Recently I watched a movie in a cinema (Vie privée; a well made murder mystery). Haven’t been for ages. It was almost empty; maybe a dozen people. Imagine my surprise when after the movie, the foyer was packed with people, mostly teenagers. I was so baffled that for a moment I didn’t even realize they were waiting for the next movie; anyhow, the ticket seller told me it’s “some cult movie” called Five Nights At Freddy’s 2. So, last night I watched Five Nights At Freddy’s. A fun and touching movie about 1980’s animatronics puppets, with 1 or 2 very mild horror motives.

PS: yes, it’s part of a video game franchise. Surprisingly well made though.

And now about Vie privée, the latest Jodie Foster movie. It was a nice whodunnit with a strong psychological strain. I liked it well enough. All Paris, Jodie Foster talking mostly French with occasional American swearing. The ending was a little rushed, the resolution a little simplistic, but a nice watch somewhere between crime and drama.

Not within the USA. I don’t know the exact details, but basically all regulation of AI-related stuff is suspended for 10 years or so.
By then they will be the dominating force.
And then they cry about the EU trying to enforce their own laws.

The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely — including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.

In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be AI-generated, with an article naming a fictitious IT professional, Edward Crabtree, as the man who disarmed the attacker. This, of course, got picked up by Grok and regurgitated on X.

But Grok also suggested that images of Ahmed were of an Israeli being held hostage by Hamas. And it claimed that video taken at the scene was actually of Currumbin Beach, Australia, during Cyclone Alfred.

It’s hallucinating, but in MAGA 🤣

US American TV, I presume?

“Yes but it could be true! That’s the point!!”

I bet you feel pretty foolish now.

Yes, but not for the reasons you think.

(btw, this is the first time I’m seeing someone copying xkcd’s absence of style)

First of all, most media players are streaming/network capable, they don’t even advertise it. Just feed it the URL.

You can even integrate user/password combos for http simple auth into a direct link. Not the safest; just to avoid people getting wind of a free radio station and overloading your server. Unless that’s you want, but then you should be aware of legal stuff.

On the server side, you can run your own radio station with something like Icecast. That’s its own topic.

If you want to choose what you listen to remotely, you are most likely looking at something Subsonic-compatible (apps exist). People say Navidrome is good. I am currently running jellyfin, it’s not subsonic compatible but apps exist, too.

Maybe it’s a “Tout Directions =>” type of situation? Often used in France to get through towns.

German uses the word Jungfrau (literally young woman), there’s no separate word explicitely defining a state of not having had sex.

I’m guessing Almah is similar.

But I heard a different story about the “virgin birth” - problem is I have no idea if it’s true or not. Anyhow:

There was some sort of ritual where young women were invited to spend a night at the temple, with priests. Due to the religious nature of this, they were still considered to be virgins (“marriable” I guess?) afterwards. Quite the opposite, it was seen as an honour. Even if they got pregnant.

So there’s your “Virgin” Mary who was “visited by an angel” to conceive.

edit: there is some evidence that girls used to work and live at the temples, and my story is likely an interpretation of the Gospel of James.

DeepSeek the software is open source.

Please, government of the USA, do not bail them* out. At least not any more than what you’re already giving them.

* OpenAI

Hm. That changes the joke significantly.

There might be terrible ska bands, but they still make great music.

There’s also one called “Developing In Production”

I can’t stop scrolling…

{rand(1,15)}th edition

or this one (way down):

Finding Your Own Stack Overflow Posts

The Essential Guide

(It’s almost like you’ve had this problem before)

In the end he’s always a whiny vindictive little bitch, but South park just shows us how much the world runs on whiny vindictive little bitches.

Kay, is that you? You do look different.

Eric Cartman to his mom: “because I like to be wined and dined before YOU FUCK ME OVER!”

Perfectly describes this sort of phenomenon.

I was going to disagree, then I opened my code editor… then my word processor… holy crap. I haven’t used a floppy since 1995.