rougka

Don't get me wrong, I like it. But there's a fake nostalgia around terminals lately (nvim, oh-my-zsh, etc) and it seems emotional

The terminal is the last bastion of the "good old times" for many people. that's why a terminal aiming at modernizing the experience is so triggering

Only when forgetting that the US was extremely naive towards Stalin after-WW2, breaking promises and taking over eastern europe.

This now classical approach where the US is some absolute evil confronted by the nice guy Stalinists could be funny if not widespread

sorry, could not help myself :)

it's a joke, but it's not inconceivable that chatbots which support voice like chatgpt will use voice fingerprinting for ads

AI fingerprints your voice and sells it to ad companies

Waiting for OpenAI to take this concept and make it into a product

to be fair, was there anything you didn't feel optimistic about in the 90s?

From what I remember everything about that decade was full of unrealistic optimism (end of history etc)

Reminds me of Spycraft: The Great Game

I am pretty sure it had this kind of interface complete with the sound effects, or maybe i am confusing it with another game from that era

they claimed they had to change planes though i had selected that seat when booking the flight, and there were no humans available to address such issues

I remember experiencing this in one of the German airports/airlines and having that exact thought.

It was this fully automated airport, where the checkin is self serviced and you only interact with computers.

Eventually, when I inserted my boarding pass I had a printed piece of paper back that said that they had to change my seat from aisle to midseat

I then tried to find someone to talk to the entire way, but computers can only interact in the way the UI was designed, and no programmer accounted or cared for my scenario

The ground attendant couldn't have done anything of course because it wasn't part of the scope of her job, and this was the part of germany where nice was not one of their stereotypes.

Eventually I got a survey a week later about a different leg of the flight, so could I really complain there? that one was fine? I had a paranoid wonder if that was intentional

in your opinion these are settlers illegally occupying land, in their opinion they came back after they were ethnically cleansed from Hebron in the 1929 and 1936 massacres

sometimes life is surprisingly complicated