Questions: Technology & Internet

It continues to blow my mind how a platform that has existed since 2010 has continued to see "explosive growth" and no signs of slowing down, even though its model clearly has become flawed for its users ever since Facebook bought in 2012. The new shopping button on the app was the "final nail in the coffin" for many people, but it still wasn't enough to get a considerable amount of people to abandon the platform.

What will it take for the next social media platform to take over Instagram's and even TikTok's market share? I'm worried that Instagram is going to continue being the go-to platform even in 2030, but then again a lot can change in 9-10 years.

As AI has taken off and become more advanced, an emerging trend has been using AI software to convert swimsuit pics (mostly of women) into nude pics. I even tried it out with a free software just to see if the claims that its easy to do are true and they are. I used a thong bikini pic of an Instagram model and after running it through AI, it gave me a generated pic of her bare butt. Taylor Swift has even been a victim of this, there was recently AI generated nudes of her released on Twitter/X and they must have been anatomically correct because she’s getting her legal team involved because of them. That’s why I was wondering if anyone thinks that the distribution of AI generated nudes should be penalized because it seems like they’re becoming anatomically correct as AI advances and obviously you can’t criminalize the creation of the nudes, only the distribution of them and even that is only a maybe because that seems like it could be shaky legal ground since they’re technically fake computer generated images.

The 50 Most-Visited Wubsites are listed in this Wikipedia article...

List of most-visited websites

How many of these do you frequently use? If you want, please tell us your favorite top 50 website.

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FYI... I often use about 15 of them.

I think with AI and possible future technology this may happen.

A lot of predictions put this in the 2030s.

I used my old dell optiplex for everyday tasks and programming and it ran Linux. My new PC now runs Windows and Linux, I use it now for programming, gaming, and everything else. Both Linux and Windows are installed on separate drives. I removed 3 of the old drives and put it in my new computer.

Would you recommend me keeping the old one and putting the drives back and using it for Linux or just use the new one so both operating systems can take advantage of better hardware?

I was thinking about giving the optiplex away or probably building a home server with it if I decide to buy drives for it.

So my new PC specs are:

- RTX 4060

- Ryzen 5 5500

- 16GB DDR4 RAM

- x2 1TB NVME SSD, 500GB SATA SSD, 128GB SATA SSD, 480GB SATA SSD

Old PC Specs were:

- GT 1030

- i7 2600

- 16GB DDR3

- 500GB SATA SSD, 128 SATA SSD, 480GB SATA SSD