Fuck that stupid AI/AGI narrative, even if this is meant as a joke. They’re LLMs. Some of them not even so large. A bunch of if statements with access to all the data advertising companies like Google have harvested for decades.

“But now we have so many other ways of tracking people on the www, we can finally give in on this one specific, somewhat outdated thing called cookies, we really don’t need it anymore.”

“Let’s be realistic!”

Web 1.0, booo!!!

But that would mean that some of the richest companies and arguably the biggest business on the planet would become obsolete!

Actually scratch that, it looks like AI saved the day for them.

I hope my darkest cynicism on this topic comes across, if not: ///sssss

Tell us the story again, about how your immortality-wish went wrong, grangrangrangrangrangrangrandaddy!

In Iain M Banks’ Culture novels people get several hundred years old. Death is pretty much optional, they just usually choose to die at some point. The way they deal with the problem of memory seems to be that they just take longer to do things; working somewhere for 30 years is a stint. You might follow a hobby for 20 years, or take a 10 year vacation.

But there was one character who chose to not die. He was over a thousand years old and an important witness to something that happened during the Idiran wars (iirc). He did have that problem, and he had outsourced large parts of his memeories. Electronically, and in the form of an explorable virtual world.

edit: I’m now not 100% sure about the 2nd paragraph. Maybe it was in a Culture novel, but differently, maybe somewhere else, maybe I’m mixing up two stories…

Yes and yes, but I have no need for it.
I prefer to use Signal’s Android version by way of SailfishOS’ App support.

https://nlnet.nl/project/Whisperfish/

FWIW I’ve been daily driving SailfishOS on various Sony Xperias for 5 years now. It’s not fully OSS, but it is a fully valid Linux OS.

The caveat is better than the joke.

Never hear d of those. But it’s almost funny that every sleeping pill’s main side effect (or after effect) is tiredness.

Thank you. I was hoping this would be among the top upvoted comments.

I’d love to know which of the sound effects were real. That would make a big difference to me. That and whoever is holding the camera.

No you’re right.

I also attempted to write pseudocode; not sure bash will even do this without curly brackets.

Ah, the Wild Wild Web

But what could “quitting early” mean in this analogy?

The good old fork bomb.

function f
    while true; do
        f &
    done

edit: forgot the ampersand - the actual fork

That’s what you get with remote-mounting a fs

I’m also not sure if Firefox is distinguishing between 32-bit ARM and 32-bit x86.

I should’ve added this as a possible caveat.