@nprofile1q... your current feelings about AI seem to be quite the opposite of a year or two ago. what happened?

oh man, remember when Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI? lmao

Starlink is SO profitable that SpaceX is apparently trying to stop providing NASA with service as well

so much for dependency on government """subsidies"""

(which were never subsidies but people are illiterate so whatever)

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/nasa-has-a-dragon-dilemma-and-there-appear-to-be-no-good-answers/

trying to make a script to remove long stretches of blacked out video from a longer video, and my gosh the tools for this suck

we've spent decades making software but we have barely made software good

you can tell that the Mastodon devs don't use Mastodon from how ass Mastodon is

you can tell that the Mastodon devs don't use Mastodon from how ass the a deck app is

ChatGPT has started to title conversations with chinese lol

i asked it for videos on in-game or in-vr behavior authoring techniques and it titled the convo "VR行为创作视频论文"

so, is OpenAI using some chinese models behind the scenes now?

some of you didn't grow up watching two guys drive around SF before explaining how to upgrade your hard drive and it SHOWS lemme TELL YA

relistening to the 90s VR podcast again and getting pissed off about how these guys are just so obsessed with ~brands~ and how it makes perfect sense that they all failed and also eventually bought into the NFT and metaverse hypetrains

perpetual braindamage inhumanness

i'm often very technically lonely. i have the desire to build so many interesting things but i work best when working with others on these things, at a minimum because it's useful to have a person to bounce ideas off of, and in person i have basically no one to do that with

Starship has reached orbit

so much for all the people saying it was an engineering impossibility

wonder what brain dead leftists will say next in order to avoid having to ACTUALLY organize in preparation for this future

yorkshire pudding is so easy to make, and so delicious :d