I always loved Particle Fire; I actually bought it with a postal money order as a teenager. The company released it under the GPL at some point a few years ago. Maybe someday I’ll be able to use it again on other systems!
Is that thing drawing a geometric structure on your screen? Because that's not that impressive. AI has real dangers, or what we are calling AI, which is not the AI that could be, LLM's are a lot less than we are led to believe. But they are good at sorting through data and pulling out like terms.
And even if they aren't good at it, our leaders think they are good at it, and will task their half baked Palantir operations to give us secret social scores to decide everything about how we are treated in business and government, without us knowing, or being able to challenge it.
Naturally the people setting it up will leave a way for them, and connected individuals, to put the names of people they don't like into the fuck you list for the program to score badly. That goes without saying really.
Interesting thanks, so The Office seems to be mostly the genesis of the joke when Michael is given list of woman to call for a date and calls a girl called wendy and it's a wendy's restaurant. Which is mildly funny sort of.
31 Comments
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 66 pts · 207d
I remember when screen savers used to be cool
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 207d
HumbleBragger@piefed.social · 7 pts · 206d
I remember one with toilets I guess. Oh and the bad dog one that defaced the desktop was really cool too!
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 206d
Oh yeah loved that bad dog one!
jqubed@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 207d
I always loved Particle Fire; I actually bought it with a postal money order as a teenager. The company released it under the GPL at some point a few years ago. Maybe someday I’ll be able to use it again on other systems!
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 207d
I forgot that existed. Beautiful.
Bosht@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d
Man I remember playing with the settings on a similar if not the same screensaver for HOURS.
Bosht@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 206d
I remember when screensavers were a whole subculture within my friend group haha. Bad dog was one of the best.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 2 pts · 206d
Used to? I still have IFS set up on systems. Same as 20 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uOIrVFsECM
maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 206d
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 207d
That's nothing, I've seen the DVD player figure out the exact angle to land the icon perfectly in a corner.
With AI having that type of aim we have no chance
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 207d
OMG it's got a teapot in it! We're all gonna die!!!!!!
ddssazsa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 203d
Seriously? That thing on a map was just the standard test 3d teapot?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 11 pts · 206d
How did they take the screenshot?
ddssazsa@piefed.social · 13 pts · 206d
In this age probably Win 98 was running inside a VM?
Mechanite@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 206d
Hold the CD tray eject button while holding the power button
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 207d
Is there a way to get this on Linux?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 207d
Yes but it's just words.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 207d
[PIPEGEN v0.42] Initializing procedural pipe renderer
t=0.000s
Origin pipe spawned at (0,0,0)
Radius: 1.00
Color: teal
Direction vector: (0.00, 1.00, 0.00)
t=0.217s
Pipe extended to length 3.4 units
Current position: (0.0, 3.4, 0.0)
Color: classic teal
Specular highlight: implied
t=0.491s
Elbow joint inserted
Rotation: +90° on Z-axis
New direction vector: (1.00, 0.00, 0.00)
t=0.944s
Secondary pipe spawned
Parent junction at (0.0, 3.4, 0.0)
Radius: 0.85
Color: common teal
t=1.302s
Primary pipe length: 7.9 units
Secondary pipe length: 2.1 units
No collisions detected (optimism high)
karashta@piefed.social · 8 pts · 207d
Oh hey, it's the alien that spontaneously generates or something in that one star trek episode!
(I know it's just that screensaver but it reminds me of that alien too)
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 206d
This is simply AI trying to escape The matrix. There's no worries please look away comrade.
Maven@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 207d
I used to use this exact same screensaver. Thats fantastic.
RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
It's just a graph of the Epstein file release process
hector@lemmy.today · -5 pts · 207d
Is that thing drawing a geometric structure on your screen? Because that's not that impressive. AI has real dangers, or what we are calling AI, which is not the AI that could be, LLM's are a lot less than we are led to believe. But they are good at sorting through data and pulling out like terms.
And even if they aren't good at it, our leaders think they are good at it, and will task their half baked Palantir operations to give us secret social scores to decide everything about how we are treated in business and government, without us knowing, or being able to challenge it.
Naturally the people setting it up will leave a way for them, and connected individuals, to put the names of people they don't like into the fuck you list for the program to score badly. That goes without saying really.
Feyd@programming.dev · 28 pts · 207d
Sir this is a Wendy's/it is a screensaver from 1995
hector@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 207d
Can I ask what is that sir this is a wendy's from? Because I see that everywhere but don't know the reference.
Lightsong@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 207d
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sir-this-is-a-wendys
hector@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 207d
Interesting thanks, so The Office seems to be mostly the genesis of the joke when Michael is given list of woman to call for a date and calls a girl called wendy and it's a wendy's restaurant. Which is mildly funny sort of.
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 206d
Holy moly
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 201d
AI hasnt built anything. The pipes screensaver builds so much that it literally runs out of room and has to start again.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 206d
wtf
hector@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 206d
What? Jesus Christ.