awful.systems sounds a LOT like it’s probably involved with SomethingAwful…

Well, that’s the thing… I probably should have mentioned this in my first post but I’m using Vivaldi, which is a Chromium fork. So it’s not just a Firefox issue.

I haven’t had any issues staying logged in on the same tab, but I have to log in again every time I open anything on this instance on another tab.

The one way a company can avoid that is to not go publicly traded in the first place. Problem is there’s a huge a mount of incentive to go publicly traded - specifically, it’s a huge boost to cash-on-hand, which can be crucial for expanding a business - so most corporations will basically do so without batting an eyelash at it. It’s a lot slower to build a company solely from net profits and private investors. But the cost of faster growth is a loss of control of the company.

From a technological point, yes. That being said, there are some complications. The US runs double-stacked intermodal freight so clearance is a concern, first of all. It’s doable, in fact India has many electrified lines that allow for double-stacked intermodal freight, but it does add a little to the cost and effort. The second issue is, unfortunately, cost, but not because it’s outright “too expensive”. Rather, it would eat too much into the short-term quarterlies of the various publicly traded rail companies that own a vast majority of the US’s rail lines during the installation. And as publicly traded companies, even if one of the major rail companies wanted to spend the money to electrify, they would get sued by their shareholders for doing so because there’s no immediate return on profits. And the final issue? NIMBYs already hate rail as-is, they’d hate the overhead lines even more.

So, yeah, a lot of challenges to electrification unique to the US, almost all of them political in nature. It would be really nice to put in electrified rail again (late PRR and New Haven were almost fully electrified but most of that was ripped out after the Penn Central merger. Seriously, everyone likes to rag on New Haven for screwing that up but honestly the evidence all points to the New York Central’s management team being the real culprits).

Posts a lie to the lies community.

Gets downvoted anyway.

For a moment there I thought we were back on Reddit…

Oh good. An AI search bot replaces… an AI search bot. 😒

Well, at least SearchGPT is open source. And the fact that it’s operated by a nonprofit org rather than a big corporate entity could be the kicker here, there’s no incentive to favor business partners or advertising clients. So I guess we might actually see an improvement here.

They’re tightly controlled corporate environments, but the people controlling them aren’t always smart.

This is really interesting, as it also has implications for life elsewhere in the solar system. Scientists have been debating back and forth whether life could exist in Europa’s oceans below its icy surface. Things had been leaning towards “unlikely” due to the reduced light being that far out from the sun, but if non-photosynthetic biological oxygen production is possible on Earth, it could also be possible on Europa.

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Could be something as simple as computers just being screwy sometimes. Or something as unlikely but still precedented as a bit-flip caused by an excited electron causing something important to actually be affected.

But what about forcing the computer to do something via bootable ASM?

Doesn’t hurt that Microsoft’s official answer to “what if my computer doesn’t meet the required specs to run Windows 11 or later” is literally “switch to Linux”.

It’s always big data, isn’t it?

A motion sensor would get tripped by anything that passes by, but even so, a basic image processing algorithm designed just to detect whether that thing is a human or not would be more than sufficient, there’s no need to identify specific people by face.

I’m opposed to #4 on principle. ANY action taken against an account should ALWAYS be done by a person after direct review. It doesn’t matter if it can be fixed afterwards or not, you’re still potentially subjecting people to unfair treatment and profiling. You can have it notify moderators but the moderators should be the ones actually making the decision whether to limit an account for further investigation, not the auto-mod bot.

If you implement #4 as-is, I’m just flat-out not going to stick around.

EDIT: Also, I ran into an infinite loading bug when submitting this post.

Well, I guess that’s it for Voyager 1. I doubt they even have a backup of its flight data to send back at this point. NASA wasn’t keen on keeping records on old projects like this.

So, from what I can gather from the word soup here, what this is is basically molecules made of smaller polar molecules like water. They were theorized to exist for a while but we’ve now been able to make them for the first time.

As for what the significance is, well… in the immortal words of Dr. Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1… “It’s fascinating”.

To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data “for development purposes”.

If you have a non-invasive, rapid DNA sequencing system like this, chances are you’re going to have very advanced genetics research in general, because that kind of tech is going to be used in research fields first before anything else. As a result, gene editing using a retrovirus to propagate a harmless change to one’s DNA would actually be a potentially available technology at least to some degree, although it would be tricky and expensive unless further developments are made.

The risk for security wouldn’t necessarily be falsification or spoofing so much as making someone impossible to identify or allowing them to forge a new fake identity. A career criminal could use this to escape justice, a spy could use this to hide their real identity, and it could also be used as a sort of bio-cyber attack by using an airborne pathogen to lock people out of any services, areas or technologies that require ID.

It’s still definitely a technically superior option to physical ID media on its own, it just comes with its own vulnerabilities.