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Lovable Sidekick

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  • 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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  • Early on this seemed a pretty simple case of corporate misbehavior, but as with most issues that blow up on social media as cartoonishly simple battles between Good and Evil, additional details reduce that comfortable clarity. Since the service Bambu Studio connects to isn't required to run the software, their claim that keeping the service proprietary doesn't violate the AGPL might be valid after all. This would justify their objection to Jarczak publishing a fork that connects to the service without authorization.

    I doubt that this will change the main discussion tho. No amount of information matters when people only glance at an issue long enough to swipe left or right and keep doomscrollin'.

  • Different strokes

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  • That's grafting present-day thinking onto the future though. With replicators any world could create almost everything it needs. There are a few exceptions like dilithium and Romulan ale, but most planetary economies should be self-contained. Non-exportable things would mostly be genuine experiences, like surfing down a 3-mile waterfall on some world.

  • Different strokes

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  • Maybe a planet with unusual resources, like say rich dilithium deposits, but I don't see a planet being uniquely ideal for leisure. You can create any kind of resort or facility you want on any planet that has the right climate zone somewhere. Especially with transporters, because you don't also have to build a spaceport there.

    edit: one thing I just thought and mentioned in another comment is unique genuine experiences, such as surfing at a particularly spectacular beach.

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    Memory prices tipped to fall as China starts flooding the market with DRAM and NAND chips

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  • Yeah but I'm doing it for FREEDOM™ so it doesn't count!

  • The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.

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  • I imagine lots of ugly social media posts promising ugly things but probably not a whole lot else, since "Revolt" isn't a clickable item on a menu. I'm speaking only as an American - we've become a people who buy bags of pre-shredded lettuce and pre-grated cheese. You can't expect much action from us if it takes us very far from a phone charger.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

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  • More like an era of lowered expectations. We used to trust published information more than say, backyard fence gossip, because publications had an aura of authority, that in general was justified because they were competing for reputation. With publishing essentially available now to people who in the past would have been fence gossipers, and a general lack of quality control, the overall trust level is lower.

    Still, even though google now uses AI by default, I just googled "square root of 169" and it said 13, which I know to be the truth and not "AI slop". Life is full of paradoxes.

  • Different strokes

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  • Oh, it's been decades since I read it. According to the internets the novel does mention small polar regions but I don't remember them. What's the major plot point?

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  • Come to think of it, Dune could have polar regions that are fairly pleasant.

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  • It literally wouldn't be English!

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  • It's always cute when sci-fi treats a whole planet like it only does one thing - as if the entire Earth could be devoted to mining or pastry.

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • Not a movie but an episode of Fringe I watched last night (s2e11, "Unearthed"), that started with a teenage girl being taken off life support at the hospital. It hit a little too close to home, and the presentation was so effective, watching it was very traumatic. I mean Fringe can be horror-ish but it's generally more in the sci-fi realm.

  • Justice fuel ✊🏼

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  • I think "French people" - like all overgeneralizations - is an overgeneralization.

  • Justice fuel ✊🏼

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  • They should make it more of a low wagon, so there's a place for the grillers to stand in front of it or to the side, instead of walking behind it in the smoke cloud.

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • Not sure about your definition of "enshittified" if it includes memory prices going up and down.

  • Meme Checkpoint

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  • I don't save memes anymore, there's an endless firehose of them.

  • Cardassian nonesense

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  • I haven't watched DS9 as much as the other series, but superficially this does sound familiar. Tbh the static DS9 setting never appealed to me that much - my favorite episodes are when they go on missions in the Defiant.

    While I'm on the subject, one thing that really disappointed me was in "Way of the Warrior" when the Klingons boarded the station to take it over. I totally assumed they would succeed, and was looking forward to seeing how the feds would take it back. But the Klingon raiding party got their asses kicked in like 8 seconds. I mean srsly - did the writers even watch Star Trek? A crack squad of the galaxy's master warriors couldn't take over a glorified office building? Truly disappointing.

  • Uh-Oh

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  • Oh no, it's Doofenschmertz again.

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    Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence'

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  • I don't think "artificial intelligence" is the correct term for what we have now, because it implies it was artifically created but still intelligent. To me we're still at the stage of simulating intelligence, which isn't the same thing.

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    What are your thoughts on people who are against pacifism?

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  • My thoughts when I read this question is that there are so many degrees of pacifism and so many degrees of being for or against something, "being against pacifism" is a meaninglessly binary concept. I mean, to some people pacifism means not being aggressive, while others reject all forms of violence and won't hit back no matter how much they get hit. Orwell was specifically addressing how to deal with nazi Germany in the lead-up to WWII, not to pacifism as a peaceful attitude in general. Which pacifism are you talking about?

    On social media complexity always gets reduced to swiping left/right or voting up/down. This very stark and false oversimplification, mostly for the sake of thinking less and scrolling faster, has trained us to reduce every issue to a 100% right side and a million % wrong one. Perfect good vs utter evil. Let's not keep doing that.