Lichess.org not .com .

I never thought those leopards would eat MY face.

I haven’t heard a proposal like that before, though of course it might exist and have legal analysis that I don’t know about. IANAL and don’t follow that stuff now. Any discussion of the consequences of a hypothetical amendment like that would of course be speculative. That is, there’s no way to know.

I don’t see that as helping much, at least without creating a horrible police state. Imagine thousands or millions of James Bond villains or other mad scientists running around and finding ways to evade detection. Making the cops smarter only goes so far.

Probably not. In fact if you mean everyone gets smarter starting tomorrow but up til today we’re in the same crappy world as always, that’s probably a disaster. Yeah we have some sociopath criminals in high places, but lots more of them are in prison or doing really dumb things (there’s a tv show about them, “world’s dumbest criminals”). Now imagine they suddenly get a whole lot smarter. Everyone else also becoming smarter won’t help that much.

If you mean human evolution somehow went on a different path making all humans smarter all the way back to prehistoric times, then it’s harder to say, but it doesn’t sound so great either.

Emotional intelligence isn’t the answer either, for the same sorts of reasons. Maybe there’s a separate thing called “wisdom” but there will always be gaps.

You might like HPMOR, a Harry Potter fanfic novel that philosophizes a lot about these types of questions. It’s at hpmor.com. Warning, the main character is insufferable a lot of the time, especially near the beginning. So you might hate it, in which case feel free to quit after a few chapters.

For a more positive take, try the old school science fiction novel “Protector” by Larry Niven.

Yeah I’ve been summoned a bunch of times (California). You get that at most 1x per year and usually you’re not needed (you’re excused over the phone, or you go to the courthouse and wait around most of the day before getting sent home). If you’re sent from the waiting room to an actual courtroom, you’re there with 50 or so other people who get called up and questioned (“voir dire”) one by one til they have selected 12 jurors and 4 alternates. Anyone left over is sent home. Once I made it all the way into the questioning phase but then got excused. I haven’t yet actually been on a jury. Anyway it’s time consuming but not that hard. There’s a small payment for those who need it. It’s nowhere near minimum wage.

It’s been noticed before. https://archive.is/fphZh

I’ve been using porkbun and they never asked my ID. Maybe it’s specific to the .xyz TLD? That surprises me but the domain you wanted are super cheap, so maybe they attract spammers. .xyz is somewhat disreputable anyway.

This is actually the first time I had heard of the 6-9 digit .xyz domains being discounted (.99/year). That was not mentioned on porkbun’s .xyz page, but web search found info. For those unaware, those domains register and renew at $0.99/year at some registrars, though $1.24 at porkbun.

And lol, almost everything I could think of related to mathematical constants were unavailable, e.g. 61803399.xyz. Some random ones were available and maybe I’ll try to buy one just to see what happens.

I wonder if porkbun suddenly requires ID for all domain purchases? That would be annoying. It’s been a while since I last bought from them.

Added: ok, this might help: https://kb.porkbun.com/article/225-why-porkbun-id-verification

Tumbolia!

Mimeos worked differently and didn’t smell nearly as strong, but they needed special paper (“twilltone” in the fanzine world) and the stencils and machines were more expensive than their ditto counterparts. You’d use them for large copy runs since a stencil could run off unlimited copies. Ditto masters were basically carbon paper and were good for maybe 30-50 copies depending. About right for a batch of class handouts. Dittos were also relatively clean and convenient to operate. Using a mimeo generally made a mess.

https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Twil-tone

This is also good: https://fancyclopedia.org/wiki/Mimeo

Spirit duplicator or colloquially “ditto”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

There’s an HN thread about this and yes it sounds like the guy is being stupid and/or there was a communications error. He submitted a PR for a potentially breaking change and it was closed as “needs discussion”. That is, instead of clicking “open PR”, he was advised to instead click “open discussion” and talk about the proposed change and its potential downstream effects. He instead got pissy and started spamming forums.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941590

I don’t use most of the software you mention, but converting FLAC to other formats is pretty easy. E.g. with ffmpeg you’d say

ffmpeg -i somesong.flac -o somesong.mp3

or similarly for other formats. There are more options to control the output bit rates and that sort of thing.

I doubt you’re banned. It’s just flaky software.

I see 3 comments from you in that thread when I look on lemmy.world, but 4 on .ml. I’ve seen some issues with comment propagation between instances at times, so maybe check again later to see if they’ve shown up.

https://github.com/official-clockwork/Clockwork dunno if this is the strongest one but it explains what HCE (hand crafted evaluation) is.

Tbh I wouldn’t say pre-NNUE Stockfish was really HCE. It used a lot of self-play and automatic tuning to adjust its eval between releases.

I think you can put multiple pictures in a comment.

Hard to pierce pseudonymity doesn’t interest me that much, because it’s bad enough having all your posts connected together.

I want something like 4chan (but heavily moderated), where all posts are just marked “Anonymous” and if you make 3 different comments, it’s not publicly shown that they came from the same person. It’s ok to retain the info privately for a short period, for moderation purposes. It could be ok to assign a persistent pseudonym for each thread, so if you comment 3 times in the same thread, those comments are connected to each other, but not to other comments in other threads.

This is a good article about the attractions of completely anonymous posting, though it’s from the pre-supertoxic internet era: https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

Unified Push if you want to use the internet, though for important stuff I prefer to use SMS texts. For that you need a gateway. I’m still on vitelity.net and it’s ok, but I’d look at alternatives if I were doing it again. Twilio has lately gotten all weird though.

I’ve self-hosted Gogs which is a predecessor of Forgejo and it used very few resources. A tiny VPS is plenty. Fossil (fossil-scm.org) is even smaller, but it’s a DVCS that’s not directly compatible with Git.

For personal projects you don’t really need a “forge”. I just use self-hosted git directly, with no web UI. Just “git pull” and so on. That’s what the Linux kernel devs do, so it’s obviously workable even for huge projects. There’s actually a web interface (gitweb) that comes with git, but it’s mostly to let other users browse your repo.

If you’re doing something of public interest, savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org might be worth looking into. They are curated, so you have to submit your project and they decide if they want host it. There’s lots of stuff there, it’s just not for random personal projects.

I don’t feel a need to use github. Github users can pull from non-github repos. If I’m not on github I don’t get to use their workflow but that’s ok. That’s a deficiency in github obviously, and it’s not my job to fix github.