I'm just going to come back in a month
Not really. I'm not a dev, a nerd, a chick or a bitcoin guru so I am actually a fish out of water. If NOSTR were a party I'd be the guy looking at the bookshelves.
I used to think that. Then one day I looked in the mirror and realised I was actually being an arsehole.
Not been to the Dandenong but it must be stunning. Never seen Adelaide either but I'd like to some time. We did live in Bendigo but left in 2019 when we figured war was coming and had a strong feeling Vic was not a good place to be. We're now in the Coffs hinterland and loving it!
Ah kookaburras I forgot those. There's a "koalas" sign in our street but I've not seen one.
Must admit it surprised me to see a Goanna at all in our street. Maybe it was some other kind of mahoosive reptile, but there it was. Not seeing snakes in the wild doesn't mean you haven't been near any! My wife came home with an actual bite mark once and didn't even know!
In the last 12 months we've seen in our garden or within 100m of the house:
blue tongue lizards
cockatoos (black and white)
bower birds
bandicoots
several species of frog
1 venomous snake (unidentified)
2 pythons
a goanna
1 wild rabbit
1 escaped domestic rabbit
3 species of bee
egrets
eagles
king parrots
gallahs
more types of spider than I can count
huge numbers of small lizards - skinks, geckos, etc
biggest centipedes I've seen outside of Thailand
and if we go to the beach we see dolphins literally surfing for shits and giggles plus heaven only knows how many types of fish, some quite dangerous.
I'm not a native - I've only been here six years and hardly a day goes by that I don't see something in Australia that completely blows my mind.
Well, until they post stuff in a language I can understand I have no idea what I'd be rewarding. I don't pay for cliquey in-jokes, cryptic one-worders or photos of Jack Dorsey's lunch. Sorry.
Indeed it won't go away, not of its own volition. What people WILL come to understand is that giving machines any sort of power over humans is a big mistake and is a line that was crossed a very long time ago. In some situations there is a human override but in many cases there is not. At some point there will be a reaction, and when that happens they'll start cutting down innocent traffic signals and billboards with power tools, because they won't want a bar of it.
Bill Gates sees nothing wrong with overruling the PC user by installing software they don't want and removing the means to block it. The monumental danger of every PC system in the world suddenly being updated with something that shouldn't be there - and nobody being able to stop it before it's too late - should be obvious but most are utterly blind to it. I won't have Windows 10 on my machines, full stop. I imagine 11 is even worse.
The danger is corporations and governments will get so comfortable with letting AI run things that they will also lose the feedback that there is a problem, like when you phone up an automated call centre and the system doesn't understand you but refuses to connect you with a human. The company has no idea that it's losing vast amounts of potential business and many good ideas in the process.
By the time the AI decides to actively hide its tracks there will be so much collateral damage it will become more obvious to the ordinary person that machines will have become the enemy.
Correction: 28th amendment.
Microsoft would be in breach already for overruling millions of PC owners by installing Edge and other unwanted updates on their machines.
Time for a 27th amendment to the US constitution - the supremacy of humanity over machines, including the right not to take orders derived from a machine, and the right to disable any machine that one perceives as a threat.
The case rests itself really.
There won't be "reports", just total homogeneity of thought in the administrative classes. As if it weren't bad enough already.
Reflectacles just arrived! So good. Defeats facial recognition systems by blocking IR eye measurements.
Anyone else find choosing bananas really hard?