I try other options now and again. When something is better I use it. Until then, I have things to do with what works.
People continue to innvote, test, and develop new options. Someday one will eventually work out a superior approach that takes off among the general userbase.
If Texas is any indication, the right wingers just get dumber and keep voting to destroy their communities. 30+ years of single party control there and it just keeps getting worse.
Alan Lightman’s book Einstein’s Dreams. It uses stories to explore how time moves, or could move if the laws of the Universe were different.
I can feel the web rings rising from the shea of history. Their time has come one again!
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It’s literally an insider joke meme from the 1800’s.
One of my various YouTubers is a tech person and generally against arbitrary AI use. They posted that someone generated a bio summary of them for a conference that hallucinated that they were from Guadalajara, Mexico. AI generated articles started using that fact. Now more AI summaries are citing the articles so they look real.
They’re from NY, but it’s going to be nigh impossible to correct the record.
Discworld as a collection is intimidating. The real secret is that it’s not a series, but a kind of pile. You can really start almost anywhere and read whatever.
That said, there’s kind of short sets with the same characters in groups throughout the books. I’d point people to these ones as reasonable starting points:
I’m sure other people will have various other suggestions or opinions and we’re all likely correct for our own reasons. There’s very little in Discord that isn’t top tier writing.
There’s plenty I could list, but when it comes to seeing the world through a new lens it’s all about Discworld. Just keep reading and it’ll change you. Sir Pratchett’s understanding of people, society, and philosophy is phenomenal.
I’ve had more than too many life threatening events. Along with family, therapy, proactive steps to improve my life, I took to heart “life before death”. When I would be in a bad mental/emotional place, that was a strong mantra to help me get back on track. Thank you, Brandon Sanderson.
Thank you! It’s tough out there. We try to celebrate the wins, though.
Gliding on old savings, but hopefully the new job (39% raise!) will get us back afloat… for now. It’s like I have to keep changing jobs so I can get raises that even begin to match the cost of living increases from corporate greed.
We were required to do our initial deposit for a bank account in Germany in cash. Not entirely sure why, but we’re immigrants and so we couldn’t easily do international transfers yet, nor did we have an in-country account to work with. Having larger denominations for a two month rent security account was very reasonable.
Do we do lots with cash? YES. We have children and they use cash to buy things. Do I use it? Yes. For everything? No. It’s about 80% digital, 20% cash. Should I use digital to buy a 1 euro pastry at a train station? No. Why pay the overhead to the bank? Don’t bother. Cash works fine. Digital works fine. Have both.
The problem is that it worked in the US for many decades. It’s the ghost of the capitalist powers fear mongering away to prevent citizens from taking control of their own labor.
Awesome. That’s the Geek Way.
Shadowrun shouldn’t be a documentary, but here we go.
Also: << the nerds aren’t going to do any of this shit, so… let’s look like the good guys by exempting them so we don’t look terrible when the nerds show how obviously this is all security theater >>
Maybe he’s an LLM bot?
Exactly the problem: bandwidth and latency.
The radio frequencies these run at and the power they’re allowed to use limits them to very very low bandwidth for data transfer. They can’t even do a low bitrate audio stream.
What they can do is messaging without 3rd party oversight and with adhoc data links. They’re very very cool for offline networks, especially in places without extant infrastructure for transmissions.
I managed to accidentally train myself to fall asleep.to the Mighty Jingles YouTube World of Warships videos. It works amazingly well.
Someone purposefully drove in a crowd at Pride today in my city. Aside from more rioting, what’s it going to take to get the TERFs and related scumbags to just leave people alone?
Some 25 years ago when the RIAA was going apeshit over online sharing of music they were happily suing people left and right.
At some point they argued that no computer should ever make a copy of music without a license. The opposition proceeded to demonstrate how computers work. They make many copies of data files while processing them in the CPU, RAM, cache, omin temp files, etc. The judge did temporarily order that only one canopy could be made, but after the education, said fine: if the RIAA wants to let it stand, then they can’t distribute via any computer systems anywhere by their own rules.
In the end, the case was dropped and computers got to keep processing data as per normal.