That’d be cool, but the question was about insects in general

People buy them for pets.

People buy them for science.

People buy them to make honey.

I wonder if the people has believed the 5g conspiracy fantasies feel remotely foolish

They don’t. In fact, they don’t believe they were wrong. They’ve cherry-picked their array of half-truths and benign or unprovable conspiracy theories and have never reevaluated since. Or they’ve morphed their beliefs into cheap versions of the nonsense they once took as true.

Even with the covid vaccine conspiracy theories. They were saying that everyone who took the vaccine would die.

To maintain their “rightness”, when questioned, they will point to the statistics of the non-zero number of people who did die from taking the vaccine.

When pointed out that the actual number is much closer to 0 than the 100% that they had been saying in 2021 or so, they will argue that there’s a coverup or something. Or that they didn’t literally mean 100% of people.

Obviously they meant whatever would make them right. Some people can hardly fathom the fact that they believed something to be incorrect.

I know that I was being snarky and not “just asking a question”, because “I don’t care about consequences the ecosystem” is a silly stance to take.

It’s likely they were making a joke, so yeah, my aggression was probably too heavy in retrospect.

Lol! The point of asking questions is to learn, not to give answers.

And I did learn from at least one or two other interesting answers!

There are many things in tech that have stagnated, or become standards that we’re stuck with. But we’re stuck with them not because nobody can do better, but because replacing them requires convincing the whole world to replace them.

Like email 2.0? You’d need it to be fully compatible with email 1.0, or nobody’s switching. And if it is fully compatible, you’re probably making compromises on how much it improves over 1.0.

On the other hand, as an end-user, my experience with email is easier than it was 20 years ago. This isn’t the technology changing, but email clients making things better and more accessible for the end user.

As to your other point, we don’t need “thinking machines” or “electronic telepathy” to consider the feasibility of technology replacing or reducing the need for certain types of jobs. Like I said, 20 years is a long time. Some things stay the same, yes, but many change.

You’re absolutely right that technology isn’t accelerating as quickly as it used to.

Still, things have changed quite a bit in the last 20 years. Cloud computing, for instance, didn’t need much to change in terms of the technical possibilities, or even in terms of the availability of consumer hardware. Groundbreaking changes can still happen without needing the baseline technology to improve.

Thank you for the info! I’m still hesitant about unknown consequences, but I’m far from an expert in that area.

No, in 20 years no version of any technology currently in use will be replacing human employees or would have the capability of doing so

That’s a pretty bold statement when technology advances have replaced or downsized the need for human roles in the past.

The printing press, cars, typewriters, computers, emails and the internet, spreadsheet software and data visualization software, cloud infrastructure…

Think about what technology looked like 20 years ago. Same with the job market. The same jobs are not available to the same extent at the same equivalent rates of pay. There are new jobs that are created, for sure. But saying that technology won’t advance in 20 years enough to reduce the need for human employees is short-sighted in my opinion.

…of course, that’s assuming that you meant “technology won’t be replacing some human employees” and not “all” employees, lol

What exactly is the risk to the ecosystem? Since you’re okay with it, you should know what it is, right?

The ecosystem is pretty important for things like us having food.

If your bowel movements have as much impact on as many people and things as a company mismanaging $500,000,000, then yes, call a news reporter.

This sounds like a perfect example of news. Companies fucking up is news. Why wouldn’t it be?

Alternative possibilities:

• Managers created metrics and a reward system for employees who use AI more often
• Employees used the work agents for personal stuff
• Employees just spent a bunch of time playing with AI to kill time
• Employees set up inefficient automatic flows that used the AI regularly
• Bad actors got access to use the company’s AI access and were exploiting it

the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement

Ah, these are in American cities.

apparently on accident,

Oh yes, definitely American.

(Yes I know I skipped over the part about Ohio)

Where is the porn we were promised?

If you’re curious, just give a plain web search for “AI porn”. You’ll get all kinds of hits.

I mean, seriously, have you not heard of any of it?

• LLMs can write erotica
• There was all kinds of news about DeepFake nudes
• AI-based image generation tools can produce porn in realistic or hentai styles
• There’s also AI-based video generation, and all kinds of materials for it to have been trained on.

I’m surprised that you’re making this comment, and I’m surprised so many people upvoted it…

That makes sense. Papa having control over what junior sees is probably not very functionally different from Big Brother having control over what an individual sees, lol

Not invested enough to be for or against it personally; just curious…

What are the user-beneficial use cases for it?

I’m not even sure what you’re saying I’m wrong about, lol

Your question was about whether you can get GOG achievements in pirated games.

The comment answered your question and explained why achievements are the way they are…that is, separate from the games themselves.

You’re disagreeing with a tangential point, to someone who didn’t make the point, while seemingly ignoring the fact that your question was answered.

Regardless of why achievements exist, what they’re used for, whether there are better alternatives, etc…GOG’s achievements are hosted on their servers, attached to accounts on their servers.

GOG achievements are one incentive that they use to attempt to persuade people to buy their DRM-Free games rather than copy them. If you want to earn achievements on a GOG account, you’d have to trick GOG into thinking you own the game, which is hard and risky.

Alternatively, you’d have to find some other service that you can use to earn achievements. And that is a service that costs money to run, so it’s not all that likely that it’d exist.

You can check out RetroAchievements, but they don’t have (modern) PC games on there. It’s free, powered by donations and likely self-funding from its core team.

The comment you replied to here actually has your answer, but you gave it your copy-pasted comment you’ve been giving to everyone asking “Why do you want achievements”.

Give this comment here a read