Absolutely. If I am shopping for anything expensive, or just hard to find, I use AI to get recommendations. While I'm sure it will be enshittified, it hasn't happened yet. Trolling through retailers' sites, tracking down reviews that aren't actually paid adverts, etc, etc. - such a pain. Let a bot (or AI) do at least some of the work.

Just refuse. Modify your T&C to prohibit usage in jurisdictions that require age verification. Then enforce it. Let's see how well the US tech industry works without Linux.

It is very unlikely that we will pick up a signal sent our way.

1. The other civilization would have to deliberately send a strong, narrow signal to our star. Why would they do that? See comment below about detectability: maybe they actually would, if they could detect us, but they cannot.

2. e would have to be looking at the exact moment that they send the signal. Consider the time periods involved: our planet has existed for billions of years, and only for about 1/10000000 of that time have we had the capability to send/receive any kind of signal. What are the chances that another civilization, on a nearby star, is in exactly this window?

So what about detecting a civlization without a deliberate signal. That means that the signals are not directed - just radio noise. Our current technology is very sensitive, and yet, we would be unable to detect an equivalent civilization on the nearest star. The inverse-square law, over light years, means that signals are just too weak.

Fortunately, somehow, there are a lot of FOSS models. We need to work to keep as much of AI open-source as possible. It's a lot harder for a government to declare FOSS a supply-chain risk, or to nationalize it, because anyone can make a copy and keep going.

Honestly, that's probably not Firefox's fault. Far more likely that the site is checking your browser version and refusing to work with Firefox.

Where's the temperature increase? Using carefully sited stations, the USCRN shows very little change over the past 20 years. Shocking, what happens when you remove UHI and general siting problems from your climate measurements. Unfortunately, the USCRN was only created 20 years ago.

Other climate networks are not reliable. Looking at USHCN, for example, more than 80% of the climate stations are poorly sited (suffering from UHI, located near pavement or heat sources, etc.). Add in the incredibly sparse coverage over large regions (arctic and antarctic, much of Asia and Africa, all of the oceans), and any sort of "global surface temperature" is simply a fantasy figure.

A far better way of measuring "global temperature" is by satellite. We have satellite measurements starting in 1979. According to these, the global temperature has risen an average of 0.16C/decade. Not 0.2C and certainly not 0.35C.

Translators have been using various forms of tools, including "AI" tools for many years. The point is: as a professional translator, you treat what the tools produce as a draft, and do the final corrections yourself.

Of course, Wikimedia probably didn't hire qualified, professional translators, because that would cost actual money.

Of course, any disruption of sea life is due to global warming. It has nothing at all to do with massive commercial fishing fleets destroying fish stocks, with knock-on effects throughout the food chain.

Why would you do this to a kid? It's first and foremost a huge risk, because the transplant could be rejected during the pregnancy. Then the kid is going to be dosed with all the drugs required by any transplant patient.

All true. However, one has to consider that battery storage is just that: storage, not generation. It is an additional cost needed to make solar and wind useful.

And they are useful, but the cost of the storage must be included when doing economic comparisons.

Overly complex aircraft. Jailbreak all you want. When the US stops delivery of spare parts, your aircraft will stop flying within weeks.

So they can go after any song using any particular harmonies or riffs? Seriously to this is just going to be an excuse for blackmail.

In the UK, yes, that's a weird island. The rest of Europe, generally only in places like airports, train stations, or other places considered high-risk. And then not by private cameras.

Ring cameras in the US are apparently usually mounted so that they film your entryway, behind that the public sidewalk and street, and across from that your neighbor's house. To me - in Europe - that seems insane. Here, it is generally illegal to film public areas, because people have a right to move through the world without being tracked. And it is hugely illegal to film other people's property, because - well, that ought to be obvious - it's their property and not yours.

And yet here we have a business that not only lets you record all of that, but actively hands it out to anyone who wants it, for any reason whatsoever.

I have nothing against cameras filming what's happening on your own property, but Ring has normalized surveilling your neighbors.

I've worked, at least tangentially, with IT folk from various cultures. The 996 is for sweatshop work. I remember one place where people sat at their desks entering code, or whatever. Walking around behind them was the boss, who would go from person to person, telling them *exactly* what to do. All the way down to telling one person to put a CD back into its case. The people were barely even code monkeys - more like typists. Probably you can do that 996 without losing productivity. No idea how the boss functioned. Maybe he swapped out with someone else?

When I was studying for my first master's degree, there was a brief time where I had coursework as well as my thesis. To get everything done, I worked highly structured 80 hour weeks. That was only possible, because it was only for a few weeks - there was an end in sight. That sort of schedule cannot be maintained. Anyone who thinks it can be is spending a lot of time staring into space / talking at the water cooler / something else non-productive.