Go ask ChatGPT or Claude a question no one has ever written down. How many hamsters would it take to chew through Africa like a locust swarm? If London Bridge were built out of paper, where would it first structurally fail? The LLM will probably be able to either answer correctly or take a damn good shot at it. This is evidence that LLMs can at least approach engineering problems. Same for asking them for a circuit layout for basic arbitrary tasks, as long as the answer is within context window.

Am I supposed to see the word "risk" and ask the government to come save me? Give me liberty or give me death.

Complaining only about Chinese trolls is some combination of blind and hypocritical. There are troll farms in every direction, certainly here on Slashdot where non-leftist opinions are down voted by sock puppets.

Teach girls marriage is slavery. Teach boys approaching girls is harassment. Subsidize divorce. Take away mens support networks. Tell women if they're not working something is wrong with them. Tilt college entrance and careers heavily toward the graphic that only wants to date up. Give all the wealth to the upper, upper class. Make housing expensive. Make health care prohibitive.

Why are birth rates collapsing? Must be smart phones.

Don't worry, there's redemption for every bigot. You could start by watching the speech about judging people by the content of their character.

Ublock Origin is still going strong. Pair it with Noscript.

It makes a huge difference for me. A model with some actual capabilities, which isn't tied to someone else's infrastructure, billing and tracking network. I'm stalled making a game because I lack such abilities.

It hasn't been abliterated yet.

There is a point where making another remake is riskier than making something new. We passed that point 15 movies ago.

The smart thing to do would have been to hire him if he has credentials that could have been supplied by another nation, to follow him to catch a line on his contacts, and to feed him false information intended for that nation. Or just arrest him after you've verified that he's not, in fact, a double agent and is just working for himself.

One party claims to support things you like. The other doesn't. But both sides support corporatism, the military industrial complex, corruption, and tax loopholes and other perks for the wealthy. Stop supporting the uniparty.

Playboy had some amazing journalism. Read a few and you'll realize "read it for the articles" was a perfectly valid excuse.

That, too, can be abused. The notorious They can just as easily put out a license plate alert for a "kidnapper" who is really wanted for some other reason. Don't say it hasn't happened.

Double fuck you for trying to sell my freedom for safety, for implying this draconian surveillance is necessary, and for using fear to sell tyranny. Your kidnapping fantasy ignores how police actually work.
Real investigations rely on probable cause, warrants, witness tips, and focused detective work. Not a nationwide dragnet that scans every license plate, logging billions of innocent movements for later scrutiny. And if some cases can't be solved, or solved as quickly, that's an absolutely necessary sacrifice.

This pervasive surveillance creates Foucault's Panopticon: a digital eye that chills free movement and association, breeds self-censorship, invites abuse like tracking abortions or protests, and normalizes state ownership of our data. It doesn't secure borders or safety; it erodes the freedoms that define us. My hope for my children is not that they remain safe but that they remain free.

>Do you have good evidence that they have solid security? No? Then you must assume it is bad.

Which in practice means "no open source tools"