These stats real like everyone's thinking, "AI is bad for people. Not me, I mean stupid people who with weak willpower. Not like me."

She wouldn't care about the cold, she can survive without discomfort in the vacuum of space or in a house fire.

I mean, realistically her and Superman's clothes should rip off within milliseconds of them doing 99% of the things they end up doing.

It reads like something that scanned everything William Gibson ever wrote without understanding jack shit about anything.

The Metro isn't a newspaper, it's a comic.

This is the kind of means-testing governments do for benefits, right? Or is it more like social profiling? You can sell what you want, but when you start to put rules in place it gets icky quite fast.

To be fair I thought they already had this.

I don't believe you.

What part are they talking about?

I spent a lot of time on computers (shocker, right?) and that was seen as nerdy and weird when I was at school. Even after I got my first real job, I remember my girlfriend dismissing things I'd say because "nobody cares about your stupid internet". Predictable rest of comment is predictable.

Like this?

Or like this?

Google know who they're streaming videos to. They know this from the back-end. They absolutely do not require a script running in the browser to phone home about it in order to count "views". All the telemetry they need they can get from existing traffic; the additional telemetry supplied by scripts is mostly just for Bad Reasons and it's morally fine to block it.

An "atom bomb" is not a standard unit of measurement. It's less than helpful.

I don't think this is anywhere near the "endgame", it's a blip on the way to something way worse.

I'd be amazed if this works, since these sorts of tricks have been around since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and most bots will use pretty modern zip libraries which will just return "nope" or throw an exception, which will be treated exactly the same way any corrupt file is - for example a site saying it's serving a zip file but the contents are a generic 404 html file, which is not uncommon.

Also, be careful because you could destroy your own device? What the hell? No. Unless you're using dd backwards and as root, you can't do anything bad, and even then it's the drive contents you overwrite, not the device you "destroy".

Received a 2-day standing ovation you say?

safe from the madness and censorship of the fediverse.

Sounds like they explicitly don't want to federate. Unless it's a parody site, I guess.

This is an ad, right?

"Premium lite"? What is this doublespeak?

Your bank invests your money in selling arms to other countries all the time. They're already complicit in all manner of things. They just don't want it spelt out.

ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever's giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.