When the joke greentext becomes the torment nexus...

society should be restructured to accommodate sociopaths

JFC it has been. So much easier to get ahead in an authoritarian capitalist society, or even open source projects, if you have no empathy or guilt.

History seems like one great pendulum where the socio/psychopaths go so far being assholes that those with empathy overcome their desire to not harm to undo the evil and swing it back. Then become complacent until the next rise of the paths. Seems like it's been two steps back, three steps forward for a few centuries. Time for another swing, and this time it'd be really nice if we kept the paths out of power systemically.

Shocker, Owl chronotype has a bad time in a Lark world. The linked wiki has a ref [49] from 2021 linking to depression.

Got two lemons (Xitter, xAI) being propped up by SpaceX (and dragging it down) , which he hasn't fucked up totally yet, mostly by keeping his nazi hands out of it. So let's roll in another lemon (Tesla), what could go wrong.

So smart, such wow.

Agreed. Needs to be disclosed in the title of the post as having AI involvement, and show signs of active maintenance. Anyone can now oneshot some slop that's nothing but a waste of our time, but it takes good developers to maintain, secure and expand.

5 days old, nope, hasn't been touched in months, nope. Dozens of active human participants, and/or a reasonable history of active development and to a lesser degree stars or equivalent, sure.

It's a bit more work for a poster, but I think it can keep quality high for project posts. Should be voted on by the community and made a rule.

To make a good argument against persistence hunting you'll need another reason for the evolution of hairlessness and sweating. Never heard a good one. We also go into ketosis at the drop of a hat compared to basically all other mammals, no carbo loading needed, just burning fat.

As technology (tools), tribal communication, and intellectual capacity increased, I have little doubt strategies beyond persistence hunting became the norm. So, by the time we became 'human', it was probably a strategy of last resort, but we have retained the adaptions.

LLMs ('AI'), not so great, but it can get (probabilistic, but fascists don't care) descriptions of video feeds into easily searched text. Gobs of GPUs in datacenters paired with surveillance devices all over the place however presents a greater threat, where there's an (evil) will, a way will be forthcoming. Nice of Ukraine to point out how fragile they are. There's a deathstar analogy there somewhere.

Vegemite I suppose, or BBQ shrimp, beer or roo maybe. Pretty sad. Australia has a pretty great multicultural food scene, but the external perception sucks.

Yup, click OK and they can "legally" use all that stuff they already scraped and used.

That's a good idea, but if you're not an employee of some kind (perhaps intern in some fields) it's just a loss for them. If you're lucky you might get a day or two, especially if there's grunt work you can do in trade, or you might know someone who can grease the wheels a bit. Otherwise, you can likely pay for the privilege if there aren't significant safety (may break insurance policies) or legal (confidentiality etc.) issues. Best you can do is ask, perhaps repeatedly in different places.

Good to know, it's been a while since I played with it and the docs were sparse.

Trying to find it funny, but in 2026 it's way too close to the bone and just makes me sad.

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

The lower prices could be aimed at undercutting the competition.

Mobster voice: Sure would be a pity if the monetization potential of those 2 huge IPOs (3 if you count SpaceX with xAI deadweight rolled in) went boom when that's all that's holding your economy out of recession (depression depending on how they cook the books).

It was you. You started the war, you're responsible. Mass murderer.

Probably unenforceable, like so much of EULAs, but enough to deter the small guys who can't afford the lawyers to defend themselves. Bully tactics. Shame, because an open playing field would benefit everyone but nvidia, also a shame that AMD, who probably could defend themselves, dropped financial support for ZLUDA.

Also,

They're not law as long as you can afford the lawyers and legal costs to fight them. Which is, of course, the problem and the system working as designed.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin

Here's hoping this gets more software off the discord support teat. No, you do not need real time chat, you need searchable, permanent presence. Discord support is such a red flag I immediately move on even if it's OSS. If you can't do real doco and you can't stand up a forum (Discourse is nice I hear) then what chance do you have of being competent.

Also, IPO incoming, expect it to get worse.

Substitute 'Open'AI for NVIDIA, not that it won't mostly end up in their pockets, there's this whole BS techbro financial circlejerk going on.