This is why I still download movies and try to keep them. They make up the bulk of the crap I keep on my hard drives.

And there was a time when the computer science world wanted to avoid this… and it was 1990 (yes, almost 35 years ago) when the term digital dark age was coined. It was in response to several things. Firstly: the first voyager probe was sent and the code used to store the information could not be disciphered by (then) the latest computers, which resulted in a problem. The second thing is that governments all around the world were starting to be heavily computerized and the older computers used in the 1960s were 100% incompatible with newer systems.

In the US and UK in 1960 the first census were done by computers, and by just 1976 there were only two computers in the world that could read that data, and one of them was a museum piece.

The FOSS community has done far more to combat this with emulation over the past 30 years than any corporation has ever done. Whether it is for video games like MAME, MESS, or whatever console emulator you want to mention, or by OSes like MS-DOS and Amiga Lemon and countless others that emulate almost every system ever created.

Now these fucks are just shitting all streaming media and forcing normal people to have to break the law by pirating the stuff just to keep the stuff from vanishing into oblivion.

Google maps is the last vestige of Google that I use. I was never a Google search user and I only use Gmail for ‘official’ stuff.

So yeah, I want this to work.

What’s even more fucked up is we are overproducing food on a scale that is destroying the soil and a huge portion of food goes to waste well before it is even processed for sale (don’t feel upset for tossing away leftovers… all of our leftovers combined are a drop in the waste bucket).

Yet despite this they insist on cutting more and more corners. In the 19th they did this and produced highly toxic results… and it was not only outlawed, but American food production made the prices so cheap that it was not needed anymore.

Yet we have shit being done today that would still shock people back then.

I am going to be buying a monster high end machine and I want to do all the AI stuff on it.