On a decent web host, that's a single click to install a free Let's Encrypt certificate, lol.

"Redesigns" often make things worse. Designers are given free reign, users come in a distant last.

Incremental improvements are more likely to make things better.

Any scheme based on odometer readings could cause some conflict for Space Karen.

If you are driving a thing with wheels, presumably you want roads on which to do it.

And unless you and rather a lot of your friends are volunteering to work on road crews out of love of the smell of hot asphalt, those need to be paid for.

Personally, I like targeted consumption taxes like this. You don't drive? Then you don't pay for roads you don't use. (You still pay the pass through on physical goods that need transported, but that's also as it should be.)

Because Amazon! Because capitalism! Heck, probably because Trump somehow!

Sheesh, get with the program! ;)

Well, that's good - I hate a brash, rude, in your face drone ...

A lot of times that sort of thing was corruption, not stupidity. (Although I'm sure there were plenty of suckers, too.)

A pension fund would buy some old man's stamp collection as an "investment". Just so happened the old man was a relative of the fund manager.

Sounds almost quaint compared to Kushner selling the country to Mr. Bone Saw.

If its true, then.... well yeah.

And we'll almost certainly get a better name for it than "Phrase which confuses non scientists into thinking scientists have an unprovable theory when scientists literally called it that to indicate that actually, they really dont have a theory yet, or more concisely 'dark matter' "

If only I had to do it once. But no, most updates (especially dist-upgrades) have me do that all over again time after time.

Also, the fact that I gave only one example doesn't necessarily mean there is only one. I could talk about having to troubleshoot grub in busybox because an update borked the config. I can imagine my father in front of the busybox shell all day long. He'll just buy another computer.

Where, prey tell, do you think humans get the vast majority of their "knowledge" in 2025?

I had a person yelling at me online this morning because I had the gall to point out that the only way vaccines could cause autism would be using time travel (your born with autism, clearly something that happens to you after you are born can't cause something that happened to you before you without a time machine of some sort), and it struck me that actually the internet IS how a lot of people are "learning" and its making people incredibly stupid.

I had a realisation a while back that it wasn''t AI research/dev per se thats driving this, its Nvidia thats driving it.

DeepSeek proved that you don't *need* the the "hyperscale" datacenters to develop good-enough AI. (Theres a lot of conspiracy theories about how DeepSeek must have had secret spooky mega sized datacenters doing all this, but they published their methods and training sets, and people have reproduced it, and it all checks out, you really can do this shit on the cheap).

And thats bad news for NVIDIA which needs for AI to expensive to justify their capital outlay, sales projections, and irrational market valuation. Hence all the circular investment. Pump money into companies with the provisio they buy a whole bunch of compute that honestly probably isn't needed if AI companies actually started thinking about efficiency instead of scale.

So we're gonna burn down the amazon for NVDA share prices. Yay 2025.

Who's going to do the booting? Certainly not "the will of the people". If the constitution can be freely ignored, and the Army proves to be loyal, then that can be freely ignored too.

Well, it aint over till the fat lady sings. You'll know either way late next year I suspect. Then you get to find out if that second ammendment is worth shit.

The thing is though,historically its not senior brass that coups govts, its junior officers. If the senior brass wants to engage in a bunch of democracy suppression and the junior officers go "Wait up, I didnt sign up to shoot my neighbors I signed up to uphold the constiution" then the govt will discover the military intervention they expected isnt the one they get.

And I really hope that isn't why the white house is shitting anger-bricks over the senators reminding the troops that they are forbidden under the UMCJ to follow illegal orders.

And basically all artists except a handful of irrelevant hipster ones

Yeah thats not 100% not true. Your confusing things like Ozone mastering and a few things like stem splitting with generative. These aren't generative algorithms, they use machine learning to balance eq and compression. And honestly, it kinda sounds like shit, but its not necessarily detracting from the creativity.

Almost no artists use however generative, partly because generative AI can't generate art so it offers no creative assistance, partly because it forfeits royalties since generative outputs are all public domain, and partly because most people are at their core good people who dislike stealing from other people.

Its WEIRD that you think artists are using Suno. Suno cant generate Art, so what do you think an artist would get out of it?

Very few I suspect. Grimes maybe. A few like that.

Every musician I know, and as someone who paid my way through university as a stage roadie, I know a few who have been reasonably successful, are horrified by this and see Warners deal as utter betrayal. God knows musicians had already gotten fucked by the record companies deals with spotify that effectively diverted independent artists royalties to the big labels (It resulted on lower royalties than before, except for the artists on a few big labels who got higher royalties. Or rather their labels did)

The illusion of intelligence evaporates if you use these systems for more than a few minutes.

Using AI effectively requires, ironically, advanced thinking skills and abilities. It's not going to make stupid people as smart as smart people, it's going to make smart people smarter and stupid people stupider. If you can't outthink the AI, there's no place for you.