100% tariff on indulgences.

In Italian or Latin, it would be “Papa Pizzaballa”.

You can create an AI avatar before your death that will haunt them on your behalf.

Reducing Google’s monopoly on search is at least a marginal improvement in its own right, even if Apple’s search ends up being equally shitty.

Hopefully that just means using AI to find and index existing content, not to fabricate its own results.

No doubt Proton’s CEO will use this to justify his “Trump is better for regulating big tech” claim, while ignoring that the judge is an Obama appointee.

The password to my home server is a salted hash of my primary (memorized) password, so I can recover it from any computer that can run the hash function. From there I can access the rest of my saved passwords, bookmarks, etc.

Someone needs to get Trump talking on camera about making Romania the 52nd state.

The current version of Affinity is great and will continue to work forever—there’s no need to switch to an alternative if you’re already using it. I just don’t have much hope for its future development.

Just over a year ago.

I guess technically, Raspbian.

The Affinity Suite is great, but I’m suspicious of its acquisition by Canva—I’m afraid their solution to “bringing the suite to Linux” will be turning it into a web service.

If history is any guide, it’s about even odds.

If labor becomes worthless, money will be based on control of resources. Those with resources will sell to each other, and everyone else will have literally nothing to work with.

They may not have enough manpower to guard a more distributed site, especially if they’re afraid of internal groups seizing some of it.

Kirzhach is on the far side of Moscow from Ukraine. Did the drones fly over Moscow to reach it, or did they take a longer route?

Or non-random—watch how many Instagram/Meta critics get their accounts flagged as underage.

While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.

Dammit—I can see that actually taking off with many audiences, if it generates an eye-catching fake image to go with every text post.

It’s less useful because you can’t modify it to do whatever you want.

It’s less dangerous (than proprietary AI) because no one else can, either.

Great—let’s test it on politicians and law enforcement first.