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  • What if companies lobbied and depositioned that oil consumption wasn’t bad, greenhouse gasses don’t matter, and that climate change wasn’t real? All while having evidence to the contrary.

    Like, a company does a thing. Turns out it was a bad thing, but - as an industry - lied under oath and paid money to have it all swept under the rug.
    That’s pretty damn bad.

    AI companies seem to be marketing their thing as a bad thing, idiots drink the coolaid and make it a bad thing.

    I think we are early enough in the adoption cycle before it becomes incumbent.
    Whereas oil adoption was a miracle liquid/gas that absolutely moved humanity forward at the expense of the planet.
    AI replaces humanity at the expense of the planet.







  • IDK. It puts them at the forefront of this fight.

    If governments successfully prosecute distro maintainers (if they can) for this, then distro maintainers are liable.
    And distro maintainers would then have to pursue non-compliant users to cover that liability, or fold.
    Which is a huge loss for open source.

    Or, there would be a huge legal fight and it turns out that the licence of a distro protects it from its users actions.
    Which would be awesome and a massive win. It also makes sense. Nobody is suing an OS maintainer because it was used for a data breach.
    And then the governments have to pursue the actual users. Which… is gonna be useless wrt these laws


  • I dunno if a “cheap drone” can produce the same magnetic response that a fucking cargo ship can, but it seems extremely unlikely.

    And what, you have 2 in the water ahead of you? Is that enough for it to be clear for a cargo ship? They function perfectly all the time and catch every single mine?
    What happens when 1 finds a mine? How many extras do you carry? What happens when you run out, “just turn around”?

    Drones could probably clear a shipping channel, but at some point and actual ship is going to have to go through it.
    And the suez canal was blocked for ages due to 1 ship, even after having been operated for decades. That, except the ship sinks.









  • I use it for scripts or for esoteric error messages or problems I’m having in my dev environment.
    I can’t be bothered to understand a specific error message that I’ve never seen before because of an update or whatever.
    So getting it to explain errors to me is handy.
    I always review the LLMs process and the resulting changes it suggests (including searching what it’s done if I don’t get it).
    It’s essentially a context-aware search engine.

    Actual coding and problem solving? I enjoy that.