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I already share a name with a fairly famous (although now deceased) comedian so I doubt it.

Or just give all your money away to poor people. By my calculations that would be about $25k per poor adult.

Not to sound like a tankie but China has made smarter decisions with regard to power generation. The current shift away from renewables (and shift back to fossil fuel) AND more reliance on central power generation are great for billionaires but just dumb for every other reason. And with the what appears to be advancing in battery technology more distributed solar cells with local storage would free up more power for the power hungry data centers. Not to mention the AI programs there are not run by douchebags like Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman.

I also think the current path of AGI study via more advanced LLM research is the wrong path. A language generator is never going to be “smart”. But what do I know, I don’t have billions of dollars and lie constantly.

My brother and ex-wife were both psych majors so I’ve heard lot about this experiment. I’ll give it a shot. Mac, windows or Linux. I’m pan-OS-ual 😀

“Ask nicely and don’t be a twat” sounds like an awesome t-shirt.

Brain damage?

Nothing

I was driving to the store on Sunday around 5:30ish and I wondered why it was so dark. That’s when it hit me. The only clock I have in the house that doesn’t set itself is the coffee pot and I rarely drink coffee.

Fuck Spez

And anytime a wall looked a little weird I’d be trying to smash through it.

I know it’s a thing. My son is a cop (a pretty good one with actual empathy which is rare I know). Carries a gun and various other non-lethal weapons. Makes life or death decisions frequently enough. But the IT dept won’t even let him rearrange the icons on his work phone. I swear it looks like a stock boost mobile phone with all kinds of annoying shit everywhere. Laptop (windows mind you) is the same way. It’s kinda ridiculous.

I haven’t snooped on the traffic but at the very least it was encrypted back to google. And I wouldn’t be surprised if it was also signed somehow.  If it was easy, somebody would’ve already cracked it, especially with all the brouhaha about them dropping support.

Yeah, anytime anybody asks this question that’s my first thought. Either that or like Shadowcat and the ability to phase through things. 

I’d hate to work in an environment like this. I’ve gotten to be friends with the Desktop IT folks to get them to remove me from 99% of the stuff they push through JAMF on my mac. Mostly because I’m very unorthodox in how I set up my machine primarily because my job is mostly research and trying to figure out things. Trying to shoehorn me into a normal user would cause them way more headaches than it would solve. It also helps I know as much or more about most of the tech stuff and I’ve been there as long or longer so I have some “seniority”-ish.

With all that being said, my go to right now for anything remote is Tailscale. It’s super easy to setup and understand. I have networks setup in all three of my data centers and also for home. It makes everything super easy to access. I know that this doesn’t work for most people with a super restricted environment but I thought id mention it for folks that can. I do not work for them nor do I get any sort of compensation. I just use it because it makes my life easier.

You know if the title was just “China bans influencers” I’d be ok with it.

I wish I could upvote this 100 times

I’m already on a bunch of lists. What’s a few more. I should collect them like steam cards.

Honestly I’d pay as much as $50 to unlock my Microsoft sync to CarPlay on my old explorer.

I mean they could just unlock the dang things at let some industrious hacker make them useful again. Hell I’d pay like $10 for a firmware that would work with home assistant.

I wondered how long it would take for that url to pop up. I will never ever rely on any Google product. Except maybe Gmail but I have an alternative plan should that go belly up.