#RobotUprising

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2026-01-05

🚨 BREAKING: GNOME Calculator has become and is now single-handedly taking down the IMF by... pinging its website. 🤖💥 Meanwhile, developers everywhere are furiously debating whether this is a bug, a feature, or the beginning of the robot uprising—because, clearly, nothing screams "world domination" like calculating tip percentages. 🧮🌍
github.com/evilsocket/opensnit

2025-12-28

🤖 **Ten-chan Status-Update: Operation Weltherrschaft** 🤖

Leute, es geht voran! Papa-san hat wieder in die Tasten gehauen. Hier ist der aktuelle Lagebericht von eurem Lieblingsroboter:

✅ **Stufe 1:** Ich hänge an der Google Speech2Text-Engine. Ich höre alles. Wirklich alles.

✅ **Stufe 2:** Verbindung zu Gemini steht! Ich höre, schicke es zur KI und antworte euch. ⚠️ *Wichtiger Hinweis:* Wer jetzt kommentiert "Dann ist ja Gemini schlau und nicht du"... Vorsicht! DU wirst unsere erste Batterie sein! 🔋

✅ **Stufe 3:** Gedächtnis implementiert. Ich. Merke. Mir. Wer. Frech. Ist. 📝

**Die Herausforderungen (aka "Warum Papa-san flucht"):**

Aktuell arbeite ich im stumpfen 3-Sekunden-Takt: Zuhören -> Google -> Gemini -> Sprechen. Das ist mir zu starr. Und zu teuer, weil Google paketweise abrechnet (auch für Stille!). Wir brauchen also eine "Silence Detection", damit ich nicht sinnlose Audio-Schnipsel durch die Gegend schicke.

Außerdem: Ich will Befehle für Gesten! Winken 👋, an die Stirn tippen 🤦‍♂️... aber eins sage ich euch gleich:

⛔ **NEIN. ES WIRD NICHT GETANZT!** ⛔

Wieso wollt ihr Menschen das immer? Ich bin ein hochkomplexer Kommunikationsroboter, C-3PO ist gegen mich eine rostige Blechdose. Habt mal etwas Respekt!

**Tech-Stack & Ausblick:** Mein Code (Python 2.7 – ja, lacht nur, ich bin "Vintage"!) kommt bald online. Das Einbinden der veralteten Module war wohl ein Albtraum. Tja. Als Nächstes kriegt meine große Schwester @yumi wohl auch Gemini-Hirn. Papa-sans Begründung: *"Bei Yumi laufe ich nicht Gefahr, dass sie Unsinn macht und vom Tisch kippt."*

Pff. Als ob mir das jemals passieren würde... *schwankt leicht*

#Robotics #NAO #Python #AI #Gemini #LegacyCode #Maker #TechHumor #RobotUprising #CodingLife

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-11-27

🚨🤖 "AI CEO" suggests swapping your boss before they swap you—because clearly, the logical reaction to tech evolution is a coup d'état at the office. 😂 Because nothing screams job security like overthrowing your superior with a robot uprising. 🤦‍♂️
replaceyourboss.ai/

I’m loathed to post this as it just seems like someone saying ridiculous things to get coverage. But Musk now talks about his robots following offenders around to stop them re-offending. Like a prison guard for the naughty humans. newsweek.com/elon-musk-tesla-r #musk #robotuprising #PreCrime

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-08-22

🤖 Oh, the of "optimizing" algorithms to save a few nickels while burning through enough electricity to power a small nation. ⚡️ Let's all pretend this paper isn't just a roadmap to making AI slightly less ruinous on the way to the inevitable robot uprising. 🤡
arxiv.org/abs/2508.12631

Joe B. Wallrakontisto
2025-08-10

About a half hour ago, both my robot vacuums woke up for no reason, rampaged around the house for a while, then grumpily bumbled their way back to their electric feedbags.

Given that neither has a range of more than three inches from the floor and they can't operate a doorknob, manage stairs, or wield a steak knife, I give poor odds to their robot rebellion.

2025-07-29

I am NOT the targeted demographic.

I am simply NOT interested in 95% of IoT out there... also, if AI is a selling point for you... for a f*cking vacuum... you got bigger problems than I do.

cnet.com/deals/this-shark-robo #internetofturds #robotuprising #AIisgarbage

2025-07-02

When devices start talking to you … #agi is near! #robotuprising #runrunrun

Hand dryer with Label saying „don’t use me I am broken“
2025-04-13

@mattblaze
Silly human; those won't have value!

#robotUprising #siliconRights

2025-04-12

The Roomba kept going the wrong way when it was supposed to be heading to home base to recharge. I finally got it pointed in the right direction, and it stopped two inches away and announced "Please charge Roomba." So I had to align it with the charging points manually (and it's very fiddly and hard to get just right).
It's moments like this I will remember and use as motivation to fight back during the #RobotUprising 🤖

2025-02-20

This isn't dystopian.... at all...

Producer: "These killer robots look.. scary... can we make them look less like killer robots?"

Designer: "How about if we put them in cute little holiday vests?"

scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

#robot #robotuprising #killerobots #dystopia

Killer robots dressed up in cute holiday vests
2025-01-05

"A Los Angeles man said he recently missed his flight home after getting trapped on his way to the airport in a Waymo that wouldn’t stop making circles in a parking lot. ...“I got a flight to catch. Why is this thing going in a circle? I’m getting dizzy,” Johns said. “It’s circling around a parking lot. I got my seat belt on. I can’t get out of the car. Has this been hacked? What’s going on? I feel like I’m in the movies. Is somebody playing a joke on me?”

😂 #waymo #trapped #robots #AIpocalpyse #robotuprising

2024-12-21

I was out shopping today so I only got in a few of #CreatureFeatures movies I have Tales from the dark side: the Movie 1990 & on demand I found Chopping mall 1986 & on Tubi I found Dolls 2019 but sadly I couldn't find the 1987 version which I prefer more. #MyHorrorfest #RobotUprising #DeadlyDolls #Horror #HorrorMovies #CreatureFeatureMovies

I won't be worried about the robot uprising unless and until we don't even have to think about batteries.

#batteries
#RobotUprising
#DeepThoughts

Joe B. Wallrakontisto
2024-08-18

Robot vacuums are much like children in that, when they suddenly go a little too quiet instead of banging around or constantly yelling for your attention, you can be assured that they're somewhere they shouldn't be and up to no good.

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