It is kind of maybe a tiny bit about what you do… Setting the two names aside, it’d probably be worse to have somebody kill a billion people than to want to kill a trillion?

The truly terrifying outcome is that it works after changing nothing. Sometimes bugs are the most fun to squash.

They’re common in clouds like Azure, AWS, etc. Life is better with ssh, but sometimes these are useful for bastions.

I think tools like Open Collective, Ko-fi, et al. are sort of that already. So you’d be building centralization atop centralization. That may be useful, but it is another place that would require a rake to keep the lights on, so again less money donated.

And what happens if two or more such services exist? Then you need a layer above that.

Yeah, a good idea. You run into some material strength issues, but I think this is the way.

Here is a great video on spin gravity. It covers an important detail that another comment mentions but most over look. Spinning fast enough to create gravity-like centrifugal force causes real dizziness at small diameters. 5 or 6 rpm is about the maximum we can stand.

Sort of person that says “and a half” after their age.

I’m not saying it is a good value, just that it is one of the features. So just before a flight you can click download on a bunch of videos on your devices. That can be done otherwise, but not quite as simply on mobile devices as one click.

If I say “A screwdriver is a tool,” and “The brain is a tool,” am I then saying “The brain is just like a screwdriver”? Or is it possible that applying seconding order logic to an admittedly and clearly reductive statement I made isn’t productive?

And which part of the brain description is inaccurate, specifically?

There is active research right now for their use in pure maths. I don’t think it is primarily about direct solutions, but in program synthesis for formal logic. Keep in mind this isn’t just LLM’s, but also graph networks and other non-transformer networks.

That isn’t likely to happen. Fortunately, neither have I said that. But a pithy comeback won’t change the accuracy of the brain being a self-assembling probabilistic network. All your memories, experiences, and emotions are part of that.

You can also download videos, for offline playback.

We are nearly precisely that. The brain functions as a massive, self-organizing neural network where cognitive architecture is determined by the strength of connections (the biological equivalent of adjustable computational weights) that modulate signal transmission via the flow of ions.

Every decision made or breath taken is the outcome of how ions flow through this network.

More capable than the crowd here lets on. My take is like this, unchecked capitalism is a danger to mankind. The pervasiveness of LLM’s right now is just a symptom of that. The rich are the problem, not the AI.

It is a tool; a very good one along many axes. I think people that think it isn’t good for writing code are misinformed or intentionally disingenuous. It is extremely good at that, but it is just a tool not a replacement.

But it is the applications in pure maths, virology, protein folding, etc. where it gets really interesting.

Water consumption, power consumption, and profit motives aside, they are fascinating tools.

That said, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is a fascinating take on how this could all go wrong.

In any case, I can’t understand the people that say stuff like, “It is just autocomplete on steroids,” or “it is just a probabilistic prediction tool.” Okay, but like… that’s all we are too.

Summary, interesting tools being used for profit at the expense of economies, the environment, and creative fields.

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What do you mean “so”? It’s just… news. A thing that’s happening that people might want to know about.

How? You make an unauthenticated request to the cdn to get the font data. So they get IP and user agent, but no site cookies or other scripts are loaded. I’m not trying to defend them; fuck Google, but it is definitely not like other analytics services from Google. So, computer info (beyond user agent), time on site, interests, etc. is speculative at most.

To clarify, when I say “speculative”, I mean they are speculating your identity, not that your assessment is speculative. They can make a pretty good estimate of who you are even behind nat and use that with graph resolution to maybe surmise those details about you, but it isn’t deterministic like the analytics api. And they “promise” they aren’t doing that with the fonts api, but obviously they aren’t to be trusted.

Strange to link the words “active genocide” to an article that reads,

Claims of white genocide in South Africa have been entirely discredited

Can I interest you in some links:

My Home Media Project

• mediarr

The *arr Ecosystem

• Servarr Wiki
• TRaSH Guides
• Recyclarr

Media Servers

• Jellyfin
• Jellyseerr (now migrating to seerr)

Infrastructure

• Gluetun (VPN container)
• Tailscale

Public Domain Content

• Internet Archive
• Project Gutenberg
• LibriVox

Not necessarily untrue, but you end up both with baggage you don’t need and worse yet, not understanding how you got what you do have.

Neovim all by itself is a very capable editor with no plugins at all. The reason you should know plugins is irrelevant, in my view. You should not need to know any, unless you want to do. And then the reason is just because you want it.

To each of their own needs of course. I don’t begrudge anybody their use of distros; I just don’t see them as optimal.