Are you writing like this to set yourself apart from AI/LLMs?

I’ve been using Backblaze since 2017 when CrashPlan shut down. Have not run into a catch yet, except of course the possibility of it going the way of CrashPlan one day.

I wish to live in a society in which this question is a moot point. Creators should have the freedom to create without having to worry about the goodwill of their audience, or worse, marketing strategies. Fans should have the freedom to access art without having to worry about the well-being of the creator, or worse, suffering guilt. Anything that is not aimed at creating and maintaining this state of being is inhumane.

I figured, but this thread wasn’t specifically about helping with code. It was about replacing search engines. Common uses of search engines include finding information about ongoing events, e.g. the COVID pandemic or an upcoming election. Your comment implied that you thought this information is better obtained from ChatGPT than from Google.

Every fork has a reason it exists, which is to do something specific differently from the upstream. There’s almost guaranteed going to be a fork whose whole shtick is going to be “no built-in AI”.

There are plenty of forks of Firefox, many of which will likely not follow Mozilla’s lead when it comes to adding non-essential functionality to the core product.

This is a dangerous attitude. You’re blindly trusting everything the LLM says. You will be susceptible to misinformation.

Can one really fault Ukraine for making the decision to fight back when the decision was already made for them?

No-one (but you) said “fault”.

The message you responded to only pointed out that the Ukrainians, too, put ideology above human lives. If you can’t fault the Ukrainians for fighting the Russians, then you can’t fault them for putting ideology above human lives.

Valuing human lives is itself an ideology/viewpoint. A great one obviously, and one I fervently agree with, but once you realize this it’s easier to understand how other people can put other viewpoints ahead of this one.

True but not relevant to the point being made.

Because without it, the DOJ would have no control over you, duh

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I assume that banning all robocalls requires new legislation, whereas the regulation mentioned here didn’t.

Thank you!!

The way you equate capitalism with democracy, and then tacitly imply that Che Guevara must therefore have stood against democracy, is American propaganda.

It means “good”, “agreeable” or “desirable”. It’s modern slang so I don’t blame you.

Just for completeness, “ngl” stands for “not gonna lie” and means something akin to “in my opinion” or “to be honest”.

I think the course of action is clear. Ban it from tournaments/official events. Since I’m not in the LoL scene I don’t know if that might already be the case. Now, regular players will know that playing with this enhanced hardware will disqualify them from tournament play anyway. So now you simply create two modes of gameplay: tournament-legal, and casual. People who aren’t aspiring to play in a tournament will play the casual game and it’ll be acceptable there to use enhanced hardware. People who wish to play with people using tournament-legal hardware will play in the tournament-legal mode. There is little to no incentive to cheat in the tournament-legal game because you won’t be able to cheat your way into an actual tournament that way.

YouTube should just be government-run. No ads. Content creators can make money from sponsorships and Patreon. Which, incidentally, should also be government-run. And Twitter. These modern technologies should simply be public goods.

Thanks for the pointer, I agree with you now. What I get for giving people a shred of the benefit of the doubt…

I don’t believe that’s what they were saying. They were saying that transphobes often use the phrase to shut down conversation about their transphobic comments. That doesn’t mean anyone who uses the phrase is a transphobe using it for that purpose.