This is something I was actively resisting. It turns out that for me, I find GTK3 to be less aesthetically pleasing than GTK2. There are far fewer themes for GTK3, and they aren't as nice as the GTK2 ones either. Sad to…
They were warning of this for a long time, due to modern cars being so much heavier than in the 1970s and 1980s, when these garages were built. And this is especially so for electric cars due to the battery pack.…
I think the pendulum will swing towards that way eventually. It's cyclical. Once the novelty of social media wears away, as it has done already, and the harms start being worse than the benefits. However not being on…
Yes, I'm likely wrong there.... As a side note, one important change in the modern times is the ability to cross check information from a wide range of sources easily.
A totalitarian police state in the making there. Yes, with ChatGPT (and its successors) they will be targeting politically subversive conversations that threaten state power, in 20+ years time. It's happened before and…
It's quite shocking when you think about it, that your "friends" here are in effect not allowing you to be yourself. And will potentially socially ostracize you (i.e. punish you) if you do something, that is harmless,…
It appears to me that fears over catastrophic climate change are yet another moral panic. Amplified by social media this time. As with other moral panics (e.g. child abductions, pedophilia), the problem exists, but is…
I think it's the total visibility that's causing mental illness. There is no space where you can be with your friends, screw up, and not have it become known to everyone in your peer group. There's little space to make…
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/29/sending-the-thought... Yes, the Scottish Hate Crime bill. And as expected, they are trying to expand it to cover misogyny. So someone's going to end up serving time for a silly…
Yes, the Murdoch owned newspapers use moral panic to get these draconian laws passed. And it's been going on for decades. That is how our civil liberties are destroyed here in the UK. It's an almost symbiotic…
Time for some civil disobedience?
In theory you could store it both offsite (using a hidden Micro SD card) and on your phone simultaneously, with a special key combination, e.g. pressing Vol Up + Vol Down + Power causing the phone to be rebooted, and…
Maybe using two layers of encryption, so if one fails, then we at least have another one to be bruteforced as a backup? Also two implementations, from different operating systems (!), e.g. why not store the data…
And that cost cutting is likely due to the rise of Chinese STM32 clones from companies most of us have never heard of such as GigaDevice, CKS, Geehy, MindMotion, APEX Semiconductors, etc... Some die photos here:…
And especially so in Ukraine, where feral hogs have been known to consume the bodies of dead russian soldiers. You can Google it, I don't want to link to it here...
If they limit our ability to block ads in general, I am going to dramatically reduce my Internet usage even more than I am doing now. The Internet is bad enough already as a platform for enabling mass surveillance and…
I've been doing this since ~2008 or so using Debian Linux. My custom setup is also capable of booting other computers on the network over PXE. It uses AUFS and tmpfs - yes, it needs upgrading to a more modern union…
Well the first thing we can do is start disconnecting safety critical infrastructure from the Internet and/or radio networks... This stuff should never have been online in the first place.
Some kind of distributed training, BitTorrent style would be one way of getting around it, using thousands of GPUs worldwide? If we could somehow make the training process profitable, like a cryptocurrency, then that…
If the government tries to prohibit training these models, I think we should find a way to keep it going somehow. Yes, civil disobedience.
This is something I was actively resisting. It turns out that for me, I find GTK3 to be less aesthetically pleasing than GTK2. There are far fewer themes for GTK3, and they aren't as nice as the GTK2 ones either. Sad to…
They were warning of this for a long time, due to modern cars being so much heavier than in the 1970s and 1980s, when these garages were built. And this is especially so for electric cars due to the battery pack.…
I think the pendulum will swing towards that way eventually. It's cyclical. Once the novelty of social media wears away, as it has done already, and the harms start being worse than the benefits. However not being on…
Yes, I'm likely wrong there.... As a side note, one important change in the modern times is the ability to cross check information from a wide range of sources easily.
A totalitarian police state in the making there. Yes, with ChatGPT (and its successors) they will be targeting politically subversive conversations that threaten state power, in 20+ years time. It's happened before and…
It's quite shocking when you think about it, that your "friends" here are in effect not allowing you to be yourself. And will potentially socially ostracize you (i.e. punish you) if you do something, that is harmless,…
It appears to me that fears over catastrophic climate change are yet another moral panic. Amplified by social media this time. As with other moral panics (e.g. child abductions, pedophilia), the problem exists, but is…
I think it's the total visibility that's causing mental illness. There is no space where you can be with your friends, screw up, and not have it become known to everyone in your peer group. There's little space to make…
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/29/sending-the-thought... Yes, the Scottish Hate Crime bill. And as expected, they are trying to expand it to cover misogyny. So someone's going to end up serving time for a silly…
Yes, the Murdoch owned newspapers use moral panic to get these draconian laws passed. And it's been going on for decades. That is how our civil liberties are destroyed here in the UK. It's an almost symbiotic…
Time for some civil disobedience?
In theory you could store it both offsite (using a hidden Micro SD card) and on your phone simultaneously, with a special key combination, e.g. pressing Vol Up + Vol Down + Power causing the phone to be rebooted, and…
Maybe using two layers of encryption, so if one fails, then we at least have another one to be bruteforced as a backup? Also two implementations, from different operating systems (!), e.g. why not store the data…
And that cost cutting is likely due to the rise of Chinese STM32 clones from companies most of us have never heard of such as GigaDevice, CKS, Geehy, MindMotion, APEX Semiconductors, etc... Some die photos here:…
And especially so in Ukraine, where feral hogs have been known to consume the bodies of dead russian soldiers. You can Google it, I don't want to link to it here...
If they limit our ability to block ads in general, I am going to dramatically reduce my Internet usage even more than I am doing now. The Internet is bad enough already as a platform for enabling mass surveillance and…
I've been doing this since ~2008 or so using Debian Linux. My custom setup is also capable of booting other computers on the network over PXE. It uses AUFS and tmpfs - yes, it needs upgrading to a more modern union…
Well the first thing we can do is start disconnecting safety critical infrastructure from the Internet and/or radio networks... This stuff should never have been online in the first place.
Some kind of distributed training, BitTorrent style would be one way of getting around it, using thousands of GPUs worldwide? If we could somehow make the training process profitable, like a cryptocurrency, then that…
If the government tries to prohibit training these models, I think we should find a way to keep it going somehow. Yes, civil disobedience.