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Having an open source code for the server is good for self hosting but it says nothing about the real server. You can only trust a service based on the API you use, and for privacy you better off not trusting anything, if you want privacy you need to send the data encrypted already.

And you are already trusting Mozilla by using Firefox.

In medical/pharmaceutical context isn't "abuse potential" specific to drugs that feels good/get you high... Like street drugs? In the case I think OP means that people is abusing for the results instead. Like people that do too much plastic surgery and loose track of what they first wanted to improve.

Public transit is common in my 3rd world country and I was surprised how more unsafe it feels in the US. My theory is that it is a by product of the car centric society. For one there is safety in numbers and because it is so underused any one person is more exposed. But also because almost the only people that take the public transit is people who cannot drive or be driven for some way or the other it inevitably have a bigger proportion of mentally unstable people for example.

People it this thread does not know what the Turing test actually tests. It is Ok, I guess the blame fails on pop culture.

The Turing test is not a test of sentience, it is a test if a machine can fool a human being into thinking it is sentient. And machines have passed this test for decades already. Who would have thought that our predisposition to anthropomorphize everything would make us so susceptible to thinking stuff is sentient 🤷

It is. There is limitations to a Turing machine that a human brain does not have. I expand on that on this other comment here.

There's nothing to indicate the human brain can't be implemented in a Turing machine too.

That is not true, this is a research branch from computer science and math, it is called Computability theory, it deals with the limits of expressiveness for different types of theoretical machines and expressions, and the most expressive of all is the Turing machine, and a Turing machine cannot do some stuff, the classic example is the Halting problem, a computer cannot definitely say if an algorithm ever stops (mathematica proven that it cannot do it), but a human can do so quite easily.

One may think that maybe a Turing Machine cannot do something but can simulate another machine that does, but that is also proven to be impossible, it cannot simulate something more expressive than itself.

Totally but I also want to point out that reviewing changes is a lot easier than the first review. Ideally it has just a couple of lines changes and they are just version changes most os the time. It also does not help the existence of "pacman for AUR" that just encourages all the bad behavior, they encourage installing a lot of AUR packages without thinking twice, update without checking and to trust it or think it is the same as the maintained main repos since I think most if not all AUR packages also work as a pacman frontend.

The user was never supposed to rely on a lot of AUR packages and if you do maybe you better of with a distro that does package what you need or that the software authors package for.

I will have to defend users here and blame AI scientist/developers together with the whole docker culture. The way they package and delivery software is just terrible. And even though pytourch has support for all GPU apis the devs seems to have a hard time adding this support. Granted, part of that is also on pytourch that for some reason Don't seem to be able to make a unified release that supports all GPUs and then you need different versions and by default IIRC they default package only supprt CUDA and CPU.

Kinda off topic and nerdy but because it relates to UI patterns and behavior I wanted to comment:

On git, when you commit a new patch by default it opens up a whole text editor for you you enter your commit message, which incentivize you to write an extensive commit message with title/summary line and paragraph body. If you create a commit on GitHub it just give space for the title and when GitHub shoes commit it also hide the text body even when viewing the whole commit.

The result is people/project who "grew up" using GitHub usually have terrible commit messages and the commit history sucks.

The only way to address systemic problems like crime and violence in any meaningful way is addressing the underline problem that pushed people to commit crimes. That underline problem is quality of life which is directly related to income.

Taking people out of the informal job market is another problem to tackle that can be helped with having better work laws. Having good working laws stimulate people to get jobs in the formal market and avoid offers for informal work even if with better pay. That is not a problem that would be solved in the short term but this laws will help with that. The same approach was used in other countries and together with more government enforcement and fiscalizaton of the companies you see great improvement over the years and decades migrating people to the formal job market and reduction in crimes and violence.