I would personally love and do support ethical publishers /companies and authors themselves but I refuse to engage with the exploiting kind, since there is effectively little difference between them and pirates.

And your comment makes 0 sense considering S-400 was more designed against aircrafts and cruise missiles than ballistic missiles.

Hence why army folks were so alarmed by Russia/China developing and having ready prototypes that can go hypersonic.

[1]https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme...

Who has more missiles to throw?

And the Patriot is still top class in it's designed goal: shooting down ballistic and cruise missiles.

The second big thing is that no one has designed air defense to take into account effectively slow moving artillery pieces that have the same maneuverability as a missile.

Because that is what drones are and what has been the biggest glaring problem for but the USA, Israel and Russia (the gulf states both use Russian and US anti air defense).

You get the right to down vote and if I promote my totally not a scam product on HN, people will check my user account and see: on wow over 9000 karma? Gotta be trust worthy, when in truth it's just been karma farming.

HN does limit some of it, but it's not a panacea.

Especially considering the fact that it seems more the case that the bigger stop-gap is what we already have:

In asian (especially Japan) it's host(ess) clubs.

Globally for friends it's influencers exploiting loneliness.

Those are things I think has to go for people to embrace offline socialization or using their online time better.

Personally I think ai code should always be open source to at least make it the most "ethical", others can see and edit it as they see fit.

Generally though I've noticed that the spirit of open source (community owned code) has slowly been morphing into a few pointers that in some way undermine open source, whenever that be the fact that folks get more entitled towards open source projects or that they see certain open source licenses (specifically GPL) as a tool to build an anti-capitalist moat.

Despite the fact that almost every open source or accepted open source license by OSI or FSF explicitly states no warranty and commercialization of said project is allowed, just that most people don't contribute money let alone code (just look at the xz debacle even now the dev is not given sufficient attention in terms of commercial and social support to maintain it).

To be fair to Carmack, his vision of open source is one shared by a lot of the "free means anarcho-free" developer camp and as such if said code is used in ai or to bomb children then so be it.

I guess this is one of the major tension of open source is exactly what open source ought to be:

A drive towards ethical code or a drive towards anarcho-free, because stating "free as in freedom" is too vague; freedom has the connotation of both the idea of freedom TO DO something and the freedom to be EXEMPT from something.

In the end I believe that freedom to be exempt is more important than the freedom to do.

Due to the fact that the bad actors usually benefit more to exploit freedom-to than freedom-from, hence why beyond community building the (A|L)GPL helps out in ensuring both as a user but also as a developer that the code written is protecting us both.

Whenever or not AI is part of that is well going back to my point that ai code should most likely almost always be open-sourced if one wants to "lift the burden".

It's pretty clear that Trump wants to maximize his take over of USA for himself.

How does it differ from psychology or sociology?

Are you a welness expert?

The DSA for instance has only been used against to western companies so far (doesn't mean Chinese companies are immune).

So sure lying is an opinion you are correct about that, if I say you're a pedophile because you hugged a kid that is just stating a opinion.

There are after all multiple people being "given" girlfriends or contacts for social networking, shown in the Epstein files.

Most obvious example is of course Donald Trump with Melania.

Your point about that it's not wise to have a gun on you or flee is completely irrelevant to fact that official officers killed people for it.

Why also not state that it's unwise to go outside because you might be killed by a police officer?

And again was it unwise for tea party, anti government lock down and j6 rioters to have guns on them?

On top of this are you willing to condemn the anti government protests done by tea party, anti covid lock down and j6 rioters?

At least you'll be consistent.

So at least stop lying and spreading an alternative fantasy world.

On top of this you didn't answer the question: is now any person killed by an officer justified if they got a legal gun on them?

There is no gun shot before the ice office opens fire in any of the 5 different angles of footage we got.

And not only that you change the story midway, first it was heard a gun shit now it's being shot at.

And the guy shooting clearly saw the gun as it was right next to him.

The mental gymnastics you display is worthy of Olympic gold I'll give you that.

Because forcing updates down people's throat creates this, and boy do I hate Microsoft's insistence on doing this for drivers, where you get such fun things like Microsoft installing a different AMD GPU driver than the one that AMD gives out (this to be fair is partially to be blamed on AMD for not having just 1 versioning system) so then you have to go into safe mode, DDU, disconnect the internet, install the drivers, turn off automatic driver update in an obscure setting.

Meanwhile on Linux it's literally 1 version that exists in the kernel.

Ever since Wayland added support for changing mouse scroll speed & changing/customizing middle click behavior that is a lot more consistent, I've used Linux to daily drive, especially with immutable distros ensuring even IF an update breaks my system I can rollback.