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No. The less carbon that is added to the atmosphere, the less severe the damage will be. Economic collapse will only increase the motivation to rely on cheap and dirty fuels, not to mention the incentives to cut down all the trees and exterminate all the wildlife.

Don't fall for it, Germany. There's never going to be a convenient time to stop burning fossil fuels. The economists will never tell you it's a good idea, unless it's in some comfortably distant future that will never come. Do it now.

That's a different type of server, but I guess it too would be at risk if you had someone else hosting it for you — any service at all could be given orders to install secret wiretap facilities for cops and spies, according to they way they're written the law.

it only has about 2000 downloads, so proceed with caution

It's got a github link, the repo is owned by someone who looks legit, it's existed for a while, and there probably aren't enough users to tempt anyone into selling it to bad actors. In my view that makes it look about as trustworthy as any unfamiliar extension can, without actually inspecting the source code.

The fork seems to have been around since 2023. Did the spyware version get removed only recently?

Looks like I'll have to find a non-Canadian VPN provider. What a pain.

It seems like that would be a pretty good shower thought if I could make any sense of it at all. Profile says "prompt engineer." Did an LLM come up with it? Or is there something I don't know about David Mitchell and/or Slavoj Zizek?

Sure you could ban VPNs — just as easily as you could ban newspapers.

I'm more interested in their sodium-ion cells, which are apparently going to be used in a Chinese EV to be available later this year. Lower cost and better performance in the cold are the main advantages. I guess it will take a few more years if production is going to ramp up such that it can have a big effect on the global market. But I imagine it will be much longer before solid state happens.

It's a good bubble! Like those little bubbles you get in champagne, except this one's the size of the entire western hemisphere. It's so fizzy with innovation it's going to be worth every trillion dollar bill it incinerates. Your investments might end up worthless but you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you helped bring about the birth of General AI, who will be along any minute now, the superintelligent robotic overlord that will soon rule over your life. It's going to be so amazing it'll be worth literally all the money in the world. Stop trying to make bubbles go away. Stop trying to think rationally. The AI will do that for you.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtSgIkSWYAAkb0t?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

They don't need you to buy anything right now. They want you to see the ads, remember them. Think of them when you hear the brand name. Know that their products exist. Maybe even mention one of those products to your friends in conversation some day, or just nod in recognition if someone else mentions it. They're buying space in your mind.

I'd say Enterprise was the only one that inspired a level of dislike that was anything like comparable. But it was no Section 31. Nothing in Star Trek history has been so shockingly bad as that movie, and it's not like they didn't make a couple of bad movies before. It's more akin to the Star Wars Holiday Special, except that instead of feeling any shame they chose to make a whole new series in the same directorial style. Eh well, who knows what the future may bring.