Yes. Or, they’ll get the thread with the awkward dog meme about a microwave. It’s beautiful to contemplate.

As someone “ordinary rich”, it is acceptable to also call me “useful idiot who turns over power and influence to the real rich in exchange for an empty promise of joining them”.

“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”

Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

We’re all getting clones. You get a clone. And you get a clone. Every 23andMe customer gets a free* clone!

*Clones are provided at no cost, but are not free of their lifetime indentureship.

Yeah. Luanti following Minecraft is nothing new. Mineclonia was an early pilot game for the engine.

But there hasn’t been much effort on copying Minecraft lately. Mineclonia is done, and it’s great.

We’ve had more mobs, animals, plants, textures, and such than un-modded Minecraft for a long time. (Which is unfair, as Luanti is a mod-first design.) But my point is the core Launti dev team doesn’t have to work on any of that.

The most noticeable recent Luanti updates have been to make the configuration screens much nicer, and add I think to add native support for more graphics tricks?

I’m not paying attention to graphics in Luanti. As others have mentioned, that’s not why I play it. I actually had a conversation recently about the best way to downgrade Luanti default graphics to match un-modded Minecraft.

That said, the Minecraft team taking notice of Luanti would be new, as far as I know.

That sounds like a good approach. If you can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.

Well sure.

But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?

Acting like it’s imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn’t have very reliable advisors, or they just don’t care about the truth.

There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.

This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.

• computer science I’d be able to find something, but I’m not sure I’d have what it takes to build a fulfilling career in that field.

Cool. You might like to check out:

https://programming.dev/c/cs_career_questions

We talk a lot and careers in computer science over there.

What matters most to me is finding a job first, and then being able of moving from there.

Outside of the last three years of insane belief by CEOs that AI will solve everything (it didn’t), CS has been a great field for job placement.

We are in a period where it’s hard to get first jobs, right now.

Moving from computer science to other fields can be a great path. I went from programming to Cybersecurity, myself.

My warning to anyone considering it though:

At first, programming is about 60% staring at the screen frustrated and confused.

But after gettingreally good at it, programming can be as much as 98% staring at the screen, frustrated and confused. But at least it’s frustrated by really interesting problems, by that point.

If you want to know more about Computer Science, you can also read along and ask questions over at https://programming.dev/c/cs_career_questions

If you’re at a University of some kind, you can ask a counselor there about job shadowing opportunities in the fields you are considering.

Which of the majors you are considering pays the best?

Which has the most available jobs?

Which has the most flexibility?

And which of those three answers above matters the most to you?

When I get home I may post them.

I would appreciate that.

No way in hell would i ever own anything from Meta/FB.

Well said.

For anyone not reading between the lines, the US, Israeli, and a bunch of other governments are paying for software that can spy on your WhatsApp messages through a client side malware attack directly against the app.

The most surprising part, to me, is that this is evidence that WhatsApp may actually have unbroken end to end encryption (which I think they’ve claimed for awhile, but I didn’t believe them.)

Edit: But then, this is mostly based on statements released by Meta, so maybe I’m just a sucker for believing them when they say it differently.

If Subnautica 2 delivers on the multi player co-op, I could see it joining my primary LAN party rotation. Exciting stuff.

I find it hard to beat Markor (available on F-Droid) for quick journaling on a phone.

It has quick keys for instant open note files and todolist files, and has customizable (and reorderable) buttons, including an available button that inserts the current date with one touch.

So in your shoes I would pull the quick date button to the start of the toolbar, and add dream logs to the Quick Note every morning.

So then the taps are:

1. Open Markor
2. Tap Quick Note
3. Tap Insert Date (looks like clock)

Then type in dream notes.

4. Tap ‘Save’.

One of your implied questions is, “Can I get a reliable vehicle from around 2015 and spend less than $414 monthly, combined, on loan interest and repairs?”

To which I say, “probably”. I’ve bought cars that meet those requirements, for my definition of “reliable”. But your needs may vary.

I will say, financing a car is among the top unnecessary “stupid taxes” that I have paid, in hindsight.

Now that I don’t have car payments, I’ve found that ~$414 per month chucked into a savings account can buy a surprisingly decent car surprisingly quickly.

And having no car payment feels like I imagine having a rich uncle must feel like.