European guy, weird by default.

You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let’s see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.

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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • What I understood then was that in person transactions could be done, as the local ledger of each user would authorize and record operations on and off the available balance and wait until network availability to syncronize with the global record.

    Returning to the subject at hand: I can imagine very specialized “AI” being useful for scientifical research, where very knowledgeable people use it as a tool to facilitate processes but are nonetheless capable of reviewing whatever results it produces.

    Not gigantic datacenters required for this but small, purpose made and perfected, locally run, even if on higher specifications hardware to do so, but machines built for a given task and purpose. The economic viability on it be damned; it’s a tool for research, it is not made to earn money.

















  • You be the judge of it:

    • punched through a tempered, textured, 3mm thick glass, leading to several cuts on a hand and wrist
    • kicked a glass panel on a door and got a nasty cust on my toe
    • several instances of cutting myself on different types of thorny bushes
    • perforation with glasses rim on my eyebrow
    • severe cut on my other eyebrow, another on the bridge of my nose
    • broken arm, twice
    • fall from a 1st floor balcony, landing on a bush, after breaking a cabinet with my back and legs, until finally reaching the ground
    • hundreds, if not thousands, of small scrapes and bruises
    • bitten by dogs, leading to deep gouges, on my calves
    • severe tear on the back of my left hand, with a broken bone, not exposed, leading to surgery
    • many, many, many sprained ankles and wrists
    • three pulled teeth plus all the bleeding from losing my baby teeth
    • minor burns on hands and fingers, from cooking
    • several nasty cuts from kitchen knives and a perforation by a lobster spike, which led to a severe infection, with a piece of lobster shell stuck underneath a finger nail
    • a few near choking to death episodes
    • two electrocussion incidents (230V), for mere seconds


  • I’m not against supporting a software in a recurring form but the web browser is essentially the lock and key of accessing the entirery of what exists outside your machine.

    That would garner an immense power to whichever entity developing one. Remember Microsoft and the IE case.

    Firefox is not perfect and apparently on a downwards spiral but what made it stand out was because it wanted to be free and for all. Chrome is far from being a good thing.