Some AI coder: "I" wrote this new thing that searches for hidden strings in files.

Most youngins: Oh wow, that is so useful, I wish I had this years ago!

Us greybeards: Congratulations, you reinvented grep.

This is absolutely a subtoot.

Parents, do you know what your kids are reading?

#books #parenting #humour #cartoons #AynRand #adolescence #literature

IT'S HAPPENING

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#github

Have you noticed how people's intellectual curiosity declines sharply the moment they start waving guns about?

— The Doctor, in “The Horns of Nimon”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

Can we print this part of Microsoft's T&S as a leaflet and distribute at our university?

#AI

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse

True story.

#humour #cartoons #houseplants

Happy Birthday Leonard Nimoy (Mar 26, 1931 – Feb 27, 2015).

A few memorable quotes, as spoken by Spock, which are very relevant in these trying times of “illogic and foolish emotions” in MAGA world -

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

When there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.

“Live long and prosper.”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.

It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.

I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.

Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .

Stupid expression, “stands to reason". Why isn't it “lie down to reason"? — much easier to reason lying down...

— The Doctor, in “The Creature From the Pit”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation