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Not an expert but I believe some municipalities (and some older homes) rely on well water with pretty minimal treatment. This is usually fine because the water moves through the well system so slowly everything naturally filters, but if you suddenly have a data center or fracking system forcing orders of magnitude more water through the ecosystem than was originally designed, those natural filtration systems start to fail catastrophically.

Literally any of the * Simulator games. Was just scrolling my Lemmy feed and “Car Mechanic Simulator” popped up, but there’s Farming Simulator, and Truck Driving Simulator, Power Washing Simulator, etc. etc. etc.

I can kinda maybe see the appeal of ONE of these games as a cozy break, but there’s like a dozen different ones, and they have like annual releases. Has the Simulated Car Mechanic experience really changed that much from 2015 to 2018 to 2021 to 2026 that you need a whole new game each time? None of them interest me, but the volume confuses me.

To a certain degree I feel similarly about sports games. I do more readily see the appeal of the genre, but do you really need to churn out a new full release each year? I can’t fathom why people are paying full price for a game that is 99% the same as last years version - same engine, rules, gameplay, but they updated that one teams away jersey to be the new shade of purple, kicked out the retirees and added the dozen or so notable rookies. That’s a $5 DLC, not another $60.

Thankfully the police can now confiscate any item on you that you can’t prove is yours and how you legally got it.

Are you missing a /s? Do you know how long it would take me to prove the shirt on my back is mine and how I legally got it if a cop wanted to harass me about it?

If you own an expensive watch are you just supposed to keep the 12-year-old receipt in your wallet in case you get stopped by a cop?

My wife’s wedding ring isn’t worth $10k, but it still is a hefty chunk of change. 1) I dont know how I would prove to a cop that it’s not worth 10k, and 2) even if it was, I don’t know how I would prove I didn’t buy it with drug money.

This is the equivalent to US civil forfeiture, which has been shown time and time again to be a broken system rife with abuse.

“Your game could get downloaded 1,000,000x on a piracy platform, at $60 a pop, that’s $60M in lost revenue. Pay us $30M and we will prevent this - a bargain.”

Reality, none of those pirates would have paid full price for your game, and it’ll get cracked anyways - you just made it worse for paying customers and deterred anyone who doesn’t want to voluntarily install a rootkit virus on their computer.

I’m guessing it’s more about their failure to create any consumer focused internet services, e.g. shopping, social media, media, search, …

I think the AI bug reports should definitely be managed by internal staff. Agree the slop reports and PRs by (well intentioned) 3rd-party people with limited knowledge of the code base is more harmful than helpful, but as a tool for an internal team to use to highlight potential opportunities, it’s not bad.

I see it as similar to an IDE providing syntax and formatting suggestions.

I don’t understand why this is a bad thing, if AI code can find long overlooked bugs that can be verified and repaired by humans, let them.

This sudden spike is just a function of having a new tool, these reports and repairs will settle as long as the fixes and new features aren’t just vibe coded into place.

I’ve been in many a Chinese Didi. Much like the cheaper Teslas the hardware in these cars is exceptional for the price, but nothing else about it really stands up past the first glance.

Software is distracting and UI is terrible. I’m sure privacy is nonexistent which is scary when you consider the car can see and hear everything you do and know everywhere you go.

Would I buy one? No. But I welcome more competition in the EV space, and something at an introductory price point that may get some skeptics to try something new.

Hmmm… Interesting one to think about, even as someone who hates AI

According to the complaint, Ikner, then a student at FSU, shared with ChatGPT images of firearms he had acquired. The chatbot then allegedly explained how to use them, “telling him the Glock had no safety, that it was meant to be fired ‘quick to use under stress’ and advising him to keep his finger off the trigger until he was ready to shoot.”

At one point, the lawsuit alleges, ChatGPT said that it’s much more likely for a shooting to gain national attention “if children are involved, even 2-3 victims can draw more attention.” Later, on the day of the shooting, the lawsuit says, Ikner asked about what “the legal process, sentencing, and incarceration outlook” would be.

OpenAI has pushed back on the claim that its product holds responsibility for the shooting. “Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,” OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri told NBC News in an email. Pusateri wrote that the company worked with law enforcement after learning of the incident and continues to do so.

“In this case, ChatGPT provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet, and it did not encourage or promote illegal or harmful activity,” he added. “ChatGPT is a general-purpose tool used by hundreds of millions of people every day for legitimate purposes. We work continuously to strengthen our safeguards to detect harmful intent, limit misuse, and respond appropriately when safety risks arise.”

Should Google be liable for giving tips about how to use a gun / which killings get the most attention?

What about your local SearXNG instance?

Is a chat bot a glorified search engine or something different? Which query should have crossed the line for reporting?

This sort of thing is so murky to me, and in the same realm as the (BS, IMO) “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument, but the line in the sand feels a lot harder to draw here, in my brain at least.