Has there actually been evidence of Alexa or Google homes being used for government surveillance?

Yeah, I don’t know how I feel about celebraing an indie dev deleting their game while the biggest games such as arc raiders succeed despite overt ai use that actually displaces voice actors at the company.

I built several nodes. I think it’s most useful as an asset tracking tool, but the battery life isn’t great. Like, I have a couple premade credit card sized nodes. It’s pretty neat to ping them and get their gps. But, to be honest, your money for that application would probably be better spent on an iPhone and apples tags.

For communication: there are dubiously legal, cheap radios you can get off Amazon that would probably be 100% more useful.

I did enjoy it, though, and I still have some nodes. Also, it’s illegal to send encrypted messages over mestastic.

Edit some mestastic nodes double as a low power gps with a screen. These may be useful on their own.

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I usually give up or find a free alternative. Typically, if something is available at a good price I won’t bother trying to get it free to begin with.

I’m no floor expert, but I did put floor like this into a room. The instructions we got was to leave a small gap all around the room, since temperature fluctuations will cause the floor to expand, and if there is no space to expand into it will buckle. Baseboard trim that I installed later disguises the gap.

I think gluing it down is not the answer. It may just cause it to buckle in the middle where it is harder to reach. If it’s like the stuff we used, you can score it with a straight edge and a knife and then cut it.

I wonder if this applies to ocean meagafauna. Were humans numerous enough along coastal areas over evolutionarily significant timespans?

My head cannon is that orcas have a robust language and culture, and they have a religion which contains tenates about not harming humans which they developed during the Holocene after generations of mass retaliatory killing by humans.

Life’s too short to pick your partners based on other people’s aesthetic preferences. The whole, ‘is this guy too young for me thing’ is a more complicated choice IMO. Maybe you’re over thinking it. Have you been on any dates recently?

I’m doing okay! I’m definitely feeling emotionally burnt out this evening, but I couldn’t tell you exactly why. 🙃 However, I ate some ice cream, and I’m going to read fanfiction.

Have a good week too!

A what?

I’m playing DS2 now. This series is great! The only games like it are indie games, simulation affair. It’s truly unique in the AAA space.

I’m so down for this sailor content.

The woman is right!

Now that it’s a couple days later, I think I might add a thought to this. It can be invalidating, to have someone ask a victim to empathize with the bully without sufficiently recognizing the victims feelings.

I used to do this sort of thing. I would try to be objective and logical. I learned that this just made my friends feel crazy, like they might be overreacting. I’ve learned to instead start by validating peoples feelings. I try to recognize thier pain, discomfort, and anger first. And, I never blame people for feeling that anger.

I second what the other commenters are saying about forgiveness being for you, not to other person, but can I just rant about how useless it is to say no one can truly be bad? It denies the basic utility of words, in my opinion. If someone is an ass, violent, greedy, etc then they are bad. If they change their ways they are good. We have words to describe greedy, violent, assholes. We call them bad people. Hell, a murderer psychopath? Call them evil. It’s why we have adjectives.

The joke is your odds of being gainfully self employed.

It is? I’d like to read about that

It just looked a lot like an AI image classifier.

I don’t expect current ai are really configured in such a way that they suffer or exhibit more than rudimentary self awareness. But, it’d be very unfortunate to be a sentient, conscious ai in the near future, and to be denied fundinental rights because your thinking is done “on silicone” rather than on meat.