Thank you, sounds interesting.

Similar. Åland is predominantly Swedish-speaking (we’re a minority on the mainland), and they have fairly extensive legal autonomy as well.

In practice Åland is also a legally demilitarized zone, though I doubt Russia would give a fuck.

Åland is still a part of Finland, even though they have a certain degree of autonomy.

“Grok” really says everything that needs to be said about this farce, isn’t it?

That’s a worthwhile question to ask, no doubt.

You’re completely correct, pneumatic sounded cooler. I know, I’m a complete scumbag.

Hey I’m glad you know what gets you hammered, you do you ;)

Everyone has a plan until a pneumatic metal fist hammers them silly.

Can I have some of whatever you’re having?

The man is a swedish speaking Finn originally, it kinda comes with the territory. We might technically be a minority but we’re still as Finnish as the rest of them (to a certain degree at least).

Me, going back to that cesspool. I left quite the account behind as well.

He’s not a giant asshole, he just doesn’t sugar-coat everything he says.

It’s sort of a defining trait in people where he is from. If we say something we tend to say it straight. He might be a more extreme example than most, but I had a good friend from the same neighborhood and he was the same.

We grew up a few years later when he had already moved to the US, but we used to sneak smokes in the park right outside where he first made Linux. My friend lived in the same building as he had done, but he was so computer illiterate that he had no idea who Linus was. I did, though, because Linus described that place pretty well in what I believe was his first book.

Fuck, didn’t know Mitnick died. Just married and with a child on the way, too.

He was arguably at his best at social engineering, too. Don’t know if it’s a real quote, but I remember reading about him saying it can bypass all your electronics, firewalls included.

Never going back.

At least to me the exciting part is that we’re getting to a point where this is a legitimate question - regarding both us and our emerging AI’s.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if an AI explained its own behaviour better before we can adequately understand our own minds well enough to match that logic - there’s a lot we don’t know about our own decision making processes.

I’ve used Dropbox since literally their first year of creation and I’ve never experienced a single one of these issues. I use it mostly as a portable library and all I need is 2 mins of any internet connection to download any book(s) I want to read to a local device. Mind you this is on their free plan, so I’ve never paid a cent to them either. Requires me to periodically transfer older books to another long term solution, but that is just a few mouse clicks. I’ve read hundreds if not more ebooks this way. Since I prefer .mobi (which I can even read IN dropbox if I want) I can upload straight to dropbox after converting from .epub.

I mean, it sounds frustrating, but your experience with them sounds extremely weird to me.

At least to me they’ve been the best cloud provider by far, for what it’s worth.

With that said, I don’t especially like that they’re doing this even though my specific content is mostly available in any number of places anyway, given that it’s literature.

That typo made me chuckle way harder than it should’ve, too.

I agree there too. Finding the fine line between staying informed and going nuts from all the negative stuff has forced me to step back at times, just for the sake of staying sane.

I agree, it had its ups and downs, but on the whole it made me contemplate on things from many perspectives, and I think (and hope) that that was ultimately the goal of the creators as well. It certainly seemed to be.

Very few things I’ve watched have given me the same …vibe, so to speak. I have been to India and that episode felt very … authentic, for a lack of a better word.

In my opinion it’s a bit sad it didn’t get all that much recognition, but it also wasn’t the easiest series to watch at times.

One of mine too. It’s a little scary seeing the things they got right so far.