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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Getting Octodad flashbacks

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Heck of a way to learn my 4 year old is the Joker.

@CrabbyIT@infosec.exchange I asked the fish in the tank in my home office what they thought about this, and they said the people outside are the bad kind of weird, not me.

@cw@hachyderm.io @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social As a huge Tron nerd, it broke my heart when they announced he was in it. I think he was only in it because he helped finance it.

Still grateful to Levar Burton for a childhood watching Reading Rainbow. Now I get to watch my kids experience the same feeling of wonder.

@jfslowik@infosec.exchange My favorite movie

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Don't say that too loud or someone will suggest an AI to "help you" write.

I was happy to see Riven through MYST V on the shelf in the latest video from @geerlingguy@mastodon.social . It's always nice to see one of my favorite series crop up again, as it seems so many are starting to forget about it.

@neurovagrant Let me know when and where this talk happens. I'll bring the popcorn.

@XenoPhage I just picked up a card game about defragging a Win95 computer. It must be the feeling for people of a certain age right now lol

@sa I wonder if I can rack mount a fish tank.

Twice now my wife has ordered books for the kids and then returned them because once we got hands on, we could tell it was AI generated. Now a third book has arrived and the cover is AI generated. I haven't had time to see if the text inside is too, but if the cover is, I don't have high hopes. These aren't from the same sellers, either. What a frustrating world we live in.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Early in my IT career, I had to do a Help Desk call to the business department (at a school district). They were in a panic because they had a shared Excel spreadsheet that was mission critical, but the person who made it had quit. They didn't know how it worked and things were no longer adding up. I shouldn't have, but I looked at the sheet and figured out where the error was. Over the next several weeks came in help desk tickets from this department needing help modifying the sheet and expanding it. I refused to do any of them and had to have a call with their department manager explaining that I was not there to teach them how to use Excel and he agreed they shouldn't be using IT people to do the business calculations they claimed they knew how to do. I can't imagine what it must be like if those people are using AI.

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social I highly recommend the books too. Book of Atrus was my favorite of the three because it did such a good job showing how Atrus became the man we see in Myst and provides more detail about how his father came to be the villain in Riven.