We saw this same joke template shortly after ChatGPT was a thing. Almost exact, but now with Fable. Fake bullshit, though good chance that the original was authentic. The internet sucks now.
The format is in its “LinkedIn viral” phase of life, so it should be fully dead soon
I see your screenshot of a tweet of a photo of a projection of a screenshot and raise you a screenshot:
I’m either going blind or that image definitely degraded 😂
that… is the point of the joke
edit: ok, i did not realize that. so the image is linked directly from xkcd.com. but here is the cleaner version. is that some randall’s meta joke?
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:digital_data.png
so…
As an easter egg, the high-resolution (pixel-doubled) version of the comic is merely the comic resized to 50% and then to 400%, making it an image of poorer quality rather than a higher resolution image as for other comics, demonstrating how repeated image scaling can also introduce artifacts into images. There appears to be another easter egg in which between 21 November 2016 and 10 December 2016 (both Internet Archive pages), the original hi-res image was replaced by the pixel-doubled image. However, the image URL below the comic still links to the hi-res image.
The img-tag also includes the pixel-doubled version as a srcset-attribute: srcset=“//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/digital_data_2x.png 2x” This causes browsers on high-resolution displays (pixel density ratio 2) to show the low-quality version of the image instead of the standard-quality one and leads to people re-visiting the comic on modern displays to experience degradation compared to the remembered version.
Thanks for the content. Yah, I’m usually at the end of an exhausting night when I get on here. I definitely repeated the joke on that one lol.
I’ll take a screenshot of that.
And print it.
On a 9 pin dot matrix printer.
Pure poetry
I remember when my dad was skeptical that I copied a game from my friend’s computer onto ours via floppy disk. “A game is too big nowadays to fit on a floppy,” he said. “Just you wait,” I said.
I had copied the shortcut from the desktop.
Oo! I have one for this! (Digs through meme collection.)
A classmate of mine once tried to copy MS PowerPoint by burning the desktop shortcut to CD.
That person either randomly wakes up at 4:00am thinking about that still to this day, or is a robot.
Oh how excited you must have been when you copied the shortcut onto your computer’s desktop and saw that it transferred over just fine.
And then how disappointed once you tried clicking on that shortcut…
I’m front of Dad
A guy I know thought he made a backup of all his family photos on an external hard disk. He only copied the shortcuts.
He only found out after disposing of the old computer…
I remember reading a thread on Swedish computer forum.
There was a guy who had “compressed” his whole media livrary and saved it to a floppy disk, reinstalled his computer and now wanted to restor the media files…
Yeah, what he had done was to misunderstand what an MD5 hash was, he thought it was an extremely efficient compression algorithm…
And this is one of the many reasons I tell people that “an untested backup does not exist”
Ow.
“it works on my machine”
Then we’ll ship your machine!
…and docker was born.
Wheezing
Wait til this person sees 192.168.1.1
The next gen of Claude will just steal your CC info from Chrome and sign you up for an AWS free trial without your consent.
But hey, at least it’ll work, right?
You’re right! I did rack up $20,000 in AWS usage fees.
