Yeah, but by replacing the effort through which knowledge and experience are learned, the step of understanding what the app is doing won’t come.

i will not say that Steam has a lot of pro-consumer functionality. but in this particular case, the thing that sony is being critizied for is something Valve has already done, 20 years ago

This meme is a pet peeve because sony is doing exactly the same thing that valve did when they released steam, of going digital-only and tying game ownership to digital accounts.

so you don’t only dislike common mushrooms (fair, you eat what you want) but now the whole Fungi kingdom is garbage?

that is exactly what it does

the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself

and that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human

Differently types of risks. Giving a 3rd party access to your full cloud storage has massive privacy concerns that he is right to want to avoid.

I fully expect that they will release ai-doctored body cam footage

i am in a similar position. i have started to give serious thought to the idea of moving back home (to a country with a much lower cost of living than the US), and live from savings while i figure out what i want to do the rest of my life.

I haven’t used AI agents yet, but my job is kinda pushing for them. but i have used the google one that creates audio podcasts, just to play around, since my coworkers were using it to “learn” new things. i feed it with some of my own writing and created the podcast. it was fun, it was an audio overview of what i wrote. about 80% was cool analysis, but 20% was straight out of nowhere bullshit (which i know because I wrote the original texts that the audio was talking about). i can’t believe that people are using this for subjects that they have no knowledge. it is a fun toy for a few minutes (which is not worth the cost to the environment anyway)

Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?

no, for sure there are limits. if you cultivated a whole functional brain, for example, would be dystopic af

i would not call Lucier a musican, but i do find some of his sound art interesting. ‘I am sitting in a room’ can be kinda meditative in an interesting way

it is important to note that the article says that Alvin eagrly agreed to this experiment, and donated the blood for it. If that is true, then I don’t see any ethical dillemma in here

what are you talking about, the underground railroad has always been the 4/5 subway line in NYC that connects the Trump Building in Wall Street with the Trump Tower in 5th Ave, right?

the gulf of mexico isn’t bordering any country in south america

i just can’t think of any. like the article says, i fully expected the app to send data to china. but even if you are maliciously spying on users, why would you send the stolen data on unsecured channels? so that everyone in the path takes advantage of the data your wanted to steal?

“regulations are written in blood” is a quote for a reason

so, you are supposed to have a human and an animal here, not just 2 birds

LEGI