Kagi in general, and if I feel extra strongly about privacy, I use Privacy Pass mode which is cryptographically guaranteed private.

I mean I purchased an external floppy for my undergrad laptop as recently as… 2004… Oh shit that was 22 years ago… Fuck a kid born a year later can legally buy alcohol and a kid born then is graduating from undergraduate…

When did I get old?

https://dogedeaths.co/

He’s got literally over a million deaths due to him. Administrative murder is still murder, or else Hitler isn’t responsible for Jewish deaths during the Holocaust.

That’s a great quote, thank you!

Somwhow, no one has mentioned Lord of the Rings, which basically invented modern fantasy.

Unpopular opinion time: I’m torn as to where that theft line is.

If a turn of phrase in Lord of the Rings inspires something new in me, do I owe royalties to the Tolkien estate?

The stories on FanFiction.net are derivative by definition — is it theft? I love “Harry Potter and the Natural 20”, a 4th-wall breaking D&D and Potter universe mashup story (seriously, it’s hilarious). Does that story owe royalties to Wizards of the Coast and (ugh) JKR?

Maybe those are super transformative. What about opinion pieces where the author redigests information from all over, many paid writings? Are they selling the original authors’ product, even though restated?

Maybe it’s ok if they paid for the subs. But what if it came from free library books?

My wall has a bunch of art from artists at SDCC. I’m looking at Spider Gwen; Thor, Iron Man, and Mjolnir Cap charging into battle; Kaladin and Syl before the Stormfather; and a map of all the places the Gaang went in ATLA. Those artists all ingested the original work to make those derivatives; were they not allowed to make them if they borrowed their friends’ copy?

It feels kinda wrong to vacuum up public data to train models, kinda? But I don’t know that I can fairly call it immoral without condemning all these other things I think aren’t immoral. I kind of want to, but that’d be really inconsistent, and that’s profoundly frustrating in its own way.

It’s messy and complicated and I think the gut response of most people isn’t actually a reasoned one.

If OP is doing orbital dynamics in their day job, they probably live in California. JPL, Raytheon, LLNL, LBL, and Berkeley are all here.

Even if they don’t have rooftop solar, most of our grid is renewable. Their local GPUs have a decent chance of being more environmentally friendly than charging your cell phone, depending on where you live.

And using it for science and programming is really different than using ChatGPT to write you an email. I’m home right now, but I have two agents at work running debug and trial experiments, and they’ll be running it all night until I get in in the morning. I’ll review their work and steer them all day while I’m in the office; and while those two completely different projects are running, I’ll be personally working on a third. They are enormous productivity multipliers when you have a well-defined and deterministic target.

This. Exactly this.

I’m all about MonoLisa, but I’ll give this a look

Sleep as Android!

You can make it device administrator and additionally add a max snooze count and a dismissal CAPTCHA. When I REALLY have to get up no matter what, I need to go physically touch my phone to an NFC tag in the living room. Can’t even turn the phone off because it blocks that when ringing when given admin access.

JS Bach.

The only two I would consider otherwise are both alive (Lindsey Stirling and Amy Lee). They even have a collaborative piece 🎉

9 is objectively better if you have untrusted inputs and need a stable failure mode.

As an elected government, it’s a synonym for “most of Palestine”. AFAIK it’s direct representation with no gerrymandering fuckery like the states to make it only questionably true.

This is questionably accurate.

It’s not just a matter of building the rail, it’s also redesigning the urban sprawl. That’s a LOT of new construction of buildings needed, too. That comes with new utilities, etc. And cement is a huge carbon source.

There is a time scale over which that’s more carbon efficient than replacing all personal vehicles and their replacement lifecycles, but it’s very unclear if that’s actually faster with regards to climate change timelines.

Our Golden taught himself medical alerts. My wife broke her ankle when he was 6 months old, and the little glue puppy who followed me when I gave her meds started to let her know ahead of time that she would need meds, and even proactively bring her pill bottles.

Some refinement let him proactively stop mom from overdoing it, so he’s been instrumental in her recovery and PT.

Then like six months ago he started giving me pain alerts from no where when I was feeling ok. But invariably, every time he did, 30-60 minutes later I would get a headache. So now I just listen to him and my bad headaches have dropped to almost zero, because I’ll take some coffee and NSAIDs when he alerts.

He also broadly gets the concept of “pills make people feel better in a little bit”. He’ll stop alerting for about 20 minutes if you take pills (or pantomime taking pills because you’re busy or something). Then if you faked him out he’ll alert again in 20-30 minutes lol.

He’s one of the smartest dogs I’ve ever met in the “cause and effect generalizes to X” sort of way. (He also is super confident and pretty sure that the world is made of sunshine, rainbows, and friends so is conversely really dumb in risk assessment, like will fall off the bed because he’s sure he’ll be caught kind of way)

Our Golden will actively watch Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Dragon Prince. Full on watch the TV. (And nature documentaries).

Most other shows he doesn’t really care one way or the other for.

Which?

Helps if you grew up with a low but consistent daily dose of lead.

Spoiler alert, everything involves politics, and if you don’t get that, then you’re just getting screwed over by those that do.