Hear, hear. Even with all its warts, the EU really is the only institution effectively protecting us and the world against shit like this and I am thankful for that.

Those last two are the same thing.

1. Debit cards are commonly Maestro (Mastercard) or Visapay (Visa). Besides the kickback they take, they're also US companies and we really don't like or trust those guys anymore.
2. Try using EUR in far away countries. You will pay out of your ass in fees for payments, ATM use, etc. New players like Revolut have slightly better offerings, but it's still only something like 200 EUR a month free, after which you pay a 2% withdrawal fee. Stablecoins don't give a fuck about borders. Having said that: ATM use for a stablecoin is going to be a no go anyway.

Maybe, but more probably an enormous amount of (male) usage has shifted to interaction with AI assistants via other routes. I hardly use the web interface anymore. Everything happens through applications (such as Cursor).

Exactly what I thought of when I read TFS. I have a self-designed coffee mug that is almost 30 years old that has a similar graph on it.
The image on this page, to be specific: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fe...

What is this moronic strawman?

You're arguing 'deforestation through solar PV/wind is a problem'? How about you provide some evidence for that, then we'll talk.

Sure, because internet, mobile phones, wifi, social media, and AI didn't have any effect on our society.

The reason to dismiss them is this:

Predicting the future of humanity is hard. 75 years in the future is an eternity in modern times. Even 35 years is a very, very long time.

75 years ago we barely had computers. In the USA, 20% of households did not even have a flushing toilet or running water. Cars? Phones (regular land lines!)?, TVs? Air conditioning?
See: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fourworldindata.org%2Fgra...

Now we're in the age of AI, we have Solar PV and wind power being massively deployed, even Dune-esque wind traps being deployed, and everything turning electric. Yes, the physics of CO2 and greenhouse gases are pretty straightforward, but the point is that there is so much new technology and science to be deployed until then (whether it be for reversing, mitigating or working around the issues) that it is crazy to claim any certainty about what the future will look like.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying "technology will solve everything and just sit back and relax", just that a dystopian barren hellscape is absolutely not something you can predict reliably or have any certainty towards.

With regard to the green and lush forests: Nature can bounce back pretty quickly, given the right circumstances: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2F...
Life finds a way.

Apple paid them to write code for their proprietary platform for it, so they could say industrial people want the AVP.

Given how limited/walled and niche their platform is, it makes way more sense to create applications that can be used cross-platform or that run on well-supported, open platforms. The AVP ain't that special.

There are versions of Whisper that work around the issues (and they work really, really well):

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FPurfview%2Fwh...

Vocal extraction model:
--ff_mdx_kim2: Preprocess audio with MDX23 Kim vocal v2 model (thanks to Kimberley Jensen). [Better than HT Demucs v4 FT]

Alternative VAD (Voice activity detection) methods:
--vad_method choices:
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Enormous round floating buttons that somehow still manage to be hard to find, because they look different than all other buttons (consistency used to be a thing in UI design) and visually merge into the equally unusable list item below them. It's dreadful both ways.

PEBKAC.

It's crazy how Slashdot's commentariat has pivoted to spouting and defending the bullshit the RIAA and MPAA have always been spewing and which old Slashdot would have shat on liberally.

You think that is what they're going for? They don't care about games. This is about advancing the field of AI in general with an incredible improvement over what was previously possible (and synthesizing training data for robots). It is an incredible achievement made possible with tons of R&D money and intelligence being thrown at it.

Stop being such a cynical hater.

No, no, the 'bubble' is going to pop any time now! Half of Slashdot has been telling us that on each and every fucking AI article.