I know that people here generally like to shit on Brave, but it seems that the claim “Privacy by default” has held up in this context.

Using machine learning including neuronal networks, generative AI based off of neuronal networks and so on exist well longer than since the past few years.

“DeepDream” was released as a software ten years ago. Research into LLMs exists since at least the 90s.

“AI” also has been a hype term in many industries since a decade, just that it reached the general public with the ChatGPT hype.

“our crypto is backed in value by bitcoin”

If i understood it correctly, meta wants to slap its own crypto-currency on everything.

Well, the decentralization of Bitcoin only lasted so long. Now it is in the hand of a few large “mining” corporations who can afford the hardware and have access to cheap electricity.

LLMs among other things lack the whole neurotransmitter “live” regulation aspect and plasticity of the brain.

We are nowhere near a close representation of actual brains. LLMs to brains are like a horse carriage compared to modern cars. Yes they have four wheels and they move, and cars also need four wheels and move, but that is far from being close to each other.

Note that a month ago an earlier attempt failed as ships departing from Malta were attacked by drones, likely Israel drones.

Also an Israeli C130J military aircraft was flying in low altitude around Malta shortly before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla_incident#Attribution

One of the animals in the Chinese year is the rat. I don’t think that there is a “satirical level of disrespect” if the animal is that important.

Isn’t the whole point of Lord of the Flies that the adults ain’t better and any level of civilisation is just a thin layer on top? From the beginning that the boys told themselves they were the social elite and had civilized manners, which would make it easy for them to retain civilization to the end

British attacking Spanish people for sitting at an Irish Pub in Poland is definitely a result of Britain’s colonial endeavors and remaining settler occupation of parts of Ireland.

“The English fans didn’t like the fact that the Spanish fans were sitting in an Irish pub, which means they sympathise with the Irish,” Tomasz Sikora, a spokesman for Wrocław city hall, told Polsat News. “That’s where the whole issue came from.”

Why do settler colonialists always have the most fragile ego?

450.000 in a population of around 7 million “real Iseaelis” according to their ethnonationalist understanding. 7 million of which an unknown but significant number that has left this genocidial country need to be substracted too.

That is about 7% of the population. In Germany that would be an active duty army of about 6 million people. In the US that would be about 25 million people.

It also shows two things: The IDF is terrible at what they are doing. Having one soldier to terrorize 5 Palestinians is laughable. Israel will be calling up the West, especially the US to give them dozens if not hundreds of billions to safe their economy. Those 7% of the population make up more than 10% of the workforce.

It is good to see that Israel will destroy itself, consumed by its genocidial hatred and delusions of supremacy. It is terrible that they will murder many more people in the process.

Farmers need to plant crops that are less water intensive. Industries need to use processes that are less water intensive. Water usage needs to be limited to sustainable levels.

Seem pretty reasonable and acceptable, even endorseable consequences as opposed to subsidizing wastefulness with megalomaniac technology projects.

I am sorry, but now it is getting ridiculous. You need solar panels. You need distribution lines. You need the desalination plants. If you run a reverse osmosis plant you need to regularly renew the membranes. You need the pipes and the pumps to transport the water for hundreds of kilometres. All of these need finite resources.

Claiming resources are unlimited is techbro nonsense.

Cost is absolutely relevant. Resources are limited. As i have said the wasteful use by industry and agriculture needs to stop. I don’t understand why you are arguing against that and then claim that cost wouldn’t be relevant. Unless you want your taxes to be ramped up so some private business can waste subsidized water and make profits off it.

The solutions are reducing water usage by using more efficient processes or shutting down wasteful industries. Crops need to be switched to less water consuming crops. Meat consumption and animal farming need to be reduced. Natural structures that help retain water need to be reestablished. Fields need to be downsized with hedges in between to protect against winds eroding and drying out the soil.

These are the choices we need to make as society. Not throwing even more resources at a wasteful system that has no right to remain wasteful.

https://livetoplant.com/the-cost-of-desalinated-water-is-it-worth-the-investment/

Typically, prices can range from $0.50 to $3.00 per cubic meter. As a comparison, traditional freshwater sources may cost significantly less—often between $0.10 and $0.50 per cubic meter in many regions.

So you run up the water costs by factor 5. But it only starts there. While the lower end of the basin is close to the Gulf of California, the upper end is some 800 miles away from the sea. Also the upper basin is at an elevation of about 1,500 m.

So for every cubic meter you get up there you need at least 4 kWh of energy purely to cover the elevation. more realistically you are looking at double that amount as you also need to cover the distance.

Furthermore you need to build the appropriate pipes and pumping stations. Those need to be kept up and manned, further driving the costs up.

So you end up with maybe $5-10 per cubic meter of water.

That is 3.4 billion m³ of water. Imagine a cube of 1500m side length, all made of water.

There is no way that agriculture, industry and the like can be competitive with using desalinated sea water. The crazy water usage needs to stop. Nothing else will work.

And that part is entirely independent from whether the electricity is generated with solar, wind or fossil fuels.

Have been doing for many years.