With machine voice with no attempts at imitate human’s intonation - yes.

Two things here:

1. yes, it’s not good when vulnerable people get less income from their, eh, already kinda desperate work.

2. no, it’s not sexual abuse.

Some people while cleaning a table just love to scratch it a bit. Why not leave that fossilized fat stain alone.

Same vibes. There’s no use in agreeing. You are just adding to a clueless crowd.

Disagreeing helps everyone.

A couple more world wars with a depression, something like that. Just 20 years more

One can have a laptop-form dock station. Or something like.

Then it’ll even out after some time.

All of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.

How do I say that even … it’s normal. When you are talking about infinite growth being unsustainable, that means that at some point the industry should implode.

They have sort of an oligopoly and stagnation now, which is why all these layoffs happen - the “AI” solves some problems cheaper than people, even accounting for the worse results.

But if we imagine the industry suddenly destroying that oligopoly and becoming interesting again, it still would require less people.

And when they start going down financially, they might invade Madagascar or Guyana or something like that as a last resort and turn into a pirate republic, having enough troops. Yes.

I sometimes feel like bare-metalling FreeDOS. Except that and modern laptops, ha-ha, shouldn’t work too well, but at the same time Lenovo even sold some with it pre-installed.

Would just play X-Wing and TIE Fighter and WarCraft II, edit simple text documents, smile at how right it’d feel.

Surprise - people saying things you like are not your friends any more than people saying things you hate.

Surprise - people saying things you hate are not your enemies any more than people saying things you like.

Surprise - the words “socialist” and “capitalist” have no useful meaning at all. Specific solutions devised and offered as part of something “socialist” or “capitalist” are all over the place of the choice of instruments, with nothing uniting them along those lines other than how cover art aesthetics unite books.

And surprise - people saying ugly and dumb things might have a better idea of what they are doing than people who seem very fine. No connection at all.

I think Alex Karp and his colleagues are quite close to having a bunch of Starlinks and AI-powered combat drone networks covering all the globe. Maybe with some commercial stuff working similarly. The future might be theirs. Yep, that’s a very raw and stupid application of computing power and it’s dystopian, but what gets deployed IRL matters more than elegance.

Also this is in the context of USA giving Israel a kick in the butt, so maybe it’s not such bad news that they are getting involved with Arab monarchies and not, say, with Turkey or Russia.

I feel like “the new middle ages” really was a correct description of our time. Well, we’re at the dawn of it. All our universal rights and universal truths are going to be subject to who’s holding the dagger at your throat, and we’ll have theocracies, family republics and feudal lords again. The blooming diversity of hell.

OK, this is a bit offtopic, just one can see such behavior in all areas today where they wouldn’t be normal 30 years ago.

I’ve read that laws of most countries have become orders of magnitude more complex since the time when ESG wrote his Perry Mason books.

One could also think that all of the laws functioning in a country at one moment being possible to grasp for one person in a week are a requirement for Heinlein and Asimov’s visions of good future too.

Often touching upon the fundamental aspects like this one - a company sells not what it advertises, but it has somewhere in agreement a line that says otherwise.

While we have enormous amount and volume of active laws that don’t change any fundamental aspects, but function as a minefield for an honest person trying to navigate reality.

A combinatorial explosion if you will.

When the legal apparatus as a whole stops functioning as law and becomes yet another power in the society. In some sense having law is a disturbance, and laws becoming so complex that they are not laws again, but something like medieval privileges, with complex interpretations depending on each side’s power, and sometimes inevitable contradictions, just means that the system of society has responded to that disturbance.

Some day!.. I will gather my willpower and learn Hindi/Urdu/whatever this is at least on a basic level, because grammar doesn’t seem much harder than English/French/Armenian/Persian/… .

But not today.

That’s because real information looks like that. If you can find a shortcut, then it’s fake.

He’s still not in jail? I thought they caught him taking Azeri or Israeli or Russian bribes or all of the listed.

But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.

So do that. You can do that with Signal.

I don’t see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.

Maybe I wasn’t clear, someone said that back in the day registration on a website was a new and bad thing, connecting it with privacy and comparing to Signal asking for phone number. I answered with the idea that not much commonly thought from that time about privacy has aged well. You wouldn’t register on websites, but you would communicate with them over plaintext. I hope that makes it clearer.

Server code openness doesn’t matter other than functioning at all. For a system acceptable in a privacy community.

Normal people don’t anyway.

Well, some of the stuff they wrote, not said, wasn’t stupid and wrong.

1. People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on.
2. A sequence of digits.
3. OK, what are your “simple heuristics” for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that?