Crap, I’ve had a Kindle for years, I’m still pissed at them over Dash buttons - instead of just stopping support they changed their setup site so it would bricked them. I still have half a dozen uninitialized ones I can never use now. Fuck you, Bezos, and the giant stick up your ass you rode in on.

Have to check if this means I can only read while online now, or if I can just turn off networking and keep the books I already have.

Reddit: Here’s another reason not to use our site.

Users: Ok bye.

I love how they chose the term “hallucinate” instead of saying it fails or screws up.

Their reasoning seems valid - common sense says the less you do something the more your skill atrophies - but this study doesn’t seem to have measured people’s critical thinking skills. It measured how the subjects felt about their skills. People who feel like they’re good at a job might not feel as adequate when their job changes to evaluating someone else’s work. The study said the subjects felt that they used their analytical skills less when they had confidence in the AI. The same thing happens when you get a human assistant - as your confidence in their work grows you scrutinize it less. But that doesn’t mean you yourself become less skillful. The title saying use of AI “kills” critical thinking skill isn’t justified, and is very clickbaity IMO.

I think you pretty much just now wrote a landing page, you just need to turn those into links and host that page somewhere.

Sure, you could create a database or JSON file with attributes of each thing and use React or Node.js to generate the UI, but that doesn’t seem necessary for a need on this scale - when things change just edit the landing page. I’ve been keeping links to my soft copies of D&D books and stuff with a simple HTML page for years, and I’m a web dev. No need to do work the requirements don’t demand.

If enough freedom fighters have the guts to post enough memes, there’s no limit to what we can achieve.

You’re right, What if they publish cheat codes for all Steam games, thus freeing humanity from corporate exploitation???!!!

Biggest free download site is probably https://www.oldradioworld.com/

There’s also the Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

If you like sci-fi I highly recommend X Minus One - https://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/X_Minus_One.php

I listen to mp3 all the time. Back in the Napster days I collected a ton of music, but moreover I’m a fan of Old Time Radio from the 30s and 40s, so I accumulated around 10,000 of those shows. More than I’ll ever have time to listen to. Audiophiles may deride the quality level, but I don’t believe in letting perfection be the enemy of good. And even if “computers” - whatever that even means anymore lol - drop support for mp3, there will always be software that plays it as long as there are people with big collections of files they don’t want to take the trouble to convert to something else.

Somewhat, but I’m thinking of the future of federation as a torrenty mesh of peers with no actual hosting “service” that can be turned off. That’s how I picture the Cortex in the Firefly universe. When Simon as a boy is excited about getting a “source box” I imagine it’s a participant as opposed to just an endpoint.

Modern tech makes it hard for me to take science fiction seriously anymore that involves humans piloting space fighters, manually aiming weapons, or even being effective on battlefields. We’re rapidly reaching a point where warfare will be strictly in the realm of machines.

Federated as opposed to using a Wordpress hosting service etc that can be turned off by someone’s business decision.

I signed up for early access, but tbh based on the signup page it’s hard to have a lot of confidence in anyone who thinks really light gray text on a white background is a sensible idea.

I followed a roughly similar process but the flow was more like, “Here’s a 65-inch TV on sale, let’s bump up our 48.”

Apparently 75" is the sweet spot right now.

DEi: Democrats, Education and Immigrants, the three deadly dangers.

Not last time I checked, but we all could be as far as you know.

OHHHHHHH… my bad. I’m an idiot. Being an LLM it’s giving the answer it thinks a human such as myself would come up with.

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