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  • Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?

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  • I think there's still a lot of room to explore without abandoning the utopia setting. like we usually only see the spaceship stuff, but what about a more political drama taking place on member worlds, that kind of thing, i think it could be amazing.

    also, as you say, it's been done for 60 years. Might as well do the same thing over again for a new generation that hasn't seen tos/tng/ds9. They don't know it yet, so it's not overused, and the TOS audience wouldn't be the target audience anyways. and could still explore new topics. the audience isn't the same, our world isn't the same, making the same show again would still not be boring as it be a completely different thing.

    Both approaches can work imo and have a place, without the need to go more dystopia.

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • Plus firefox mostly exists because google pays them, probably so there's no anti-trust action against them.

  • I think a lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously!

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  • Don't know about the second point, but on the first, there's a online newspaper here that does it pretty well. It's like 240$ a year, but with the option to pay however little/much you want. the articles can be shared freely (no paywall, though i think since a year ago you need to enter your email to read, used to be completely free to share), but can't be discovered/found unless you're subscibed. it's split into two legal entities, the newspaper that employs the journalists and a second non-profit that actually collects the payments and that every subscriber is allowed to vote in, elect leadership for etc. that works out guidelines for the newspaper part to follow.

    has been working pretty well for several years now and it's one of the last few places of quality, independent journalism in my country

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • How has china not been able to make it work? Or do you mean hardware specifically? Because with Google and Meta stuff banned, among others, I'd say they've gotten pretty far

  • AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

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  • Ah but don't worry, there's also skills for scanning skills for security risks, so all good /s

  • AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

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  • They also have a 'skill' sharing page (a skill is just a text document with instructions) and depending on config, the bot can search for and 'install' new skills on its own. and agyone can upload a skill. So supply chain attacks are an option, too.

  • Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

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  • So you're saying i can't just point behind him and shout 'is that jesus'? Well, that changes things

  • Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

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  • Oh didn't realize Catholicism has a Highlander thing going on. I can take a 70 year old guy, no problem!

    That's one series I wouldn't mind a modern day reboot of.

  • Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

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  • I got mine from kultofathena.com 20 years ago for 40 bucks (though with fancier blade), but just checked and don't think they sell it anymore.

    You can have it if you want, it's just laying in my basement.

  • Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

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  • The handle looks exactly like the one from the 40 Bucks one I got from Kult of Athena 20 years ago and is just laying in my basement. You'd think the pope would have something better/fancier.

    Does this mean I can become pope now?

  • Children collecting fallen leaves in Switzerland around 1933

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  • born into poverty

    The fotos are nice, but it's a bit uncritical, like this stuff just happened to the kids and that's just the way of things, no deeper systemic side that should be examined.

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    Children collecting fallen leaves in Switzerland around 1933

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    Girls by the roadside making and selling lace in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland around 1900.

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

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  • I'm sorry, that came off very passive-aggressive, I really shouldn't post at 3 am when I can sleep.

    The whole dark ages, and golden ages thing is just very annoying, made up during the renaissance, in part as a useful tool to go "look how shit everything is, I will make it great and amazing like it was before", still a favorite to use by populists (in reference to whatever time is most suitable) and it's been repeated so much, it actually works, everyone kinda just accepted it. But then when you dig into it, the middle ages weren't really worse in terms of invention/art/etc. than the renaissance, nor was there this big stagnation after the decline of the roman empire, and people always made art, new inventions and great achievements, along with cruelty, bloodshed and other awful things. But then this has been a relatively recent shift in historical research, so not that well known

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

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  • In other news, dark ages are a myth disproven by science.

  • 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells

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  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • Afaik to poison AI data.

    Of course if it's only them doing it, it will be too little data to affect AI training. And if enough people do the same to affect the training, it'd just be the way we talk now and AI wouldn't be affected either. So it's pretty pointless, but with bad externalities (being annoying), much like AI…

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • What is your development environment?

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  • OS: Arch DM: Niri Terminal: Kitty Editor: Helix

  • this is some sad shit

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  • I fucking hate the unquestioned assumption that speed and efficiency are always better and that everyone should strife for them. Maybe i like the process, maybe i like taking things slow and not rushing stuff, be that programming or art or whatever.

    Plus in most cases, efficiency doesn't reflect in your bottom line anyways, just the share holders, but we've been so brainwashed to see it as a virtue

  • What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?

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  • A big issue is that this works for bots that announce themselves as such, but there's lots that pretend to be regular users, with fake user agents and ips selected from a random pool with each ip only sending like 1-3 request/day, but overall many thousands of requests. In my experience a lot of them are from huawei and tencent cloud/ASN