Only if you’re using the Chrome extension, maybe. This is just Google trying to kill even the memory of Google Reader by fucking with the biggest competitor to social media in Chrome.

Arch w/KDE Plasma desktop, of course.

“Smart” TVs should be kept off the internet and only used as video output for actual computers.

IIRC, biological grey goo is called Pink or Green goo.

I got hired as a Linux Technical Analyst by a company that was re-writing all their old mainframe code for modern servers, three weeks later they told me they were moving me to Site Reliability Engineering.

I do not have the attention span for reliability engineering. They fired me six months ago for not being good at a job my ADHD makes it impossible for me to be good at.

A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter

So, either you’re accusing me of tone policing and engaging with me anyway, or you’re not accusing me of tone policing yet continue to meander off topic anyway. XD

To be frank, I don’t care about your tone, I’m concerned with the disconnect between what you say the topic is (why people feel a certain way) and how you’re choosing to engage (insisting on another perspective instead).

In what way is making a counter point disingenuous?

It reveals that your intent is not to comprehend another perspective, but to insist upon your own.

Why do I need to just blindly accept what someone says without any pushback?

The thing that you’re being asked to accept is that this someone believes what they say they believe.

Nobody’s asking you to blindly assume that this someone is being honest, but making a counterpoint is not the same thing as asking clarifying questions to better understand their perspective or probe it for the inconsistencies that would indicate deception.

I’d like to argue that this isn’t a slow collapse, but a remarkably rapid one. The Roman Empire, for example, took almost 300 years from the Antonine Plague that halted it’s growth before the last western emperor was deposed, or almost 500 years if counting from Julius Ceasar and the eruption at Pompei.

The USA, by contrast, entered its decline a mere 25 years ago when it expended vast resources attempting to conquer the Graveyard of Empires, and only just last year ceded its position as global hegemon to China. At this rate, the American Empire might only last another generation or two.

It reads like a joke to me, and his published works suggest he’s not one to meekly take things at face value: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&citation_for_view=EEdRH98AAAAJ%3A0EnyYjriUFMC

Professor of Religion at James Madison University, published in a few journals and had an article in Wired about Go (the board game) ten-ish years ago.

My intent was to try to understand why people feel the way they feel. If I disagree with a reason someone has, am I just supposed to be like “oh, ok”, and move on?

Make up your mind, is your point to understand why people feel the way they feel or to convince them to feel in a way you agree with?

Am I not supposed to give any rebuttal to any points whatsoever

Rebuttals are for arguments, not for understanding.

If you can’t look at things from their perspective then you should be asking questions, not trying to convince them that their perspective is wrong.

The early days of “AI” were a full generation before the beginning of the internet, as it was formalized as an academic field back in the 50’s while ARPANET didn’t start admitting non-Defense users until the 80’s.

Are you saying I am being disingenuous in my intentions by making counter points in a discussion?

Yes, that’s very clearly what’s happening here.

The two are inseperable. The scale of large language models means they can only be trained by those who are able to spend hundreds of millions on data harvesting and compute.

Faraday cage, but it’s just a dog crate wrapped in aluminum foil.

As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.

Seems pretty enforcable to me. Hell, they were even able to compel the U.S. Olympic committee to pay out hundreds of millions when their lead team doctor sexually harassed so many athletes that he’ll be in prison for the rest of his life.

What fact about yourself are you least willing to share with strangers?

If there is no way to tell if that is a reasonable question for me to ask, then by what metric do you decide whether or not to answer it? Does that metric act as a stand-in for “reasonableness” to you, and if so then how do you square it with your earlier insistence that drawing such a line is impossible? If not, why?

And there’s another one for my block list.

I’m confident in my “never” because of the capital economics; the service has to be expensive enough to pay for the infrastructure it requires plus some profit for the shareholders, while simultaneously being cheap enough to offer gamers a better value proposition than buying their own hardware. There’s no margin between those limits, so the only market left for them to appeal to are niches where local rendering performance is limited but network latency and bandwidth are not. Even then, gamers still have the option of streaming from their own hardware using Moonlight rather than paying for a third-party service, so the only customers left are the ones with more money than sense.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the concept (I even bought an OnLive microconsole back in the day and still regularly use a Steam Link to stream games to the living room TV), but it isn’t nearly convenient or performant enough to justify itself as a subscription service.