That only works on philosoraptors.

Ukraine is not going to spill 140k tonnes of diesel in their front yard.

squid Hitler

That is a movie I would gladly be disappointed by.

It’s not just in the corporate world. Trump is a good example. He’s a complete douchebag and obviously has no clue about anything, but he somehow makes up for it with his extreme self-confidence.

The world is extremely complex, so it’s understandable that posers who claim to have figured it out are popular. I think many people even know that the guy they’re following is full of shit, but they can’t accept that they are victims of forces they don’t control or even understand, so they lie to themselves to at least feel a little bit of security.

It still affects the buyers, though. If I get hacked because I bought crappy “encrypting” hardware, I may not even care about getting my 20 bucks back because I just lost thousands and my life is ruined.

It’s a beautiful and appealing idea that market forces will regulate everything if you just let things go. But we’ve tried that for long enough now to see that the real world is too complex and the consequences of bad regulation are too serious.

Not until we recover from bailing out the US AI industry, which will probably take at least a few years.

I’d put multiple locking mechanisms in. You definitely don’t want a single point of failure with machines that are designed to dismember people.

Sounds like a movie spinoff from a game I’d enjoy watching.

Of course it’s about profit, but how does censorship increase profits? In the end, I think it is because people don’t want to see bad words when they are doing something that’s supposed to make them feel good: consuming.

Advertisers would happily use bad words if that would increase their sales, but I assume it actually hurts their sales, so they don’t want them anywhere near their ad campaigns.

But why do corporations want to censor bad words when they don’t care if their products are harming or even killing people?

Yeah, but they aren’t Microsoft and have competition, so they might care if they lose your business. Unless you’re a big company or state actor, Microsoft probably wants your data more than what little money you have. Especially if they don’t get any money from you because you’re on some kind of charity plan.

A small local company is also more likely to help you with an individual backup solution if something off the shelve doesn’t fit you.

Not all clouds are equal.

What the f is this site…

It’s the third-largest newspaper in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_times_of_india

If ads on a news site are not acceptable to you, I wonder where you get your news.

- “How about criticising the source with facts?”
- “Nah, let’s just say something sarcastic and vague to gain internet points.”

It depends. If your software lives in a rapidly evolving ecosystem and gets buggier with age, CalVer tells the user how important it is to update. If the ecosystem is stable and you want to inform the user about feature sets and bug fixes, SemVer makes more sense.

But then I’d have to open the URL in the browser which needs a minute to load, and then I have to click away several cookie banners or wait for an extension to do it for me. Opening a YouTube URL always feels like I’m installing an app.

I also noticed the youtube rss feeds are returning 404s now as well.

They are still working for me. Example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC5rT7F0PGNuD54rJ9kzgWzw

EDIT: This is the command I use to convert YouTube channel URLs into RSS URLs:

curl --silent "https://www.youtube.com/@thecodyreeder" \
    | grep -Po '"rssUrl"\s*:\s*"[^"]+"' \
    | cut -d : -f 2- | tr -d \"

I never really understood the appeal of arranging severed plant genitals. Sure, it looks nice. But boobs also look nice, and I don’t cut them off and put them in a pretty bowl on my living room table.

Can you explain what you mean exactly?