knightly the Sneptaur

The argument could be made economically rather than ideologically.

Capitalism has a failure mode where too much capital gets concentrated into too few hands, depressing the flow of money moving through the economy.

But Capitalists start crying “Socialism!” as soon as you start talking about anti-trust.

Tulips all the way down…

There are lots of chat clients.

Fortunately, only Discord is also trying to be a for-profit walled garden, a support forum, an in-game voice chat app, a community hub, a media channel, a political soapbox, a video game store, a livestreaming service, a bot playground, and now, apparently, a pirate fileshare.

This is my genuine opinion and I don’t appreciate the condescension.

You don’t have to like it, but trying to dismiss it as mere trolling is, at best, intellectually dishonest.

Site hosting should be (almost) free, because it costs (almost) nothing.

I used to work for a popular web host and 99% of the business could have been rendered obsolete by p2p hosting infrastructure.

Good.

Discord sucks at such a fundamental level that the lack of any competing apps for this particularly awful niche actually restores some of my faith in humanity.

Discord sucks and nobody should use it.

Given that photocopiers can do a scribes job (copy the text on this page onto a new page),

That’s not a scribe’s job, that’s not even the entirety of an apprentice scribe’s job (which also includes making paper, making ink, bookbinding, etc.)

A scribe’s job is to perform secretarial and administrative duties, everything from record-keeping and library management to the dictation and distribution of memoranda.

A photocopier is not capable of those things, but if it was then it’d be deserving of the same compensation and legal status afforded to the humans that currently do it.

I presume you are part of a pressure group to pay them pensions.

We have to start treating things that claim to be “AI” as deserving of human rights, or else things are going to get very ugly once it’s possible to emulate scanned human brains in silicon.

If the photocopier is smart enough to do a scribe’s job then it deserves human rights, fair wages, and a pension just like the rest of us.

But technology is fantastic at accuracy, better than humans in many regards.

This isn’t about “technology”, it’s about large language models, which are neither “fantastic at accuracy” or “better than humans”.

Gemini might have a way to go before it gets there, but it or its successors will get there and it’s moving fast.

Large language models are structurally incapable of “getting there”, because they are models of language, not models of thought.

And besides, anything that is smart enough to “get there” deserves human rights and fair compensation for the work they do, defeating the purpose of “AI” as an industry.

If AI can make the services of the National Archives more productive for its staff and/or the public then surely that’s a good thing?

The word “If” is papering over a number of sins here.

Also, they spelled it wrong. The logo clearly says “Darkochaser”

Nvidia drivers are mostly OK now.

Seems like a distinction without much difference to me.

*with or without

FTFY

Do it.

Since you are all knowing, explain to me exactly how deep earth mining is less costly and better for the environment than deep earth drilling.

Easy, just compare the amount of pollution required to make a battery and a solar panel with the amount of pollution required to extract and burn fossil fuels for the equivalent power output over the duration of the renewable’s working lifetime.

Oh, and don’t forget. Fossil fuels are useless without an engine to burn them, so you need to account for those infrastructure costs as well.

Do you want the math or would you prefer less reading and more pictures?

Voting is the least important part of the political process. America is not a democracy, voting merely serves to legitimize the state with an illusion of choice.

They’re all dressed as politicians.

Patreon deserves to die, their cut of the subscription income is extortionate for what amounts to a very limited web hosting platform.

Open-source alternatives like Mirlo or Cloud Patron will take its place, it’s only a matter of time.