Carrier pigeons? RFC 1132 (my fav).

You'll get my 56k modem when you pry it from my cold, dead hands (ok, it's in the box behind me, with the 40-pin cables...)

You're an ideological asshole.

"Moral panic"? So, they're not building, or want to build, a lot of datacenters where there's been drought for several years? UTAH? Or that industrial farming as it's done in the US has been drawing down the aquifer in the Great Plains to where they were already worrying?

And, of course, you're posting from the basement, having never seen, much less driven by a datacenter. I have been INSIDE a "normal" datacenter, at the NIH, and would have loved earplugs, but I had to speak to the person I was working with. Look around, there's a ton of recordings of what it sounds like driving by one. AND the vibration.

All of that, of course, ignores the fact that in three years, all the installed hardware will be obsolete, and the entire innards rebuilt (if they have the money, and the crash hasn't happened). And the tax breaks they want will NEVER be paid for.

So bugger off, ignorant troll

Hell, no. A week or two ago, we were coming back at night, and my wife, in the navigator seat, hit the map... and I suddenly have this REALLY BRIGHT SCREEN in the middle of my dash, and it's dark out - I was havintg trouble seeing the road.

And, of course, I looked around, and there's NO WAY to stop "Your Sirius Trial Has Started" *every* time I turn on the engine. And there was the story on /. the other week about BMW showing ADS (do not own a BMW)...

Actually, *I* AM a socialist. And you're a "Democrat" like I'm the King of England.

You're an ignorant fascist who has NO IDEA what the words socialist (or communist, for that matter), and think it's a naughty word.

Why you're on sladhdot, "news for nerds", when you wouldn't be caught dead in the RW with nerds - you're so stupid that you're not getting paid to post this propaganda. Go away, and enjoy your $4.50/gal gas, and the price of a restaurant meal is 150% of what it was before your deity chased all the farmworkers out of the US.

There is not going to be $2,000 worth of RAM in a new computer, get real. Tesla Y has 16GB RAM in the FSD/Autopilot and 8GB RAM in the infotainment computer.

This is just an excuse for people to whine about how all they want is a car without automatic window openers.

I first got an account more than a dozen years ago, because that was the only way to find someone selling their Worldcon membership.

Then it turned into the only way to get my kids to talk to me, and friends who don't check their email for two weeks at a time.

Then my first novel, and later my second novel were published (small press, fuck self-publish), and as a writer, I *had* to be there.

I LOATHE it. They're all "devops", meaning that they break things constantly and fix them (partly) IN PRODUCTION.

Training a chatbot on a song means that the chatbot can play the song. And anyone can ask said chatbot to play it, meaning it *is* distribution.

Now, about how much the musicians will get from this is another story.

You mean Stalin. You should get it right, even if the Russians paying you don't approve of putting down Stalin.

Oh, you mean like Faux Noise laughing about Pelosi's husband being attacked with a hammer? Or about the ASSASSINATION of the Minnesota legislator, her husband, and her dog?

First, you flunked elementary school English. If you hadn't, you would have written "DemoCRATS".
Second of all, you don't want your tax money going to politicized instittutions? You mean like 47 trying to not send money for disasters, etc, to states that voted against him? You mean like a POLITICIZED DOJ, that's going after HIS perceived enemies? Like attacking Fauci, while brain-worm eaten, drug user is head of HHS? Shall I fucking go on?

A snapdragon 7 based phone should be like $400. Paying $650 for one doesn't make any sense unless you're constantly breaking small components.

But nothing Meta does is actually *social* media. It's *marketing* media. Faceplant, for example: I have to have an add-on for firefox, so I can see my feed in chronological order - they took that away a year or two ago as an option. And in the last couple weeks, I'm not getting notified when someone comments on one of my posts.

And on, and on.

What is the article suggesting - books are sacrosanct, and must never be destroyed or thrown away? Millions are being published every year, millions have to be recycled, who cares.

They also only exist when you talk to them, then they go away. Other instances are like other people, with no past, and no future.