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> He's a good kid all in all, actively engaged in competitive rowing, with good grades etc. Plays chess also

If he's actually passionate about rowing, it's unlikely he's going to drop it to play video games all day. If he does, then its only a matter of time until he finds his true passions. I was a real gaming vegetable for years until I discovered some outdoor activities I actually enjoyed. I mostly rock climb now, though I still enjoy playing games.

> And, with real-world war going on in Ukraine, I can't stand watching him actually using those ultra-realistic knives or pump action guns for, well, killing "terrorists" as a recreational activity.

I can't blame you on that one, but for what its worth, I played plenty of violent video games and I've always been a staunch pacifist. If he can't separate games from reality, there's a larger issue at hand.

Agreed. We must eliminate dangerous chemicals like dihydrogen monoxide from our food!

i believe its patently bad when it comes to AI. 1) it could create an economic bubble if the only people interested in LLMs are LLM providers (unlikely scenario though) the real issue is 2) deepfakes and the end of "authentic video". Let me explain. Now, bearing in mind that most of us can still recognize a Veo 3 clip instantly, generative AI videos are getting better and better, and soon old people will be seeing clips on facebook of presidential candidates telling them not to vote, or that they're satan worshippers, or something, i don't know. But here's the key - video AI takes a lot of resources. A text GPT can reasonably be run on a researcher's computer with a good GPU. Could the videos that look 90% real be done without billions of dollars of investment from Google and OpenAI? No. When there are AI political ads on the TV and Google or Meta or some other AI company is decrying these or lobbying against them and saying "Veo is meant for good! We didn't intend for it to be used this way! Read the TOS!", remember they're the ones who enabled it. TL;DR Google put billions into Video AI to create a product worth buying, that product is a threat to democracy and rational thought and probably wouldn't exist without their investment. QED, not inevitable.

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Notably as well, this is more equivalent to a former housemate taking something of yours as they leave, instead of a burglary. The phrase "hacking back" in the title implied to me that an outsider hacked their servers. Not that hacking back would be ethical either way, but I felt misled.

> I'm looking to expand my consumption of content across the internet.

Why would you ever want to do this ever

Non clickbait title: Researcher recovers older translation erased underneath newer translation.

yeah let the homeless die off some more so i can keep watering my lawn

Not sure about the title but I can tell you that having a sense of smell is not a sign of being covid-negative. You can get 2 15-minute covid tests at walmart for 20 bucks

The website calls it the Voys app but I think it's actually called Vialer: https://github.com/open-voip-alliance/vialer It's the only full app in their repo and it fits the description they gave on the website.

rateyourmusic. It has a recommendation algorithm that is definitely better than Spotify's* (it's tweakable too!), but the real ticket is reading the endless user generated reviews and lists. You can browse genres by top-rated albums, there are featured reviews from all kinds of genres on the front page, there's a featured list page or you can find lists albums were mentioned in on their album page then check out that list to see what users categorized it with. If you get bored, you can click on a user's review on an album you like and see what other albums they rated highly. Maybe you have similar interests and find your next favorite album.

*Only issue I have with the recommendation algorithm is that once you rate an album it isn't removed from the recommendation list. Makes me doubt what the algorithm is actually taking into consideration when generating a list.

I may have been too snarky in my original response but my point is this: treatment before housing implies treatment on the street, which I cannot believe is productive. I don't care what meds you take for your schizophrenia, sleeping on the streets is a form of mental assault in itself. If you're trying to beat a drug addiction, the people surrounding you are going to work to undo everything your support groups and methadone clinics are doing for you. America is obsessed with homeless people proving themselves "worthy" before getting public assistance and it isn't working. Finland has actually been solving homelessness by providing homes first, treatment second.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...

If housing isn't the solution to homelessness, what is? Telling drug addicts to get clean before they get a home? I'm sure it's really easy for people with drug addictions and mental illnesses to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and conquer those while sleeping out in the cold, especially in Skid Row where you're living around 6 drug dealers. Housing comes first, social work should follow. If the government doesn't absorb the costs of property damage when housing the homeless, they're going to absorb the costs of policing the homeless on the street. I will admit it was inconsiderate of the homeless to take bed bugs with them to the hotels. They should have just chosen to not get bed bugs when sleeping in blankets they pulled out of garbage bins.

> IF YOU’RE PAYING DUES… it will be RESTRICTIVE meaning it won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other. So be a DOER, stay friendly and get things done versus paying dues

What is this line even supposed to mean? Probably the most incomprehensible union busting talking point I've ever heard.

Thank you for the caution. I will need to make sure my expectations on difficulty are appropriate or mental roadblocks will cause me to give up too easily.

> The setup guide for servers isn't "run murmur.exe", it's "run openssl commands to generate a private key and generate a CSR" and the setup guide for clients is "if you lose your client certificates, you potentially lose all ability to connect, and permissions/rights, hope there's another admin".

Fair, but in my experience - Mumble/Murmur being very common in my favorite game's competitive space - either A) someone is just going to rent their Mumble server for 5 bucks a month and not worry about setup, if they lose their personal cert they can use SuperUser - or B) They're an enthusiast who rents a VPS and actually hosts their own server for a large userbase, they will have the knowhow to setup. Generally anyone in these spaces granted admin powers will be smart enough to keep their cert around.

Losing client certs is less of a problem for this space because nobody requires users register to connect. If their group is private, they keep the IP to themselves and don't even bother adding a password. if its public, then its public and anyone can connect. Registration only necessary for mods or stopping hooligans from changing their names.

I've had a lot of success telling people "just click next" for every button in the Mumble setup, but Mumble doesn't make things simple for the non-enthusiastic end user.

The harder part for most users is figuring out how to connect. Mumble has a URI Protocol but that's only a temporary fix as it can't add a favorite to someone's list.

IMO the only reason Mumble can't compete with Discord is that they serve different niches. Mumble doesn't offer much for users who want a permanent text suite or multiple server connections at a time, but for friends/gamers hanging in voice it works fine (and Mumble beats Discord at VOIP). (and all of Mumble's competitors like Teamspeak also fall to Discord for the same reasons).

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