

The ending is OK. It’s the journey there we all want to avoid.
Why are you reading this? Go do something worthwhile.


The ending is OK. It’s the journey there we all want to avoid.


You can also casually remind people that more Republicans live in California than Texas, which usually makes their head explode. It’s an enormous state, with a huge economy, with tons and tons of people.


I think most people’s issue is that all she’s ever done is hint, and now that there is less reason than ever to hint, that’s all she continues to do.
This case needs someone to step up, corroborate the documents, and speak out so some of these things can be unredacted. She, as a billionaire, is best equipped, but chose to keep hinting on a podcast tour instead, and in the current climate, that makes people suspicious.


Worst part is I paid for it years ago. Now I have to pay again? Nope. Great while it lasted, but it’s buggy garbage now.


That’s because the goal isn’t to sell you a car, it’s to saddle you with a $50K debt obligation they get to sell off.


Chinese government controls Chinese companies. American companies control American government.


Pornhub
sister sites
Guys, I’ve cracked it.


I feel like accidentally commenting there is a Lemmy right of passage. It got me, and continues to almost get me. They generally have good discussion.


“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
Charlie Kirk sat under a tent that said “Prove Me Wrong” and got shot dead with a bullet in the neck. So either he’s right and his death is a prudent deal, or he’s a dumbass. The whole situation is so riddled with irony it has to be a joke.


Not sure why we’re surprised. And even then, it took a while for the “good” OSes to get good. Windows 7 is remembered fondly because it ended well, not because it started well.
Windows 95: OK Windows 98: Bad Windows 98 SE: OK Windows ME/2000: Bad Windows XP: OK Windows Vista: Bad Windows 7: OK Windows 8: Bad Windows 10: OK Windows 11: Bad


We’ve spent decades bleeding the middle and lower classes dry.
People get all up in arms about private equity groups buying up companies, extracting any value, saddling them with debt, and then skipping out, and understandably so, but that’s exactly what’s happening with the USA. It’s just at a larger scale. The principle remains the same.


For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.


It’s always awful.
Both sides fuel the homelessness epidemic. Both sides bomb Palestinians. Both sides are in the Epstein files. It’s almost like they’re basically the same side, but one’s drunk a little more of the Koolaid.


It’s totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.


The web has almost always been unusable without an adblocker. Ads today are less malicious, but more insidious. Clicking the wrong ad in 2003 would brick your computer. Clicking the wrong ad today means you’ll have to cancel a credit card after your personal data is compiled and sold on the black market.
Nothing new. Ads don’t fuel a free internet. They fuel a business model. The free internet is fueled by the time and donations of kind, dedicated people.


Eh, Prince Andrew isn’t sweating it.


As someone who’s had two kids since AI really vaulted onto the scene, I am enormously confused as to why people think AI isn’t or, particularly, can’t be sentient. I hate to be that guy who pretend to be the parenting expert online, but most of the people I know personally who take the non-sentient view on AI don’t have kids. The other side usually does.
When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on.
People love to tout this as some sort of smoking gun. That feels like a trap. Obviously, we can argue about the age children gain sentience, but my year and a half old daughter is building an LLM with pattern recognition, tests, feedback, hallucinations. My son is almost 5, and he was and is the same. He told me the other day that a petting zoo came to the school. He was adamant it happened that day. I know for a fact it happened the week before, but he insisted. He told me later that day his friend’s dad was in jail for threatening her mom. That was true, but looked to me like another hallucination or more likely a misunderstanding.
And as funny as it would be to argue that they’re both sapient, but not sentient, I don’t think that’s the case. I think you can make the case that without true volition, AI is sentient but not sapient. I’d love to talk to someone in the middle of the computer science and developmental psychology Venn diagram.


You seem to be mentioning right wing grifters a lot in this thread. What exactly do they do that upsets you so badly?


There’s no way I believe that Deepseek was made for the $5m figure I’ve seen floating around.
But that doesn’t matter. If it cost $15m, $50m, $500m, or even more than that, it’s probably worth it to take a dump in Sam Altman’s morning coffee.
I love my original Framework running Fedora, but in order to compete with MacOS, Windows and Linux need to figure out standby battery usage without hard shutting down after each use. Otherwise, the size of the battery is not pointless, but pretty close.