As a heuristic, I look at the commit dates to see if it’s still being maintained. And lately I look at the commits themselves for evidence of AI use. Then I’ll maybe do a web search for discussions to see what other people/the community has to say about it.

Gnuhealth looks like it may be dead (or at least the repo I found hasn’t had a commit in many years). (Nvm, they moved to codeberg which is a positive signal, IMO).

I think it’s illegal to use Reticulum over amatuer radio because it’s encrypted?

LoRa is very low bandwidth, only suitable for short text messages. Radio frequencies are heavily regulated, easy to triangulate, and can be shutdown. People could build a higher speed, planned WiFi mesh; hops just have to be closer. Neighborhoods could build cat6 and fiber into meshes if they wanted to as well.

Yeah, that’s my experience. I think there’s a kind of anxiety that if they don’t spend it now, some unexpected expense may come along where they’ll have to spend it on that. When unexpected expenses are required, they have to borrow/hustle/pawn/pick up another shift/etc. A lot of people couldn’t even balance a budget if they tried (i.e. they don’t have enough income to cover both expected and “unexpected” expenses).

It’s because games are cheap compared to many alternatives that people would use to entertain themselves. They are one of the cheapest forms of entertainment when you consider how much time people spend interacting with them. An Uber and a night at a bar, or a dinner for two at a steakhouse could cost more.

I’m not very consumerist, but grew up poor by US standards (and am honestly on my way back). A lot of people seem to want at least some nice things. Sneakers, nice clothes, nails, hair; whatever they’re into. I think it helps distract them, or gives them something to look forward to. Part of it may also be that society seems to conflate a persons worth with their income and possessions, and that has been internalized.

Related Youtube video I saw the other day: “AI bubble will pop…………any day now.”

That’s what stepmothers are for.

Companies boasting about committing felonies and trying to charge companies to run the uncontrollable super-hacking machines on their systems has got to be one of the stupidest marketing attempts ever.

At some companies, it’s because they’re hoping to use the data of the employees using the AI to automate their job away.

EA is Saudi now.

When I was a TA, I’m pretty sure 1/3 if the students plagiarized their programming assignments. Copy/pasting suspect snippets into Google would often bring up near-verbatim results, and a similarity tool would often reveal 3 students that either worked together or copied from the same source.

It’s meant to be an attempt at humor/sarcasm/engagement bait I think.

Resident Evil is really cool in VR; have to look down and align iron sights. Racing Sims are also cool in VR.

Yeah, I’ve been getting interviews the past couple months, but I haven’t had any luck so far. Got to the final round a couple times, but I guess they liked someone else they interviewed better.

There’s no good evidence of widespread voting shenanigans (yet; I’m worried about future elections). Trump was popular in rural US, and that pretty much explains everything. I agree with everything else you said though. There’s a ton of evidence of foreign meddling, and all the dark money in politics is basically legalized election influence for the wealthy.

There are so many issues to attack him on that this one looks minor. I think I heard the DNC is pretty much bankrupt too.

Yeah, in the US, the protestors are mostly older people. I think maybe they’re too anxious and don’t want to jeopardize their future careers? Maybe they saw the concerted effort to ruin pro-Palestine protestor’s lives? Most companies do background checks (I’ve had to get a background check to work at Burger King), and even a single arrest on your record is enough to have you automatically filtered out. Maybe they saw that the BLM protests didn’t really cause the government to change much. Idk. It is weird though.

Lol, yeah. We also had to do stuff like that for auditing and compliance because the application interacted with the company’s accounting system.

Last time I worked on a large, long running web project, a person would manually check nearly everything. He kept a checklist of what to check, which covered nearly every page, modal, and dialog on staging before we deployed. We did try the snapshot thing for a little bit, but it caused more problems than it solved.

Religious chip-tune artist, I assume.