I think part of it is just that websites use more ram now

The maximum speed of information and how spread out space is, combined with the likelihood of fully automated planet destroying superweapons that can’t be well defended against being the meta for future warfare, make this a very bad idea IMO. One of thousands of humanity’s offshoots goes nuts and decides we all need to die, it’s over, and you’re rolling the dice with every one. It is clear that on a population scale we do not now have our shit together enough to keep that from happening even with the benefit of instant communication, let alone without it.

Creating human colonies throughout the galaxy at this point would be like making copies of a severely mentally ill and suicidal person in the hopes that the clones will have a better survival rate if there’s more of them. It is stupid. Human culture and organizational technology need to be way better before we even consider spreading out into space because otherwise we’re facing the exact same apocalypse just on a grander scale and harder to resolve. Probably shouldn’t even send humans, instead craft some artificial lifeform using us as a template that is inherently better at this stuff than we are.

Never drank illegally, waited until my 21st birthday

a huge swath of the animosity is being driven by historic and justified anger at the extraction class.

I just wish this anger was kept focused at the corporations and the way regular people are being treated as disposable resources to be shut off from the wealth/output of our society so the rich can have it all, rather than people with inherent worth that should be supported because we are people.

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Don’t get a job

Don’t younger people prefer streaming and direct download pirate sites to torrenting anyway

Actual human beings were able to find each other and ask direct questions without this giant mountain of bullshit engagement piled on top of it

That’s the dream, what the internet should be

because I don’t know jackshit about coding and I am not gonna pretend I do.

But if OP does know and applies that knowledge to what they are doing, it’s not the same thing and doesn’t make sense to have the same disclaimer.

Damn those are some long and wordy sentences

Not sure what your point is, do you not like how I worded that? I’m saying it’s a bad thing, do you think it’s a good thing, or missed the second half of the sentence? Not using AI to write comments is something I take pretty seriously, so please don’t cast doubt on its humanity just because what I write is long and verbose and not in complete agreement with you, I am a real person who has put effort into laying out my thoughts and this hurts my feelings.

If your point is further restrictions to children’s access to social media being broadly unpopular, unfortunately that isn’t accurate. This is why I’m taking a contrarian position here despite believing free computing should take priority; if people want this, and it’s going to happen in some form, maybe a compromise that doesn’t involve the worst losses of privacy and control is the best available path forward. If not, I want to hear arguments why not, or alternative plans, because the ones I can think of aren’t totally convincing.

The way libertarianism (the property rights focused version) has marketed itself appeals to people who believe the other major political viewpoints they are aware of do not value human freedom highly enough. Anarchism also appeals to that sentiment. So it’s going to be similar kinds of people adopting these viewpoints I think. Maybe which you land on will depend on what sort of people and information you are around, or your willingness to reconsider your beliefs when exposed to new ideas.

On Linux, you get your software from repositories

Unfortunately I have seen many software projects where the linux install instructions are to run a command that involves curl and a .sh file

Intense emotional pain I couldn’t get away from, which lasted a very long time. The sense that I can’t trust anyone. Mild psychosis where I would temporarily convince myself we would get back together, despite trying hard to accept it and not think this way, just getting my thoughts overpowered by emotion. The feeling that who I am as a person does not exist anymore. Briefly feeling less pain by finding reasons to be angry, but not being able to maintain that anger. Eventually the pain subsided years later when I forgot what it felt like to be around her. Still have nightmares sometimes though.

I actually did data labeling work on amazon mturk for a while, it does kind of suck, the main saving grace was I could largely do it on my own schedule but I assume these people don’t really get that benefit.

What about people who say that they like drama

being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage.

From another article I read about this, seems like it involves a lot of drawing precise boxes around people and objects, stuff like that. Terminators gotta learn their sex moves from somewhere.

I have a Garmin gps for my car, it does have wifi and bluetooth but my hope is that it’s enough that I have these disabled in the settings and never used them to connect to anything.

I thought it was weird that ENS was not mentioned, found this interesting argument in the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alternative_DNS_root#ENS_removal, apparently it has been censored. Edit: I guess that was a pretty long time ago though

What about GPS devices that are not phones