Did I say “only”?

Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now

“Magnitudes” is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.

Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.

Of course it is.

Fascists can create the illusions they need to convince morons whilst at the same time making them distrust reality (“nah that’s AI”)

A lot of people are going to suffer

It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now

Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

Oh yes, more of this.

I think having a healthy population is key for defense too, so I’d say NHS spending is also defense spending and should get a slice of that pie

VScode locally, vim if I’m shelled into something

Used to use sublimetext, but roughly a decade ago VSCode ended up getting a lot of inertia, and that resulted in better plugins (at the time anyway)

I’ve used the jetbrains stuff and I do not get the hype whatsoever, it’s bloaty and cumbersome.

One of the main reasons I switched from vim as my main was ping-pong pair programming. I’m not gonna be the arsehole that tries to force a junior dev to figure out vim instead of actually working on the ticket. Still 100% my go-to in text mode though, it’s basically perfect.

I also am short sighted, though possibly a bit worse than you given your description. If my glasses suddenly fell off there are plenty of hazards I would potentially miss. Idiot kid about to run into the road, etc.

I think I’m more concerned about the unfortunate scenarios where:

Glasses fuck up meaning driver can only see near -> something that needs quick reactions happens to avoid someone dying -> driver is fumbling with glasses or trying to find a spare pair -> somebody dies

I don’t think I want it to be possible for someone’s glasses to die or freeze

People do dangerous things that are made safer by the fact they can see—like driving

Edit: you’ll need a prescription because the amount of focus it needs to do will be different for everyone and there isn’t a sensor to determine your eyesight

Genuinely though, the point of YouTube premium is to get rid of the ads…

We seem to be making cable TV again where you pay a premium for the privilege of being advertised to

Looking forward to the new era of security holes caused by this

People (still) don’t take it seriously when you point out actual fascism.

The only solution to having a Nazi problem is violence against Nazis. They cannot be reasoned with and are a threat to everyone else.

The speech free platform continues to remove speech.

MSN messenger died for Skype

Skype died for Teams

We’re not on a great trajectory here

(Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)

Also tangentially related: one of Tim Berners-Lee’s regrets is the two forward slashes between the protocol scheme and the domain name

Also I love that the older BBC articles are frozen in time like this

Well one of the main problems people are having with AI is that it doesn’t get things correct every time.

I mean, if they adjust it away from the correct assessment that modern conservatives are actively malicious morons, it’s probably going to be so bent out of shape that it’ll be incapable of telling anything remotely truthful.

I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels

In the magpie nests

(Sorry, you made me think of this article)

The bits just have that analogue warmth that you don’t get with conventional drives

For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.

Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.

I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days

I was gonna say, anyone with half a brain who has poked their head into Reddit over the past year or two will have seen a shitload of obvious bots in the comments.