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• Post #848215

  I mean, if someone is responsible enough to brethalyze themselves, they should also be responsible enough to not drive. Hooking the brethalyzer up to the car to disable it seems like a terrible idea. Deoending on the way it’s implemented, a bad one could brick a car for hours if someone drunk tries it, but there are perfectly sober people who could drive. Or y’know, this shit with someone coming on and remotely disabling things all willy-nilly.

• Post #836254

  Wait, are you telling me… …that a device meant to disable a vehicle… …was used to disable a vehicle? Whould’ve thought?

• Post #545870

  An AI can easily start nuclear war, as can a human. The only thing preventing a nuclear disaster are all the institutional measures limiting its accessiblity. If you gave a single human (or a single AI) access to a magic no-strings-attached ‘Send a Nuke’ button, either the human/AI is the second coming of Jesus Christ, or a nuke will befall some unlucky portion of the population sooner or later. Bonus points if people can talk to the AI or if access to the button is hereditary.

• Post #512629

  My recommendations are Firefox, Okular, Inkscape and Draw, depending on usecase. Firefox is perfect for text-based markup (so higlighting, defacing with text, etc.) Okular is a bit worse on the text front (doesn’t support editing the markup - for most stuff your only option is to undo so you have to be strategic abput catching mistakes early), but it does more stuff (boxes, arrows, lines, transparency, custom colors). Draw is better if you actually want to make changes to many pages at onc...