Calvin & Hobbes genuinely shaped my personality and worldview in a way no other media has since.

Integrated multiplayer? Hell yeah

I define it by whether something is independently verifiable.

I am told that there are 8* planets in our solar system, and where they are located. If I wanted to, I could buy a big telescope, point it at the sky and find all 8.

I am told that it is possible to boil water through nuclear fission. If I had the means, I could take a number of resources, spend decades researching nuclear physics, build my own test reactor, and verify that this is possible.

I am told that the earth is flat. I could get a pilots license, buy a plane, and fly to Antarctica to see the ice wall. I would find that there is no ice wall, just a number of scientists who are very passionate about ice samples. Therefore, it is not independently verifyable.

I don’t have the money to verify all of these claims, but they are all claims that have been verified by hundreds, if not thousands of independent people and organizations throughout history.

I remember the concern years ago was: since the application was bought (acquired?) and the tool was still publically free, that the new owners had added the spyware to try and monetize the data coming from said spyware/telemetry.

After reading your comment I went back and did some cursory searches, and it looks like the general concensus is that its less of a concern than it was originally - although, there is still uncertainty around how the tool is being monetized, which is enough for some to stop using it.

My exact experience finding out Audacity has adware

That wouldn’t even fucking work, lol. You need, at minimum, a proof of address, and even if you spoofed 10 different names and addresses that each corresponded to 10 specific precincts, you’re going to be given a provisional ballot, in which case your vote doesn’t even get counted until it has been independently researched and verified by county workers, which if it succeeds, won’t get counted till a week later.

God. I fucking hate that these idiots have a non-zero chance of winning.

I know a straight cis femboy who wants to take HRT - I dont fully understand it, but I respect its his right to do what he wants with his body and identify however he pleases.

Some people just want more customization options I guess

Wouldn’t that be a sail by?

What the hell? Every bit of resume advice I’ve ever gotten has said to use PDF to protect from potential formatting errors due to display differences.

Oh man. If I need to download an app to pay for a meal I’m never going back to that place again.

Incredible title

This feels like its establishing a precedent for widespread adoption/implementation of AI into consumer devices. Manufactured consent.

“We compute one pixel… we hallucinate, if you will, the other 32.”

Between this and things like Sora, we are doomed to drown in illusions of our own creation.

Remember that anything “created” by an AI cannot be copyrighted, so the fact that there’s a label representing them is concerning… and possibly actionable

Man I fucking love this community sometimes. This is like the 5th fantastic self hostable open source software I’ve seen since joining lemmy, and every time, it gives me that feeling of discovering the internet all over again.

Time traveler. Gotta be.

Business school seems to be the exact polar opposite of therapy

Well shit.

What the fuck is a GRAVITY BOMB???

Initiate conversation with no pretext