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This week, Adam talks with journalist and influential tech critic Ed Zitron of wheresyoured.at to discuss the impending burst of the AI bubble, the hubris of Silicon Valley, and how we suffer under big tech's "Rot Economy."

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The Busy Beaver numbers are how long a Turing Machine of some size can run and still halt. There are different ways of formulating them, but the most common is the number of steps a 2-symbol, N-state machine can run before halting. These numbers go 1, 6, 21, 107, 47176870.

The 6th number is already known to be higher than 10⇈15.

With ever more Supreme Court fuckery going on I'd like to help comrades in my local org be better secured against potential breaches.

Ideally I'd like to recommend 1-3 options that meet these needs:

• Easy to use
• Can be used on phones as well as mobile devices
• Doesn't retain any network traffic data

Any ideas on what options we have?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/bill_gates_ai_power_consumption/

Do you want to relieve the late 90's Tamagotchi craze? Now you can with your own v-pet! This free software emulates how the toy acted, right down to pulling out the strip to turn it on.

RIP to my old Minecraft world from 2019 on this 2.5 inch HDD I now use as a mirror for shaving

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-hires-ai-startup-adepts-212217362.html

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"Privacy" for normies is.... Weird. You should use FOSS software... NOW!!

We literally wrote "don't create the torment nexus" as a cautionary tale and you went and built the torment nexus

So, I'm pretty much a layman when it comes to modding, game development, coding, etc. With that said, am I correct in thinking that creating a small to midsized mod for a game like Stellaris is a much smaller/easier undertaking than even a simple indie game?

If I want to get started in that direction, creating a small (functional) Stellaris mod might be a good idea?