Why? It's a mostly democratic news aggregator site without much editorial overview, if you don't like it, downvote / don't upvote it, or write a client that filters topics you don't like out based on some keywords. You didn't need to open this page and comment on it if you don't like it, nobody's making you read things you don't like.
Yes because clearly this is how automation works. Never mind that we've improved efficiencies many orders of magnitude over the last century and people still work the exact same amount of hours.
We could automate the world and then we'd all be stuck rolling a cube up and hill and back down. We will work, no matter what, even in the face of post-scarcity utopia.
Unfortunately some humans are just violent in nature. Or perhaps most. When robots become as intelligent as humans, some people might enjoy abusing them like they once enjoyed abusing people of different skin color.
The other thing I do is disable history. I forget the flag in Firefox (might be places.history.enabled or something). Forward and backward navigation still work per tab, but nothing gets recorded in the history menu. Every once in a while I wished I could go back into my history, but overall I prefer not to leave a log of what pages I've been to.
afaik you can use prefix to explicitly do search. for example no direct search but you can use "g paris" to search for paris on google or "w paris" to search paris on wikipedia
AI destroying mankind has always been a theme, but it's probably not going to be in the form of a physical war. This picture generation will probably have a very negative impact on mankind. Imagination is one of the driving forces of mankind, and so is our desire to realize the things we desire. When these generators become a common thing, human imagination and intelligence will start inevitably degrading. Nobody will bother painting pictures, making music, making video games or movies, when anyone can just see and hear whatever they want instantly. And people will brobably work all day long just so come home and pay to use these generators. This has the potential to destroy mankind by destryoing the human spirit.
People have been saying the same thing about Internet streaming of music for example.
It didn't destroy musicians, just changed how they make their money.
Musicians today generally publish music for free, and make money from concerts and merch sales instead (the publishing platforms generate money from ads around the publishing).
Nothing will change about that with the onset of AI generated music - most music is already free today, so you pay for personal experience (i.e. a concert) instead.
Music streaming didn't replace the artist themself, only the way their art was delivered. Music streaming also didn't posess the ability to interfere with democracy.
Usage of Steam's DRM is actually optional.
There are plenty of games that you can copy the files of and run on another system without Steam present. [0]
Optional for the developer. Mandatory for the player. Although I heard rumours it's easy enough to install alternate Steam DLLs that always return "yes" to "is this game licensed?"
Do they prevent you from using it easily? Yes, they sell software on a platform, but so does Nintendo. Yet Nintendo hardware is completely locked down and the software they sold you works only on said locked down hardware. Meanwhile, I can run anything on SteamDeck, and I can run SteamDeck software and/or their games on any reasonable gaming PC, in any form factor.
In practice, over the years that I've had a gaming collection with them, they've only ENABLED me to run the games easily.
And this will probably mark the end of Apache. All good things come to an end. I never even associated their name or symbol with native Americans. This is idiotic.
