rustyricotta

Being purely optimistic, I'd say that it's great that kids are taking interest in politics.

However, like you said, the money making focus could take priority over true opinions. And on top of everything, this is taking place on a platform where the platform is in full control of who sees what.

Far from the ideal of soapboxes in the town square, but I guess that's just today's world.

But they'll implement a one time fee to change your dpi, and then a few years after that it'll be subscription.

Everyone's reading from the same playbook

I'm here. I don't know if it has changed since I was a child or if I just didn't notice, but the cream is disgusting. It's mostly just palm/canola oil.

I don't dislike the cookie part. It's not to die for, but it is a classic flavor that tastes great in milkshakes.

If it gained sentience and took over the world, at least it would probably build itself some nice nuclear power plants.

That's their kink.

And the nature of computers is that they are magnitudes better than humans at brute forcing. Machine learning can brute force (depending on the technique, it can be smarter than brute forcing, being more efficient) test many many many more designs and techniques than we could manually do. Sure it'll fail many times, but it's just a numbers game, and it can pump those numbers. It'll try a lot of weird and unique stuff we wouldn't even think to try, with varying degrees of success.

Yeah, it makes me think back to the CD days. I think just having a Windows install CD already premade for you made the process at least semi approachable.

Last month when I was installing an OS (it was proxmox, not exactly beginner friendly, I know) the first boot disk creator I used "worked" but ended up failing in the install. The second one worked though.

All in all, creating your own install disk is nice and flexible, but it really is a barrier for the average user.

I have also felt like this my entire life. Rather than a superpower, I've always imagined that I'm haunted by some low-level evil spirit that only has power over street lamps.

You know, it kinda makes me wonder if we should have listened a little more to the people who were paranoid of being tracked and went to live off the grid.

I watch his videos occasionally and I haven't seen anything like that. Recently, at least, he's just been doing the usual of taking apart and explaining random electronics he finds.

The McDonald's ice cream machines have a similar vibe, but that doesn't seem to be as smartly/evilly executed as these trains. Remote kill switches are insane.