Brewchin

If you’re going back that far, I remember hearing a story about the Australian military experimenting with immersive AI during a typical “give us money” event where a helicopter was flying over an area and the kangaroos scattered at the sound, disappearing over a hill…

Then reappeared with RPGs and fired them at the helicopter, taking it down. Lots of red faces and mumbling about working out some kinks. 😄

tl;dr: I’m old enough to remember when “AI” was a benign comic novelty. 🙃

Calibre (Kindle) and Libation (Audible) are essential backup tools.

Y’know, in case their servers are down…

Every serious person in law enforcement, who doesn’t have an agenda, acknowledges that the old fashioned policing methods make all of this redundant.

It just takes longer (and so costs money), which is what this is about.

These people would destroy the security of the world’s protocols just to save a few quid. It’s deplorable.

I get what you’re saying, but I’m not sure greedy pigboy is doing that. Everything changes.

It won’t be what it was, and the grift will grow be off the charts, but I think it will evolve into a mix of what it was and grifters grifting. Just delineated by subreddit.

The algorithmic feed and the low barrier to entry, including UX familiarity.

Aside from the headache of understanding what instances are and choosing one, and finding a decent mobile client, a lot of people care about unique usernames - especially those in the business/professional sphere.

I see their point, when @trustedname@genuine-instance can have all their effort and goodwill destroyed in a day by @trustedname@malicious-instance. While the Verification option exists, more needs to be done in ActivityPub and client developer guidelines to prevent or intuitively mitigate this kind of impersonation. But mentioning such shortcomings get sneered at or waved away, which keeps serious well-meaning people away.

Why would they go through that hassle when Bluesky’s shortcomings are ideological and potential future direction?

Waiting for Spez to weigh in with his typical subtlety and even-handedness… 🍿

Spotify is AFAIK Swedish

It was started in Sweden where its operations are still based, but it’s headquartered in Luxembourg and it chose to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

Luxembourg screams “tax efficiency” to me, so their list of pre-IPO investors must be quite the thing.