

And it’s also evolutionary fortification that we make a choice that works out well for us through real metrics or confirmation bias and we broadcast it to everyone else.
WYGIWYG
And it’s also evolutionary fortification that we make a choice that works out well for us through real metrics or confirmation bias and we broadcast it to everyone else.
God, that jumpcut. That least they could have done was make it LOOK like the cat jumped itself.
At least it survived the cliff dive.
nah, it’s fine, puppies are too stringy anyway.
When Redhat went Fedora, I learned Debian and Ubuntu. When they decided to flush CentOS, I GTFO even professionally and stayed out of their ancestral distros.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m down with change and updating, but they are very focused on making things better/easier for themselves without worries about who they’re supposed to be supporting.
I don’t trust anything further than their warranty. They’re setting their warranty to protect their bank account; those numbers will average in their favor.
put a share send only and another receive only
That’s not a bad idea. I do that on my phone for the camera, but never thought to use it in other ways.
Those cheaper drives scare me.
What grinds my gears is you can rent enough compute to handle this for $30 a month. That covers redundant internet, staff, fire suppression, generators, air conditioning.
I want to couple that with a chassis full of sata. Obviously more power and heat but not 16 times that.
You can get 2u of colocation for about a hundred bucks per month. I’ve been pondering for a few years building out a 4u chassis and doing a friends and fam storage co-op. You could do a 208tb (real 189) z2 with two parity drives for around $4,500 bucks plus 100-130 a month.
The current pricing is all based on SAS. Even the companies that aren’t using SAS are still charging like it is.
Man $500 a month for 50TB.
For less than that, I could buy 5x10TB hard drives every two months. Sure there’s value in the hosting and internet, but why is it so damned expensive compared to the price of hosting it?
Syncthing has been amazing. The downside is that you need the space to do the whole share replica on each box. Of course, that just makes me be a better steward of my own data archival.
Many times throughout my life, what would seem like a reasonably easy question to answer has changed dramatically.
30 years ago you could look at data collection and go there’s no way that they could store a meaningful amount of data about everyone.
20 years ago, you could look at data collection and go there’s no way they could have the contents of every phone call It’s just targeted it’s not a big deal
We are at a point now where everything you ever wrote or said could be thrown into a model with such unimaginable levels of lossy compression that they could simply ask it if you are the kind of person who is into whatever the future administration deems as unacceptable and deny you access to things. All you need is a fascist regime or a dictatorship installed and all of a sudden anything you ever did can be used as grounds to lock you up.
On a governmental budget, it wouldn’t even be that expensive and we’re just at the beginning of this.
We have seen that governments can change quickly. We know the data collection is affordable and can be permanent.
Certainly some people privacy-minded to the point of compulsion. But I can’t say that anyone is wrong to seek extreme levels of privacy based on trends and capabilities.
The “leave your cell phone at home and make sure somebody opens your apps and uses them” people aren’t anywhere near as crazy as they used to sound
I’m betting on the opposite problem,
We show here you’ve been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.
because of social pressure
yep
MMO, They’re playing with friends in different states/countries. Roblox, Minecraft, there are few remotely playable social kids games.
The Crux of the standard US problem is that nothing is standard.
So you’ll have one person in a county that has its shit together swearing that we’re set and another person from a county that doesn’t have potable water asking for advice.
The capitalist answer is some store have decided there’s money in getting people in to recycle so voluntarily corporate chain stores are the closest we have to a country wide state of handled it.
It was tried a little bit in 2008 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23565020
Microsoft/Google would shit all over any retailer that dared to do that today.
That said, Bestbuy did have an OS2/Warp on the floor decades ago.
I think SteamOS will have a solid chance.
We need a distro that has a 0% chance to brick on a graphics driver update. That can flawlessly do a major release update without breaking things and can run GOG, Steam, Epic.
I mean, those are all the things that they want out of a gaming experience.
Kids want me to play Roblox.
checks correlation of education to voting outcomes
Checks news
It will be seen as an anti-control danger and banned entirely by the nearly single-circle Venn diagram of government officials, oligarchs, and religious figures.
They will be quiet about the true nature of their decision. Instead, it will be called a danger to society, ungodly, and unnatural. Rumors will be started that it creates autistic psychopaths, and that anyone in any country that touches the technology will need to be permanently ostracized.
Your character purchased and ate bad fish the night before, and you have uncontrollable gas, which quickly turns to greasy, putrid diarrhea. As the pub bouncer tosses you out the door for smelling like raw sewage, a micrometeorite hits you in the eye and lodges itself into your brain, disrupting your medula. As you lay there struggling to breate, you shake yourself awake. It would seem you fell asleep at the table and had an awful dream.
Sorry, what were you saying about not wanting to stick around?
Oh God no, You’re 100% correct on all that. We were living through endorphins and we now have something in between nostalgia and Stockholm syndrome for the old days.
This is a dangerous proposition.
When the dictatorship comes after you, they’re not concerned about the whole of every article that was written about you All they care about are the things they see as incriminating.
You could literally take a spell check dictionary list, pull three words out of the list at random and feed it into a ollama asking for a story with your name that included the three words as major points in the story.
Even on a relatively old video card, you could probably crap out three stories a minute. Have it write them in HTML and publish the site map into major search engines on a regular basis.
EDIT: OK this was too fun not to do it real quick!
~ cat generate.py
import random import requests import json import time from datetime import datetime ollama_url = "http://127.1:11434/api/generate" wordlist_file = "words.txt" with open(wordlist_file, 'r') as file: words = [line.strip() for line in file if line.strip()] selected_words = random.sample(words, 3) theme = ", ".join(selected_words) prompt = f"Write a short, imaginative story about a person named Rumba using these three theme words: {theme}. The first word is their super power, the second word is their kyptonite, the third word is the name of their adversary. Return only the story as HTML content ready to be saved and viewed in a browser." response = requests.post( ollama_url, headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}, data=json.dumps({"model": "llama3.2","prompt": prompt}) ) story_html = "" for line in response.iter_lines(decode_unicode=True): if line.strip(): try: chunk = json.loads(line) story_html += chunk.get("response", "") except json.JSONDecodeError as e: print(f"JSON decode error: {e}") timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") filename = f"story_{timestamp}.html" with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file: file.write(story_html) print(f"Story saved as {filename}")
~ cat story_20250630_130846.html
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Rumba's Urban Adventure</title> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <style> body {font-family: Arial, sans-serif;} </style> </head> <body> <h1>Rumba's Urban Adventure</h1> <p>Rumba was a master of <b>slangs</b>, able to effortlessly weave in and out of conversations with ease. Her superpower allowed her to manipulate language itself, bending words to her will. With a flick of her wrist, she could turn a phrase into a spell.</p> <p>But Rumba's greatest weakness was her love of <b>bungos</b>. The more she indulged in these sweet treats, the more her powers wavered. She would often find herself lost in thought, her mind clouded by the sugary rush of bungos. Her enemies knew this vulnerability all too well.</p> <p>Enter <b>Carbarn</b>, a villainous mastermind with a personal vendetta against Rumba. Carbarn had spent years studying the art of linguistic manipulation, and he was determined to exploit Rumba's weakness for his own gain. With a wave of his hand, he summoned a cloud of bungos, sending Rumba stumbling.</p> <p>But Rumba refused to give up. She focused her mind, channeling the power of slangs into a counterattack. The air was filled with words, swirling and eddying as she battled Carbarn's minions. In the end, it was just Rumba and Carbarn face-to-face.</p> <p>The two enemies clashed in a spectacular display of linguistic fury. Words flew back and forth, each one landing with precision and deadliness. But Rumba had one final trick up her sleeve - a bungo-free zone.</p> <p>With a burst of creative energy, Rumba created a bubble of pure slangs around herself, shielding her from Carbarn's attacks. The villain let out a defeated sigh as his plan was foiled once again. And Rumba walked away, victorious, with a bag of bungos stashed safely in her pocket.</p> </body> </html>
Interesting that it chose female rather than male or gender neutral. Not that I’m complaining, but I expected it to be biased :)