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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

It sure feels like we're at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle. If so, the bubble will pop, and we'll end up with AI used where it actually works, not shoved into everything. In the long run, that pop could be a small blip in overall development, like the dot-com bust was to the growth of the internet, but it's difficult to predict that while still in the middle of the hype cycle.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Relevant XKCD. Humans have always been able to lie. Having a single form of irrefutable proof is the historical exception, not the rule.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots#Assassination_attempts_and_plots

You're correct. You'll notice every president in recent history has multiple assassination attempts listed. The bulk of them don't go very far.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Technologically, I2P handles large data transfers much more efficiently than TOR. That makes I2P useful for torrenting large files like Linux ISOs.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Forcing people to give up their language and culture can be considered cultural genocide. Cultural genocide is not included in the UN Genocide Convention, so the definition of cultural genocide is not universally agreed upon. But the UN Genocide Convention does include "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" in its definition of genocide, and Russia is not shy about their relocation and adoption programs, so we can pretty definitively say that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I really wish that list would include some explanations about why each line is a falsehood, and what's actually true. Particularly the line:

The software will never run on a space ship that is orbiting a black hole.

If the author has proof that some software will run on a space ship that is orbiting a black hole, I'd be really interested in seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From the article:

The researchers have so far been unable to determine precisely how Krasue gets installed.

So no one knows yet. But I feel that the existence of malware in the wild is newsworthy, even if we don't know how it got there. Regardless, you and I probably don't have to worry about it unless you're a Thai telecom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cunningham's law. And just to buck the trend, you didn't have to get it wrong to get the right answer ;).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

You must be thinking of a different grant, or you're in a province where the carbon price is not federally run. The federal Climate Action Incentive payment is disbursed to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Fairphone is well supported by open-source Android distributions like Lineage and /e/OS. Not all Android is involved with Google.

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