I didn’t and can’t guarantee that, I merely said that most bots reveal themselves with the technique I described.

I suspect that using human applications to get an AI through the door will be somewhat uncommon, as hiring people to do that for profit seeking reasons is likely not terribly viable, as a human can only write so many applications per day, and that labor isn’t free, I just don’t see the economics working out. Bot spam is likely only profitable when it is entirely automated.

But if a human specifically targeted an instance in that way, that certainly could happen. I suspect that at least for now, other users may be able to suss-out a bot that gets through, as they still have some tell-tale signs they give off in their writing style, but it’s plausible that at some point they will be able to blend in seamlessly. At that point, we’ll need to devise new ways to weed them out if they begin to take over.

It is correct, it is very frequently used in much of the material LLMs were trained on, and it the AI is correctly using it, but generally to excess. It uses it so often, that it has unfortunately become a signal that something might be AI written. That is just the reality at this point, and I suspect Em-dash usage by humans will begin to fall off, at least online to avoid that association (until the AI is trained on material that makes it not use em-dashes, at least).

Based on this test, a small temperature difference like that would likely produce less than 0.01 watt of power per module.

They appear to require very drastic temperature differences to produce any meaningful power.

The article mentions thermoelectic generators only make sense when used with fossil fuels, they aren’t viable with electric heating, as presumably the user then already has access to a grid or some other more powerful form of renewable electricity.

Solar panels that don’t sustain some environmental damage tend to last 50 years or more (their power output degrades, but they still function and put out useful amounts of electricity). By the time most panels need to actually be fully replaced and recycled, I think we’ll have the facilities to do so.

But even if we somehow can’t, and every single solar panel is destined for landfill after 50 years (which is highly unlikely), they’d still be a far better option environmentally and climate wise compared to burning gas, coal, or wood at scale.

An interesting article (big fan of Lowtech mag), but I have some gripes.

1. The title mentions it’s lower cost than solar panels, but no where in the article does it mention the cost of the experimental thermometric peltier generators discussed, which seems odd to leave out. Based on bulk orders from alibaba, it appears they cost somewhere between $4 to $11 per module for ones that can withstand woodstove temperatures, not including a heatsink, which will add some additional cost.
2. These devices are only really practical in areas that require a home to be heated for a good portion of the year. In warmer climates, they would only be truly viable to use for a handful of months out of the year, outside of short cooking sessions in the warmer months.
3. In higher density areas, wood/coal burning causes immense air pollution to the point of making the air dangerous to breathe (Poland’s smog issue from coal/wood burning home heating is a good example). It doesn’t seem like a great idea to add incentives to keep using those sources of heat instead of a heat pump (though for the people where these generators may be appealing, they likely cannot afford a heat pump without some form of government assistance).

I don’t think the idea is entirely meritless, it would probably be useful in low-density impoverished areas without access to an electric grid, especially in colder climates, but it’s not something that can reasonably scale up beyond those specific situations.

They are still quite evident in the way they construct their messages, and of course any em-dash usage is a big giveaway.

Someday they’ll likely be able to answer those questions more convincingly, but right now it works for the most part.

I would personally say that’s unnecessary hairsplitting, since regardless of the specific flavor of evil, it’s still monumentally bad their CEO funded it.

They are nationalist racists trying to cloak themselves with populist leftist ideas. This is the leader of that party:

https://www.friatider.se/markus-allard-om-andra-generationens-invandrare-de-ska-ocksa-ut

Örebro Party leader Markus Allard goes to the election on expulsions. He opens to withdraw citizenship and also expel second generation of immigrants – even if they were born in Sweden.
“I’m prepared to cross corpses,” he said.

One suggestion that he has is that citizenship and permanent residence permits can be torn up – with reference to “Sweden is the country of Swedes”.

In a section of Yoshi’s Podcast, Allard develops his view on expulsions and explains that he prepared to “go over corpses” to bring home unwanted immigrants. The host notes that there will be no beautiful sight when, for example, immigrant mothers who have been on maternity leave for 15 years are to be deported together with their children. “It’s not going to be pretty to send these people home,” he said. Markus Allard agrees, but says: I think you can handle that optics. Even the children will need to be deported, he explains.

He further explains that many of the problems relate to second-generation immigrants. They are going out too. Even if they were born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedes. They have not become Swedes. It says Sweden in the passport, but they have not been interested in becoming part of Sweden. There’s a difference. It’s a qualitative difference," Allard said

Remember; the Nazi’s did the same thing by strategically calling their party the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, despite them not being socialist nor a working class party. This was chosen because Socialism was gaining popularity, and thus the Nazi’s thought it would help their chances of getting votes and public support.

From what I recall the 2nd game is regarded by some as the weakest in the series, while the 3rd is considered quite good, so if you don’t click with the 2nd’s school theme and anime tropes, you may want to skip to the 3rd one, which I think has a more serious tone.

But Codeberg just doesn’t want cryptocurrency scams, and Anubis isn’t a currency, it has no ability to pump and dump like cryptocurrencies can. Proof-of-work to weed out bots has little similarity in practical usage with proof-of-work to waste electricity for a digital number that is more often a scam than not.

Anubis isn’t a currency, though.

Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 are PSP exclusives, if you liked the first one on PC or PS3 (I think the 3rd game needs a fan translation patch though).

There’s a couple decent Jak & Daxter exclusives, too.

Having manual account approvals combined with a short questionnaire asking why they want to join and which communities interest them has been extremely effective on my instance so far, as most bots reveal themselves at this step.

I beat the first Gabriel Knight from Sierra for the first time. I was surprised how excellent the voice acting and writing for the dialog is, and liked the direction it was going, but the ending was kind’ve off putting, and I ended up needing a hint book toward the end due to some pretty out-there puzzle design, but overall I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

I tried the sequel, which is rated pretty highly, but found the switch to FMV unfortunately unbearable due to really slow, poorly acted awkward dialog, and a big down grade in the music and setting, so I chose to pass on it.

Instead, I discovered that with a little soldering, I can convert my 90’s sidewinder joystick from game-port to USB, making it usable on modern PC’s. That made me curious to finally try Wing Commander 3, a space dogfighter combined with interactive FMVs. It took some fiddling with Dosbox to get it working right (recommend using Dosbox-staging and reducing CPU cycles to around 40k), but I tried the first few minutes, and was impressed with the quality of acting on display thanks to the cast having Mark Hamil, John rys Davis, and the villain guy from back to the future, Biff. Kinda has a battlestar Galactica 2003 vibe going on with it.

They feel fine to me, and are a little safer to use for noobies in some positions since they have progressive resistance.

I believe they are also considered better suited to the elderly or those who sustained shoulder injuries in the past.

It’s quite possible to do resistance training at home, and it’s particularly affordable if you use resistance bands, which also take up extremely little space.

I felt the same way about the dialog when I tried the demo. I love the art style, but the dialog was just a bit too out of place for me.

However, the author mentioned in a reddit thread I found that his skills improved quite a bit over the 12 years he spent making it, though ultimately decided not to re-do the art and dialog from the start of the game as it would’ve taken too long, so I’m guessing it might start feeling less out of place as the game progresses? That’s definitely not ideal though, as first impressions count for a lot :\

People can look up how various grocery store brands fund the republicans here: https://shophowyouvote.com/

Have to agree, it’s been a law of diminishing returns since then.