Just off the top of my head, blue cities will “skyrocket” in use, giving the feds another reason to harass people there.

I added the tag “tired” to somebody in one of those threads where people were talking about how to add tags to people, and I’ve completely forgotten why.

But, I see them every once in a while and have an “oh yeah, you” moment.

I know this is a crazy thought but… maybe a random “DemzDeliver” account doesn’t speak for the entire party. Maybe this stupid ass two party system the US refuses to get rid of causes all kinds of different people to be a part of each one.

If you use any old LLM, they would probably fire you. If the company had something like copilot through the enterprise license for you to use, it has the same data protection thing (whatever they call that shit) as the rest of the suite like SharePoint, onedrive, and teams. In that case it’d be a pretty big issue for Microsoft if something leaks from there.

I have projection? Yet you claim i feel guilt based on what, my three word comment?

By scrolling aimlessly?

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I can’t imagine large ones are anything but annoying. However, a family one or a couple friends works out pretty well.

I happen to be in a couple of both of those so I’m a little biased. The family one is good for planning and sharing pictures from time to time. The friend one is good for sending memes and shit.

Edit: even then, if one of those starts going off and has nothing to do with me, I’ll mute notifications for an hour or so.

I’m 33.

Probably mid/late 20s, to somewhere in the 40s. 50 still feels a bit too old.

Have you ever crossed paths with one? I don’t think they stick around. Or ever pissed off an old witch?

Oh I know, you didn’t forward those emails from back in the day did you? Ha, gets em every time.

Before AI, I didn’t even know what an em dash was, it was basically something word (or other software) occasionally corrected my hyphens to. I learned about it because people realized AI uses it all the time and it seemed like a good replacement for all those damn parentheses I always use.

Didn’t end up using it much though.

I’ve tried these as well, the software is good. My only issue is it’s very manual and the ways to automate importing transaction information i found complicated. That was a little while back now though.

Importing csv files from my bank accounts also required a bit more effort than I wanted to spend to fix the data.

It’s unfortunate, I use simplifi from quicken, but they jacked up their price a lot, so I let it cancel, they offered a “deal” to get another year for the old price, and that’s going to end soon. But the importing of my transactions is automatic when I sign in, so I only need to check a few things and then I’ve got all the graphs and whatnot to see where I’m spending.

I’ll probably let that cancel and try these again, or just not track spending like this.

Affinity 1 and 2 were also on windows.

Supposedly their plan for affinity studio (the new free app) is to make money with the canva AI subscription and other canva things. If that stays true and affinity studio stays a free, fully featured app (aside from AI features), I’d be ok with that. I’d also be surprised.

To me that thought experiment feels the same as how sci-fi treats the idea.

If such a machine were not programmed to value living beings, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including living beings, into paperclips or machines that manufacture further paperclips.

Why would a paperclip machine (that for some reason is AI) be given such power over its environment and no limit to how many paper clips are made that it would decide it needs to turn organic matter into paperclips?

Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

That’s always what sci-fi goes with too. Humans might turn it off so destroy all humans. I don’t find it compelling in real life and it falls into what I meant with my first comment.

(admittedly some of my disagreement falls apart since companies like Microsoft will put “AI” into shit like notepad, i can only imagine what they’d do with real AI)

Outside of sci-fi I have no reason to believe that real AI (not an LLM) has any reason or will have any ability to wipe out humanity.

The only exception to that thought is if some military application of AI gets “out of control” but if we ever give humanity ending weapons to an AI then…

There’s a third hidden option, not voting, and a ton of people do it.

Not caring is supporting bigotry.

I agree with you

“I don’t support nazis, I just don’t care if they conquer the world” is not really a good sentence to say.

You know, part of the problem with situations like this conversation, I feel, is that it’s always Nazis. It ends up being a cliche that, when something else happens, like the US starting to literally follow similar trends that led to the actual nazi party, it’s already something people are tired of hearing and it hurts the message.

They end up not taking this seriously (because web comics, even shitty bigoted ones, are not as serious as what happened in nazi Germany) and then the other claim doesn’t get taken seriously because “everything’s Nazis with you people”.

Just a thought i had when reading this.

It can be tough to do, I finally just got off Google photos backing up my pictures and videos maybe 2 weeks ago.

I already had them also being sent to my PC with resilio sync, but since I moved to Linux I didn’t have backblaze anymore (B2 is too expensive for me and their “unlimited” cloud backup is mac and windows only) and didn’t know of any affordable alternatives so I wasn’t willing to drop my only cloud backup even if it’s Google.

Eventually I canceled the annual storage plan and said “I’ll figure it out by then”, didn’t figure it out, found jottacloud after that and am now using that.

For anyone interested, this is almost certainly referring to Tip 2 Tip. Ludwig Ahgren and Micheal Reeves ride across China on motorcycles without using their phones (for GPS), maps, or highways. They have a very limited understanding of the language.

Here’s the first episode - https://youtube.com/watch?v=_41P6UrwQKY

They also did a Japanese trip last year or so.

Just browse top 12 hours or top day, you’ll run out