such a human since. Skin cancer was a pretty big deal a couple of decades ago. People regularly died of it. Now it seems mostly beaten. Haven’t heard of a person dying from skin cancer this century.

I suspect a tiny spot on my face is cancer. My body seems to have mostly beaten it. But if it ever grows again, I know they can zap it with a simple outpatient procedure. That sort of thing could have been the beginning of the end when I was a child.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d personally shit bricks if the doc found even minor cancer, but at least I’d have a chance in 2025.

Lemmy is soaked in that image-of-text trash.

That’s a small group and composed mainly of younger people who don’t vote. I built my own PCs from 1994 to around 2019. Now few people even own PCs, let alone build and upgrade.

I take a few tablespoons, stir it up in a coffee cup and chug it every night. Even if I miss a day, I’m generally OK, but miss 2 or 3 days, it’s a 2-3 day thing to get back to normal.

54 and just this year my neck has started to look stringy, especially in bright sunlight. Ugh. At least I can manually fix the hairy ears.

China has already been moving into Africa, for some time. Russia doesn’t have the currency to support such international adventures.

The media won’t even call out his dementia. This should be a non-stop story as there are daily examples. I gave up on all media due to lack of reporting on this.

Notice how Trump disappears now and again? Like any dementia patient, he has good days and he has bad days. Look how he was with the Premier of Japan. Bad day where his handlers couldn’t hide him.

I do that too. genx here… lol

For your detractors, I’d like to point out that nothing stated here in untrue.

The problem is feeding 10’s of thousands of video streams, from a single entity, to the police and government. And now they’re using AI to sort the data, which is a powerful use case for AI.

Were we to magically feed all the webcams and doorbells and security cameras to a single source, it would still be a technological mess to sort out. Flock’s system is purpose built to track us.

What till people find out what “dashboard” originally meant.

Brain: You might offend him.

Also brain: Send it.

This is a hella entertaining thread OP!