Is it better to inconvenience one person an infinite amount, or an infinite amount of people a medium amount?

If you haven’t read the later books in the HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, at one point it’s revealed that an ancient spacefaring society gathered up the most useless people they had (I think it was ad copy writers, telephone sanitizers, and hair stylists), shoved them in long haul spacecraft designed to crash land and destroy themselves entirely while safely delivering the passengers, disabled all internal controls, and pointed the craft at ancient earth.

They unfortunately outbred the native neanderthals. This also completely broke the earth’s original purpose of being a giant biocomputer.

Or you could just walk to room infinity + 1 and not disturb an infinite number of guests, dick.

Admins will still have ways to remove illegal content, right? I checked the pull request but it’s a little light on details for someone not involved with the inner workings.

Lol, exactly.

And for a completely unasked for ramble: Someone better call the cops because my wife is over a decade older than me. Causes some minor mess here and there in the relationship, but nothing major. Almost every relationship worth having will have some mess now and then.

Dead or Alive is the name of a videogame series, not talking about his status.

There’s also someone, or some people, clearly practicing their creative writing or something. Usually they make an account, post something weird to asklemmy or a similar community, and then delete it within 4 hours or so.

Usually it’s a “stupid” or obvious question, with some vaguely contreversial twist. Like “My boyfriend has problems with how many guys I’ve fucked… but I also used to be a sex worker”. Stuff that’s within the realm of possible, but not particularly common, or where you’d expect the asker to already be aware of the answer/reason.

They get a few hours of engagement, most of the time don’t engage in the comments, then delete the whole thing.

The 1964 Vincent Price film, Last Man On Earth, is a much better adaptation. And is up for free on archive.org.

Surely you mean when that happened to one developer, once. Or did I somehow miss stories about other occurrences?

The fuck is Lake Isabella and why is this written like an ad? This might make sense if you were writing about the setting of a famous or popular game, but even then it would be a stretch.

When you add a picture to the post the way you did, it eats the link. Here it is for anyone looking: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2195910/Darkenstein_3D/

Something to remember is that CTR came out three years later than MK64. That was a lot of time for that generation of games.

That said, I remember not liking CTR as a kid because while it had more depth, the friend who had it had put a ton of time into the campaign so I had no chance of keeping up with him trying to pick it up casually through the occasional multiplayer match.

The only thing I’d be even vaguely concerned about is their failure to use separate identities for different use cases. Just poor opsec.

iirc, he was modded by the actual sub creator as a joke. What’s damning is just how long that sub was allowed to survive, and that it took news coverage to shut it down.

Not snappy enough for a meme though, and welcomes the argument he somehow didn’t know.

I mean, there’s levels to this. If I’m looking for information, having a summary rather than a highly technical primary source can be very useful. Wikipedia cites its sources, and (ideally) has summaries made by groups of people familiar with the subject and following consistent and detailed publicly available style guides. Wikipedia isn’t running ads, and is not for profit.

When an AI summarizes these primary sources, or even summarizes Wikipedia, you get none of that. AI does not reliably cite sources (ones not made for it will just generate a convincing looking response, making up sources whole cloth. Ones made to cite sources will often not actually cite the ones they used, and still can make up sources more rarely). It can’t reliably summarize things accurately, as it doesn’t understand anything, especially not terms that have different meanings depending on the technical context. There’s no group of people reviewing and revising. There’s no incredibly detailed style guide. All these AI are explicitly for profit (the amount of self hosted out there is negligible and those are much less of a problem), and almost every one of the companies running them have openly spoken about future plans to try and seamlessly weave advertisements into them. Most importantly, there’s no guarantee that what it gives you will even be true.

Congratulations, Project 2025’s goal of eroding trust in government institutions worked on you!

Like, you do realize that not having this shit would just give the corporations even more free reign, right? Don’t start that shit about “but they’re so bad already!” yes they are, but it is always possible for them to get worse.

We aren’t going to just magically stumble into a working system by removing one singular piece of the broken puzzle. Or even by removing all the pieces with no further plan. Proper, good change takes a shit ton of planning and hard work, not just venting frustration or posting “hot takes” online.

Literally a plot point in Dresden Files. MC is a wizard who lives in Chicago doing private eye work. Regularly carries a blasting rod (wand) and a revolver. One big wizard gets taken out by a sniper rifle fired by a demon. He has semi-regular backup from non magical friends who are just well armed.

A regular human mafioso who is just so good at being a conniving and ruthless piece of shit that he can hold his own with the magic folk is a recurring character. Your spells don’t mean too much if four goons get the drop on you with a metal pipe when you weren’t prepared.

Don’t underestimate the tactical power of humping the air while dressed weird. So many modern leaders ignore the sheer stopping power of “being weird AF bro”

Once in college, armed with assorted mismatched costume equipment, a bunch of bananas hanging from the front of my belt, and socks with sandals, my sensual thrusts nearly caused the enemy supply chain to take out their own forces (a pizza delivery car saw me shakin what the manic episode gave me and almost swerved up onto the opposite busy sidewalk).

I mean this softly, but I’m going to guess you haven’t used OneDrive recently, and haven’t used it where it’s been set up in a competent manner. The default settings absolutely are not conpetent, espiecally for how messy computers for personal use get.

My workplace uses OneDrive to sync a specific set of user profile folders so we approximate having profiles and files that follow us without everyone needing a personal folder on a network drive that mounts at login.

The only issues we’ve had are profiles auto-downloading too mant of peoples files and eating drives on shared machines (so you just have your meeting room computers wipe all profiles every reboot and schedule reboots nightly), and I’ve had some issues where OneNote hadn’t actually synced the notebook back to the cloud before I closed on one machine and opened on a different machine so I lost some notes.

Beyond that, it’s handled even situations where I have the same file open siniltaneously on multiple machines smoothly. Syncs between login on multiple machines take 3 minutes max, and I can force it faster if I really need by pausing and resuming the sync.

I’m sure there’s situations it’s still not suited for, like editing and syncing large monolithic files (think video files over 1GB a piece). It probably sucks big time on personal machines where you’re going to have a complete mess of every file type imaginable tossed in one big unorganized heap.

But configured correctly, for general business use, it can work very well.

I would be shocked if this hasn’t had some set of controls to disable it in Group Policy for months now.

This is just rent seeking against Home users.

People with One Drive through corporate Azure sjbscriptions (rather than the free “you have a microsoft login” tier) already have fairly robust controls available for handling and securing private data. There’s even special Azure tiers for government work that are even further secured.

This is only going to impact home users and conpanies without strong IT teams. Which is an egregious amount of people, don’t get me wrong. It’s also a horrible anti-consumer move. But this isn’t “Microsoft fucks over their golden calf: business users”.