I don’t know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It’s exactly what authors do. This is about money.

Kpat.

It’ll all end in tiers.

40%. That’s nearly a whole cheek.

lol There’s often a fair bit of waxing involved.

It says “no fully exposed” arse pix. What percentage of exposed derrière is acceptable? Asking for a friend.

Impressive.

As someone who has spent years extolling the virtues of Matrix/Element to family members I can assure you that there is no known rebuttal to the phrase “but I don’t care about privacy”. All it needs is to visit a site and sign up. No software required whatsoever. Good luck with GitHub and your ageing aunt or gobby nephew.

Or just download the full fat version from an overseas server run by the company making the product. Expecting the general populace to compile stuff is a little bit optimistic. We’re talking about a country where most people don’t know what a socket outlet is called or the difference between desktop wallpaper and a screensaver.

I think you’re probably correct.

Yep, Teddit works well for me because I don’t have a Reddit account. It’s quick and privacy respecting. I think I may have found it through the Privacy Redirect extension for Firefox.

Unsure if this is off-topic for this thread so feel free to delete if that’s the case.

/r/firefox now looks like this.

Don’t worry, your utopian vision of streets full of closed shops and associated tumbleweed will be here soon enough.

Anyone that buys anything from Amazon is also part of the problem. Support your local bookshop while you still can.

Everything is economically unviable until the day that it is. Years ago someone I knew used to collect used photographic developer/fix from film labs for no charge. He had a warehouse full of it. One day it became viable to recover the silver from the dev fluid and he was set up for life.

Only you know that.

Calm down, mate, it was a humorous exercise.

I’m with Mike Langberg on this:

Intelligent agents are the technology of the future, and always will be.

Someone didn’t think this through. Banning Master/slave oppresses the BDSM community. Well, it oppresses the Masters, at least. The slaves like a bit of oppression. It’s their raison d’être.

Joking aside, language is what the speaker means and nothing else. You can say something to ten people and they’ll all have their own interpretations. And they can all be wrong.

A classic a while back was some folk in Australia saying Captain Cook didn’t discover Australia because indigenous people had been there for thousands of years. That isn’t what discover means but it didn’t stop many being offended.

I’ve discovered lots of things in my lifetime. It doesn’t mean I was the first.