J5892

I was talking to a very drunk Republican girl the other day. We were having a small argument about why we would send medical support to Africa for AIDS. Her argument was something about fixing America first (I was also drunk).

I asked if she regretted her vote for Trump after several people she knew lost their government contracting jobs, and she said "No, fuck that guy, I didn't vote for him."

It's not really similar to your idea, but your idea unlocked a memory of playing Gizmos and Gadgets as a kid.

Edit: So I decided to go and play it on an online archive site. It's just as fun as I remember.

As an Android user, I sometimes feel like I should be a protected class.

But I get cheaper DoorDash orders, so that's good enough for me.

Ah, so that's how Soylent was founded.

You're not wrong. But if I'm paying $70 for a game, I'm definitely going to be annoyed if the trees look like they were pulled from Ocarina of Time.

I have an ongoing chat in chatGPT where it's instructed to every once in a while ignore my question and just respond with "Shut up, nerd."

Now I'm curious about training a bot on my IRC logs from the early 2000s.

It'd be like a chat time machine. I'd love to go back and bullshit with long-lost online friends about modding Halo:CE on Xbox again.

There... is.

It's basically social suicide for kids now.

But it's great for people like me, because I'm much less likely to be added to a family group text.

Insane, terrifying, incredible, etc.

We're rapidly stumbling into the future of media.

Who would've imagined a year ago that trivial AI image generation would not only be this advanced, but also this pervasive in the mainstream.

And now video is already this good. We'll have full audio/video clips within a month.

My crypto project is powered by D batteries.

I don't know how dense they are, but they're pretty heavy.

I imagine having access to the user analytics of this site is one of the most anxiety-inducing states of being known to man.

Just make sure your notebooks don't get too hot.

Well yeah, but just don't call them out.

If you identify a problem, the person responsible will (usually) know you're talking about them, and may even appreciate that you're not calling them out in front of the team.

If necessary, you can always reach out to them one-on-one afterwards.

Best approach: Don't hire people like that.

Good approach: Specify that complaints be non-specific to a person on the team.

This applies to literally any public corporation.

Judging from the current sentiment around piracy among younger generations, I've concluded that MPAA/RIAA propaganda against piracy has been a rousing success.

My philosophy has always been: Pay for things if you are able, it's convenient, and pricing is fair. And if piracy is easier than paying, piracy always wins.

It's the reason I buy all my video games now and rarely pirate music anymore, but half of my TV and movies come through my seedbox.

I have an endorsement for HTML by a salesperson at a publishing company I did some IT work for during college.

A better analogy would be to subtract the amount of bullets embedded in the wall behind the ducks from the total bullets fired.

Assuming ducks stop the bullets.

And assuming it's not just one immortal duck flying around super fast.

It's inevitable that at some point in the future the only way to achieve true privacy will be to be completely and totally uninteresting.

"Vaguely Tech-related Information for Programmers" wasn't a catchy enough name.

A swamp is a type of wetland. They weren't renamed.

Why hasn't such a product been invented yet?

The YubiKey Nano is really small. I'm sure a skilled piercer could find a way to get it under your skin.

draw binary tree

flip whiteboard upside down

Hmmmm... https://i.imgur.com/MUXyZSk.jpg

You're making a product. You should probably talk to someone who knows about trademark law.

Maybe a lawyer?

War with whom?

The government? Tech companies? ISPs?

All are in some ways restricting certain freedoms, while enabling others.

And what freedoms are you afraid of being taken that have not already been taken in some form?

I'm absolutely not disagreeing with you. I support full and absolute internet freedom. I have the ability to put absolutely anything I want on the internet with zero restrictions, but depending on what it is and how I put it there, there are many ways it may then cause me to lose freedom in some way.

Which one should lead to war?

I don't disagree with this, but there's a threshold in which the misinformation becomes the prevailing "truth" for a portion of the population, and is no longer able to self-correct.

If there is a force actively working towards this as a goal, do you not think that force should be actively opposed?

I believe tech companies should have the freedom to decide who gets to post on their own platforms, regardless of the size/reach of the platform.

To restrict that freedom would be a direct restriction of freedom of speech.

While they may now be more often on one side of the political divide, they have not completely stopped defending freedom of speech regardless of political message: https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/aclu-backs-n-j-woman...

Of course, this is just one case. But it at least shows they're not opposed to defending those they may otherwise disagree with.