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I have an EV charger that already pays me an offset, apparently selling the carbon credits I am not using by not driving with gasoline? It doesn't pay a ton, but it's interesting.

I have heard of efforts to link thermostats etc. with this virtual power plant idea so that when there is an energy demand one's home appliances stop working so hard and use less energy. This of course could lead to hot/cold houses for people, so there must always be the option to manually override if the discomfort is a problem. So many of these efforts come from e.g. California... other places in the world have wider weather extremes to worry about!

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Big list, without much description. Does anyone have any suggestion for something like a private Napster for a friend group?

As a Canadian, it's pretty mental to see this kind of hijinks from over the border. Nobody's ever had any concerns about the security of our elections. Paper ballots and volunteers and it all just works. Why do you need machines? Why is there so much drama? It's not rocket surgery, it's literally counting, it's barely math. Photocopied forms and a sharpie.

Do you remember when the AIs were all writing with bullet points all the time? I miss that! I'd prefer that to the current more-information-density-than-any-human-would-ever-muster approach where sentences are packed so deep you can't get any meaning by skimming.

Sometimes you want more than text. This is one of the interesting divides these days - and I say this as someone who spends a lot of time in the terminal. Computer interfaces and interaction did not peak with the VT-100. Sometimes, there is a very legitimate need to show tables, graphics, interesting graphs, and to use colour and shade to draw the eye and lead someone through an experience.

This is why I use an IDE instead of a TUI agent... I'm on a computer with a multi-megapixel display, I want to use it. If I could be driving the same process with my Macintosh SE as a serial terminal, what the hell is the point of my recent Macbook?

Step 1 is making back doors mandatory. Step 2 is banning anything they can't decrypt.

I don't know if the second part has been discussed yet, but it's only possible with the former in place, so it makes sense to just ram that in first.

Most people don't care about this at all because they cannot fathom what it actually means. It takes the government actually turning on you to understand at a visceral level and by then it's too late. It seems there have still not been enough historical examples of this to truly burn it into memory.

It's absolutely optional. Why feel any pressure at all to do this? How much FOMO do you really suffer from? There's so much free or abandonware gaming material out there that you could never run out of new things to try without spending a cent... paying per minute is far from mandatory as long as you can still own hardware, and computers are still pretty cheap all things considered.

Does that at some point not cross a line from pleasurable escapism into reality avoidance?

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It's a problem for the security, legal, and IT teams, but not that much for developers, unless they get really particular about their harness. On the other hand, these are the high dollar value accounts that providers want to keep; but if there's no reason to avoid switching, this market really will feel like a utility market (i.e. it'll be like switching ISPs or cell phone providers - annoying but fungible).

The AI companies want to differentiate and become something more than a commodity, even if it's as critical as a utility is.

If they drilled down any further they'd reach the interior of the hollow earth, obviously not permitted

Yeah we need to see this

Imagine if we actually built a remote application delivery platform instead of cobbling one onto a glorified document reader