It walked me through replacing a starter on an old freezer step by step. I know a decent amount, but it was extremely helpful at connecting some of the dots and explaining some of the topics.

Unacceptable according to whom?

Part of the design of the web is that anyone can run any service which exchanges any data they wish. While everyone is entitled to share an opinion on those protocols, it's not up to anyone else to proclaim what is and is not acceptable.

Ultimately what individual hosts o the web do is up to them.

Are you accusing the BBC of advancing american-right-wing narratives?

I really hope that this ends up winnowing out the field of renewable energy sources to the true winners. We've had a great boom in the ideas, innovation and efforts, all great stuff, now it's time to call in the bills.

I'd like to see where they can stand on actually offering to power a giant datacenter or whatever with these alternate sources -- put up your best offers: X GW for $Y/MWH for Z years, contractually set. That's what the natural gas folks will do.

Is there?. Doesn't look great to me.

A human does not digest a huge dataset, produce random output, assess if that output is desired, tweak the parameters a little and repeat until the result is "good enough".

Honestly, this is exactly what my 2 year old does when speaking to adults. His "good enough" result is "adults can understand what I'm saying".

I cannot imagine how anyone that has even met a toddler wouldn't immediately identify that this is _precisely_ what they do.

Pretty sure (Wikipedia agrees) Alex Jones actually lost everything he owns in judgment.

I'm not cool with what we did at all, but it's quite false that he profited massively. He's bankrupt.

But they don't!

Most huge tech firms never use their patents offensively at all, even in cases where they are arguably infringed.

The big tech companies all hold a trove of patents to be used defensively. The idea is mutually assured destruction -- sue Microsoft for patent infringement and they can surely find something you do that's covered by one of theirs.

This is probably a good thing insofar as they have essentially disclaimed offensive use of them even against smaller competitors.

Europe, my dudes, could you have tried for just one day not to make it look like everyone everywhere has lost their minds?

It was a golden opportunity -- a day where your friends across the pond would be the absolute and undisputed champions of idiocy.

Could be a good compromise: we allows TikTok, China allows Facebook, Instagram and X/Twitter.

The public health rationale for lockdowns decreases significantly when there is an effective vaccine.

If the source code to your service is somehow privacy sensitive, I think something somewhere has gone horribly wrong.

Those are the exact same thing.

It's unclear exactly but somehow it ends up being the sources those deciding find agreeable.