Can you even run Balatro without a 3090?!?

Man, we all kind of had this in mind, but what an incredible reference.

AI is useful; it just doesn’t replace people.

The shift will be “you can make more paperclips. Make the paperclips faster.”

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Can you not just fully disabled the integrated? (At the cost of higher power usage.)

They’re doing the ai murderbot episodes too.

I lean into it intentionally sometimes. Some of those things sponsor the things I like, and I want those things to be keep happening, so I’ll buy some Pagoda egg rolls that I never would have touched otherwise.

That doesn’t work with the really intrusive ads though.

I bet it’s great if your business is Spirit Halloween.

just have a magic 8ball sitting on your desk

I kind of like this, with some modification. It’s a magic 8 ball of Stack Overflow answers. It’ll try to find the one you need. If it’s too hard to find that or if it doesn’t exist, it’s just gonna find the one that sounds good.

yeah, it gives you the answer it thinks you want based on your prompts.

I’d be interested to see what prompts they used to, uh, prompt this response.

I understand the intent, but this is not phrased well.

prevents your messages being spied on by Signal, but ironically they’re probably one of the most trustworthy actors in this whole chain, so the fact that it’s protected from them, while commendable, is not particularly valuable security

It’s extremely valuable security, because most companies, even if they don’t want to spy on you might be compelled to by court order. And those companies often think their security is sufficient because they have good intentions, and they expect the government to have good intentions when they’re going as far as getting a court order. (I also suspect more court orders are justified than not, but a few bad subpoenas spoil the bunch.) The fact that they physically are unable is quite important.

All your points about how things around that can fail are valid.

I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just… move.

It’s hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it’s hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that’s available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it’s so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it’s easier for the orgs to move.

This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn’t take that much effort to post the content to two places.

Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.

Would your country like to join the Internet borg?

There are absolutely reasons. Firefox is done by a reasonable job of anti-fingerprinting, and it’s a fine line to walk to disable as many of those indicators as possible without breaking sites.

Browsers do give away too much, but at least Firefox is working on it. And it’s not extremely straightforward.

Should be fine. They don’t have to use a browser to retrieve that feed.

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the ads went away when the internet access did.

Then why are you mad?

It can be both.