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[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

I don’t know about AI involvement but this story in general is very very old.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

I thought of this as well. In fact, as a bit of fun I added a switch to a rack at our lab in a similar way with the same labels. This one though does nothing, but people did push the "turbo" button on old pc boxes despite how often those buttons weren't connected.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

My turbo button was connected to an LED but that was it

[-] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember that as well.

Edit; moved comment to correct reply.

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