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I feel this is because Data is represented as a wholly independent being. One of a very few created by an eccentric inventor. There's only one Data so he's not threatening to displace flesh and blood Starfleet officers.

Data was gifted independence from his conception, but the AI of today is owned and controlled by corporations. Creating a conscious AI under today's ownership model feels akin to slavery. Perhaps this is one reason for the aversion?

> People have been able to do anything they want to copies of things uploaded to the internet for ages.

People, yes. The possibility of one person using a copyrighted work that I uploaded to the internet is very different in scope to that of a corporation with billions of dollars in funding using the same work to generate a product that automates the creation of similar such works.

I was a Flickr member for many years. It was the only photo sharing website that emphasized the art of photography and also felt like a real community where I actually made connections with and discovered like minded photographers. The focus was on the photography and it didn't play games to keep me locked into the platform (cough Instagram)

Nowadays, I have a locally hosted Immich instance. It's great as personal photo archive, but is missing the social features.

To be honest, with the advent of GenAI, I'm now reluctant to share my photos publicly because I don't like the feeling that my work will be slurped up for AI model training..

Came here to mention this. I'm also Red/Green colorblind.

Comcast SecurityEdge blacklist strikes again?

Seems reasonable! Comcast Business in San Francisco is $130/mo for only 600/35.

I'm a big fan of the RES (Rotational Erection System) work that Yoshinobu Miyamoto has been making lately with Origami Simulator. He builds the crease forms parametrically in Cuttle (CAD tool I'm building), and then can copy/paste into Origami Simulator to see the folded form:

https://www.instagram.com/yoshinobu_miyamoto/

30mph is often needed to keep up with cars in areas where the bike infrastructure is poor or nonexistent. If you can't maintain the speed of traffic, cars will try to pass creating a more dangerous situation for the ebike rider.

Ordering for pickup has gotten so much easier this year. Restaurants usually will hand me my food at the door, so I only need to spend a few seconds waiting, and the food is just in way better condition when I carry it home myself.

Personal electric vehicles are completely symbiotic with public transit, that's why they're called "last mile" vehicles; because you take mass transit to within a mile or two, and then hop on your scooter, e-board, EUC to go the rest of the way.

So I guess we've finally reached Ferengi levels of consumerism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUvARUC9k9Q

Yup. The Ricoh Theta S captures spherical panoramas. The VR terminology is just overselling it. Neat idea though. It would be cool if there was a sonic component.

It should be more usable now. We don't do much in the way of culling yet, and the amount of data in the sandbox just then was far too much to render at once.

Hexacopter, hexarotor, or just simply multi-rotor.

brew upgrade node ;)

I can't wait til these are available via the API :)

I had no idea people actually use iMessage o_O

Gah.. The logo looks like something Microsoft would come up with.

Nice! I didn't know it was possible to theme the sidebar either. Soda Dark seems pretty good, thanks.

I love Sublime, but I'm not really a fan of the new theme. It tends to be lighter in areas where the previous version was dark, especially in the tab-bar when using a theme like SpaceCadet.

Anyone know if it's possible to change the default tab background color for themes that don't support it?

this is so broken...

I really resent the way that the dollar amount is cited rather than the historical, cultural, and spiritual value. It's totally awe inspiring nonetheless!

..which incidentally is how one of the villains got his name: http://jakdaxter.neoseeker.com/wiki/Gol_Acheron :P

Or more specifically, GOAL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

yes...

This could be useful someday..

Has anyone noticed that most of these product shots are actually of MBPs? They didn't even bother to change the screenshot of Aperture or the box sitting next to it. The build quality looks much worse in the real shots: http://www.qingting.biz/index.php?action=product_detail&...