They counted down to 1! Pathetic. Real nerd sports count down to 0 because zero-indexing is the one true way!

I have never quite understood people who need a dedicated Note taking software. I much prefer any plain text file editor.

I do somewhat understand using OneNote as a collaboration software to keep track of meeting notes and project plans. I don't think it's better than a well organized shared folder, but apparently some managers don't understand folder hierarchies. Unfortunately OneNote get's used for so many things beyond what it should. It's no longer just spreadsheets for things that should be databases. It's OneNote tables or embedded spreadsheets within a OneNote that should be databases.

Is anyone else completely confused as to why the FAA is in charge of maintenance on those cameras? That's not exactly their wheelhouse. I'm sure there's an incredibly bizarre story there.

That's a good question. I'm not a discord expert but I thought I would check. In general the answer seems to be No.

I looked through some of the servers I'm in to get an idea of usage. In most cases there are only the static emotes reactions much like Facebooks, just with more variety. Most servers have several chat channels. I see a very moderate amount of animated stuff in the more freewheeling general chat channels and minimal usage in more focused channels. Every community is different and some are very tiny. I've got a discord server just for my own personal Pathfinder game which is just 5 of us. We almost never use any reactions.

Over the past 2 years I've been slowly shifting to discord becoming my primary form of social media. It has especially replaced facebook groups, which are far to subject to the whims of the infamous facebook algorithm.

I've genuinely wondered how they are monetizing me (since I pay nothing I am aware I am the product) since they have no ads. In some ways I'd rather pay for it and at least pretend I'm not also being monetized, and at $3 a month it's not bad for what is possibly my favorite currently free service. The one odd thing about discord is that after the user-level nitro subscription the other things are "boosts" which apply to individual servers you are on. Those boosts are almost entirely cosmetic but it's still odd. I don't really care enough about any community I'm a part of that I want to spend money for cosmetic boosts to our discord.

Everything always depends on the threat model. A sticky note on your monitor with an appropriately complex passwords is incredibly resilient against remote attacks. An encrypted database stored locally is also very strong, but theoretically could be copied off and eventually brute forced.

There isn't a change yet to say anything about. They are asking the companies to work with them to create one. It sounds like they are taking the approach that by somehow promoting or recommending certain posts in search of "engagement" the companies might lose some protection.

I don't really expect it to be great, but I'm really tired of recommended content that I haven't specifically looked for, so the end result might be better for me, but possibly worse for other reasons.

The entire MCU is build on the back of secondary characters. Marvel didn't have the rights to anything most people would consider their primary characters (primary Spiderman and the X-Men). Iron Man was only barely known outside of comics fan and largely considered a Batman Ripoff. I'm semi-comics aware but had never heard of The Guardians of the Galaxy or Black Panther, both of which were really well done. I think you could complain that they are trying to push new characters a bit quicker and with not enough build up, but I don't think complaining about secondary characters is quite accurate.

Limiting the "power" of the "AI" is not going to come near going what they want. It could be the most intelligent entity on the planet if all it can do is write text and make images. It's when they are able to integrate with other parts of the physical world that they could cause real problems, and they don't need to be all that smart to do so. With the increasing amount of APIs for things that are more real world it's a valid concern.

I really dislike the idea that even the most powerful AI is going to get smart and overthrow us. AIs are currently just tools, but ones that can be relatively easily accessed by anyone, including internet trolls who might just be stupid enough or angry enough to ask if it can end the world. I don't feel it's really the AIs fault there.

The official definition of words is often not very important. Words do not so much have meaning as convey meaning. Anytime someone uses a word "wrong" I tend to ask if the person(s) they were speaking to understands what was said. If so, then it doesn't matter if the person was "wrong". The point of words is to communicate to the other person. When you say the word "cancer" to someone they will generally think this is something they must fight tooth and nail with all the medical resources they can get or it will kill them. That is not the case with these particular cancers, so finding a better way to communicate that is worth exploring.

I'm getting tons of ads for a "tactical" hoodie and some sort of concealed holster, at least that's what I have to endure for 5 seconds before I can click back to the video. Those are definitely crap. I'm also getting crappy game ads. I guess the good news is Youtube doesn't have a clue what is relevant to me. I see a few branding ads, but they are currently the minority.

What do you mean "basically unsupported"? Are you and me and every other "computer guy people call for help" going to stop supporting our friends and family Windows 11 PCs because they bypassed TPM (are we even going to check?) The only official support I want from Microsoft is security patches and I'm a bit suspect of those!

What concerns me most about AIs is how different our AIs are from Sci-Fi. In Sci-fi they are individual, powerful and require significant resources. What we have ended up with is cloud-based AI that anyone can spin up nearly for free and just for the lulz. Any potentially "evil" thing an AI can do will happen, not because the AI got smart, but because some bored jack-off thought it would funny.

At least in the US, elementary schools are desperate for more male teachers. If they weren't subject to government HR policies I could totally see them doing one of these for men.

Keep in mind this is a rather strange time to be checking data, but here is the current streaming categories by viewer counts:

Just Chatting - 384k
Street Fighter - 179k
Valorant - 104k
League of Legends - 94.3k
Diablo IV - 94.1k
Grand Theft Auto V - 93.3k
Final Fantasy XVI - 81.9k
Teamfight Tactics - 78.8k
Overwatch 2 - 72.1k
DOTA 2 - 67.1k
Counter-Strike - 53.5k
Only Up - 43.7k
Minecraft - 37.8k
Fortnite - 34k
Apex Legends - 32.5k
Hearthstone - 32k
Dead by Daylight - 31.5k
World of Warcraft - 28.5k
Call of Duty - 28.2k
Casino Slot Machine - 26.4k
Genshin Impact - 24.2k
Sports - 23.3k

After a bit more we hit ASMR at 7.1k
After more we hit Pools, Hot Tubs & Beaches at 5.2k

The main erotic categories are "Just Chatting", "ASMR" and the "Pools, Hot Tubs & Beaches", but those are by no means exclusively erotic. "Just Chatting" includes the widest variety of content including things that might be called "talk shows" of a previous era. The pools category includes a Marine Mammal Rescue stream and a few other Zoo/Aquarium feeds.

Of course in the game streams you can find women streaming games in moderately revealing clothing, but they are small part of the screen with the game itself being front and center.

In any case, I would definitely consider game streams to be twitch's bread and butter by a large margin. The "erotic" content is certainly present, but it doesn't dominate.