Shekelphile

I feel like this page has barely changed since I last saw it, more than ten years ago. I suppose it would be much longer if it included more recent edit wars, especially since there always seems to be one over the usage of a trans persons preferred name, or the gulf of mexico page.

Grok could capture the entire 'market' and OpenAI would never feel it, because all grok is under the hood is a giant API bill to OpenAI.

There were more than a few cases at the time around acquisition where Musk publicly got into autistic manbaby slapfights with people on twitter and ended up banning them publicly. Presumably he is choosing to avoid doing this to mask what is happening to the victim and to avoid more bad press about it - it directly harms his thinly veiled persona as a free speech absolutist.

And even on tweets that don't seem to be outwardly ragebait the top replies will always be from blue checked right wing accounts, of course.

That isn't a bug. https://x.com/ObbeVermeij/status/1757572432863384046

> Then some morons connected them to the internet for no good reasons.

Elon Musk and Franz von Holzhausen, to be precise.

It's the opposite, actually. This place has always been owned and operated by a musk crony. Musk only got his paws on reddit recently, and has barely had any success besides getting the admins to shut down r/cyberstuck.

Here on HN anti-musk/regime posts get deleted automatically, TERF and other bigoted posters are allowed to post through spam filters from freshly made accounts, and everything else that isn't clearly delineated as 'liberal media' but negative for the regime just gets flagged or deranked from listing.

That is exactly why Musk seized control of SSA. He already frivolously bricks people's cars when they criticize him on twitter. Him and his cronies will begin debanking and revoking benefits from anyone that does the same now (lets be real: they have already started, we just aren't hearing about it).

They will throw people who criticize the government into work camps and use being deported to the CECOT death camp as a threat to keep them productive and compliant.

Calling CECOT a prison does a lot of heavy lifting. People are kept 20+ to a cell, without even basic amenities like running water or mattresses. The salvadoran government openly states that nobody will ever be released from the 'prison' [1]. These conditions are harsher than even the conditions nazis kept victims of the holocaust in. It is overtly a death camp, which the salvadoran government built as a backward way of getting rid of poor people by exterminating them rather than meaningful policy to improve the lives of it's citizens.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-81749d7c-d0a0-48d0-... 'El Salvador’s authorities have stated that they do not expect Cecot’s prisoners to ever be released.'

It isn't a prediction as much as it is a simple fact. Runaway greenhouse is inevitable, if we continue doing things to increase the greenhouse effect while simultaneously dropping the planet's albedo then the runaway greenhouse will happen much sooner.

Pretty much every 'breakthrough' in climate research in the last few decades has been finding new data showing we are dropping the planet's albedo much faster than expected. The biggest climate shock we have experienced in the last 20 years has been reduction in use of bunker oil fuel in ships which was masking the albedo loss from ice melt by flooding the upper atmosphere with reflective particulate pollution.

I am not worried about the increase in severe weather as much as I am worried about runaway greenhouse pretty much instantly destroying all multicellular life on the planet.

My pet theory is that we are only a few decades away from turning earth into venus 2.0 at this point. It feels like we keep finding new catastrophic tipping points every few months at this point.

It is worth mentioning that we are already in the last few hundred million years of earth's lifespan -- the sun was much dimmer last time the planet had this much GHG and warming going on. We may have already set the conditions for the oceans to boil away and the heat death of our planet without massive geoengineering.

Speech in support of terrorist groups isn't protected in the US.

last term? they're not leaving power this time.

They're directly attacking government infrastructure, including our intelligence apparatuses.

Even if they escape legal consequences they could become targeted for extrajudicial killings by intelligence agencies of the US and allies.

I am surprised there are even any functioning 4a's left to begin with. Google intentionally designs major components of these phones to break within a year or two of normal use, like using extremely cheap NAND that fails commonly, bricking the phone.

> My advice is to not push too hard on this at this time. The only real check on Trump's power right now will be the House impeaching, and that can only happen if House Republicans get angry with him, and it should be clear that cutting spending is making them angry before the courts start goading Trump into doing something that might trigger impeachment. I don't think people realize that the right-ward movement in the electorate is accelerating since the election, and doing things that further accelerate that before the midterms isn't going to help Trump's opponents in either party.

There isn't going to be another election in this country.

Only apple does this properly.

No, nothing would have changed if that happened. Republicans have no qualms about overtly breaking the law and abandoning their duty and decorum. If they did then Garland would be a sitting SCJ and Gorsuch wouldn't.

If you’re willing to buy from a retailer you can usually get two or three year financing terms. sell it at the end of the payment term for half (or more) of what you paid in total and get a new one on a similar plan if you want.

don’t think it’s wise though, i bought a base m1 pro mbp when it launched and don’t feel a need to upgrade at all yet. i’m holding off for a few more years to grab whenever the next major increase in local llm capability and battery life comes.

Not saying turning it back into a porn platform would have been the best move in the long-term but I think it would have at least made more sense than whatever he's done with it since acquiring it.

The shittiest part is the RA 'team' (really just daniel) forks the most popular emulators and profits off them while never updating their forks with upstream improvements and never pushing any of the money they profit back to the emudevs doing actual work.

It's really sad that he still hasn't been pushed out yet.

He's never really been a good person or savvy in general and IMO people put him on pedestal before recently. This is the guy who bought tumblr and hasn't done anything of merit with it after all.

the vast majority of employers will not work with you without a degree, its viewed almost equivalently to being a felon.

> I hope it does not. We do not need more space debris in orbit or more risk to the station and crew.

Even if such an explosion happened the debris wouldn't be around for long, stuff in LEO will fall back to earth quite quickly without stationkeeping.

> Steam would be completely enshittified by now.

Has it not already been shit for like 15 years? It's 2003 shitware with an electron skin on top of it, with a predatory skin marketplace that you can't withdraw funds from and lootbox mechanics included in all their live service games (of which that is all valve has made in the last 15 years excluding HLA).

Valve was never a good company. I would argue their early business model directly lead to the death of game modding in the first place because in their first few years they straight up stole the IPs of successful mods to turn into second rate games internally, usually not giving original developers any cuts of the proceeds beyond a normal position at the company.

You can go back in history and apply that logic to any company and claim they weren't monopolies as a result. Standard oil and AT&T had plenty of competitors, none were able to grow beyond extremely small scale.

The prevailing opinion since then has definitely been that it was an intentional release.

the words 'beginner friendly' and nixos don't belong anywhere near each other

2023 and 2024 have been massive outliers for climate data. If this is the new norm then it pretty much solidifies that even the most extremist predictions about climate change were too optimistic. We will reach runaway greenhouse within a century if we continue seeing temperature raises this quickly year-over-year.