Hey a fellow Phoenotopia Awakening fan!

I love that game but I made the mistake of putting it down for a year. When I came back I was completely lost and had no idea what I had already done or what to do next. The game does not have quest logs and does not hold your hand this way. It’s a game where people might benefit from documenting their progress as they go, especially in case they ever take a break from it.

You might be hindering yourself.

Developers took 19% longer to finish tasks using AI tools - https://www.techspot.com/news/108651-experienced-developers-working-ai-tools-take-longer-complete.html

You don’t like the ‘pedestrian mower’ trucks, where the driver can’t see anything that’s less than 30 feet in front of them? Weird. /s

I don’t want AI-generated assets in games at the expense of past, present, and future artists – artists that created all the source material in the first place and had it pirated by corporations who had enough money to ignore all existing IP law globally.

If Tim Sweeney is fine with pirating other’s art, he should be cool with people pirating his games.

when you make it clear to be honest

It has no idea what honesty is. It has no idea what bias is.

It is fancy auto-complete. And it’s wrong so often (like 40% of the time) that it should not be used to seek out factual information that the prompter doesn’t already know.

Please remember that this software has not yet been properly audited and could potentially have bugs that compromise your passwords.

That said, it looks attractive and promising.

Feminism has a place, but it is explicitly about promoting women’s interests – something which if allowed to continue unchecked, leads to significant disadvantages for men.

I think that’s a dangerous belief. I don’t see the difference between saying that and saying “Equality for black people has a place, but it is explicitly about promoting black interests – something which if left allowed to continue unchecked, leads to significant disadvantages to whites.”

Some people argue that intent shouldn’t be considered when sentencing people for their crimes.

I believe intent impacts a perpetrator’s potential rehabilitation (something a lot of countries put very little effort into when keeping people incarcerated) and should therefore affect sentencing.

Casually throwing feminism under the bus – a movement that focuses on women’s issues (to the overall societal benefit of everyone) – for focusing on women’s issues?

Huh. Is this socially acceptable now? I thought we were better than this.

Ebikes tend to be significantly heavier than regular bikes. Once you add speed or a throttle to a 60+lb ebike, they become much more dangerous in pedestrian collisions.

I think bicycles need dedicated infrastructure, hands down, and ebikes over a certain speed/weight/throttle combination need to be kept off of pedestrian mixed-use pathways and sidewalks.

E-scooter rentals are a scourge on society where I live. Super dangerous for the people riding them due to potholes and other road conditions, no protective gear, and no timely safety inspections on the scooters (good luck when the brake fails). Combine that with a high rate of scooter drivers riding against traffic, cutting off pedestrians, and abandoning scooters anywhere – it’s a nightmare.

FYI:

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/doxxing-free-speech-and-first-amendment

In the US, “doxxing” laws are pretty much state-by-state and many may be violating the first amendment.

Yeah Apple is straight up user hostile to people running apps on MacOS not signed by Apple, and I don’t know why more people don’t talk about it and push back against it. They are one step away from removing the ability to freely install software on your own computer.

I don’t use itunes on mac or ios, so I use an app called NoTunes on MacOS that kills the itunes app whenever it launches.

Jeb!

Hexlox for the seat, seatpost suspension, and handlebar bolts, as well as hexlox for the axles.

Abus granit x-plus u-lock, cafe lock with Abus chain lock integrated, and a cable lock for my front wheel.

Also bike insurance.

I have all these stupid locks because I have an ebike. I have an ebike to help offset all the weight of these stupid locks.

Friendly reminder that Reolink cameras need to be denied internet access / isolated on the network because they constantly reach out to a bunch of Chinese IP addresses.

We are in a new age of disinformation and crazy people, where the president of the US literally responds to protests against him with AI videos of him shitting on all of them, and where every sarcasm post needs an /s.