Sure, this small and mid-size services are just fine for backing up your data, and should surely be used as such. But using “cloud services” is nonsense. Too bad it has such good marketing.

I’m increasingly convinced that “The Cloud” is just a scam. Just keep your own files.

One of the great ironies of modern life is that people are often disinterested in the workings of the systems we build as a society, while those systems define so much of our lives. It takes time and effort and interest to learn these things, and most people lack at least one of those The folks here on Lemmy tend to be more plugged in than most people, but I’m willing to bet that there are areas where we have big blind spots in terms of the systems around us as well.

Yes, exactly. Several photo gallery apps do this.

Once the technology exists, we need clanker laws.

Make it illegal to generate ML output without a positive watermark.

If you’re in Vietnam, there is also KBlack offline navigation.

It’s a pretty young project but looks very clean from the screenshots. I’ve never used it as I’m in another part of the world.

Projectivity is another great option, especially if you want a few more options without anything you don’t want.

Why do either?

Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

That tracks.

I was posting about these kind proton pricing shenanigans months ago and no one was listening.

Wth is 2.5k?

My bs detector is tingling.

Newton’s work in optics → refraction and better lenses → the microscope →germ theory →vaccines.

Well, he couldn’t have known that, but fascinating that he was inadvertently helping to solve disease. Just a few centuries ahead of being useful.

It’d be great if any part of that were testable.

We have no idea what consciousness is.

Literally. It’s something that we all experience, but there is no scientific definition, measure, or framework to study it.

We assume it is a function of our brains, but we could be wrong. Are intelligent birds, apes, and dolphins conscious? What about lizards? Flatworms? Trees? Yeast?

If you want to go down that rabbit hole, search “what’s it like to be a bat?” or “the hard problem.”

What on Earth was every the intended use of this feature? I just can’t think of any way to use it other than vandalism and misinformation.

My exact setup after trying a lot of different configurations.

Basically, the article says “Windows is doing fine. Microsoft even told us. Also, no one uses AI bots on Windows.”

I’m assuming that all of the magic would be hoarded by the spellionaires. I’d be stuck in some warehouse loading an infinite number of potions that I can’t afford onto a Pallet of Holding.

Just use SimpleX