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[–] 165 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I see your screenshot of a tweet of a photo of a projection of a screenshot and raise you a screenshot:

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    I'll take a screenshot of that.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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    [–] 150 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    I remember when my dad was skeptical that I copied a game from my friend's computer onto ours via floppy disk. "A game is too big nowadays to fit on a floppy," he said. "Just you wait," I said.

    I had copied the shortcut from the desktop.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Oh how excited you must have been when you copied the shortcut onto your computer's desktop and saw that it transferred over just fine.

    And then how disappointed once you tried clicking on that shortcut...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    There's a chance it didn't copy over fine because it might have grabbed the icon from the shortcut target rather than save it with the shortcut file. So the transfer might have ended with a sinking feeling seeing that blank icon that was confirmed when it was double clicked (maybe with a brief moment of hope upon seeing that it wasn't just an OK error box but had a browse button to find the correct target, before realizing that they didn't have the files).

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    A guy I know thought he made a backup of all his family photos on an external hard disk. He only copied the shortcuts.

    He only found out after disposing of the old computer...

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I remember reading a thread on Swedish computer forum.

    There was a guy who had "compressed" his whole media livrary and saved it to a floppy disk, reinstalled his computer and now wanted to restor the media files....

    Yeah, what he had done was to misunderstand what an MD5 hash was, he thought it was an extremely efficient compression algorithm....

    And this is one of the many reasons I tell people that "an untested backup does not exist"

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    This is pretty impressive. Looks pixel for pixel what I’ve been building for months now.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The next gen of Claude will just steal your CC info from Chrome and sign you up for an AWS free trial without your consent.

    But hey, at least it'll work, right?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago

    Wait til this person sees 192.168.1.1

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

    The only hope is that this bubble burst so badly and they will lose so much money that for years companies will shit their pants before trying anything new.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    They will not shit their pants... They will simply raise prices for consumers and small business depending on them.

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    [–] 17 points 1 week ago

    I'm just sitting here looking at a screenshot of a Twitter post of a photo of a projection of a screenshot of someone else's joke.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    AI put the entire internet on my machine!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    We saw this same joke template shortly after ChatGPT was a thing. Almost exact, but now with Fable. Fake bullshit, though good chance that the original was authentic. The internet sucks now.

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    [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    it would've been cool if the only type of website AI could do would've been good old GEOCITIES garish monstrocity. that would've justified the existence of AI. But since the only good AI website that doesn't fall apart is minimalist white - why even bother?

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