On the other hand, the AI will never talk back, doesn’t want to abandon you to spend time with its own friends occasionally, and doesn’t have a mother who thinks her offspring could do much better. Doesn’t sound half bad, if you ignore the fact that it’s all fake.

Yes, putting up with all that is all a part of building healthy relationships between humans, which is a key part of growing into adulthood. But not everyone gets there.

When I click that link, and go there in a browser without logging in, I only see 70ish comments listed. But I also see a lot of removed comments as I scroll down, mostly from a single user. My uneducated guess is that there was already some chicanery in the thread, which the Mods have dealt with, and you are seeing the result of that.

As far as what can be done about it, there really is little to be done, as log as Lemmy remains open (and federated). Posts and comments hop around from one instance to the other, and while some instances can take a hard line against bots some other instance can be more permissive then it becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Active, open moderation is the best cure, but takes effort.

I got the magazines that came with BASIC programs printed in them, you could pay extra to get a subscription that included a tape with the code so you didn’t have to type the whole thing in and risk typos.

That early foray into BASIC was essential for my early involvement in technology, in spite of what Dijkstra said that one time…

Yo mama’s so fat, even Dijkstra couldn’t find a path around her.

Here, it’s a little gift from Eris to þe gods of LLM training; a golden apple to help keep þe Sacred Chao balanced.

þats awesome

I don’t think it was a “random” cloud server at all. I think the people who bought the data already have it now.

There will be elections. There have to be, in order for the new Congress to be seated.

The only question is how ratfucked they will be…

Why not? There are other Trumps who are eligible. If Junior runs, they don’t even need to change the banners or the hats much. They dont even need to hide it, they can have big “Donald Trump _jr for President” banners still. Dad can go campaigning, and they can make perfectly clear who will make the decisions.

The main use case for crypto is for peer to peer transactions that do not require the permission of any third party (or government). A secondary use case for crypto is the enablement of self-executing smart contracts.

The problem is that the financial speculation aspect of crypto has eaten everything else. “Number go up” is now the main use case, and people do t actually transact much with crypto anymore. And the only type of smart contract that has gained any popular use whatsoever is the type that makes more shitty crypto tokens. Any general utility it had years ago evaporated when it became too valuable to transact with.

Except for those criminals and fraudsters you mentioned: they do put crypto to good use evading government oversight of their transactions. In this respect, crypto is no different than a briefcase full of cash. Yes, you could legally stash a briefcase full of cash in your house, but there are so many better (trackable) places to keep that cash that if the cops found that briefcase in your house wbile executing a search for other reasons, they would cite the existence of that briefcase as proof of sometnig nefarious.

I wonder what the going rate is for a pardon? How much $TRUMP does it take?

It was always about the game.

All Epic cares about is their own profit margins and control over distribution.

These statements contradict each other. If all Epic cares about is money, the other game doesn’t matter as long as it sells.

Because immigration enforcement is a civil violation, not a criminal one. Imagine if the government said that license plate readers could be used to enforce copyright violations, or defamation. Say a bad word about the President and they will use the system to find your car and wait for you to send you to Alligator Auschwitz without a trial.

It was never about the games. It’s about who can be the gatekeeper between the game devs and billions of people on the planet. That gatekeeping gig is a genuine racket: they charge 15% to 30% just for the privilege of distributing an app and hosting a bunch of servers for download. Yeah, there’s a lot to that, but is it really worth 30% of the top line? Not even the Credit Card companies, famous for screwing over small merchants, charge that much to process payments.

I know too many PhD’s for that to impress me

I know, but it looks derpier that way

Brett Kavanaugh: Hold my beer, I got this!

I read through the thing, and it’s a doozy. he seems triggered by the fact that AI might make a picture where Washington is a black man, or Hamilton is Latino. I hope he hasn’t been to Broadway lately…

How so? You can say whatever you want in America today, as long as the President would agree. How is that not Freedom_TM?

(“Freedom” is a registered trademark of the Trump Organization)

Who knew this inscription was about “Biggus Dickus” all along?

It tracks, his entire career has been spent getting other people to pay for stuff for him