There will be an explosion of AI services like ChatGPT that do exactly the same thing but much cheaper. They’ll run FOSS AI models that didn’t cost them billions of dollars to train and run on purpose-built hardware (i.e. not GPUs). “Big AI” will pivot to government contracts.

As that fifth year comes around, companies will be announcing products that have these purpose-built chips inside them that can do a whole heck of a lot of stuff without requiring a constant connection to the Internet. Think: Toys, appliances, and very fancy cars.

Every single piece of software will have been rewritten by AI so many times with so many clones it’ll be hard to distinguish good stuff from bad. The situation will become so problematic that every app store/repo will insist upon some kind of supply chain certification and possibly 3rd party verification.

AI tools that search the Internet on behalf of the user will crush ad-based businesses like Google and Meta. The AI will automatically filter out the ads and other cruft from search results and return just the search results the user wanted in the first place. This will result in free search engines becoming even worse and paid search will become a necessity. It’ll probably get incorporated into plans like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc bundled plans where you pay for a certain amount of photo storage/whatever and get premium search as part of the bundle.

Yeah like… What the hell did we build our embassy out of that a great big explosion outside merely cracked some glass in the doors‽

There’s not even pock marks on the frame!

TVs, thermostats, “smart” anything, android phones, 3D printers, industrial equipment, routers, sensors (e.g. soil monitoring where there’s millions), and zillions more categories.

Remember: Just about every “smart” device that’s connected to the Internet is running Linux and isn’t getting compromised anywhere near as often as embedded windows devices did (which is a big reason why companies stopped using embedded windows!). There’s vulnerabilities that crop up from time to time (e.g. cheap routers) but that problem can often be attributed to shitty practices on the part of the device manufacturer. Example: Using the same default credentials on every device, expecting the end user to change them.

Don’t forget TVs, thermostats, “smart” anything, etc.

The Waffle House Index needs to be updated to add a new code: Swastica Red. Locked Doors Due to Presence of Conservative Politician.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

One thing to think about with Linux—where I think you’re getting the wrong impression—there’s something like fifteen billion Linux installations globally. Compare that to Windows where there’s about 1.9 billion.

Yet for some painfully obvious reason, Windows has about an order of magnitude more serious, actively exploited vulnerabilities than Linux. For every serious, actively exploited Linux vulnerability (which includes basically anything in the tens of thousands of packages + kernel that are available and ready to install in any Linux install), Windows has vastly more. And that’s just the stuff branded by Microsoft!

There’s a whole lot of reasons why you’re much more secure in just about every way on a Linux install, but believe it or not, you know what the single most important factor is, that prevents malware from being much of a problem? Default permissions!

It sounds silly, but whenever you download something on a Linux desktop you can’t just execute it. You have to take an extra step and mark that thing/malware as executable before you can run it. It’s a step where everyone stops to think, “hmm… Maybe I should double check this.” 😁

This doesn’t stop the truly careless, of course. But it’s easily the biggest factor in preventing the sorts of “drive by malware” that people often get suckered into running.

Contrast this with Windows where literally everything is executable by default. You can change a .txt to an .exe and BAM! Windows will now attempt to execute it when you double click on that file (that would throw an error, but you get the idea).

Yes, but what illegal experience does he have? Without that, I fail to see how Trump would consider him qualified!

That’s the thing, though: Removing that mercury filtration system is going to be expensive and require re-certification. There’s no point. The price has already been paid.

It’s like someone heard that mercury removal from coal power plants costs a lot of money and saves lives so they said to themselves, “saving lives‽ We can’t have that! The more people that die from pollution, the better!” And set policy based on that instead of examining the reality of the economics.

Of all the things… Do they have meetings where they’re like, “we’re not doing enough pointlessly evil things that have no benefit to anyone!” ‽

Within the browser, it’ll work to “protect” your traffic (including DNS) from prying eyes locally. As in, someone on the same network as you or your ISP or whatever networks your traffic passes through to its destination.

Instead, it sends it all to Microsoft Central Data Collection™! By passing all your traffic through Microsoft’s central servers, you can rest easy, knowing precisely who is inspecting everything you do (including the US government and the other countries in the Five Eyes network).

Let’s be honest: It’s yet another unfair transfer of power from local criminals to international ones, increasing the wealth of billionaire pedophiles. Give the locals a chance to rise up, would ya?

Spellmonger.

I wish the author would stop writing side stories about characters no one cares about and focus on the MC and progressing the main story forwards.

What’s so special about same-sex marriages? I say expand it to include all marriages!

Let us not recognize the unions of conservatives. Clearly, any woman in such a relationship is being held in such a position against her will. Or she’s mentally addled somehow and is being taken advantage of.

Yes! Because cyber bullying can only happen on platforms that are designed specifically for adults. By banning children from social networks, we will have completely eliminated the problem and totally not at all created much worse problems like potentially leaking the identities of millions of people and destroying the entire concept of privacy.

(Nods head vigorously)

https://theforestscout.com/40129/in-our-opinion/how-a-childrens-game-turned-into-an-outlet-for-bullying/

When my kids were young, but old enough that they may inadvertently stumble upon porn, I told them the truth. The truth that so few explain to their children. The truth that many adults don’t understand and many more completely forget.

Porn is fake.

It’s not real. The sounds? Acting. The breasts? Those are fake too. The perfect skin? Makeup (or airbrush).

Even “amateur” porn is fake! As soon as someone agrees to be filmed having sex it ceases to be real.

Also, let me get this straight: Your greatest fear from children being exposed to porn is they might begin to accept mysogyny‽ As in, you think porn is the most likely place kids will be exposed to it and somehow just nod their heads‽ “Oh wow, that’s totally sexist! But they’re having sex so it must be OK. I’ll try to be like that!” (Child nods head).

Or perhaps you think kids will be viewing so much porn—specifically, the mysogynistic kind—that it will somehow carve mysogyny into their minds?

This is so much like the beliefs of conservatives that try to ban books that mention LGBTQ people. Stop and think for a moment: How much porn did you view as a kid? How did that impact your life?

I seriously doubt it changed much. Unless, of course, you were reading Playboy for the articles.

Just think: Without legislation like this, kids will be able to see people having sex! Thus, ending their lives. Not so different from staring into the eyes of Medusa!

The amount of children exposed to sex that have died—or suffered worse consequences like early onset conservatism—may have been zero so far but the dangers are clear! We must skip right over parental involvement in child rearing and go straight to the source of the problem: Computers.

Computers have been giving everyone access to too much information for too long! We must restrict it! The first step is to get an implementation that actually works to censor information—to save the children (wink wink)—then later, we will have the tools necessary to censor whatever we want!

When glorious dictator decides that information about trans-genic mice must be erased from the Internet, we shall have the power to do so!

Not a damned thing in that article had anything at all to do with “chatbots”.

Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that’s just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.

Solution: Don’t use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.

Also don’t forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!

Articles like this are really just propaganda (wishful thinking) trying to soften the blow of Baumol’s Cost Disease:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Industries that benefit heavily from automation reduce costs over time. Industries that rely heavily on services (that require people to perform them) increase costs over time.

If you can somehow convert a big chunk of your economy into services from automated production, you can smooth out the difference in that economic curve. In theory, that means the rich (capitalists) can continue to get richer while everyone else’s salaries flatten out.

It’s total bullshit. The only logical end result of such a situation is the rich getting eaten sooner rather than later.

Smart rich people are (right now) lobbying to get their taxes increased to pay for a better social safety net. Stupid rich people are lobbying for bullshit like converting everything into a subscription economy.

Remember folks: Education teaches us that working 9AM to 9PM six days a week is total bullshit.

When a right wing (conservative) person (usually a white guy) goes on a killing rampage (the traditional shooter), folks on the right wonder what went wrong (or celebrate it). Those on the left have a pretty good idea, though: Right wing media.

When the rare left wing person kills some people (usually political targets and not random civilians), folks on the right see it as justification for all their rage and those on the left blame the same thing: Right wing media.

When the exceptionally rare trans person kills people it’s the same: Right wing media is the source. Not that they read/view right wing media… It’s because they were the targets of it.

Only right wing media singles out minorities and declares them as evil, less than human beings. This drives right wing people into hatred which leads to mistreatment and ultimately, violence. Violence begets violence.

Whenever a right-wing, white guy goes on a killing rampage we need to label that for what it is: Right-wing ideology in action. They’re not “extremists”. They’re not “radicals”. They’re just conservatives who aren’t pussies about what they believe and are willing to take action.

That guy that shot his daughter because she didn’t like Trump? That wasn’t a radical MAGA conservative! He was just a regular one. He did what they all want to do: Kill people they don’t like. From his perspective, he dealt with the problem, directly. Other conservatives should celebrate this win of their ideology! Show the world who they really are.

We need to stop pretending they don’t want violence. That they don’t want to murder. That somewhere deep down, they’re even a little bit reasonable.

They’re not.