Update: legally it’s now a list that violates the privacy of various ordinary citizens who have done nothing wrong.

For friends and family I use my phone’s IM. For total strangers on lemmy I just use Reply.

You’re already here.

Software dev myself (retired) and I’ve been very skeptical about AI generated code, but a friend of mine uses it daily in his work. During one of our in-person D&D games he told it to create a SQL Lite app to keep track of some game info, and in seconds he was using the app. AI is currently a super-emotional issue riddled with misinformation and fantasy, but there’s no denying its usefulness.

Well, reading comprehension hasn’t changed. I said “most” not “everyone”. Amazingly the world isn’t binary.

It made a bold move, Cotton.

IMO we’re here because of the 10 million Democrats who voted for Biden in 2000 and refused to show up in 2024. Bonespurs only won by a little over 2 million. Harris should have kicked his ass, but oh now, she “supports genocide”. Last week the long, difficult Gaza ceasefire negotiation process finally paid off. Funny how nobody’s talking much about it.

Needs a tattoo that says “Real snake, do not touch!”

If you ask a question and you say, “but don’t say the answer,” you’re just asking for an echo chamber.

Along similar lines, Alexa won’t respond to crude questions but my daughter got it to say “butt” by putting “your butt” on our shopping list. So if I ask what’s on the shopping list it will say like, “You have three items on your shopping list: chicken, Bisquick, and your butt.”

I always say, there’s nothing wrong with still getting a laugh out of things you thought were funny in third grade.

Wow, your situation must be complicated. With TurboTax or FreeTax it doesn’t take me more than a couple hours - and I’ve never used the short form.

It’s done automatically in the US too, as far as it can be. Income tax is withheld from our paychecks based on a form we fill out, where we say if we’re single or married and how many dependents we have. But the formula used to figure out how much to withhold for tax can’t anticipate things we do during the year that change our taxes - for example, charity donations, investment income, or using our own cars for work purposes. So we have to do a final figuring.

Once I got a check from the IRS in October for around $1000, saying I had overpaid. I put it in the bank and that was that. About a month later they sent me a bill for $1000 in unpaid taxes plus interest going back to April 15, as if I had never paid it. This was a crock since they’d had the money almost the entire time, but the interest was only like $80, which I didn’t think was worth the trouble of disputing. Weird mistake though. Apparently they audit themselves.

Car user manuals used to tell you how to refill the battery. Now they tell you not to drink what’s in the battery.

Also most student-age people today who would have become programmers 20 years ago probably won’t, because AI will be generating most code. The definition of “programming” will change to writing and tweaking effective specs for AI to generate code from. Back in the 80s and 90s I liked to say our ultimate goal as programmers was to eliminate our own jobs. Well I’ll be darned…

The Tandy (i.e. Radio Shack) TRS80 was affectionately known back then as the Trash 80. My first experience at programming was in high school in 1971 or 72 on a paper-roll teletype style terminal, that was connected to a PDP-11 at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry). It wasn’t even a class, just an after-school activity run by our math teacher, Mr. Tuhy. My masterpiece was a tic-tac-toe program that could always win if it went first, and always at least tie if the human went first. I accidentally deleted it lol.

Somehow the myth that you can’t file a missing persons report until 24 hours is still going strong.

Sounds like nothing a little bleach won’t cure!

I love how when Life Support starts to fail the crew acts woozy as if their batteries are running down, finally collapsing. Then when Life Support comes back they slowly reboot and stand up again and be like, Whew!

Turn it into a curry.