I believe there’s precedent in both directions, but if Britannica can provide decent evidence of the “cannibalization”, then the use (by OpenAL) is unlikely to pass the “fair use” criteria.

Maybe he should meet Putin.

I imagine I’ll code long after I’m able to make money at it.

But, I wouldn’t necessarily mind having to knit, crochet, carve, whittle, sculpt, etc. for a job either. I’m not nearly as good at them, but I think I’d enjoy it more than going back to working at the grocery store / convenience store / gas station.

I wish we’d go ahead and convert to a post-scarcity global society. We already produce more calories, drinking water, and housing than we need to cover everyone, albeit not necessarily where people currently are. Let people knit all way and still be housed and fed and watered.

On my 45th, instead of a colonoscopy, my Dr. had me do the “Cologuard” stuff. Insurance covered that. I turn 46 this year.

Android and desktop. I’m no UX designer, so I don’t know what the ideal is, but when I’m using the software with a purpose, anything that gets in the way of that purpose is (at best) an annoyance. I’m probably wrong, but I think I’d prefer a passive notification to verify pin / donate / whatever that triggers after/as I leave Signal for something else – a indicator I’m done with my purpose (albeit flawed; maybe I just need to copy info from FF or whatever.)

I agree with all your points, BUT I do think Signal could be slightly less “user-hostile” with the reminders, maybe?

I get annoyed at the pop-ups in my Linux system, too, and all of them are got similarly legitimate reasons. Getting the way of my current task (or worse stealing focus) doesn’t even seem like the “right” way for computers/tools to behave.

Proton has the disadvantage of having to work with other email services as well, so there’s protocol limitations. When mailing from one Proton mailbox to another, they do intentionally avoid SMTP for this reason, but Signal has the advantage of “owning” the whole protocol, too.

I imagine if you donate with a CC to Signal, they might also be forced to turn that over. The weakness is not in Signal or Proton, but in the Visa/Mastercard duopoly and CC processing in general. Cryptocurrency has some advantages here, but they are outweighed by the abuse, fraud, speculation, and general dishonestly (and just general failure to be good currencies for “normal” purchases.)

OP is a manic pixi dream something.

I saw it 3 times opening weekend.

• Men: Mars
• Women: Venus
• “AI”: Europa

I was a professional, and I didn’t have a backup of my personal system for about 2 decades. I just didn’t have another 4TiB of storage to copy my media library onto. I’m now on backblaze, but there was a long time there when I did not have a backup even tho I knew better.

Also, even in a professional setting, I’ve seen plenty of “production support” systems that didn’t have a backup because they grew ad-hoc, weren’t the “core business”, and no one both recognized and spoke up about how important they were until after some outage. There’s virtually never a test-restore schedule with such systems, so the backups are always somewhat suspect anyway.

It’s very easy to find you (or your organization) without a backup, even if you “know better”.

/s ?

If the bug doesn’t already exist / is included under an existing bug scope, yes.

I don’t think I will, but I probably should.

I think they are turning it into a HTML ordered list, and the Lemmy CSS isn’t set up for that.

A bit of browser inspection, and I can basically guarantee it’s because the li::marker CSS is sized for no more than 3 digits.

I never had a conversation on geocities, but I do remember you could do some SSI stuff, so maybe it was possible. I think lost my last geocities site password and didn’t care to go through the effort of resetting it in '96 or so.

You can telnet into the HTTP port basically everywhere that doesn’t auto-redirect to the HTTPS port (and start/resume a TLS session), and there could be stuff in the HTML source (or headers) that a browser might hide from you, at least by default – but I can’t think of how you would use that in geocities to “see private messages”. (In theory you could manually start/resume a TLS session, but a proper telnet client might break on some of the bytes received, and you’d definitely have to figure out how to send some non-ASCII bytes.)

ICQ 514984 checking in.

That’s also the way I feel, but I think that’s probably human bias and closely related to the evolutionary pressure behind my mirror neurons and how strongly they trigger correlates with outside sentient phenotype.

I think if I knew what it felt like (if anything) to be an ant colony, I might have different views around the causal use of boric acid (and related) to keep them out of human spaces.

I think there’s a lower limit of complexity for sentience, based on memory-persistence, self-firing, and self-recognition. I think there’s no need for moral concern for non-sentient things. (But, that’s just my ethical framework and philosophical worldview; the only “evidence” I’m at all aware of is thin and vague.)

But, as far as having a subjective experience, I think that might go quite small and alien including fungi and plant or even certain sub-cellular structures. Probably anything that maintains a border and internal homeostasis including parts of the bodies of larger experiencers could be having an internal perspective – and any human words applied so those experiences would tell you more about human bias than the experience.

Shadowrun used the term “bioware” instead, do you like that better?

Fidelity, Banks, Coinbase (before I got out of cryptocurrency entirely).

But, basically, only when government regulation does (or SHOULD) impose KYC requirements.

Age and ID verification might be good in a very few cases, but it should definitely be a deviation from the norm.