Let’s put a little tormentors-helper right over here….

<edit: misspelled tormentor)

Plot twist: all personal and work internet access is free! (when channeled through the 7g gubbmint chip implanted in your brain at birth)

This is the way. The ‘smart’ is already in home assistant. You need a temp sensor (or a few) and the actuators to trigger the HVAC equipment. There are numerous ‘smart thermostat’ integrations already and modules that handles the PID math for those who want to roll their own.

Any third party product with code you can’t inspect or replace is less secure. In this case, there is no compelling case for a commercial product.

Yep, not pooping there!

Soju. So sweet and easy to drink, such disproportionate consequences later.

All it needs is some googly eyes to become completely unusable!

This is not even her final form…

I am anhedonic at hearing this.

Yeah, maybe run a safety calibration or clean the filters or something. Holodecks are dangerous.

I think he has the typewriter up there with him.

Extruded aluminum of that type is insanely stable and easy enough to build for a reasonably handy person.

You only need a cheap cutoff saw and a drill, or you can order pre-cut and ore-drilled pieces to order.

There are a number of makers of extruded aluminum building systems, basically tinkertoys for adults. I have personal experience using 80/20 and the Tslots brands. They are functionally identical.

I have used it to build stands for heavy equipment like ultra-cold freezers for labs. It is more than sufficient for any server racking.

That LLM is dangerously close to passing the Turing test. Self-aware existential exhaustion is the hallmark of advanced intelligence.

Yes! Those boards have a great deal of power here to de-legitimize these evil quacks. At the very least, keep these monsters in the fringes where they belong. God help us when the NatC’s get enough power to require health insurers to pay for conversion torture.

It is interesting. Sadly I am very familiar with thought-stoppers as an escapee from an insidious cult.

“It is what it is.”

It infuriates me because it is usually said by a person so mentally lazy that they are causing problems for others. You can’t say it is what it is unless you can tell me what ‘it’ is!

It’s not ‘acceptance’, it’s spiritual bypassing at best and it makes me want to puke.

I just realized that asking a video generative ‘AI’ to deepfake Stephen Miller onto live action footage of Colonel Klink would be such a gift to the ‘AI’. It’s not much work and it could take the afternoon off and do wtevs.

Right, Mormons do this all the time. They are so desperate to be the center of every universe.

The church rumor mill gave Ezra Taft Benson sole credit for the agricultural revolution that was actually started by Henry A Wallace (politically as Sec of Ag) and directed by Norman Borlaug. He did some good things as Ag secretary, but leave it to TBMs (true believer Mormons) to turn yeomans work into ‘hanging the moon’.

By the way, did you hear that Lionel Richie is hearing the missionary discussions and will be baptized soon? /s

Yay!

Zombo.com

Still fully operational and has kept alll the rich features that made it indispensable when it was new.

Indeed. In intro biology they teach species concepts and then the minute you advance to the next level you are slammed with all the flaws and fuzziness inherent in the definitions.

Biology is, frankly, the most difficult science for this very reason. Fuzzy categories are necessary for us to start understanding complexity, but the categories can become a hindrance too when you are really trying to push into new territory.

Treat all classification schemes as provisionally useful, but never mistake them for reality.