Rob T Firefly

Despite being illustrated with a stock photo of the Catholic Pope and mentioning his recent remarks on AI further down, the article notes that this person was granted a religious exception based on Unitarian Universalist practice, not Catholicism.

For those unfamiliar, Unitarian Universalism is an inclusive and diverse movement centered around common ethical principles which basically boil down to “you do you, just don’t be a dick.”

I personally don’t like using catchall for this, I prefer to play with aliases, but it’s certainly another way to do it depending on the result you want.

Another fun thing to do when you have your own email on your own domain is create all sorts of fun little forwarders/aliases so you can give out addresses that aren’t your main one, track who passes the address you gave them along to spammers, and delete the alias addresses whenever you like.

For example, you want to buy some cheese from the site Cheesemonger.foo and you need to give them an email address when creating your account. So, you give them cheesemonger@yourdomain.foo which is an alias you set up to forward to your real email inbox, and you receive mail from that site as normal. If you then start getting spam email sent to cheesemonger@yourdomain you know for a fact where the spammers got the address, and you know to delete that forwarder and buy your next batch of cheese elsewhere because screw those address-selling jerks at Cheesemonger.foo.

So I can either set up an expensive machine that will make my electricity meter spin like a helicopter rotor while being a major safety hazard to life and, even if it works only as intended, fill the air with a constant supply of mosquito smoke (don’t breathe this!) or I could just get some of those curly sticky strips from the dollar store.

What if AI is their only chance?

One could always drop coins into a wishing well, which has about as much chance as AI of solving this problem.

It’s not necessarily that they’re dumb, it’s that they think others are dumb enough to believe any old crap they say.

In terms of public posts, there seems to just be Mother Jones’ repost of part of the video which is embedded in the article.

I hope the full thing gets out, I’d love to see more of it.

It’s worth it! That show did so many clever things. And they’re all short and so wildly different from one another that if one isn’t doing it for you, you can always skip to the next one.

This would be a different story if Musk and Trump were still enthusiastically smooching each other’s bottoms.

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This appears to have originally been published as a totally different non-malware game. Either the original dev got their account taken over or turned heel, because the entire game was replaced with the malware game as an update to an existing game rather than a new published game.

I’m only speculating as I don’t know much about the Steam publishing process, but I wonder if that helped the malware sneak past more rigorous checks which would happen on a totally-new upload.

This is as interesting as learning that in 1885, Dr. Scammington’s Patented Snake Oil Remedy was more popular than its closest competitor Professor Placebo’s Distilled Tincture of Snake.

It’s still hilarious to me that Plex, a project forked from the XBMC (now Kodi) free open-source app for organizing and playing one’s own entirely legally obtained video files, is a big streaming business thing that charges people money.

It’s like finding a tree in the forest that gives out infinite free apples, and then setting up an apple-selling table right next to it stocked with apples you obviously got from that tree.

Computers can’t get wet from the rain if they’re underwater in the ocean.

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Techspot deleted the article. Here’s an Internet Archive capture.

These particular files are hosted on GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, which currently enjoys the ability to do business in China. There are probably things China can do in this case.

I have two nibbles. My cat had six.

Fight Clubs HATE this one simple trick!