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Why do you think he’s American to begin with?

Heaven forbid an open protocol see adoption.

What “rules?” There are no universal rules across the Fediverse, it’s an open protocol. There are no universal laws, it’s spread across multiple jurisdictions.

If you want a platform where there is One True Ruler Over All, that’s the Reddit model.

Same here. I’ve never been fond of the proliferation of these “think about <minority> for a moment!” holidays. They’re the main thing that comes to mind when I think of what’s “performative.”

Thanks! DFCaverns was kind of my “baby”, and the one I keep thinking I should get back into modding to continue developing. I can’t promise anything, of course, but this is of course fun and encouraging to hear. :) Making DFCaverns Mineclone-compatible was quite a chore back in the day, glad to hear it’s still working!

Oh, neat. Yeah, that’s me. :) Been a couple of years since I’ve picked up the modding pen, but I still remember those days fondly. Just got really busy with life for a while and fell out of the habit.

Amazon is not a startup.

Okay, so you don’t collaborate with them, and they carry on developing AI their own way without your input. Probably not going to lead to the outcome you hope for.

This is a problem I see for a lot of the stridently anti-AI commenters I’ve encountered both here and on Reddit; all they want is for AI to not exist, and refuse to engage in any way beyond that. But AI does exist, it’s not going to “go away”, and so by approaching it that way they give up any opportunity to influence it.

I was reading the other day about advances in zinc ion batteries as a possible replacement for lithium ion batteries in applications like this. They’re heavier than lithium ion, which is just fine for energy storage facilities like this, but they retain their capacity through a lot more charge/discharge cycles (the article I was reading said they drop to 80% capacity after 100,000 cycles - if that’s one cycle a day then that’s nearly 300 years) and most importantly for this specific situation they’re not flammable.

Stack Overflow has been toxic for a long time already. It’s one of the things that a lot of people seem pleased to see AI devour.

I appreciate how quick a read is it. Much more likely for random people to read it and start thinking and then you can jump out of the bushes and go “surprise, you just read a manifesto!”