The flagship communities are quite alive, but the niche communities have not really taken off. I am talking from both the absence of such communities, and my experience trying to migrate !fluidmechanics. The subreddit has around 10k humans (or bots).

G.P.U.

We are free to learn, but learning is not free.

Freedom vs cost. One cannot pickup a skill without time, effort and more importantly access to guidance and a vast library of content. Same applies to man or machine. The difference is how corporations have essentially reinvented piracy to facilitate their selfish ends after decades of dictating what’s right with DMCA, DRM and what not.

While you cannot uninstall it, you should be able to disable Google Assistant and the Google app. That should cripple its access to such features.

This will be the headline a month later:

Cara’s monthly active users down to a few thousands. Here’s why.

It is all AI hype isn’t it?

Time to let go, NASA. We had a good run. She needs to move on to another Solar System.

Taxes! But different. This channel is very informative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEdx1BIb1x0

The first Episode of Sabrina Live! is called How the Rich Don’t Pay Taxes. All the rich need to do is use three simple steps: “Buy, Borrow, Die.” In this episode, Rich Kid attempts to buy a $50 video game after purchasing a $1 Pokemon card. He then leaves his Pokemon card to his son - Rich Kid II.

www.peoplestaxpage.org.

Voice to Text system for Linux.

After Sayboard for Android, it seems plausible to get a local voice recongnition system for PC too.

I just listened to the recorded phone call where Trump mentions this. Yes, he knew that he lost, but he was (at least back then) on a delusion that somehow the votes were either forged/miscounted etc. … all based on rumours from Trump media.

Seems like this can be done in the browser using a user agent switcher.