The concept of "god" is literally the dumbest fucking shit ever, designed to control the Inbred Trashyokels and Goatfuckers from 2-4000 years ago. We should have long moved away from that Cult Crap.

We had the Telecomm act and legal requirements for wired service for a reason. The cell networks have shirked this for too long.

VeraCrypt is a particularly strong full-disk encryption, although you don't hear much of companies using it. However, BitLocker security issues keep getting mentioned and it looks like VeraCrypt fixed a number of theirs. However, code quality seems to be listed as unclear on some sites. Not sure how true that actually is though.

BestCrypt is another, but I'm not happy they permit fragile encryption schemes, as those could potentially be used by the software as standard for something important. Being commercial software, that wouldn't be easy to check.

BitLocker seems to be a typical Microsoft failure in terms of what it does, used only because it's Microsoft and that gives CTOs and CFOs someone to blame.

Because I can think of a few people I would like to spray it on the next time I go on a picnic.

Namely the ones that tell me to shut up and stop complaining about the bug bites.

Fortunately, Trump has already trained his followers to accept that truth is irrelavant, and that they should worship everything he says as a form of religion, so they're already primed for Trump's tech bro billionaire contributors to take over their lives! Thanks, Peter Thiel, great puppet show! Jim Henson would be jealous...

Zuck is SO LIFE-LIKE, he could almost pass for a real human being... if it wasn't for that pesky uncanny valley.

That's reason AI is doomed, the old "Garbage In, Garbage Out" principle. AI will increasingly be trained more and more on AI slop, resulting in an inevitable spiral into mediocrity.

Any behavior you measure and reward people for increases. That seems like a no-brainer. Maybe they should consider rewarding people for actual accomplishements, and not for wasting the most electricity?

Personally, I subscribe to the 'Shoot the hostage" school of negotiating with criminals.

At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)

One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.

AI is important and will change the world (it already has).

But most of it's proponents are foolishly speculating that it will advance at a significant rate, rather than stagnate where it is now.

There will be minor advances in it, but the truth is the upgrades we have seen over the past couple of years are entirely incremental changes brought about my massively expanding processing power, memory and database creation.

There have been NO revoltionary advances. None. It is not growing.

We are discovering ways for us to use it, not expanding it's capabilities.

AI hallucinates. AI can easily be tricked by a devious human to violate the rules it was created with. AI lies about it's own reasoning. Like any other computer program, it can do math really really well and most humans do not realize how many things are just math.

But it does not do a whole bunch of things, including ethics, morality, and be trusted.

Like other forms of computer programming, to get the most out it you need a human in the loop. It helps to automate certain tasks, but cannot be trusted to do them by itself.

AI is not an Industrial Revolution, it is more like the invention of rubber. Important and will become wide spread, but ultimately just a single invention that, while helpful, will not continue a process of advancements. It will just take us humans a few years to figure out all the ways we can use it, rather than become an essential part of everything.

Oh, this Artificial Intelligence is not REALLY self aware it was just programmed to pretend to be self aware!

I would want a lot more proof before denying self interest than their word.

But honestly, these machines are not intelligent, they prediction machines trained to seek human confirmation/approval.

A lot of social behavior is rather simple and not an indication of intelligence (see insects/ants keeping livestock/slaves.) Prejudice is merely paranoia with an exception for members of your community.

People are easily fooled by simple things like a parrot that appears to talk. Or an AI that appears to engage in conversation.

Communisim did fail. All developed nations are now to some extent socialist (included the USA). The Chinese use of capitalist economic incentives while still having a centrally managed economy is an interesting development that hasn't failed yet; currently China is building out renewable energy much faster than the USA is... which means the best place to site AI data centers is probably in the Bobi desert, not in US cities that already have electric and water shortages.