Publicly admitting they are the origin of the torrents is definitely a risky an insane move. I don’t think they want Sony going after them

Let’s be honest: Everybody is trying to go after Annas Archive. Every book publisher wants to get them, the US government, too and it really doesn’t matter if every music publisher wants them also. I hope that they are based in a country where the western systems can’t get them

Not really:

Short/medium-haul economy flights: roughly 240–280 g CO₂e per passenger-km. long‑distance economy flights, roughly 100–130 g CO₂e per passenger‑km Average petrol/diesel car: roughly 160–200 g CO₂e per vehicle-km (tailpipe only).

So you might be able to create a scenario where driving around in your american pickup alone produces more CO2 per km than sitting in a long-distance flight. But: If you’re not sitting alone in your car and you’re driving something reasonable, that flips.

And flying will cover longer distances. Yes, there are a lot of people driving to spain in the summer from the netherlands, but nobody is driving from Europe to Thailand or from New York to Bali or from London to Sidney. Flying is faster and you will cover more km. And that means that even if flying would be as efficient per km than a car, it will always be worse

Also, global aviation serves an extremely useful function. Not sure that compares to fancy code autocomplete and media generation that either invalidates digital evidence in legal courts or looks like an insult to life itself.

Isn’t it both? There are great use cases for global aviation (like visiting your family back home) and bad use cases (like sex tourism in a third world country). There are also great things you can do with AI and bad things.

Yeah, YCombinator is not a good company. Just take a look at what they are funding and how evil some of that is and how negative all of that is to society. And Hacker News is their outlet, so it kind of makes sense that you wont find much negative reporting about their companies there

The figures show the estimated greenhouse gas emissions from AI use are also now equivalent to more than 8% of global aviation emissions. His study used technology companies’ own reporting and he called for stricter requirements for them to be more transparent about their climate impact. “The environmental cost of this is pretty huge in absolute terms,” he said. “At the moment society is paying for these costs, not the tech companies. The question is: is that fair? If they are reaping the benefits of this technology, why should they not be paying some of the costs?”

So that’s actually not that much? After everybody was screaming that AI is boiling the world, 8% of global aviation emissions is kind of low. And you might hate AI, but it is really more useful than Katie from Sales getting skin cancer on a beach in Thailand or that dude getting drunk on Mallorca or whatever those billionaires are doing in their private jets

And it kind of makes sense to have the taskbar at the right or left on a widescreen monitor as there is so much space there

Redeeming a gift card should never, ever lead to an account ban. Even if this card wasn’t bought in a legitimate chain, but on the sketchiest website ever. It’s in the nature of a gift card that the one who redeems it, is not always the one who bought it.

I really would like to know if AAA games are bombing because they are overpriced microtransaction hell or if they are bombing because many people haven’t been able to buy their new gaming PC because of those GPU prices in the last 5 years and now we do not have the install base to run them

Germany: As you might have heard, we lost WW2 and were under allied occupation for a while with the country being split in two and being renamed. The old “Deutsches Reich” is no more. As you also might have heard, our Kaiser stepped down in 1918. Except: Some people who are great at brain stuff decided that all of that was not done in a completly legal way and that the german empire is still around. And since there is currently no Kaiser around, the position is vacant and that is a great opportunity to crown yourself! Therefore we have several kings and kaisers around and also some people that are claiming to be the successor of the allied army.

It totally makes sense to have one running with HomeAssistant. Humidify the air based on a sensor reading. Don’t run in certain timeframes, f.e. when nobody is home. Track the air quality into nice graphs. Give an alarm when the water is low. That totally makes sense. Using a chinese cloud doesn’t

Things from outer space are confusing our thinking sand! Our flying metal was disturbed! Quick! We need to teach the thinking sand a better way of thinking!

Why not? It’s a great project. You take an old device and use it for something that still makes sense. In this case he is using it as a media player and why buy a new device when you have one around that can do the job?

So some religious fanatics in the Middle East are killing each others and Europes biggest LGBQT event is going down in flames?

From wikipedia:

Narco-state, also called narco-capitalism or narco-economy,[a] is a political and economic term applied to countries where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade. The overall description would consist of illegal organisations that either produce, ship or sell drugs and hold a grip on the legitimate institutions through force, bribery or blackmail.[4] This situation can arise in different forms. For instance, Colombia, where drug lord Pablo Escobar ran the Medellín Cartel (named after his birthplace) during most of the 1970s and 1980s, producing and trafficking cocaine to the United States of America. Escobar managed to take over control of most of the police forces in Medellín and surrounding areas through bribery and coercion, allowing him to expand his drug trafficking business.[5]

So let’s not discuss if social media is addicting, let’s talk about how those big profitable tech companies have captured the american state and are shaping its policies, preventing its institutions from protecting their citizen from harm and pushing for laxer rules worldwide. We are seeing this american attack on the EU exactly because the EU is currently trying to restrict the power of big tech.

Let’s not blame AI for everything: Reddit had a lot of problems before AI became big. Repost bots are so common that you’ll see the same posts over and over again. Some of those twitter screenshots must have been posted hundreds or thousands of times. OnlyFans spam also works without AI. And we have had those bots spamming the same stupid comments before people were even thinking about GPTs.

We have the same discussion every year and the European Broadcast Union is not restricted to countries in Europe.

I wonder if anyone has experimented with storing those consoles in an oxygen free environment. Sounds crazy, but there are cheap vacuum sealers around and you can easily push some CO2 from a sodastream into those bags. That works with groceries like salats and it might be possible to put a Dreamcast into a vacuum bag, fill it with CO2 and seal it.

I kind of like the idea of a system allowing me to automatically remove clickbait and sensationalism from headlines and replace it with a good summary. But I really hate how Google is pushing that without customization, without consent and in such a crappy state.

That behaviour really, really is shady - contacting random people from not involved departments via LinkedIn is really awful.

I haven’t used an Amiga in several decades and memory is kind of murky. So how does the Amiga approaches drives?