It’s interesting. There’s a lot of talk about how chatgpt makes people lazy, but honestly I think Google killed the “read the manual” ethos.
Back in the day when you couldn’t just search for everything, you needed enough understanding of the manual to find anything in the index.
So a key part of figuring anything out was reading at least the start of the manual.
Now, fuck it, you just type into Google and try to guess enough context to understand what’s going on.
Yeah, but it can be filled in with “house”.
Hexbear is already flooded with beanis posts.
Looking forward to seeing beanis everywhere in the next version of Facebook’s LLM.
Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.
On the plus side, they’re not part of the Google/Apple/Samsung data ecosystems, and I don’t think actually they do anything with the data, beyond computing statistics for you.
Depends how much you’re prepared to trust them I guess.
For Ubuntu you just run sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. Presumably it’s the same for the derivative you’re using.
After that gnome will still be there, and you just toggle between the two at login.
You’ve got it backwards.
This kind of voting forces the existence of two party systems.
Suppose you have two parties one left wing that gets 60% of the vote and one right wing that gets 40% in every district. Right now the left wing always wins.
If the left wing party splits into two blocks of 30% each, the right wing always wins.
So if you want to win, you can never split from the large parties, even if you feel unrepresented.
Depends.
You can argue that it’s basically art/political speech. You’ve done it to draw attention to flaws in the approach and to highlight how ineffectual the current system is, and that if you actually wanted to do make fake IDs you’d take a much less high-profile approach. As such, there’s no actual criminal intent required.
Don’t know if a judge would buy it though.
Selfie doesn’t work, you need to turn your head left and right to follow instructions.
But yeah, there’s a bunch of avatars that will bypass it
Ok, but one of the most important use cases is non-local access.
If I’m at home I can just go to the door.
Go on, drop a rocket on Zuck’s Bond villain hideout.
Let’s see what happens.
Tesla and to a lesser degree spaceX are where the money comes from.
Everything else, Twitter, xAi, the boring company are all vanity projects.
We’re seeing the start of the tipping point. Tesla is being substantially harmed by his personal fuckery, but it’s always been a meme stock, so the price is much higher than it should be. This means that when the crash finally comes it should be extremely messy.
SpaceX is already being used to bail out xAi - if Tesla was healthy musk would rather use it’s funds instead - and with musk fighting with Trump they could get some contracts wiped out. They’ve got enough actual products (star link) without competitors that they’re probably safe for now.
It’s a pyramid scheme, and your place in the pyramid/heaven is defined by how many souls you save.
People that convert the most people, or who’s converts go on to convert the most people go to heaven.
Nah, we spend as much time on the American revolution as on our own civil war. Which is basically nothing.
I think I heard about cavilers and Roundheads in primary school, and that’s it. No reason for the civil war, no discussion about what Cromwell did in Ireland.
You absolutely can’t use LLMs for anything big unless you learn to code.
Think of an LLM as a particularly shit builder. You give them a small job and maybe 70% of the time they’ll give you something that works. But it’s often not up to spec, so even if it kinda works you’ll have to tell them to correct it or fix it yourself.
The bigger the job is and the more complex the more ways they have to fuck it up. This means in order to use them, you have to break the problem down into small sub tasks, and check that the code is good enough for each one.
Can they be useful? Sometimes yes, it’s quicker to have an AI write code than for you to do it yourself, and if you want something very standard it will probably get it right or almost right.
But you can’t just say ‘write me an app’ and expect it to be useable.
Follow the money.
In Elon’s case, it’s all about losing money that was going directly to him. Particularly, the loss of ev subsidies.
Musk will not rest until there is a free Tesla for everyone, paid for by the American government.
Privatize profits and socialize losses. It’s the American way.
Wow, I wonder if that’s the same billionaire Bill Ackerman who’s hedge fund owns forty percent of the New York property firm Seaport Entertainment Group?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-ackmans-strategic-acquisition-seaport-230404410.html
How many millions do you think a rent freeze would cost him personally?
I mean think about how many thousands of middle managers you would have to kill to disrupt a large bureaucracy.
For a fraction of the same amount of deaths you could kill existing leaders, anyone that tries to replace them, and their rivals.
Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london
The Gdpr makes these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.
Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.
Yeah, and some of it is even true.
The British imperial system invades other countries, makes them use pounds and feet, and then leaves.
You can look up what Adobe are doing in this space.
Long-term it’s going to be something like every secure device comes with its own inbuilt unit for cryptographically signing the raw files. These signatures can then be matched against manufacturers databases of approved signatures.
This doesn’t guarantee that nothing has been tampered with, but it does provide a link back to the original device allowing you to inspect it.
There are huge privacy concerns as well, anything that’s used to indicate authenticity can be used to track.