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It was inevitable

27 October 2026

AI is coming for our jobs, or so we're told.

Just as the industrial revolution effectively destroyed swathes of jobs involving unskilled manual labour, so AI will wipe out a whole bunch of positions that will henceforth be relegated to a footnote in the history books.

AI proponents counter these dire predictions by pointing out that "as one door closes, another opens" and AI itself will produce new jobs (presumably such as dusting racks of GPUs in datacentres) so everyone's a winner.

Well last week there was some disturbing but not surprising news.

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I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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