some of these owls look like bees…

well… they do get some of it.

Niue gave away their rights to a company, which passed those rights on to the IIS without Niue getting to do a vote. i think they got some official to sign off on it but it was never a matter for the assembly there. they originally gave the rights in exchange for the company building out internet infrastructure on Niue with the proceeds, and that has been done.

Niue also agree they should not be the registrar for the TLD, since they don’t have the capacity. so the IIS does do some of the work which needs money. the main issue in the suit is one of “transfer of consent” or something.

what the fuck is that first headline

nah man they’re into that

you gotta get approval from the local authorities first, they can sign you a hermit kermit permit.

yeah, classic bit of cyber-colonialist history behind that tld. it’s managed by the IIS.

i didn’t talk much to the people at my last place but i’m going to make an effort now that i’ve moved. seems like a good safety net to have in case something happens.

didn’t stop the guy who wrote 80% of the Scots wikipedia

blow-high

Edit: well, kinda. the sound doesn’t exist in English but the closest i can think of is the o-sound in “score”. and there’s no diphthong, which is why people tend to write “blo-”. it’s a flat sound, which English sort of doesn’t do.

here we have a rule that nobody publishes the name or face of people suspected of crimes. it’s allegedly “not newsworthy”. they all get called “the 35-year old”, “the carpenter”, “the third man”, until court proceedings are through and they are convicted.

unfortunately, influence from overseas and people’s seemingly rising bloodthirst seems to be changing that.

oh me too we should hang out

sweden does something similarly weird. we don’t have a currency symbol (unless you count “kr”) so the standard way to write a price is “20:-”, which used to be “20kr, 0öre”, with the colon as the decimal separator and the line added so you couldn’t write in another value, but then we switched decimal separator for currency to “,” and “:-” just became the symbol for “money”.

you even occasionally see abominations like “19,90:-”…

tack jag hatar den

yeah i used my union membership to get a lower interest rate on my car loan. lots of benefits.

well, ish. llms have a vector space of words, image generators of features. they use a second model to associate words with features. Steve’s explanation is a great intro but for a deep dive i recommend Self-Cannibalizing AI from 37C3.

union busting tactics in the us are basically on toddler level. remember the pamphlet that was sent out to united airlines workers when they were unionising? “union dues are $600 a year. why not spend that money on a new videogame system instead?”

oh i have been exposed to it. i was baptized, i was in the missionary scouts, and i went through confirmation (which took a year for our group, others just went on a weekend camp and it was done), because it’s what you are supposed to do. my family grew up in a time where the church was part of education, most of my acquaintances are spiritual, i live in an area where that’s basically the norm, and i… don’t understand. i know all of the details better than most, but i don’t get it. i have formulated my own interpretations of several supposedly holy texts, read about nature lore and the asatro neopagans and native american spirits and dreamtime and crystal healing and reiki and… i don’t see it.

religion doesn’t… make sense in my head. and not in an “enlightened atheist” kinda way, just in the way that it seems somehow alien. like the part of the brain that gets people into religion is missing. i know it must necessarily be different from imagination because while i can do that no problem, religion or even belief in general just… doesn’t click.

i find reading about practices and beliefs fascinating, so i will monitor this thread out of curiosity.

other way around, anticheats are unfriendly to linux. they violate the security model of the system, and they don’t even have to.

epic’s anticheat even has a working Linux version that you can enable with a toggle in the management interface. devs just don’t do it. this includes epic.

Tom Scott of all people did a bit of speculative fiction on the topic “what if the first AGI isn’t the one made by scientists” six years ago. it’s a more classic paperclip maximizer story, but interesting nonetheless.