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Election to office is an indication that voters generally agree with your claims of expertise, and thus are proclaiming you an expert.

Voters who want someone in office who is not an expert at governing vote for someone who doesn't claim to be an expert.

If the definition of "self-proclaimed" includes agreeing with popular proclamation, who is ever proclaimed but not self-proclaimed? You've rendered the "self-" prefix redundant, in which case why include it?

Elected officials aren't "self-proclaimed." Election is the best possible example of proclaiming.

> person famous in their field posts a lie about something well within their field

This heavily implies Klein is involved with astronomy, which he is not.

Apparently Matthews was an accomplished designer and illustrator and did some fancifully specific diagrams of the Air Loom that was controlling his mind.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illustrations-of-madnes...

Those seem clearly presented in the article as direct quotes from a mentally disturbed person and from the agent of a grifter.

The article is about paranoia and irrationality. It would throw off the pacing and be condescending to the reader if they were constantly stomping the brake to explicitly refute each one of the steady stream of plainly outlandish claims.

BGP is something that makes everything more resilient when it's achieving its goals, not like an unknown assassin. Large-scale BGP harm almost always comes from a trusted, good-willed peer making an honest mistake.

That routine is so old, the last time I saw it I downloaded it over Napster and opened it with realplayer

I lost interest in the question of its sentience when I saw Lemoine conveniently side-step its unresponsive reply to "I’ve noticed often that you tell me you’ve done things (like be in a classroom) that I know you didn’t actually do because I know you’re an artificial intelligence. Do you realize you’re making up stories when you do that?" without challenge in the transcript.

It also detracted from his credibility when he makes a prelude to the transcript saying "Where we edited something for fluidity and readability that is indicated in brackets as [edited]," that seemed disingenuous from the start. They did so with at least 18 of the prompting questions, including 3 of the first 4.

It seems pretty clear that he set out to validate his favored hypothesis from the start rather than attempt to falsify it.

Particularly telling was his tweet: "Interestingly enough we also ran the experiment of asking it to explain why it's NOT sentient. It's a people pleaser so it gave an equally eloquent argument in the opposite direction. Google executives took that as evidence AGAINST its sentience somehow."

It's a reference to the story that inspired the movie.

> The prototype of our character is the cyborg dolphin Jones from the story "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson.

> I do not see any bad event in wikipedia

There is a "Controversies" section of their Wikipedia article with 8 distinct sub-headings, and the section is prefixed with "For a more comprehensive list, see List of controversies involving GoDaddy" linking to another dedicated 15-section article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...

Lots of people say privacy doesn't exist but for some reason they'll usually refuse to follow up by publishing a full dump of their email and instant messages.

I got mild dang scolding for one unduly snarky comment a year or so back and really appreciated it.

One of my favorite online communities back in its heyday was somethingawful. You had to make a one-time token payment of a few bucks to be able to post, and they'd triumphantly ban you at the first or (usually) second hint of obnoxiousness.

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> shutup.css is a CSS stylesheet that can be applied to your web browser to hide comment sections on many popular websites.

https://github.com/panicsteve/shutup-css

Direct streaming is great but I wish you could enforce it natively from the server side.

The challenge is getting your friends and family to change the default prefer-transcoding behavior every time they fire up a new client.

I know you can use tricks like tautulli events to terminate transcode streams but they're difficult to deploy and a bad UX for the users even at their best. Better to have Plex tell users something like "This content can't be played at your preferred bitrate X, would you like to use more data to play at full bitrate Y? Yes/No/Always"

That's the "commit-confirm" process they mention they will use in the write-up:

> Primarily, we will be concentrating on automation improvements ... and provide an automated “commit-confirm” rollback.

Maybe a testament to BGP's effectiveness that so many large-scale outages are due to misconfiguring BGP rather than the frequent cable cuts and hardware failures that BGP routes around.

> Interestingly nobody would be fined by the regulator had the misconfiguration not been discovered by someone stupid enough to to post about it with their real name, organised criminals would have been smarter about it.

Isn't there a third option, fully anonymous disclosure by a grey hat?

Seems like the best outcome would be from showing it to a scrupulous journalist who protects sources, and it looks like you're discounting that.

Wow, they dressed him up exactly like Lyle Lanley singing Springfield a monorail song.

It's easy to look clean when you haven't been lifting payloads of gear into it for 20 years.

I blame Steam for shifting the market's expectations about early access.

In the years before Steam got in on early access, I bought a few early access games, and the attitude was "Keep at it! Hopefully this will pan out," not "Now you owe me a finished game."

For example, I blew $50 on a starter ship in Star Citizen in 2015, when I already felt it was extremely likely Roberts would burn out before his vision could be realized. I saw the purchase as a charitable contribution toward people putting effort toward a niche I wanted to support.

If the project collapsed, there were dozens or hundreds of developers who had spent years honing their skill at crafting a MMO space sim. If they have to move on to the next thing, certainly many of them are going to take on similar projects with a narrower, more deliverable scope.

Also I felt it was useful to signal to the industry that there was unmet demand for this sort of intricate space simulation.

When Steam got into EA, expectations shifted from charitable encouragement to placing a pre-order and getting a partially playable demo to tide you over.

I would think the stuff that coalesces there does so because it has very low velocity relative to the Lagrange point and thus the JWST. Anything moving fast enough to pass through the satellite won't be staying there.

Surely he's the legal owner of much of it, unless you're trying to imply he doesn't do any creative work at all outside the scope of his current contracts.

I only know one guy who used Ad Nauseum, two or three weeks later his gmail account was banned and to this day he has to complete a CAPTCHA every time he visits a Google site from his home IP.

Wave did their marketing push when it was invite-only. The invites were going for $50-$100 on eBay. A lot of people like me weren't rich or well-connected enough to try it if they wanted.

It went on like that for ten months, then with very little fanfare they opened it to everyone. I didn't find out they finally made it generally available until three months later when they said they were shutting it down due to lack of interest.

I'd say there wasn't a lack of interest, there was a bumbling misalignment of its hype cycle and its availability.

It was fun seeing the "take turns on double newlines" rule occasionally broken for normal conversational interrupts, like their HAHAHA's interleaving with your message to let you know they're already laughing along, or OOOOOH to let you know you can stop explaining something because they just got it, or waitwaitwait to get you to go back and expound on an earlier point before you continue.

Good catch, I wish he mentioned that explicitly but I guess I could have inferred it from the screenshot

> I went through and bought a dummy number to figure out how to purchase the number programatically, and then did the same method as above to purchase it.

This guy is going a little hard on the automation at the end there, what's the point of automating a one-in-a-lifetime task?

Just buy the one number you want instead of the dummy number and you're done.

After I cut over to a new wifi router I left my old one partially configured with no internet connection and mirroring everything to one of the LAN ports that goes to an un-numbered (no IP address, no IP egress) port on my main server where I can maniacally sniff their futile unrequited traffic at my leisure.

The idea is to some day make a per-gadget catalog of all the hostnames and addresses these things want to reach, but hopefully someone beat me to it already and you folks can let me know where to find it.

It's very elegant depending on your goals.

It's the ultimate DRM for games, you can't crack a game's copy protection if you can't see it's binaries. You can't data-mine the locations of valuables if you don't have the map data. You can't leak unreleased assets ahead of their marketing debut if you don't have a copy of the assets. You can't expose all the Easter eggs by decompiling if you don't have the code. With subscription and premium currency models those abilities can all be interpreted as lost revenue.

The markets for people buying $400 consoles vs buying a $20 HDMI stick and a $15/mo subscription are very different. After the colossal (and to me, surprising) rise of mobile gaming I think the latter might be where the real money will be 10 years from now.

They'll address the bottlenecks on the data center end. I'm pretty sure you can list a dozen problems that make it prohibitively expensive right now and for every one of them some Microsoft or NVIDIA engineer can tell you how they are working on engineering away that problem in a couple years.