Yeah he basically called the lawyer an idiot. 😆

NGL, that fine-wood version of the Atari looked so slick. Too bad I only got the cheap plastic one.

A 500-watt electric pump serves as the robot’s “heart,” pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.

As usual, when you read the article you stumble upon a gigantic technical hurdle. 😕

EDIT: And I’m not against the technology. I’m all for prosthetics and humanoid robots for menial work.

Just imagine the possibilities if full human-pike prosthetics are developed. Think of people who have lost their arms or legs, suddenly being able to walk again.

(And of course, applied robotics for sex bots 😉)

You mean censorship and espionage in the name of child safety?

Because I’ve heard that one before… too many times.

And it’s quite sus that this happens the first month of Trump’s office.

No, I’m not buying it.

It’s kinda funny to hear someone say that, because Neuromancer’s concepts were so revolutionary that you needed to reread the whole thing at least twice to get it.

What happened is that technological advancement brought us to a point where we find the concepts in Neuromancer almost trivial to understand nowadays.

Oh, Cyberspace? You mean, like, the internet? Oh but it’s in VR. Cool.

And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.

My advice is to download a Neuromancer glossary from the internet and have it handy for whenever you encounter a strange word.

For me it was “trodes”. Trodes = electrodes, they allow your mind to plug into cyberspace (a futuristic version of the internet). Also, a deck, or cyberdeck, is basically a laptop without screen made to connect to Cyberspace - we have trodes now.

Take it easy, go with the flow, and play some Techno music in the background to adjust the mood 😎

I’d also recommend listening to the BBC radio play instead of trying to read the thing, it’s pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/S89BHnaxULo

following its acquisition from Sony

Has anything good EVER come from big company acquisitions AT ALL?

Geocities -> acquired by Yahoo -> crap -> death

Youtube -> acquired by Google -> ad crap

Blogger -> acquired by Google -> crap

Macromedia -> acquired by Adobe -> Monopoly crap

Washington Post -> acquired by Bezos -> political crap

MySQL -> Acquired by Oracle -> copyright crap

Github -> acquired by Microsoft -> crap

Reddit -> acquired by Conde Nast -> political crap

Twitter -> acquired by Musk -> utter crap

Every single time I see a cool startup get bought by a big player, all I can see is the service going to shit.

Agreed, fantastic story but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t moved to tears.

Hey, Robin! I know you have to vent sometimes into your works, but give the poor guy a break, won’t you?

• Hyperion Cantos.

• Neuromancer.

When techbros said “you can type a question and the AI will answer”, they seem to have forgotten that we expect the answers to be true and accurate.

And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.

It’s a threat to the Mozilla CORPORATION, not the Mozilla Foundation nor the browser.

Nothing to be really scared about. Move along.

My colleagues and I have developed an artificial intelligence system that helps buildings shift their energy use to times when the electric grid is cleaner.

Meanwhile, AI systems are getting trained while using the equivalent of several countries’ use of electricity.

What a bullshit article. The headline itself is so deceptive it makes my blood boil. Now everyone will think AI is a net positive for reducing power usage while it’s all the contrary.

By any chance, were the clamps filled with styrofoam or something? 😁 (Tofu-dreg joke)

Proof that neither following the law nor traditional morality are being appreciated by today’s youth.

The reason for that should be obvious.

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says CEO

Since when do CEOs do things because they’re actually useful and not because they want to cut costs at the expense of the workers and even the public?

Oh no, I know where this story leads…

There’s a youtube clip where a cat looked at the mirror and started touching its own ears the moment it saw them in the mirror.

https://youtu.be/kQBHB682xsQ

The fact that at least some cats are intelligent enough to recognize themselves in a mirror is a wonderful thing.

The fact that we’re reading and commenting about it on Lemmy is satisfying, despite the sadness of the situation. It’s like watching the city burn after you moved away and saying “wow, I guess I really took the right choice by leaving.”