Glad you enjoyed FarCry, I worked as a prog on a bunch of them

If society is so fucked, you fantasise about dropping out and breaking it

uh, it's a fucking videogame bro. it's fun to play because it's fun to do things you generally are not allowed or able to experience in real life - even if it's a very distance simulation of it - be it steal sports cars and drive them off the top of an office building, or jump down a warp pipe and stomp on some squids' heads

it's one of the same principal reasons people watch movies or tv - it's different than your normal routine and produces emotional responses, which is a thing humans seek out

"expect an LLM itself to implement any actually reliable security mechanisms"

I don't think you understood his comment at all, but it's okay, when it comes to LLM, you're just raging against the machine. It's cool.

gweihir's kind of an idiot, but I do recomment not starting comments with "I'm no expert" followed by the words "but I know .."

It's really not a good way of communicating.

Kinda sounds like humans, really. I don't want to make a direct comparison, but the last X years of history is an entire network of adhoc - okay maybe not 'excessively complex' but it'd be weird to describe humans that way - poorly integrated collection of interconnected social/state/military systems (paperwork or otherwise) with fragmented security and accountability.

Look, yes, it's scary and dumb but the people who are like "this could be fixed if only they did A or B or listened to me" are people who view the world through a lens that is reductively simple.

All major shifts/progress/changes in technology and communication have resulted in new kinds of damage. The medium is the message indeed.

The NY Times review made it sound fascinating. I do love fiction that doesn't spell anything out, and it sure sounds like that's the case with The End of Everything. I really wanna check it out.

It's really not that fun to live life seeking joy in being a small person.

I've seen a lot of people use "illegal" as if it specifically meant a crime, not a tort. In most cases, copyright infringement is a tort, not a crime.

From a cost benefit analysis he has spent a tremendous amount of money to pick up a modest amount of plastic. And he hit every problem that actual experts predicted would happen.

https://therevelator.org/why-o...

"plastic going into the ocean (via interceptors)"

The funny thing is people told him that would be more effective because people had already deployed river interceptors and they were effective, and it took years before his techbro ego let him finally do it. At which point he claimed to have invented the technology which was a lie.

Do these IRC clients support persistent chat history, file drops, and link summary bots? Because those are among the major features that Discord, Slack, and the like offer compared to IRC. I'm aware that a set of protocol extensions collectively known as "IRCv3" exist, but what sub-64K clients support them? And what public servers offer them?

"Two states were promised a new government holiday to celebrate Charlie Kirks assassination."

You do realize when you echo crazy conspiracy theory lies it just destroys your credibility with everything else you say?

Even closed loop data centers use a lot of water in their power generation, typically way more than cooling chips uses.

It's about twice the size of Texas. Also The Ocean Cleanup is a terrible organization run by a techbro narcissist and should not be trusted.

To be fair Israelis don't rape little kids, they just blow them up. I suppose that's slightly more civilized.

You are correct that 307 days of the year counts as "most of the time." My city of 200,000 doesn't run any public transit on Sundays or major holidays. Instead, bus drivers on all shifts are scheduled to be home with their respective families.