Hear me out. Your car, your phone, and these days, the streets themselves practically track you everywhere you go. They are creating a pattern profile for you, and for everyone else. I’m not saying this is a good thing, but the silver lining is that we know about it.

Wanna be invisible for a day? Throw your phone in the car and have your partner or friend drive around with it. The logs for that day will show you being a happy little drone driving around like normal. Here is the thing… As the surveillance state gets more and more toys to play with, they forget the important basics, the primitive tools, the personal skills, and the willingness to do the legwork that actually matters.

If it makes you feel better/differently about the effectiveness of surveillance. Some guy kidnapped Nancy Guthrie, got captured on camera, sent a ransom note, and we still don’t know who the fuck he is.

A professional using AI as part of your diagnosis is fine.

A professional using AI to diagnose you is not.

To put it another way. If I had a condition, and my doctor used and AI to look through thousands of studies to find a treatment regimen that fits my particular health profile better than the standard treatment and they then review the sources and decide that it would be a safer and more effective option than the standard care, then I’m all for that. If my doctor says “I asked this AI, and it said do this”, then I’m definitely not doing “that” until I check in with another doctor.

cheap drone flies conductive dust to the air conditioning systems? Like powdered metal dumped somewhere very sensitive, where it can be carried to sensitive equipment by the air pumps? Or fire/smoke at the intake?

Wouldn’t work. Dust is a major problems for data centers, and they already have pretty strict air-handling controls to prevent it.

Your main ways of disrupting one is by taking out the power, the HVAC, or the structure. I think out of the 3, the HVAC would be the easiest to disable from the outside. That being said, datacenters are not inherently problematic, so make sure you know what you are trying to destroy before you actually destroy it.

I’ve seen AI do my job, good luck with that.

Not even close.

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I see serrations/combo blades on a knife and I just want to vomit.

You missed out on windows fucking up drivers for some SSDs a few months back. I had a MSI machine for a client that was unrecoverable on 11, and to re-install from scratch.

I switched my mom to Linux because teaching her how to use Linux as her daily driver was easier than trying to unfuck windows on her computer.

Back up your data and then go nuts.

Carnivores (and omnivores) don’t taste as good to people

I dunno, pork is pretty good…

… we absolutely do not know if they are or are not sentient conclusively…

We don’t even know if other people are sentient conclusively, so I see possible sentience as a non-factor when it comes to edibility.

Not really.

First of all, because we would need the DNA of those animals. Sure, you can cobble some shit together, to make an animal that looks like that extinct species, but it would not actually be that extinct species.

Another issue is the biome/niche that species lived in. They either went extinct because of changes to their environment, or, they went extinct, and that caused changes in their environment. So if you want to bring the species back, you also need to make sure they have a suitable environment to survive in.

You also can’t just bring back one. A population needs generic diversity to adapt and survive. So to de-extinct a species, you need to bring back like 25 generically varied examples. Much more work than just creating a single specimen.

Behavior matters for a species as well. If orcas went extinct in the wild, and we brought them back with a breeding program in zoos and aquarium and just released those solitary orcas into the wild, do you think they would act like orcas? Would they hunt with the same techniques? I think the pack mentality would be gone, their “language” would be gone, and I don’t think they would survive.

The reality is, extinction is a permanent thing. We may possibly have the ability to bring a species “back” but there will be permanent, population-altering irreversible effects from going extinct in the first place.

“AI, explain the reasoning behind these decisions and link relevant corraborating resources I can use to verify.”

But yes, AI can be an assistive tool, but I wouldn’t suggest replacing all your thinking and decision-making with a charbot. Totally agree with you.

This is a post about heroin. It’s better than oxy, and the sad thing is, it’s the best option a lot of people have.

I actually don’t know much about drugs, but you get the point, you should not be trying to “self medicate” for psychological pain from unregulated “street” vendors.

Well…

You could ask an AI to provide you with a list of best practices to implement before allowing it to work in your environment in order to make sure that it doesn’t accidentally delete everything you need.

If he doesn’t stop destroying my livelihood, I’ll be mighty pissed 2 years after voting for him in to office for a 3rd time, since he is doing the exact same things he did during his first and second terms, and he even told us in all 4 campaigns that he was going to do these things.

I don’t think the Democrats can’t be reformed until the Republicans party is eliminated, or ranked choice voting is enacted nation-wide.

We can’t take risks on more progressive candidates when a loss results in a literal child-raping Nazi getting elected instead.

This isn’t a “no, you’re wrong” rebuke, but a “yes, but first…” agreement.

I’ve been thinking about it. It’s not good enough to say “Sorry, last guy was a dipshit.” Especially since the majority of people in the US think he is a dipshit right now.

I think we would need to remove said dipshit from power, and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Then remove anyone who knew he was a dipshit and had responsibility to say/do something about it, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law where appropriate. Then find anyone that supported the dipshit in exchange for favors from the dipshit, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

After all that, then we need to get laws in place that prevent this kind of dipshittery from happening again. Specifically, we need heavy penalties for election campaign finance and ethics violations. Ranked choice voting seems like a pretty good way to prevent us from having to a choose between the two least likeable assholes in the country to lead us. Big money needs to be out of politics, remove Citizens United, remove the ability of corporations to make campaign contributions, and maybe even make campaign finances be paid out of a government fund where each a candidate gets an equal amount.

Once we’ve removed the dipshits, and prevented the possibility of a dipshit getting elected again, the last ingredient for this redemption recipe is time. People aren’t just going to forget what has happened. We need to demonstrate consistent stability and sanity in both our foreign and domestic politics for at least a decade or two.

I don’t think all of this will happen TBH. A more realistic redemption is a complete restructure of the United States, and probably a separation into a few different countries, varying in sanity from a solarpunk future state to the religious-zealot-lead redneckistan.

They also tend to vaporize birds, which doesn’t help. The birds can’t see the concentrated beam of death until they are already in it, and then ‘poof’ no more bird.

Laser does well for photos, but you gotta remember to get laser specific photo paper. The fuser can get hot enough to damage the gloss, or even melt it and smear it around in the printer.

Other than that, crisp photos, no bleed from the ink spread. Holds up well to light and moisture too.

The problem with canon, is they absolutely eat you alive when it comes to ink. Motherfuckers got light cyan, light magenta and gray/photo black.

Unless you go laser and then it’s just a rebadged HP.

Same. Biggest eye-opener for me. My printer was located and installed automatically during setup. Same for all my other devices. It just fucking worked, and I legit cried a bit because I’ve wasted a significant portion of my life dealing with printer and driver issues on windows.