Not really at all.

Fifty shades of grey had to change its entire setting and characters to get published. I can’t just produce princess monoke two and not get sued.

I can’t even sell t shirts with either on via etsy or similar without risk. Yet I could steal studio ghibilis art style with zero talent involved using a llm to advertise my business, seemingly perfectly legal right now.

Which is more capitalistic, giant corporations like Facebook stealing others work and devaluing labour and talnet further or self created content that could be quite easily self published? Its classic big guy verses little guy.

Difference is for me, if I feed a LLM your work and now it can produce books, music, or art in your style, then yeah its infringement, especially if you monetise that output. Its devaluing your ability to make new and unique content if your work isn’t protected if I can copy your style with a simple prompt for say a recruitment ad for ICE and there is fuck all you can do about it.

I use only 40% and 30% keyboards, thats ones without dedicated number or f key rows, and have done so for about six years now. Majority I use are standard stagger but a few are ortho or splits. Almost all of them that I like using are split space with left half as enter and the right as space.

I can touch type, although I am not the fastest, only a bit above 80wpm. This is mostly due to me being dyslexic so spelling is challenging for me and I can get bogged down looking up words or retyping it. If I do not give a shit about spelling I can easily get well over 100wpm.

I think the main show off skill I can do is look at a person I am talking to while typing a different conversation on the computer. Obviously I cannot do either if its complicated conversations but simple stuff is fine.

Yeah that’s the point of the license from Ofcom, to approve the endpoint address used for the VPN. Most work places don’t use some random IP address but a small pool of known DNS entries for their endpoint. Just because you are using a VPN doesn’t mean nobody can see which endpoint you using.

It has always been the main aim of legislation like this to nobble VPNs, they just needed the “child” “violent pornography” etc. excuse to do so. UK government already monitors all of the internet traffic for the UK, except for MPs who are exempt, VPNs are a blocker for this.

Obviously, not even the UK government would expect a private VPN ban (work VPNs would likely need an Ofcom license) to stop everybody from using a VPN or suitable alternative, its not the aim. The aim is to stop the majority from doing so and criminalize the minority who do still bypass the block as it gives them the power to seize equipment, ask for your logins (its illegal punishable with jail time to not supply this in the UK), request ISP logs etc. to deep dive into your life.

Work based VPNs would likely have to obtain a license from Ofcom, it would be highly unlikely to block them completely. Probably be requesting a back door into the work VPNs at the same time just like they have for other encryption, lol.

Mechanical keyboards are like guitars, you can play the same notes on a cheap one as you can on something custom made for you for thousands. Do they sound very different? Almost always, although the guitar needs someone who can actually play well, unlike the mechanical keyboard.

However, if you really really care and you really really know what you want out of either you can tweak absolutely everything about both. You want ultra soft silent keyboard? Sure. You want the most clickty keyboard with tons of pressure? Sure. You want something thocky but still has lots of flex? Sure.

He got a lot more near future and current possibilities rather than his more esoteric earlier works. I think hes been quite on the money with a lot of predictions as hes predicted things like needing someone to filter out AI and pysop shit from your social media feeds, the split between the anti science right and everybody else, etc.

If you liked Gibsons shift from far to near future then this is a similar shift. He has also become more succinct, his books are shorter, which I think in the main is a good thing as he was overly verbose at times.

Romulans could also line up against the Black Numenoreans, fits the split from the good line of Numenoreans, Vulcans. Either is good though

I can see the Quark thing, especially with the Dwavern rings enhancing their lover of material things

I’d have picked Tom Bombadill over Gandalf to line up against Q

That are no longer alive, PTerry. Thst period he did two books a year plus extra stuff was golden.

That I no longer trust, King, Barker.

That I still pre order, Sanderson and Stephenson.

The more I think about this the more I think her providing a list of Trumps enemies the more I think MAD will kick in. Say she names someone we all know when to Pedo island, Clinton. Do we really think Clinton won’t start naming names to save his own skin? And that won’t include Trump?

No having to sign in on the prison log, no being on the cameras, far easier to hide who she spoke to, especially if it was on the phone to Donnie while she was out

I have a BEng in software engineering. It wasn’t thst different from a normal BSc in CS. Bits that stood out to me was industrial stuff around building and programming our own circuits, making our own (very simple) compiler, and some assembly modules, I had more maths stuff but that was for 3D graphics. My dissertation was a temperature control system for radiators.

I don’t really use any of it in my job, although I did do a ton more programming modules than most CS of the time, and those programming modules prove very useful.

There were still tickets available the day before, despite heavy discounts. I suspect they used seat filling services in the end to push it to capacity.They had to do so for some of the other knock out stages.

Yeah we stole all our good food from our former colonies and improved on them, see curry.

Yeah that’s not the same thing as a bland food diet, that’s up there with the cabbage diet for how awful it is.

Mine is: Scrambled eggs made with cottage cheese + porridge for breakfast Chicken, salad (no dressing) and rice for lunch Chicken, vegetables and rice/sweet potatoes/lentils for tea

No sauces, just dry herbs/spices as a rub.

Snacks are two protein shakes, naked bar (counts as a one a day of fruit/veg allowance), banana.

Repeat for past two years. Before that it was lentils, avo, boiled egg, before than goats cheese salad for lunch.

Its boring as fuck when you do it for months at a time but it works for me. Controlling

Bozos would absolulety wet himself with the opportunity to own slaves for his warehouses. He can claim too big too fail and just tap into all that free labor in Trumps Alligator Auschwitz.

just eating potatoes for every meal?