Olives @olives@qoto.org

In a sci-fi, it is a convenient device for saying "This civilization is really advanced."

If you're not familiar with a Dyson Sphere, it's the maybe unrealistic idea of building a shell around a star to capture the energy emitted by it.

The Dyson Swarm idea tries to make that idea more plausible by having a swarm of satellite like things capturing the energy emitted by a star.

I'm seeing these two ideas popping up in sci-fi novels now.

It's interesting to see sci-fi novels with Dyson Spheres / Swarms.

Trying to use better wording.

Hey, it's me. Lol.

I also discovered that people apparently still use old school forums (which I guess is cool as it doesn't involve using, say, Facebook).

Since we're on the subject of what hosts not to use (Hetzner is on the list), I'd advice against using Linode. I've heard horror stories about it, including one involving a competing site making a bogus "copyright claim".

Remember that in Australia, the government denies A LOT of FOIA requests, so I wouldn't read into a denial too much.

Space elevators are a cool sci-fi idea.

If "AI" are people, then I guess deleting a file is the same as murder.

"AI developers working under humans."
"AI" are not people, they don't "work" in any way like humans do -.-

I'm not going to name names here, because frankly, I don't care for Internet drama.

So, uh, I've been looking at a few Bluesky profiles (although, I haven't spent a lot of time on that), and wow, quite a bit of drama.

It is pretty ugly to see the "co-founder" of a company sit around on Bluesky seemingly trying to smear competing websites.

I mean, I'm sure he does good work to make sure that people's free expression is protected, but it's interesting how even here, in a policy discussion, sex seems to be taboo to talk about.

https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-tomiwa-ilori This is interesting but doesn't tell us anything about sexual expression.

Even if it was extended a tad beyond "SFW", I don't think it would make a difference to the point in my post. Hype.

The Japanese Parliament (called the "Diet") has two houses. The House of Representatives (lower) and the House of Councilors (upper).

Financial censorship was mentioned in a committee in the Japanese House of Representatives.

Seeing Japanese discourse that is critical of using "AI" powered search engines.