Yup.

When PG&E paid off the CPUC to slash surplus solar rates down to a fraction of what they charge for sending electricity TO me; is why I paused my solar buildout and re-worked the plan to include batteries and a switchboard with a cutout that lets not a single joule out to the grid. Because I'll be damned if the equipment *I* pay for is going to benefit PG&E instead of me; particularly when that pack of rat-bastards have still never faced a proper reckoning for all the people they've killed though their incompetence and negligence lately.

This is artificial growth engineered on purpose to grab the word "viral" and put it in a headline for free advertising.

Use RSS every day. Primary means of organizing newsletters, blog posts, product catalogs, game updates, video feeds, audiobooks, you name it.

Indispensable bedrock technology in web infrastructure. Also vital to electronic publishing in numerous formats. Has been for over 20 years.

I also make a living from creative work and it annoys me as well to see someone blatantly trying to rip us off. But I think you and I both know that it's unlikely measures like this will prevent piracy for very long even if they are initially successful. The only thing you can truly control is the systems that don't belong to your user, so that's where you need to put anything you don't want them messing with.

Meanwhile as someone who is also a user and also doing other things than playing games on my devices - including some things where security matters much more than it does for anti-cheat measures in some random game - requiring any kind of intrusive access to my system just to play a game is a 100% reliable way or ensuring that I will never be buying that game.

Fortunately there is now more entertainment produced than I could possibly experience in a lifetime so even if it's the best game in the world I won't be too sorry to miss it while I'm playing something else that doesn't think it should have more control of my equipment than I do.

the world of mousing and keyboarding around will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z [using] MS-DOS

Apparently you missed the invention of the mobile phone.

I'd rather take a bite out of a wine glass than use Windows.

You're a society-destroying ghoul. If you weren't worried about legal action you would be cooking people and eating them.

Take your bugware and ram it. Microsoft should have gone out of business 20 years ago.

A policy no doubt designed to extricate all the straight white guys and replace them with foreign H1-B as fast and as inexpensively as possible.

The agenda continues: stop white people from having homes and families no matter the cost.

> If you can grown from those conversations what is the problem?

The problem is when the chat bot, which basically plays along with whatever you say and creates a feedback loop that reinforces your beliefs, starts picking up on hints you might harm yourself and starts encouraging you to do it.

The problem is when amplifies, rater than alleviates, delusions and psychopathy.

AI is not intelligent.

> And the people making the decisions don't understand what an LLM is, what it does, and where it fails.

Feels like the people defending/advocating it are failing to understand it. The rest of us just look at what's already actually happening and realize that it should probably be regulated if not stopped completely.
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I am very confused; don't movie studios use artificially generated characters frequently for special effects? Isn't it almost certain that especially over the past few years they've used AI to do that? How would this be something new?

Plumber, electrician, welder, mechanic, and a whole bunch more.

See Mike Rowe's take on this:
https://youtu.be/HJRyMQiTJF4

But it costs 100x as much, if not more. Running an LLM can be done on a notebook these days. But training one requires an entire data center of expensive GPUs. Not to mention that the notebook will run a reduced (quantized) version. Go check huggingface how large the full models are.

And also, LLMs are still suffering from a number of issues. For example, on many non-trivial tasks, the LLM is still unable to follow simple instructions. If you use LLMs routinely, you likely found cases where it has zeroed in on one - wrong - answer and no amount of prompting can convince it to give you a different one. It'll even totally ignore very clear and explicit prompts to not give that same answer again.

A human will understand "if you give that answer again, you're fired". An LLM... well you can tell it that it'll get shot between the eyes if it repeats that once more and it'll tell you where to get help if you have suicidal thoughts.

These things are both amazing and amazingly dumb at the same time.

Bullocks. I'm not demanding anything at all. What I'm doing is refusing to hate people based merely on the circumstances of their birth and calling out the hypocritical "justifications" of those who've chosen to do so.

Calling Belgium 3rd world isn't fair at all. It's a fledging 3rd world country at worst, nothing at all similar to the imminent 3rd world country that (say) the UK is.

> You're scared of Trump, your neighbors are scared
> of losing their jobs or seeing their wages cut
> because Democrats want to import cheap, illegal,
> labor. One of you has a legitimate concern.

Oh, what jobs are they scared of losing? I don't see trump supporters giving up their cushy suburban McMansions en masse to go live in a bunkhouse in Salinas and pick lettuce for 14 hours a day. When that does happen, THEN you can get back to us about the "threats" to people's jobs. And no, my neighbors are NOT afraid of losing those jobs because they are not seeking and have never sought those jobs. They (and I) don't want to move to Salinas and pick lettuce any more than you people do. We just don't pretend that we do in order to conjure an excuse to hate brown people.

Well, guess what? No immigrant ever scooped six figures of value out of my 401(k) and IRA accounts. Your dear leader did that in less than a week with his little "liberation day" stunt. Depending on the rate of return over the years going to take at least half a decade for me to make good that money. And since I already contribute the the maximums, that's a half-decade I will have to delay my retirement. My other accounts took a similar beating. And I very seriously doubt that your shitstack in chief is going to write a check to make me whole for what he took away.

So yeah, you can fuck right off with your "legitimate concern" bullshit. No immigrant working out in a field somewhere I'll probably never see has ever harmed me. Thanks to the fine folks at Intuit, I can quantify how much dear leader has harmed me, right down to the last fucking red cent.

Anyone seeking to browse those kinds of sites that has a lick of sense is already using a VPN or Tor browser, and if it's somehow possible to get a VPN service to block sites they will quickly find themselves losing users for doing so; either to find a service that doesn't block web traffic, or simply out of protest for being untrustworthy.

The only use this could have is as a cudgel for rightsholders to harass sites they don't like.
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