I think it's more disrespectful to judge so harshly a company - that puts out wonderful, free, open source software - asking for donations 1 or 2 times a year with a message that is easy to close.

Things like star and galaxy formation/interactions are (relatively) straightforward, with fairly simple processes/mechanics at the heart of it. It's easier to predict on such a large-scale what's going to happen.

Things are far more complex on a biological level, which makes it harder to make generalized predictions. I see no reason to infer that life would only consistently evolve into organic life as we know it.

we're talking about the fucking industrial revolution, of course this defaults to the European perspective. Unless you wanna spit some new bars about Aztec foundries and train lines connecting meso-america in the 19th century, then the point stands. At that time, the world appeared to the industrialists of the industrial revolution to be infinite. Nor had humanity discovered the terrible side effects of fossil fuels on the atmosphere.

Why are you weirdly making this about race?

Sure, of course it's convenient to ignore the native peoples and pretend that prior to the Industrial Revolution the rest of the world outside of Europe was some untapped well of resources that Europeans had a natural right to.

Who might be swept underfoot in this "Information Revolution", I wonder?

Yes, just the other day I saw someone make a comment about write performance in SQLite without considering the plight of the Baltic peoples in the Northern Crusades. It was really convenient of them to do that, fucking typical.

Sure, because working on a database plugin is the same as, for example, working on mass surveillance tech.

This sort of handwashing is exactly why the natives were treated the way they were.

How do you think they're enabling the mass surveillance tech? SQLite got reach bruv.

Your continued erasure of the Baltic people's continues to cut deep into my heart, and your callous candour to their plight, as you discard any chance to mention them, continues to shock me.

Nobody said anything about Europeans having a "natural right". Bad enough to derail a conversation with irrelevant political nitpicking, unforgiveable to use a strawman to do so. Boo.

It's not irrelevant.

GP made a comparison between what we're going through and the Industrial Revolution. Ignoring the negatives of that revolution - like by acting as though the "new world" was uninhabited/unused and so Europeans had a right to its resources - seems like a bad idea.

> like by acting as though the "new world" was uninhabited/unused and so Europeans had a right to its resources - seems like a bad idea.

maybe it was a bad idea, but that's what happened.

Also doesn't justify doing the same damn thing again, which is exactly what all the people long on this technology fully expect to be allowed to do. Any further investment they have to do to ensure the outcome will just be chocked up to cost of doing business. And the capital funding all this is in so few hands, and in the hands in particular of such characters that don't concern themselves with not repeating atrocities of the past in new and interesting ways, that it is virtually guaranteed we're on the road to societal scale disruption. 'Tis the reason such inconvenient points are in need of being pounded home until they are impossible to ignore.

> not repeating atrocities of the past in new and interesting ways

sorry, are you suggesting that colonialism and LLMs are equivalent in terms of atrocity? I don't feel like they're really comparable.

> 'Tis the reason such inconvenient points are in need of being pounded home until they are impossible to ignore.

and what do you think is going to happen here? People so basic that this will never happen. At best you gotta create a grassroots political movement with political representation and clear legal aims and get that past the electorate. However see how the casuals lap up generated content for how ambitious an vision that is. LLMs will prevail and even if public boycotts were extreme, it will just move further and further behind the curtain and the end outcome will still be the same.

I don't see how derailing conversations on hacker news by taking issue with a particular analogy to grind a colonial axe is really furthering that. At the end of the day, regardless of the perspective of our identity, we'll get fucked by network effects and rounded out of systems by those with more influence and power. Sometimes by those who even share our perspective. So to use perspective as a point of division just further fragments what needs to be a whole to enact change.

It doesn't seem likely to me that in, just a couple hundred years, humans have developed such a thorough understand of every natural process as all that.

While I'm not surprised at the general tastes here in the comments (as I mostly share them), I am surprised at the lack of any mention of classical?!

Johann Johannsson and Max Richter are my go-tos.

Why would I switch to a client that doesn't have voice chat, one of the primary use-cases for Discord?

Not everyone uses software the same way. I've had Discord and used it on at least on a weekly basis since 2017-2018 sometime, and can't remember I've used the voice chat a single time since then, I couldn't even tell you where to find it in the UI unless I'd look it up.

Voice will be implemented once all the text features are up to my standards. You can check it out then. No pressure right now.

The movies, sure, but the Backrooms as a concept (and by extension liminal spaces in general) are not necessarily horror.

I don't find them "scary" but I do find them disconcerting.

Backrooms started from a photo of a liminal space but was introduced from a creepypasta and a thread on a paranormal board, it's always been horror adjacent.

> God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you

Would you support the same ban for alcohol?

I would but the rest of Australia wouldn't. This country has an unhealthy drinking problem.

I would much prefer that over them trying to dictate what I can or can't do on my own PC.

Free for 3 days. $4 a month.

Meanwhile I've had a uBlock Origin list selected since before I can remember and never see shorts or reels or anything else I don't want to.

For free.

We've really lost something with everything being mobile apps...