Does messing around to play Red Alert at 640 x 480 (instead of the default 320 x 240) qualify? I emphasize that I modded the thing to have ICBM carrying submarines for more realism, and played global thermonuclear war with my university course mate over an RS-232 cable. :P
(We could not afford Ethernet, or maybe couldn't understand it, since it was such a new thing. I recall seeing shiny Ethernet cards from 3COM with some envy.)
He might have been old and frail, but apparently stayed up to date with world affairs.
While hopelessly symbolic, this is an excellent move to draw attention to the hunger and disease occurring in Gaza due to Israel's blockade on humanitarian aid.
“This is why we need a strong NATO and we need troops on the ground in Romania, in Poland and in the Baltic states,” he said, although he was against sending further military aid to Ukraine.
And then he calls himself perfectly aligned with MAGA. :D
Unfortunately, MAGA is anti-NATO, "pay Donald so your house won't catch fire on a case by case basis".
If I was naive, I would consider if he's clueless or a liar. Since he's a well educated man, he cannot be clueless - he's a liar, of course.
He earned his first political points surfing on anti-vaccination waves. Basically "don't tell us to be reasonable and protect our health, it's our choice if we want to suffer".
Now apparently, he's the embodiment of "don't tell us to be reasonable and choose moderate politicians, it's our choice if we want to suffer".
He's capitalising on resentment against the court intervening in elections, after Georgescu "forgot" to tell about unknown (read: Russian) actors backing him with thousands of accounts and millions of money. The court did its job. People just weren't aware that it was a court's job to supervise elections.
I wonder if he gets elected. It would not bring any good.
a breach of even 1p would trigger a fine of £83.30
Sounds extremely, extremely stupid. A breach of 1p should trigger repayment of 1p.
Also, a person should be notified at once, at the latest next month.
Bagger 288 (and its sibling, Bagger 293) are probably the biggest machines which move freely on soil. They're about 225 m long, 96 meters tall and weigh 14 200 tons.
In the length category, the F60 overburden conveyor bridge (which moves on rails) is (was?) several times bigger, at 502 m length. It weighed less, however, at 13,600 tons.
The University of Zurich’s ethics board—which can offer researchers advice but, according to the university, lacks the power to reject studies that fall short of its standards—told the researchers before they began posting that “the participants should be informed as much as possible,” according to the university statement I received. But the researchers seem to believe that doing so would have ruined the experiment. “To ethically test LLMs’ persuasive power in realistic scenarios, an unaware setting was necessary,” because it more realistically mimics how people would respond to unidentified bad actors in real-world settings, the researchers wrote in one of their Reddit comments.
This seems to be the kind of a situation where, if the researchers truly believe their study is necessary, they have to:
After that, if they still feel their study is necesary, maybe they should run it and publish the results.
If then, some eager redditors start sending death threats, that's unfortunate. I would catalouge them, but not report them anywhere unless something actually happens.
As for the question of whether a tailor-made response considering someone's background can sway opinions better - that's been obvious through ages of diplomacy. (If you approach an influential person with a weighty proposal, it has always been worthwhile to know their background, think of several ways of how they might perceive the proposal, and advance your explanation in a way that relates better with their viewpoint.)
AI bots which take into consideration a person's background will - if implemented right - indeed be more powerful at swaying opinions.
As to whether secrecy was really needed - the article points to other studies which apparently managed to prove the persuasive capability of AI bots without deception and secrecy. So maybe it wasn't needed after all.
I'm tempted to comment his statement with "yes, captain Obvious".
It could have only ended if they had: a) not obstructed Biden, b) fully backed the measures Biden took, c) continued with measures of their own of equal weight, and d) threatened to double down with more measures really soon.
Instead, they set up their "art of the deal" clown and pony show (where an angry clown fails to jump over a beaten down pony).
So far, Putin has taken it as confirmation and encouragement. If they grow up super fast (yea, sure they will...) this might still be possible to change.
But realistically, I think they won't grow up - this is more likely just a brief flash of partial sanity. At this stage, other people will have to do the job while the US provides a steady supply of tragic humor.
Even 1 TB is arduous. Don't back up your movie collection, let the feds have it if they want. Back up your code, correspondence and encryption keys. :)
A well placed encrypted backup on two separately located microSD cards (in case mice eat the other), located within a few hundred meters of your actual residence, should be beyond the ability of common goons (ICE, cops, impatient FBI agents) to locate. They'd have to engage in long-term surveillance.
If curious kids find one, it's still encrypted and you still have the other, and curious kids won't take your primary data carrier by raiding your house either. You just replace the backup then and put it elsewhere.
Since the area contains heads of state (enough to measure in tons) among them the wannabe god-emperor of America, yes, it will be a parade of the latest antidrone tech. :)
Also, everyone near airfields will be scanning for anti-aircraft installations in the shrubbery. The usual stuff.
It's not a big number, but only 300 such drones exist, to my knowledge.
As an Eastern European drone developer, I'm OK with donating even to people who might be called tankies ...if what they do is building Lemmy. :)
(As a side note, "riseup.net" needs donations too. Anarchist-run e-mail service doesn't come for free.)