well, it is true (afaik), except it's stale 2 weeks old recycled news. the overall reaction here is both depressing and hilarious, as was to be expected, but much more so than usual. maybe a side effect of the increasing desperation in europe and the anticipation of the mid-terms in the us, "democrats" seem to be by far the most rabid rusophobes.

if you mean this video: https://www.indiatoday.in/worl...

6 blurred blades can be seen at the end, in any case it's not a cross form. it might have been ofc something different. however, iirc several little birds were destroyed in that same operation, along with the transport planes that got them there.

this doesn't make much sense? it would mean europe has no defense. if you are european i wouldn't say that in public, you might get made into an example.

actual combat troops are estimated at 200-300k. a smallish portion of that are veterans, rest is constantly replenished (at a rate of 27k per month, per zelensky's own admission).

ukranian defense industry is pretty much done already. europe has long not had any of note.

you wish. as things are going i would have not much problem with russia taking over decrepit europe. as a bonus you could keep using your own language (unlike, e.g., in present day ukraine). but i'm afraid russia isn't interested. if we go too far they will just nuke us.

drones have become conventional warfare now.

that's the catch. drones can create mayhem and kill zones, but you can't really control ground with them (yet). meat is still needed for that.

pens are very much used in warfare, have always been. it's the preferred weapon to kill the truth, the first victim. the counter to killer pens has tratitionally been diplomacy, but it's totally out of fashion for some folks, an alien concept.

what about a match of rollerball?

does any low hanging fruit use the start menu for searches anyway?

honest question. i have a hard time imagining a situation where you would want to search for something in your personal files and all over the internet at the same time. it's a waste of time and resources and will just pollute and muddle any results.

it's been over 3 decades, even the most tech challenged/uninterested user surely understands by now that personal files and the web are very different contexts?

for files, your file manager (explorer) has a nice search box.
for the web, well, use your web browser of choice.

the whole start menu could be just a simple input box. the only reason i ever use that thing for is to occasionally launch programs it finds with mere autocomplete.

anyway, microsoft and mozilla pulling this kind of nonsense is no news. this is how they both view users, and it shows.

well, you need two things:

first, tech companies need a breakthrough that makes them profitable. that's not impossible, and there is hope, but there is no real sign that that's even on the horizon. meanwhile they're burning cash and generating even more debt, chasing that breakthrough.

next, that breakthrough needs to empower business and people to be productive and profitable. growth isn't a few ai companies getting filthy rich, nor stock profits, it's the whole economy innovating and getting a productivity boost. the internet did that, and it took a while and a few crashes. however, debt kept growing, and multiplied.

so while growth is necessary, the fundamental problem and the solution isn't really growth, it's fiscal and economic policy, and governance. even if they find that holy ai-grail, without changes in policy and governance that limit or repurpose spending to facilitate growth debt will continue rising and getting more expensive. so far changes in policy have actually gone in the opposite direction.

that debt will never be repaid, ai or not. without a considerable change in policy at some point the choice will be a) default now or b) print more money and default tomorrow. actually, a) would hurt but would also be the best option for the vast majority of people. b) only makes things worse.

there's also option c) plunge the world into chaos. can't claim a debt if you're dead, right? some might think they're already at it.

that's not even a bad way to pass time!

though i'm mostly done with liquor. only red wine nowadays, with measure: some nice rioja, somontano, montsec, priorat ... or wheat beer. but most of the time it's ceylon tea.

it's a sandbox game. you're supposed to make your own story, the tools are a vast universe and ship building to fly around it, and that should alone make for more than a few hours of fun. you probably didn't go past the initial quests to get you started and i don't blame you, it didn't grip me either.

maybe a better alternative is elite dangerous. it has a far more complex and "realistic" universe (an actual full scale simulation of the milky way), a very interesting flight model and a very sui generis multiplayer approach with (afaik) a still active and nice community with massive activities, politics, wars and whatnot. it has a learning curve and the initial grind is considerable, if you then want to minimax it's just insane, but you don't have to. albeit much is just senseless overcomplication to keep players busy and to simulate more gameplay depth than what's really there you can enjoy the game ignoring most of that.

still, it's a truly amazing game just for the views and places you can visit and the experience of flight. in vr it's simply flabbergasting. if you want to check it out, it's cheap: get the base version (which includes "horizons" (landing on planets with vehicles)). the odyssey dlc is just a bland hyper grindy shooter bolted on top with no vr support. the release of odyssey was a monumental flop after years of broken promises and failure which definitely ruined all expectations for the future, which is when i stopped playing, but the base game is still so good, unique and cheap that everyone vaguely interested in this stuff should give it a try.

make a wrong assumption, present it as a fact and then start a discussion about it.

they already forgot about that. "datacenters" is the new "we are winning" rally of the month, so the billions keep flowing while people keep dying and ukraine is slowly reduced to rubble. this too will be silently forgotten in a few days, even before the retalliation, after which they'll cry bloody murder. on the bright side nafos ofc are enjoying their monthly little hardon.

then they blame trump for sucking up to putin by "forcing ukraine" to stop strikes on refinieries and allowing russia to sell an amount of diesel that hardly will even dent the global price but makes for a good smoke screen and election trump card (pun intended), and strikes to refineries that were annoying but hardly consequential for russia anyway, forgetting that it is us intelligence who selected and lit both those refineries and the current datacenters, as well as the attempted murder on putin in valdai last december in which trump in person was involved, as usual with the pretext of "let's talk!". what a love story! and what a cirucs ...

in other news, just checked and yandex is working fine for me ...

really? do i need to explain to someone who misses the point and just picks out a tangential (and maybe unfortunate) idiom that he takes literally and deliberately misunderstands to go off on an unrelated rant with (apparently) the sole intention of venting frustration by throwing around derision at internet strangers?

i don't think so.

what i'm going to explain is that my first impression was that you were a hater (i've grown a few around here) or just got triggered because you happen to own a hybrid. however, a quick glance at your posting history shows that you are essentially on a spree against the whole world, meaning against yourself. dang, best wishes.

indeed. ofc it depends on the actual use, but hybrids are more expensive, come with smaller battery, include double mechanic and thus require double the maintenance, all of which doesn't make much sense unless someone absolutely needs to keep burning fuel with enough regularity for whatever reason. they are a different category, but it would make more sense to consider them combustion than electric cars.

must have been a while ago ...

no idea why you would think that. i wasn't remotely touching the subject of regulation, nor was the post i was commenting on, which was sort of a digression about happiness and malpractice. i don't think the main topic has anything to do with regulation either, but i'm happy to discuss that:

i do think ai needs regulation but i don't think hysteria, fud and hyperbole are helpful (and, on another separate topic, i'm quite skeptical about the true intentions of the most eager pushers).

the most important aspect to regulate is military use, from targeting to nuclear deterrence. i think it should be banned there because the consequences could be in the realm of extinction events. sadly no country would abide by that, and mitigations would fall on international law which isn't even that odd political poetry with selective enforcement anymore because as for late we now directly shit on it. so, i'm sorry to inform: we're fucked there.

then there are fundamental and civil rights. surveillance, data collection, processing. also a very serious concern for society but, here too, the interests both of private organizations aswell as states are in clear oposition to those from regular people, in an atmosphere where the disconnect between institutions and people is already worringly high and getting worse. these are battles that each national society has to sort out with their governments. ymmv, and it's rather soonish for many countries, but overall it's not going well.

then there are social and health issues. education (specially children), healthcare, addictive and deceptive products, etc. this is even more diverse and localized.

last and least, economic issues. basically job market, where ai's impact is hardly regulable so what gives, governments should prepare instad for the coming impact but don't even want to mention it. and copyrights, that uncanny realm of lawyers i don't really give many fucks about.

but of course the most talked topics seem to be "i'm not saying it's skynet but it's skynet" and copyrights. now kids games too? we're royally fucked.

i guess you want to make a point but don't care enough for the world to care about what it is.

anyway ... i'll go out on a robotic limb: you suggest to eradicate ai? from games? from development tools? from everywhere? good luck with that ...