There is something worse than appeal to authority: appeal to non-authority.

Activity from Amazon's real-time digital advertising auction may be responsible for much of the traffic overwhelming the firewall, according to internal Slack messages seen by Insider.

Even inside AWS, however, information on the outage remains sketchy. One AWS employee speculated that the outage was caused by an "orchestrated DNS attack," while another employee downplayed those concerns, saying it was more of an "internal thing" related to networking and firewall saturation.

"It's the fog of war," said an AWS manager.

In the early days, the distinct feature of the web was bidirectionality. Unlike TV or radio, on the web the communication went both ways. The user could finally give their opinion and comment. We have gone full circle, with YouTube hiding dislikes, and even with some channels disabling comments, we have unidirectionality again.

I use the empty dark new page extension for chrome/brave. The empty new tab was too bright for my dark environment.

To attenuate my hand pain issues, I am using a mix of a tenkeyless 60% keyboard, AutoHotkey, espanso and dictation. Also, instead of focusing on using key combinations and typing fast, I am trying to practice 'typing mindfulness'; that is, really to be present and type consciously, accurately and slowly, instead of fast and erratically.

Imagine if this were the case in other field. A "no words" movement for people that want to publish a book but don't want to bother with the writing part.

I invite you to take a look at the world of AI writers that are currently flooding the market.

I've seen massive sites with hundreds of thousands of crappy ai articles getting a LOT of traffic.

I translate games and use Android emulators on Windows to test games. I think I could use the Android subsystem, I would give it a try.

AFAIK the chat backup is optional. I've never stored a backup.

Everyone you chat with does (because it's on by default), making your choice irrelevant.

I agree. It's a typical error of judgement from people that know things superficially. "All electronic music sounds the same", "all FIFA games are the same", "all soccer matches are the same". We simplify things that we know little about or things where we have poor proficiency. But experts can see the slightest differences and nuances.

My issue with this kind of reasoning is the comparison and reference to the human brain. The potential and reach of AI transcends the brain. We never had to master the "mystery" of how birds fly to invent aviation. It was never necessary to compare the number of turbine revolutions of early airplanes to the number of an eagle's feathers. Maybe birds were an inspiration or a metaphor, but thankfully aviation has not been limited to the means of propulsion of the beautiful yet humble pigeon. The potential of aviation has taken us into space exploration and massive international travel. I don't know where AI will take us, but I don't think it will be constrained by this temporary organ called 'human brain'.