Most human societies had been terrible and atrocious. Europeans just got the technology to be terrible and atrocious at a global level first.

Disengage

No, but it’s not my fault.

Why it have to be responsibility of the people who doesn’t want the “lesser evil”?

Why is not responsibility of the people not wanting “the actual good thing”?

I have just set up a normal computer with the specs I wanted, installed debian and docker/podman and I’m golden.

Hurray because I choose to stir towards the good thing instead of one of the evils. People supporting big evil or small evil should be questioned, not me.

I could do it once. When the “lesser evil” decides their whole strategy is being the lesser evil and blackmail me with “if you don’t vote us the big evil will come” then I grow tired and issue a big fuck you to the “lesser evil”.

I loved it for the first 3 seasons. Then they turn it into the usual couples sitcom and lost all its appeal.

I liked the dynamic of having all main characters “fail” in life. Penny failed as an actress, Leonard failed in dating Penny, Howard failed as a playboy, Raj failed talking to women and Sheldon failed at social integration. They were all adorable losers that had fun while losing. For me it kinda was giving a lot of hope, like you don’t have to succeed in life to have a good time.

Then they made them all winners, they all became rich, and achieve all their goals. And all hope was lost. And the message was “you better succeed in life” which was depressing.

If you want it to go unhinged try to get an uncensored llm. Dans PersonalityEngine by bartowski is my current favorite.

Solo roleplay. You can make a character and interact. Generate fake conversations etc.

With generative images you can create custom backgrounds, portraits and landscapes instead of having to lookup for them or doing it yourself.

You can also do some interactive story telling that it’s kind of fun.

Generating quick test questions over a certain topic. It’s another use case I’ve seen it being quite good at.

My eternal sense of wonder. Thinking if any given picture of his has or has not been altered to make his face smaller. And the amusing conclusion that I cannot really tell.

I also have a WD black 2TB that must be near a decade now and it’s still going with zero issues. There were definitely doing something good.

Though truth be told, it’s a data drive, not the OS drive. So there’s less r/w going on.

It’s a very complex issue.

On one have. Having children or not is a deep freedom that feels wrong to constraint, one way or the other. I don’t think messing around with “how many lids” should anyone have is good.

But on the other hand, I reason that resources are not limitless, and human footprint on the environment will be bigger the more humans there are. So O do think that the world would be a nicer place if there was less humans around. Less pollution, less worrying about ending up resources, more available land for each human, less over-crowdled everything.

But I won’t be the one saying anyone to control their biological functions like that. At most I just wish more people realized of this and would voluntarily try to find a stable number of humans on earth that would be an order of magnitude less than we have now.

So yeah, in general I don’t agree with anti-natalism as presented.

Ah yes, an open door, the ultimate and unbreakable curse that forbids a teenager for having sex no matter what.

The best thing a parent can do when their kids become sexually active is to buy them condoms. Many unsecure sex at that age is done out of pure embarrassment over going to a place to buy them or having their parents know what they are doing. They are going to have sex regardless, at least do your best so it is safe sex.

UK government is sick and rotten. They are trying to pull a nanny dictatorship.

I’m against it for several reasons. Running unauthorized heavy duty code on your end. It’s not JS in order to make your site functional, it’s heavy calculations unprompted. If they would add simple button “click to run challenge” would at least be more polite and less “malware-like”.

For some old devices the challenge last over 30 seconds, I can type a captcha in less time than that.

It blocks behind the necessity to use a browser several webs that people (like the article author) tend to browse directly from a terminal.

It’s a delusion. As shown by the article author solving the PoW challenge is not that much of an added cost. Span reduction would be the same with any other novel method, crawlers are just not prepared for it. Any prepared crawler would have no issues whatsoever. People are seeing results just because it’s obscurity, not because it really works as advertised. And in fact I believe some sites are starting to get crawled aggressively despite anubis as some crawlers are already catching up with this new Anubis trend.

Take into account that the challenge needs to be light enough so a good user can enter the website in a few seconds running the challenge on a browser engine (very inefficient). A crawler interested in your site could easily put up a solution to mine the PoW using CUDA in a GPU which would be hundreds if not thousands of times more efficient. So the balance of difficulty (still browsable for users but costly to crawl) is not feasible.

It’s not universally applicable. Imagine if all internet were behind PoW challenges. It would be like constant Bitcoin mining, a total waste of resources.

The company behind Anubis seems more shady to me each day. They feed on anti-AI paranoia, they didn’t even answer the article author valid critics when he email them, they use clearly PR language aimed to convince and please certain demographics to place their product. They are full of slogans but lack substance. I just don’t trust them.

So? You have free will to use another captcha.

What?

You don’t need to use google, or cloudfare, captcha to have a captcha.

There are open source implementations of reCaptcha. And you can always run a classical captcha based on image recognition.

They don’t have to do anything but let an unknown program to max their cpu unauthorized.

Imagine if google would implement that. Billions of computers running PoW constantly, what could go wrong?

First, I said reCaptcha types, meaning captchas of the style of reCaptcha. That could be implemented outside a google environment. Secondly, I never said that types were better for privacy. I just said Anubis is bad for privacy. Traditional captchas that work without JavaScript would be the privacy friendly way.

Third, it’s not a false proposition. Disabling JavaScript can protect your privacy a great deal. A lot of tracking is done through JavaScript.

Last, that’s just the Anubis PR slogan. Not the truth, as I said ddos mitigation could be implemented in other ways. More polite and/or environmental friendly.

Are you astrosurfing for anubis? Because I really cannot understand why something as simple as a landing page with a button “run PoW challenge” would be that bad

Anubis is worse for privacy. As you have to have JavaScript enabled. And worse for the environment as the cryptographic challenges with PoW are just a waste.

Also reCaptcha types are not really that disturbing most of the time.

As I said, the polite thing you just be giving users the options. Anubis PoW running directly just for entering a website is one of the most rudest piece of software I’ve seen lately. They should be more polite, and just give an option to the user, maybe the user could chose to solve a captcha or run Anubis PoW, or even just having Anubis but after a button the user could click.

I don’t think is good practice to run that type of software just for entering a website. If that tendency were to grow browsers would need to adapt and straight up block that behavior. Like only allow access to some client resources after an user action.