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It's not hard to figure out the brand anyway. I don't know why he hid it in the first place. I'm all for name and shame.

You don't have ADHD I guess?

Yes this, very common here too, nobody says AWD.

Yes but that anyone can open my car halfway across the world for the lulz is another matter.

> Humans living forever is inevitable. Galactic colonization, inevitable. Over a long-enough time scale.

I doubt that. I think we just fizzle out. The survival of the fittest instincts that made us a successful species is destroying us as we are getting more capable. Our 'leaders' are getting ever more unhinged.

And without faster than light travel there just isn't much point in galactic colonisation. If generations have to live and die in a tin can to get to some remote star, why not just live in that tin can in the first place.

What Snowden did was prove it being any doubt to the general public. Until that time people were considered tinfoil hats mentioning it, even though the Airbus Boeing incident was well documented. But people really thought they weren't a target unless they were a rich industrialist.

If you brought up the concept that they surveiled everyone just because they can, you'd be laughed out of the room. Nobody would pay for all that, nobody would have time to look at it blabla.

Snowden made it all real. And even then, instead of a serious outrage most people just shrugged and accepted it, strange enough.

Would they really have thought that far ahead?

It started as a pure monster of the week show, it feels like they only explored the deeper themes once they realised the show actually took off. Most of these die after the first season.

I liked it a lot, I've even rewatched the whole thing recently.

The only thing that bothered me was that some characters were really one dimensional especially Mr Reese, Jim Caviezel's. He's just really a grunty CIA guy in a suit that knows how to fight, not much more complexity to it.

"It's not Linux, it's Liberation" :D

Basically yet another live pendrive linux image with persistence?

Nice, but it doesn't really explain what's so unique about it.

There seems to be a 3W coming. I guess availability will suck though.

They do plant some trees but it's really quite minimal. Just the idea that watching some ads in a search engine can fix the world, that's the problem I'm having an issue with. That's exactly what greenwashing is.

It doesn't help because it gives people a feeling that they're already doing something big. That way they deprioritise the environment in their head and do less things that actually matter.

Instead, just refusing an unnecessary work trip or something once a year helps a lot more than using ecosia.

There's a problem with "feelgood as a service" when the problem is so big it needs drastic measures. It gives people the impression that there is a quick fix. Whoop, I just changed my default browser, great, I've done something to solve climate change! But still eating 300g of meat every day, meh.

That's what I object with with ecosia. They talk of "saving the planet" on their website. But on a global scale it basically does nothing.

So if it's that unimportant, why not just drop it?

For me it's not a big factor though. Yes the war is terrible but that's a point I can't use anything American either because of Iran and Gaza.

Yes, searxng is great! I just stopped using it lately because i constantly have to fight against the bot detection :(

You know Trump is constantly bragging about a third term right?

And besides the small win this week things are still looking really bleak internationally.

I still use US services too much tbh but slowly things are improving.

That's not really illogical, it's just because many companies use the fine print to fleece customers that are slightly above the limit. Think Ryanair. Or mobile roaming.

This is why unlimited or at least a service stop instead of overage is highly preferable. It's the reason I only use prepaid mobile plans too so they can never overcharge me (and it's cheaper than a contract too)

Yes Firefox does, you just need to visit it once and it's in the list. You can also add it manually if you want. I used it that way both on desktop and android.

Same here, I like Kagi but I'm not paying that much for search. I tried it for a while but it was not worth the money over DDG for me.

I'm very cost conscious for services though. I wouldn't pay more than €3 a month or so. Being in a medium wage eu country I just don't want money flying or left right and center.

For comparison i pay €2 a month for my email, online storage and web office, EU based also.

Ecosia is just greenwashing, "we'll plant some trees for you if you use us so you can feel good about yourself". Just like the 5€ "carbon offset" you can pay for your flight. And search is powered by bing so you're not really sponsoring anything in the EU other than just lining some smart marketers' pockets.

Yeah people are dumb if they can get an Amazon gift card or a job offer, see what happened to Binance.

But blocking alternative search engines and AI engines goes a bit far IMO especially if they dont use training. Especially if you're just afraid they will see a nipple on a search engine. That's ridiculous.

Ya Microsoft lobbies for that, at our place too.

The reason is that copilot resells other people's models (they're just a middle man) and there's an easy way to cut them out. So they blow up the dangers of other people's AI. Whereas if your data is in M365 they have it all anyway whether you use copilot or not. So they're trying to build a moat so they don't easily get cut out.

Well the internet replaced jobs too. Physical stores have been reduced a lot, especially here in Europe where you have more return rights when buying online. Some categories like music stores have disappeared completely.

But the difference was the number of jobs replaced was limited to only a few categories and it happened gradually. AI stands to change things a lot faster and while I do think other jobs will emerge I doubt they will make up the full numbers of the ones lost and it'll also happen so fast that society will have a tough time adapting :(

The air traffic is a lot more guided. Airplanes don't go anywhere unless approved. Satellites are just circling in different directions and constantly crossing paths.

Luckily most sats in LEO do have maneuvering thrusters. But the fuel is very limited and the more of them are up there the more often they have to do corrections. Eventually something will have to give.

Full no it's far from that but because these things are going criss cross with kinetic energy it's like a cross fire. The bullets don't occupy a significant amount of space but you won't find anyone happy to walk through it.

There's another point: most of these satellites by far have been approved by the US, nobody else had any say in them. Right now the way it works is that approval is granted by the launching nation only.

As it clearly affects the whole world there should be some kind of international body governing it IMO. But I doubt that will happen because most nations are instead racing to get similar swarms of satellites up.

Some seats have no window or they have the thick bar between the windows right beside your shoulder which is really uncomfortable

I didn't know that residential proxies were a thing. That sounds pretty handy because going online via a VPN gives constant nag popups from the likes of cloudflare :( I hate them.

It would be nice if the VPNs would integrate this option.

I don't need one from the white house though :)

Yeah I see the same thing at work. Most of the people burning crazy numbers of tokens aren't doing any amazing work. They're just using fable to write their emails and do their web searches.

They feel like they're super smart but it's just as smart as hiring a $500k/yr PhD as a PA to schedule your meetings and answer the phone. Sure it does a good job but you're just wasting money and abilities.

They feel super edgy and bleeding edge but all they really do differently is switching the AI chat from auto to the most expensive option all the time. When I see what they're using it for they're only grasping the basics of its abilities.

They're also people sending 2 page AI generated emails that make no sense for literally everything where a "Yeah sure let's do that" would have sufficed.

Unfortunately most of these are business leaders who just want to look edgy and "all in on AI" so we can't really limit their tokens. Yet they're also the ones saying we spend too much and want to limit some of our dev teams actually putting it to good use.

Less car traffic is great for liveable cities though. In my city they have pedestrianised major roads recently and it's been really amazing. People sitting on benches, enjoying the sun, where before it was hard to talk because of all the traffic noise. Unfortunately those streets have gone up in price a lot too because it's much better to live there now.

And yes but those road deaths are caused by cars. There's just more victims on bikes because there's so many bikes around.