I’ve heard that water-boarding is a very intense form of torture; and that is essentially about making a person feel like they are drowning. I wonder how the fish experience compares.

It’s not a dichotomy. It’s just a comparison. There is no suggestion that these are the only two options.

This is quite possibly the best maths joke I’ve ever seen.

[edit] I guess it still can’t beat the ‘be rational’ / ‘get real’ one.

Have you ever looked at what’s in that thing? It’s not exactly transparent. There’s heap of data that’s is not clearly labelled or easily readable. Also, again, what data is sent can changes from update to update - without any any control from the owner of the computer; and without so much as a notification or even an update log.

Now with AI! So Windows can use your processing power to record and analyze every use of your computer, and report back useful findings to MS. What data is sent back? Who knows? You certainly won’t be told what ‘core telemetry’ is required at any point in time.

Well kind of yes and kind of no. I never closed my R account, and I still check there maybe once a week. So in that since “yes”. But on the other hand, the quality of posts and discussion is pretty low. It feels like a lot of the content there is posted to meet some goal, such as selling a product or influencing opinions - rather than just sharing thoughts and ideas. I find that pretty off-putting. Despite the very high comment counts, genuine discussion there is almost non-existent. But the one bit of value I do sometimes get is it often has some piece of niche news that I’m mildly interested in.

My understanding is in the case of lemm.ee they were getting enough donations to cover the technical operating costs, but they did not have enough high-quality volunteers for admins (and presumably not enough money to pay admins. It would require a lot of money to pay fairly for that work).

In 10 days my account will be 2 years old.

I’ve enjoyed it, and this has been one of my most visited websites during that time. But I’m still not sure I’ll stick around after lemm.ee shuts down at the end of this month.

Well sure, they knew this was a likely outcome - because they know the Israel government is batshit. The purpose of the mission was aid and activism. They definitely knew that arrest was likely, but that’s not why the did it. They didn’t want to be detained. They just want to help the people of Gaza in whatever way is within their power. This is how they chose to do it.

It may not be perfect, but it’s definitely more effort and effect than doing nothing. And the more people who get on board with some actions, the more likely they are to succeed.

wtf are you talking about?

but ask those same people whether facebook should be allowed to collect and use all that data, and people will generally say ‘no’.

On the early days of the internet, I found a website about a comic I like. I emailed the person who made the website. I told them that I liked the site, and I sent them a game that I’d made (which had nothing whatsoever to do with the comic or their site). They tried the game and said it was fun…

That kind of interaction can never happen any more. Money has ruined it. Scams and monetization, everywhere, making everything into manipulative toxic sludge.

From your point of view it is ‘all the risk’, but you must understand that the biggest most important risk is what they are trying to avoid: going to hell. For people who believe in that kind of thing, it’s the only risk of any real significance.

It has already been renamed to Microsoft365.

And the whole set of problems only exist because there are too many cars.

I guess the current ‘stage’ is human-induced ecological collapse. Just another chapter in the earth’s story.

I still reckon it was probably a fake story created to get people talking about the existence of that service. i.e. an ad.

I honestly thought that maybe Lemmy wouldn’t have karma farmers, since there is no global points tracker. But here we are, with an exact copy-paste of an old post being presented as though it is a authentic sharing of personal thoughts.

Why do this?

Counterpoint: I haven’t noticed that being a trend until this thread.

Realistic AI generated faces have been available for longer than realistic AI generated conversation ability.