In a lab, probably. In reality? No. Print nozzles wear over time and their patterns will change accordingly, and they are entirely replaced often.

Won’t stop DAs from insisting on using it in court though.

…seeds?

The problem is not that it’s hard to to tell who is or is not sealioning. The problem is people using “sealioning” to go on the offensive against those who ask them to provide evidence or citations for their statements.

I mean there are some keywords and phrases in the actual textbook definition here like “trolling”, “harrassment”, “incessant bad-faith invitations”. It’s a legitimate thing, but I almost always see it being used illegitimately by someone to attack another who is simply asking them to back up their statements. For example:

A: statement

B: What is your source for this statement?

A: sToP sEaLiOnIng!!!

It’s actually a strategy of spreading bullshit and then somehow blaming the person who asks you to back it up.

I really don’t think generating a random phone number can be considered “terrifying”…

So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

You say that as if there’s any other way.

There are lots of competing LoRa mesh networks right now.

Not a fan.

Let me know when PieFed finds itself with a half decent frontend and mobile app.

Any plans to support PDFs or video conversion/compression?

Yes I did say that. I don’t understand what you’re trying to communicate. TLF does not control Linux, just as Tailscale does not control WireGuard. Tailscale does control Tailscale. There’s nothing wrong with using Linux and there’s nothing wrong with using WireGuard. There may be something wrong with using Tailscale. I don’t know how to be more clear about this.

It doesn’t matter in either case. Neither of them have control over the underlying technology.

companies should not be allowed to invest in other companies?

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m just saying you need to be wary of companies that do because the inevitable end of that train is enshittification. Every. Single. Time.

does Tailscale have complete control over Wireguard?

Who’s talking about WireGuard? We were talking about Tailscale.

That’s pretty standard in a business life-cycle, though

I don’t know where people ever got the idea that normal = acceptable. I hear this used to justify all sorts of awful crap. It was only ever normalized because users were apathetic.

And what about the Linux Foundation? They are funded through private equity. Should you consider switching away because of that?

Does The Linux Foundation have complete control over Linux?

Second

There’s a finite number of eyes.

YT ads can be relevant to you based on data collected about you

They certainly can be but if there are 2 advertisers and one is the most relevant and the other pays them more money, which one do you think Google is going to show you?

The “sponsored content” parts of some videos don’t feel nearly as intrusive or out of place

That’s because they’re typically read by the creator. Artists, essentially. Professional entertainers. And not ad companies. Some of them (looking at you Wulffs Den and J2C) are actually very entertaining.

we cannot verify the viewer numbers on your content

Of course they can. It’s displayed just like it is on YouTube.

They don’t usually get paid per view anyway.

1. There are a dozen other venues for revenue. We need to move, as a society, away from advertising as a business model. It has become detrimental to society.

2. He’s already hosting a ton of other things, obviously, so the additional load would likely be extremely minimal. And if he was accumulating a large load that would mean he was wrong about not being enough users.