That definitively is a negative side effect.

Though imagine you have a chat bot that is very convincing, it doesn’t always say the truth but you can control what it will say.

What do you think is best use case for this, and does it have something to do with Western countries changing public opinion toward authoritarianism?

This is a very powerful tool to manipulate public opinion, imagine having a tool and a social network that can manipulate public opinion to get politicians that you back to win, to get laws passed. How valuable such tool is.

Have you wondered why they wanted to put 10 year moratorium on states being able to regulate it?

The age verification isn’t to check age, agree is r excuse they want to tie the account to you.

We’ve looked at alternatives for obvious reasons, but we’re still on discord. All the alternatives we looked at come with some compromises. Often they lack some critical feature of discord.

I’m no discord user so unlikely I will have an answer, but if you genuinely looking for help you should list what those critical features are (I mean the fact that those services don’t have these features means they weren’t critical for the devs that created them).

Ideally you could list service that was closest to what you want and the features that it was still missing.

What IRC server are you using?

IRC is older than World Wide Web, and unfortunately there wasn’t as much innovation over years.

It was designated for a live chat so thought of also storing history and replay it didn’t make sense then (the reasoning was that if you needed to send something that’s not live, why not use email?)

Though people come up with own adhoc solutions like for example mentioned bouncer, some networks also had memo service where you could leave a message and there were also bots storing channel’s log.

If features like these are important to you, I didn’t think you will be happy with IRC, adding them would require rearchitecting the whole thing.

You can see for example slack doing it (it is heavily influenced by IRC although it evolved so much that maybe that is less visible now)

I didn’t have a chance to play with it yet, but I heard Matrix could be the successor to IRC.

Nothing against IRC, I spent years on it and loved it, but it isn’t great if important features for you are things like chat history when you were offline, embedding pictures in chat, threads, audio/video chat etc

The things where IRC still rules is: simplicity, very low resource requirements, and no accounts need, just pick a nick and you are in (this is also why keeping history for each user is so hard to add, when servers didn’t really handle accounts.)

That’s a different thing though. It is driven by marketing people, they want each iteration look different to give people impression that they aren’t purchasing the same product every year.

Apple does that too for example each release of their phones has a bit different look.

Speaking of economic constraints, we might soon see ourselves not being able to afford it. Not just because of the AI data centers but also geopolitical changes that are happening now.

The main thing I remember about Tim Cook was him making me realize how wealthy white cisgender gay men were hardly different from wealthy white cisgender straight men.

Same with Bessent, or maybe even worse.

They want us to flight because of color, gender, sexual orientation etc. so we don’t notice that the real war is a class war.

It’s sad that so many people still don’t see this.

I heard they are hiding behind explanation that their maps update data automatically from USGIS databases, though that is lame explanation as they can easily override it, like MapQuest did.

When he was changing name of Gulf of Mexico they didn’t have problem to make it show only four US audience.

You have low standards if you think Apple products are perfect.

Wasn’t the original premise of DLSS to add performance and now they even falling on that?

I’m not as familiar with it, but from what I understand DLSS was switching rendering to a lower resolution then used algorithms to upscale the video to make it look as if it is high res.

True, I mean just for heating using engine is cheaper.

All of those companies are trying to fuck us over. Purchasing from any of them right now is expressing consent.

If you want things to change show some self control or go to piracy if you really can’t.

The only company (with two exceptions) that I actually paid for games is GOG. Exactly because they don’t include DRM and also provide offline version of their games.

What? No one names their companies after their last name? /s

Fun fact (well, I suspect you know this already, but some didn’t, I had discussion with someone arguing with me that this is not true):

AC and a heat pump are basically the same thing, AC is just pumping the heat outside instead of inside.

Also when you say modern cars I am assuming you might be talking about EVs. Using a heat pump requires less energy than using resistive heating so it could be energy saving measure.

ICE cars on the other hand can get the heat from engine “for free” (not really, but since the heat will be produced anyway whether you use it or not, so why not use it?) so a heat pump might make a bit less sense in them.

I think this particular one is unrelated to auto complete and more to on screen keyboard.

For example in my keyboard the backspace is next to “m” so hiring it accidentally is easy. It also is close to enter and I’m frequently hitting it instead. It is frustrating, and makes me wonder why they just didn’t put it in the top right corner as it is on normal keyboard.

Honestly I didn’t recall anything where things are stuck.

Are you sure that the issue on Android isn’t caused by closing a link and the app opening Firefox in its context?

If this is such a percentage issue I’d there big open about it?

That sounds like maybe you have something else set as default browser and instead of Firefox and that something is messaging it up.

I use Firefox exclusively and it works everywhere.

Unless, URLCheck (highly recommended) is somehow fixing this issue. But I don’t remember having it before either.

I have them set as feedback search engine, I used to add !g when I couldn’t find an answer.

I noticed that for some time Google doesn’t provide any better answers. If DDG doesn’t help neither will Google. I still do it out of habit sometimes though with the hope this time will be different.

Is it?

If the accusation was false would DOJ even being charges? I’m taking about when it was run by competent people, not right now.

Also, since when those people cared about legality? They are infamous for doing highly illegal shit then using loopholes in law and believes to politicians to get away from trouble.