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treadful, 4 days ago

Unless you’re looking to get rid of half of humanity and go back to living like the Amish I don’t think we can put that genie back in the bottle.

What we can do is work on how energy is generated and increase efficiency. And this has nothing to do with shareholders.

treadful, 4 days ago

I’m sure I won’t be very eloquent about it but simply, liberty. Freedom of compute is on par with freedom of thought and expression.

Freedom of travel is something else, but I’m sure most people that don’t like being imprisoned can appreciate.

Work (as in energy expenditure) enables these freedoms and I think it’s important not to stifle that whenever possible.

treadful, 4 days ago

Not sure what you’re getting at. Increased system efficiency lowers total emissions or at least increases work capacity.

treadful, 5 days ago

We’re literally in a technology community followed by tons of industry outsiders, of which there is a similar one on every other similar aggregation site. I don’t see any of that for things like plastics manufacturers, furniture makers, or miners. So yeah, I’d say transparency for the general public tends to be higher in tech than most other industries.

treadful, 5 days ago

All these issues are valid and need solving but I’m kind of tired of people implying we shouldn’t do certain work because of efficiency.

And tech gets all the scrutiny for some reason (it’s transparency?). I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen an article on industrial machine efficiency and how we should just stop producing whatever.

What we really need to do is find ways to improve efficiency on all work while moving towards carbon neutrality. All work is valid.

If I want to compute pi for no reason or drive to the Grand Canyon for lunch, I should be able to do so.

treadful, 9 days ago

It’s a privilege escalation.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1086 and carrying a severity rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10, allows people who have already gained a foothold inside an affected system to escalate their system privileges. It’s the result of a use-after-free error, a class of vulnerability that occurs in software written in the C and C++ languages when a process continues to access a memory location after it has been freed or deallocated. Use-after-free vulnerabilities can result in remote code or privilege escalation.

treadful, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

A libertarian convention sounds like it would have been so chill before like 2016. Maybe my views of the past are a little naive though.

EDIT: I thought they said librarian…

treadful, 10 days ago

Damn it. I read librarian.

treadful, 10 days ago

Also you cannot alter your mind in any way that would enable to let you tolerate living for eternity or not get bored of things.

No drugs at all? I’m out. They’re almost necessary for tolerating living for a finite period.

treadful, 10 days ago

Kind of seems that way lately.

treadful, 10 days ago

They’ve done that already. I’ve actually gotten banned twice because their AI tool thought I was harassing a streamer. Both reversed almost immediately after an appeal. Guess those appeals may no longer have people responding to them…

treadful, 9 days ago

Guns will be banned inside of the convention center; however, as the U.S. Secret Service can supersede the local and state law within the “hard perimeter.”

“It’s not us, we swear, the USSS won’t allow it!” Nice convenient excuse.

treadful, 5 days ago

The primary source article is way better. The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes

treadful, 9 days ago

The admiral, who has an impressive resume, is playing a little fast and loose.

We know now that from [the Schumer amendment] that non-human intelligences are visiting us in all domains.

The amendment does not state that. It just says if such information exists that it’s seeking its disclosure.