Considering your average printer is a piece of shit that needs to be replaced quite often, yes, using a website is probably more energy efficient.

I would venture a guess and say that most animals (at least land animals that aren’t subject to motions of the surrounding medium like fish are) would probably communicate face to face, not sure what is considered so unusual about that.

You can advertise your stuff on those platforms but actually publish your content on your own website.

It is almost as if content creators were all warned that would happen if they host everything on centralized platforms outside their control but nobody listened.

Well, for one thing for consciousness to be real there needs to be some form of consciousness and LLMs don’t have that.

Thermite is supposed to work too for extreme cases.

I guess it makes sense to come up with a separate term between the dual uses of top/switch/bottom and dom/switch/sub.

My brain tends to do that to me fairly often, making me read words split up differently. Most recently I discovered that Chicago could also be interpreted as a game similar to Pokemon Go! with a Spanish girl protagonist (Chica Go!).

Wasn’t the whole day invented to basically make meaningful romantic gestures impossible in mid-February?

Superhuman intelligence is not threatening about AI, inhumane behavior is and corporations don’t just display that occasionally but constantly.

It looks more like people have to fight a constant battle to keep capitalism in check because capitalism itself is incapable of rational behavior and just does the same things to optimize profits regardless of consequences for any other indicators.

Have you seen the behavior of parties captured by the capitalist end of the political spectrum? They very much are not the rational actors trying to preserve their own income by keeping consumers alive. If they were they would try to optimize consumer health and spending money instead of aiming for highscore-like accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few that can’t spend it on anything meaningful any more anyway because they can already afford everything that could meaningfully improve their life a million times over.

I am so sick and tired of these control problem people not understanding that a) we do not have AI that is anywhere near as advanced as they worry about and b) we already have human organizations called corporations who have been acting exactly like the AI they worry about for decades.

Wouldn’t that detection of VMs severely limit which Linux servers it can infect considering how many servers run virtualized?

Also never even start optimizing until you profile and are sure the bit you are trying to optimize even matters to the overall performance of your program.

Might make an interesting science fiction novel, AI takeover via teaching the next generation as an AI assistant to their parents.

Makes sense, taller Germans throw too much of a shadow to make the solar worth it.

Must be from one of those bird species with spotted eggs?

Only in very limited ways if the other two branches of government are complicit since judges (at least the regular kind not on the supreme court which has been captured too) really can’t do anything directly opposing the body of written law.

Most backups are not kept around long enough to still be available 4 years from now and even if they were you would lose any data entered in those 4 years if you restored from backups. Backups will not protect you from deliberate malicious changes.