Exactly. My point is to move to a single universal standard that is used by literally everything so this never happens. Just cut off everything that can’t be updated, and it can just sink or swim based on how well it can parse the new table.

Fuck all that ancient non-updateable shit. There’s no good reason that old table still exists, much less be possible to use this side of 2000.

Obviously this has legacy problems, but fuck those systems, everyone gotta get new shit now, tough shit. The old table should be cause for new shit to fail compiling in the first place. Shouldn’t be possible to use it.

Let’s just make forward progress, and lose the chains.

They’re metheads. They’re only jonesing when they’re not consuming.

And probably even then.

Should be good reading. Be a Shane if any consequences came of this.

Can this really not be fixed?

I still see this in various text that’s meant to be readable.

Usually ampersands are the biggest culprit, but is it just a really sacred data type that can’t be upgraded to include punctuation, but can include the foreign looking wingdings that try to stand in for it?

I’m just confused on why those characters have multi character reference names that aren’t part of the regular alphabet or punctuation set either, but those still show up instead of having room to just remove the erroneous reference with the actual character.

It’s 2026, just dig out this fossil and fix it already.

Obviously everyone will suddenly magically drive 100 miles a year if it’s self reported.

And even reporting the difference each year is a problem. Not so much with digital data, but with the government.

Your car is already selling all the other information already if it’s less than 10 or so years old (disclaimer- I don’t know the specific number, but that’s gotta be close).

I don’t know the correct answer to this exactly, but given that I’ve only driven my car (hybrid) about 4k miles total over the last 2 years since I got it (April '24), and paid less (but not $0) in gas tax, but still got hit with the full $130 extra fee is absolutely infuriating. I hadn’t even owned it a full year yet but still had to pay a non pro-rated amount (my previous car was a regular gas car).

I’m basically paying almost 6x the rate per mile since I drive so little. I’m the one stuck paying extra because I can’t afford to drive enough to justify the full amount, and subsidizing some high mileage driver out there.

I realize tracking mileage has privacy implications, so I don’t know a perfect solution, but it fucking SUCKS to get ripped off this hard. While being on disability due to injury and other surgeries, too. I mean I’m still building strength and endurance back to be capable of working again, preferably this year, but I’m the meantime, taxes are fucking killing me.

At least with an EV I would have 0 in gas taxes instead of paying the “not paying gas tax” fee on top of the gas tax- while gas is almost $5 a gallon.

So much bullshit.

Edit- I just noticed that my state does offer a mileage based option, but you have to plug a doodad plugged in the ol Ob2 port or whatever it’s called. And then use an app to upload your mileage information, which I believe happens more than once a year, which is weird and more privacy breaking, given that registration is only assessed once a year (or less, if you pay 2 or 3 years ahead). That gives them not only your total mileage for the year, but which month you got those miles in.

I assume per month, but I don’t actually know. I assume it’s once per year, because they added that in addition to using that device and the app, that you have to annually send a photo of your odometer to what they actually called “true up” your info.

If they’re relying on that photo to be the most reliable part, then that should be the only part needed. It’s basically screaming in our face that the device and app is definitely just for “spying purposes that we actually make money on”.

Personally I don’t want to even give them the photo, especially since it’s about a $150 fee a year. So given that I drive less than a quarter of whatever is normal now (I’ve heard “normal” is 10-15k miles per year, but I’ve only heard it from my parents, so I don’t actually know- and again I’ve gotten about 5k over 2 years), I see this as being assessed it to be a little under $40 for the actual fee, and a little over $100 for the “keep your nose out of my business” fee.

You’re not wrong, but this would still happen if you’re were free. People just can’t be arsed to do anything.

Probably a much lower rate, but still.

Who cares? AI bad, AI users stupid.

Using LLMs for any creative effort at all (other than mocking the results, no other exception) should just chop your fingers off in a signature pattern so everyone can mock you for the rest of your life.

Left 4 Dead has so little in the way of lore that it really shouldn’t be a problem.

I mean it’s a barbones scenario, and you could read through all the random one liners in an hour.

Quick look at the maps and you’re caught up.

Give im the chair.

I use Discord, but only for a very few friends (and by very few I mean 2 and then 2 of my brothers ended up there too) mostly for comms in games, sometimes to chat.

We’re considering options to leave, but as everything available has significant trade offs, it’ll be a while.

But nothing else mainstream where you just post to the ether and friends/followers are just subscribed to it.

I use an app to browse reddit for images, but it can’t log in or post comments.

But nothing else. I deleted Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram all around the time Elon bought Twitter.

Fediverse is really as close as I get to social media. I had some, and deleted them all years ago.

Except Discord, but I only use it like a common room in a dorm/apartment, not a connection to every other community in the world.

I fucking wish that would happen.

But there’s always gonna be the bottom half of the evolutionary curve.

If your company uses AI (in the colloquial LLM sense), it deserves to go bankrupt.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

Period.

If it uses it as a core pillar of their business, the owners deserve to empty their entire life earnings to the employees in perpetuity and they shouldn’t ever own anything better than a cardboard box home.

We need to make using this absolutely painful for owners.

For people like Altman, it should be death row worthy.

That dude cocaines. He’s got the crazy eyes in literally every single photo I’ve ever seen of him.

Mine just came in! All I’ve done is open it and make sure it’s real so far.

Fuck that guy, but only in every way he doesn’t consent to.

Yesss

I just said this in another thread but I’ll repair it here.

Once no one is rich, everyone will be.

Aye, I’ll raise my weed vape to that.

Nah, just guillotine them and make the kids wards of the (new and improved) state. Everybody wins.

They would stop making it if people didn’t buy it.

Every single person that has one of these should be shamed to hell and back for it.

I don’t know of a single justification, either. At all.

Forget cart narc, we need truck narc who just chips the fronts of all these monsters off.