There’s no honour amongst them.

Cloud based services in general.

Two points

1. Living with a knife to your throat is also highly dangerous and exciting. I don’t recommend it.
2. The tech can’t be un-invented, but it’s still very much up for discussion wether society puts significant resources into the data centres to run this. Regulations on responsible use are also up for discussion.

It’s not a forgone conclusion by any means.

Bubbles don’t burst for rational reasons. They burst because the lie can’t be held together any more.

It’s the only name he has.

I think treason has always been treated more seriously than anything else. If Andrew has also been dealing in national secrets then it is more serious.

That doesn’t reduce the seriousness of any sex crimes. They should also be being investigated, but him being arrested for something else doesn’t mean they’re not.

I’m 90% certain that none of the resources being “bought” by AI actually have been sold, or created yet.

Indeed. The prices skyrocketed because vendors realised they couldn’t get replacement supply in the future. What existed today was all they were going to get.

I’m expecting a glut of supply once those contracts fall through.

Speaking of the auto industry: Is AI a mirage, like the dreams of a working rotary engine?

It is, but I think it’s a different type of mirage. The rotary engine does work, but it brings with it significant downsides. Getting the positives without the negatives is the mirage being chased.

AI appears to do one thing, but actually does another. People see it “creating” new things, but it’s more like it shreds work up and then glues the pieces together making sure it looks consistent. Train it on one work and it can reproduce that work. Train it on two and it will mash the two. Train it on a billion and it will mash the billion. Nothing creative,. No extrapolation. Just interpolation.

People want the AI promise regardless of the downsides. It just doesn’t exist.

Jacksonville. Never heard a good thing about it.

Convenience as in “it’s what I’ve always used and I understand it” or are you noticing some awkward aspects?

Great story.

It’s the sort of thing that I would hope could become community maintained once the authors have made some money off it.

That said, as the tires of electric vehicles tend to wear faster due to their heavier weight…

This gets repeated again and again, but hasn’t been my personal experience. I’d say my tyres are easily lasting twice as long than my previous diesel car.

Normally programming sessions with coworkers.

That’s too late.

Once they do it, they won’t reverse their path. They have to know they’re losing people now, before they commit. You can always start again after they change their mind.

So those are associated with Motorola Solutions now, or did the debt move to Lenovo?

It was specifically the OBS aspect I couldn’t get my head around.

Thats true but ID companies are not lobbying or making changes on a scale that matters. This change isnt going through because an id company lobbied the government.

This statement is what I’m disagreeing with. It just wrong.

These changes are going through because Palantir lobbied the government, or more specifically Peter Thiel. They have 34ish contracts with the government right now across MoD and NHS. One of the ID verification companies (Persona) is also his. This information drives the technologies he sells to the MoD for tracking individuals. Technology currently being used by ICE and in Gaza.

You’re right, it’s not about discord. It’s about making databases of all living people on earth and how they interact with each other.

There’s a number of MPs that have grave concerns about this relationship as well. https://youtu.be/cvDF7Z18Anc

Are you suggesting I should be setting up “private” streams via Twitch or YouTube when I want to do a pair programming session?

That’s not a solution.

Yes. It’s got immense influence in government policy.

My suggestion to friends is figure out what discord features you actually care about and find apps that do those things. Muble for audio, obs to screen share, xmpp or matrix to chat, etc.

Agree with the sentiment, but OBS to screen share? How does one do that?

I think I found Discord much more confusing than matrix, personally.

That said. Discord no longer exists for me. Account deleted today. Nothing of value was lost.