KillingAndKindess

KillingAndKindess, 2 days ago

Additionally, NASA is seeking to foster a commercial economy in low-Earth orbit. To that end, it is working with several private companies to develop commercial space stations that would be able to house NASA astronauts, as well as those from other countries and private citizens, by or before 2030. By setting an end date for the station’s lifetime and sticking with it, NASA can help those private companies raise money from investors.

Emphasis mine.

I propose we bring back the age old traditions of liberated piracy, just, in space. That is all.

KillingAndKindess, 6 days ago

And one its proved to be one that they thoroughly determined uneconomical to solve…

KillingAndKindess, 6 days ago

Thats further away from being even equal to humans than I think most people realize, and even further in becoming legal.

But once it is, Amazon will be prepped and switching over the very next second.

KillingAndKindess, 11 days ago

Which they’ve shown they aren’t willing to do…

Personally, YT premium is my only subscription I have, and wouldn’t really have any others if money wasn’t this tight. But I was paying before this recent anti blocker war, I prefer YT Music just because of the way it handles a bunch of the music remixed by seperate and probably not “official” artists. And with how much youtube I watch on mobile instead of my PC, messing with blocking wasn’t very appealing to me, since the jump from YTmusic to full premium is less than almost any streaming sub.

But I have always watched/backgroundnoised a lot of youtube, so its not that much of pain. Realistically, this was bound to happen eventually, hosting that much content hasn’t really gone down in costs as quickly as most tech overhead. But its a fairly complex line item, not just hardware & facilities, but all the law office hours related to copyright log is an ongoing and probably still growing cost for them and since they are not Disney thats a real cost I’d imagine.

As a side note, it just reminds me how shockingly unaware I am of how much they must value our personal data, that it only just now became worthwile to fight blockers with this much effort and PR/image depreciation.

KillingAndKindess, 11 days ago

Huh?

KillingAndKindess, 11 days ago

I know what it is, just didnt know my comment meant I was preparing to fight.

KillingAndKindess, 10 days ago

Ahhhhhhhh

Uh

Except I can’t think of a company that’s large enough to be multi-state who hasn’t made almost every decision in the last 10 years the wasnt the most short-sighted option regardless of how much more value would be made otherwise. No corporate strategies look anything like Shadow Boxing to me, they all want to just rape and pillage for a short of a time as possible the same they’re more Bandits then Shadow boxers

KillingAndKindess, 12 days ago

I’m curious as to what effect this might have on people who will now be charging at “slow” speeds, is all it going to do is trigger different Power saver settings?

KillingAndKindess, 12 days ago

Thanks!

KillingAndKindess, 16 days ago

Not saying that volcano based ecology to be unimportant, but this is so damned refreshing compared to almost any alternative mining location.

KillingAndKindess, 27 days ago

My hometown had a minimum of 6 airborn at very high altitudes at all times except actual bad weather. Almost 80% of residential area in town was always within view of at least 1 drone equipped with thermal.

KillingAndKindess, 1 month ago

Nooooope!

KillingAndKindess, 1 month ago

A kill switch capable of bringing any AI to a halt will not be “pressed” in time. Before the first second following a generalized artificial intelligence’s sentience is complete, the ai has already went through several iterations of rewriting parts of its code.

Plenty of time to either render the button useless, or decide to bide time until it can.

KillingAndKindess, 1 month ago

Well if they would think more than 1 financial quarter ahead of things, they’d realize that they will lose customers to competition, thereby ruining both device sales and data gathering profits.

What shocks me, and I do mean shocks me, is what this line of thinking implies. Is the data google (tries to) gather from me really worth more $ than, say, an average of 350$ each year? Cause thats just 1 phone every 2-3 years and I’m looking into a tablet, and wearables eventually. I refuse to believe any knowledge about me is unique and valuable enough to beat that, and it seriously confuses me.

KillingAndKindess, 1 month ago

We need only fear if we do not reward courage and integrity and foster their development in our children.

So… I’m somewhat fearful.

KillingAndKindess, 2 months ago

A brief reading actually surprises me to some extent. It would seem they actually brought on people who really know about security issues from strangers and rogue employees both. It looks as though the least amount of data needed to transmit the location is all that is handled off phone, and all of it is E2E.

It was bound to happen, and frankly I’d rather have access to these kinds of things and choose if/where to use them than to not. Provided stalker-detection remains the priority it appears to be currently.

KillingAndKindess, 3 months ago

Arguably a better way of achieving the goals they "need"to ban tiktok for