If you have the executable from a trusted source, then you don't need to spend your time determining if a version you got from an unsafe location is legitimate, you'd just make a copy of the trusted original and throw out the bootleg to be safe.

There's a number of downsides with the AI systems, that IMO are features for the ones involved with AI development. Say hardware costs putting gaming and high end computer hardware out of our pricing hands.

Amazon, Microsoft and google, all have the desire to move you to cloud computers, Think of it, instead of owning a computer, you can rent access to your computers and storage, prices can be raised over time once you are locked in. All of them have been sticking their toes in this idea for decades, heck Amazon and Google both tried and failed to make streaming consoles. The only problem, people like owning hardware, and they can't really compete on price against actual owned hardware. But... if they can't bring their price down, maybe they can bring the price of owned hardware up until the equation shifts.

Sadly I feel like that's the ultimate pivot point as well, if AI never turns profitable at least not at the scale they are building, they'll keep the data centers going under this pivot, and everyone else going all in has their own motives to love the pivot. If the movie and music industry can't profitably get rid of troublesome writers and actors demanding better treatment. Imagine how much easier policing piracy will be when your hardware is all in the hands of trusted large corporations with media investments. Totalitarian governments will love it even more, on top of whatever survives of AI being able to run flock cameras etc... Microsoft and Amazon will happily give them back doors to everyones computers.

But don't worry, I'm sure china's going to ramp up chip production to counter the hardware prices. No way that can be countered by either extreme tarrifs, or just outright laws banning their use in the states like they've done with Huweii devices or BYD cars.

So yeah I also agree, slop and misinformation intentionally burrying legitimate sources is just one of many things that we all see as a "bug", that probably are real "features" to the Epstein class.

I do wonder if in this example the party actually detected the intended propoganda, versus if they just were in a campaign doing what they thought good characters would do in a situation. If not it's so much more telling, as the best way to tell if you are standing on principles or just biased propoganda, is if you would make the same judgments if the names were hidden or even reversed. Even more ironic because obviously the DM controls the facts of the fictional world. Literally likely to not know or leave out details that hurt his case.

not familiar with that program, but maybe something like https://ss64.com/mac/opensnoop.html , can tell you what it's looking for, (IE it most likely installs some kind of watermark somewhere inobvious on your computer. If not though, I'd do some simple google searching for pencil+ crack.

Yeah, I'd say for the same reason that big enough folders can take several minutes to hours to actually give you their sizes.

Because you really feel like spiderman... said one review from like one of the first to do the web travel mechanics in a pretty fun way... and when every spider man game basically copy pasted the same mechanics into a barely changed method, rather than criticizing it for being a copy paste of their last game with updated graphics, reviewers decided they could instead copy paste their reviews with slightly updated phrasing.

Obviously country may vary, also, legality of the porn in question.

Typically ISPs don't police activity themselves. IP Owners may hire people to monitor torrents send them a list all the IPs seeding, then they send a notice to the ISP that owns your IP address. Then your ISP will send you a "please stop, if you are caught 2 more times we're canceling your service" letter.

Of course, if you are downloading CSAM or something, then law enforcement may do any number of responses.

Any reasonable person knows we are lying pieces of shit. The fact that you do business with us just shows you are stupid.

and the sad thing is... it's really getting to that point in life. advertising claims are just so normally bullshit. anything said by a company, a politician, or anything, is unreasonable to believe.

At this rate people will be pushing for no fault divorces after they are caught cheating because... my spouse should have known I didn't mean any of my vows, any reasonable person would have known I was a monster before the wedding.

I'm kind of torn on it, because the investors etc... are too, batshit stupid for me to make any sense. On one hand at the surface it seems like that should be the criteria of embarassment. IE we can't control our AI, the old fictional AI concept of the paperclip problem is coming true (was an old thought experiment of an AI told to make as many paperclips as possible, and eventually it starts stealing resources and in the end just starts making paperclips out of people).

Logically talking about this SHOULD be really stupid, these should be negative, yet somehow investors, governments etc... are seeing "this technology is dangerous, we have to be the first to master it at all costs!", which since that seems to be the case it does make sense to lie about it.

overall not that much to have it in basic usage. it has the google play store, and you can just install kodi straight out of it and run it (then follow any guides on using things like umbrella etc... onto kodi), maybe add in something like projectivity to get a no crap startup page.

pretty much any app you use for shady stuff, is pretty out of box available, it's more or less stock android so, jellyfin, plex etc... all have out of box apps, and you can always install a file manager or web browser and get what you want otherwise.

Honestly my onn gadget probably is one of the nicest for the price box to run kodi on.

The sensitivity loss thing is mostly an internet myth, most studies on it show no difference with some studies reporting increased sensitivity instead

It's worth pointing out as a myth, it vastly predates the internet. The reason it's common in the USA, is because the puritans believed it would make it easier to stop kids from masturbating.