Exactly. The capitalists have plenty of money to keep the FBI away from their own illegal activities. He hates the FBI on principle, because he is convicted felon.

AI is not healthy. Our mental health is nowhere near good enough to handle even this level of machine intelligence.

Way cool. That looks really professional, too.

Great move for Facebook. It’ll let them claim they’re doing something to curb horrid content on the platform without actually doing anything.

I know it’s “just” wings but oh man that looks incredible.

I have returned printers for requiring an internet connection out of spite.

Windows XP was supported for more than twice as long as the Confederacy existed.

It’s not even just rubber. It contains all sorts of harmful compounds and plastics. It’s a major source of waterway pollution.

If you’re willing to donate bandwidth, I suggest I2P or a public SyncThing node. My server chews through a terabyte of bandwidth helping people securely access their files. I also run Tor’s Snowflake proxy which helps users reach the network.

I2P is Java. SyncThing and Snowflake are written in Go which means you can’t pull off typical memory corruption attacks in these relatively safe languages, and it’s fairly easy to run them in a container.

BOINC is great. In its day, you could get an enormous amount of computing power on a shoestring budget thanks to volunteers. It also helped the volunteers feel like they were more a part of something, because they were! I used to have a small server farm crunching numbers for science.

Unfortunately, the landscape has changed. Some projects are still around, but many of the big players have left. Computing power is a lot more accessible now, and the main limitation is time spent analyzing the data rather than the computation itself. Cloud computing can make just about any computation happen fast for a reasonable price without having to own all of that hardware. GPUs have exploded in computation capacity. Just, a lot of factors came together where the need isn’t as great.

With that said, I still run it on one mini PC, but the payoff for having to write your application in a distributed fashion doesn’t have the return on investment that it used to.

You don’t want anything that advertises next generation encryption. You want tried and true encryption. You want boring encryption.

While I can afford it, I intentionally have the smallest, most efficient vehicle I can possibly get away with owning while still meeting my mandatory social requirement of having a vehicle.

Due to a lack of public transportation, it is required. There’s no other practical means I can use to do the 45 minute commute to work, short of perhaps buying a motorcycle which puts me at risk due to the predominance of huge SUVs. I’ve considered an E bike, but we don’t even have sidewalks on this route.

I just can’t swallow investing in something that either sits outside or sits in traffic. I don’t use half of what that little four banger is capable of.