Blackmist

This isn't new. They used to sell vinyl records full of sounds that people could use in their productions, and now it's audio files.

Chances are those laser blasts from Empire Strikes Back were just Laser Sound #12 from BBC Sci-fi Sound Effects Vol 3.

Yeah, but the governments obviously want to know exactly what you're doing as well.

I think their only objection to Google et al having so much data is that they need to jump through hoops to get hold of it.

I suspect this will be in browser before too long. Mostly so they can automatically provide your full unique ID code to anyone who asks, so your government can keep track of you if you say "I support Palestine Action" anywhere, or so Google can look it up when you dare suggest AI is not our glorious future.

But also because there's only so many "let us check your ID" services you can use before you end up giving your details to somebody who is going to sell them directly. How long before a dodgy porn site does a "show us your face" check, before generating deepfakes starring yourself and demanding payment not to send them to a social media profile it's already detected based on your face?

I don't really want to be on an internet where instead of blackmist@feddit.uk, somebody can just click that and go "Oh, that's Jeff Timmons of 48 Badminton Way, Stoke-on-Trent. Ring Staffordshire police so they can go and grab him"

Yep, turns out they only voted against it because they wouldn't be the ones spying.

Thanks, Kier Star.

Maybe we can dig up VIA and get a new Cyrix CPU.

Sure there is, and I'll tell you all about it right after this meandering story about my grandmother growing up on a farm.

My software does that anyway because I can't be arsed with multithreading or a 64 bit version

it’s a miracle any of it works

After 25 years in software development, I can say that's how I feel as well.

Sure, but if Intel hadn't made the 8086 and that entire family line was severed, Linux would have just been made for Motorola 68000 series or something. Or one of the Acorn ARM chips that did the rounds at the time.

No, they'll start to corrupt within a year or two. They need to be powered to retain data.

After 30 years you can forget it.

SSD would be 100% dead unless you buried it with a power source.

And definitely don't use an SSD.

Oh, I got that plus and minus the wrong way round... I am a genius again.