Next the agents drive the actual browser, and thus become indistinguishable from a meatsack.

Information wants to be free!

I honestly appreciate that.

I say the alternative is to move the work in-house.

Jobs fundamental to national security should be government jobs.

I say they don't want them to be because you have to treat government employees like people, by and large, unless they're getting Doge'd or what have you. Most don't get paid very well, which is unfortunate on multiple levels, but they do generally get pretty good benefits. And, you could address the pay gap between private and public sector jobs. You'd have to, since people can move to other countries.

Anyway back on topic, I think we should reduce the waste of our contracted systems horseshit and treat national security like it's a matter of national security. I don't know about nationalizing OpenAI or not, although I'm open to them being paid a fair market rate if it's the solution the USG decided to bring in house instead of starting development of a new system, or backing expansion of a lesser system, but it would have to be honestly valued in light of doing that as a comparison. And in the bargain, you have to take into account the value and relevance of the copyrighted material they absorbed, and the state's role in its creation.

Suggesting that OpenAI is "the United States" is fascism, by the way.

Nobody asked you to show your meth.

My ex-boss got an $83,000 PPP "loan" and bought a travel trailer with it.

I don't think that's true at all. I think the capitalist economies are simply much better at exporting the oppression, because they can take part in globalism. Meanwhile there's still plenty of domestic oppression to go with it. We still have literal slave labor in this country; the 13th amendment permits slavery as punishment for commission of a crime, so laws which coerce prisoners into laboring for little to no money (and certainly less than minimum wage) are fully legal.

Average worker productivity has multiplied manifold and the cost of food production has sunk since we developed automation, but somehow we're supposed to believe that it's become onerous for our society to feed people when we work more hours than medieval serfs? The math doesn't math there.

I use DuckDuckGo Privacy Tools. I see every single advertisement on John Gruber's blog Daring Fireball and on Read the Docs. DuckDuckGo does not block them because these sites serve ads in a way that respects viewers' privacy. They are contextual, not behavioral.

However, larger sites with a more general audience can't rely on contextual ad placement. Instead, they feel a need to tailor each ad impression to each viewer's interests inferred from observing the viewer's interests across several websites. A 2014 article by Beales and Eisenach reported that behavioral advertising produces triple the cost per thousand impressions (CPM) compared to contextual advertising.[1]

Before Forbes, Wired, and The Atlantic went behind a paywall, they went through a phase of treating privacy tools as ad blockers.[2] The Atlantic's help page insistently mentioned "ad or tracking blockers" in the same breath.

A lot of times, I can get past misclassification of privacy tools as ad blockers by using an extension to turn off all script-in-the-browser for a particular domain.[3] Other times, I find that the website was deliberately made script-dependent. Articles on Reuters didn't load for me last I checked a couple days ago. Instead, I got a notice to reenable JS and turn off ad blockers.

[1] JavaScript Switcher by meetDeveloper on Mozilla Add-ons
[2] Doc Searls. "An invitation to settle matters with @Forbes, @Wired and other publishers" (April 15, 2016).
[3] Beales, Howard and Eisenach, Jeffrey A., "An Empirical Analysis of the Value of Information Sharing in the Market for Online Content" (January 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fssrn.com%2Fabstract%3D2421... or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

No, nor do I plan to, have fun with that shit. I just want the option to have it repaired with any available part which will fit if I become dependent on it, and without having to worry about whether downgrading the bootloader will cause me some other problem. I've had a couple of raspis and had a bootloader update cause me issues with one of them.

False. They want everyone to be free. Having restrictions on what you can do with the software which you "purchased" or with the software embedded in or required to use the hardware which you really did purchase is the opposite of that. The FSF isn't against charging for services related to software, including its development. The GPL doesn't prevent that, it only makes rent seeking more difficult.

Anything you are doing which involves shoveling data is faster with 64 bit because more data is shoveled per shovelful, plus you don't have register starvation. When amd64 was new it was typical that doing absolutely nothing but recompiling the same code as 64 bit could produce a 10-15% speedup in CPU-limited software. This is why the X32 ABI is so interesting for smaller programs which don't require large address spaces but could still benefit from the overhead reduction from processing 64 bit data types, and the fact that amd64 has genuinely general purpose registers— and a lot more of them than x86.

In the real world, ideally you hand video encoding off to something that's better at it than the CPU. Mainstream video processing software has been GPU accelerated for a long time now, and GPUs also handle the video encoding. For example with Nvidia, NVENC uses DMA and so does your storage device, so in a fully accelerated encode path there's no CPU instructions involved in any of the actual encoding parts and it's mostly directing traffic, unless there's encryption involved. Even the limited number of GPU cores in a typical embedded GPU can give good video encoding performance.

raspi or similar still makes sense if power consumption is a significant consideration. If you are running from battery you will want to look at ARM. If space is a serious consideration, likewise, like if it absolutely has to be very small. For all other types of install you're definitely better off with a used NUC. If you want some GPIO you can get it with a $3 nano.

Sure, for all intensive purposes.

By "reset" you mean "downgrade"

It's OK, you can just say you don't understand the argument.

You sound like an idiot. (checks username) Yep!

No, I'm complaining, you're whining.

Why are you making shit up to be mad about related to shit that I'm mad about? Are you one of the ACs on my dick constantly every day? Just can't get enough of following me around and crying about my comments?