realreality

Why not complain about both? Industrial civilization is inherently unsustainable, no matter how you try to power it.

I didn't have access to a 486 until around 1999. I was making do with a hand-me-down 8088 and then a 386SX.

Back then, 10 years of technological advancement made a huge difference. Today, you can get by just fine with a 2016-era laptop.

I haven't noticed any bad actor traffic. Perhaps yggdrasil is still too obscure to bother attacking.

The stationary nodes are connected to several public yggdrasil peers that are geographically close by. The routing "just works", though connecting to a peer can take a few seconds, at first.

I share that sentiment. I've thought about combining yggdrasil with garage to create a sort of plug-and-play distributed storage pool shared with a trusted circle.

Though I wonder if the network routing would break down beyond a certain scale, or if it can be resilient against attacks. I don't know enough about the inner workings to be determine the weak points.

Yes. All you have to do is whitelist your clients' yggdrasil addresses in your firewall.

in pf syntax:

  table <yggdrasil> persist file "/etc/yggdrasil-allowed"

  pass in quick on tun0 inet6 proto tcp from <yggdrasil> to port $services

It's been working well for me as a kind of poor-man's tailscale, connecting several VPS and several laptops.

So, your dating photos were going to a government contractor involved with AI killer drone technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarifai#Military_work

She ran for President in 2024. Where were you?

There are tipping points, when warming accelerates and becomes irreversible.

There’s some debate in “the science” about how quickly we’ll reach that point. Limiting warming to +2°C was not a scientific position; it was political, based on what people thought was achievable. Before the Paris Agreement, 2° was not considered “safe”.

Anyway, it turns out we’re going to zoom past 2° in the next couple of decades.

Objects in Garage are broken up into 1MB (default) blocks, and compressed with zstandard. So, it would be difficult to reconstruct the files. I don't know if that was a recent change since you looked at it.

Configuration is still through the CLI, though it's fairly simple. If your usecase is similar to the way that the Deuxfleurs organization uses it -- several heterogeneous, geographically distributed nodes that are more or less set-it-and-forget-it -- then it's probably a good fit.

Garage works well for its limited feature set, but it doesn't have very active development. Apparently they're working on a management UI.

Seaweedfs is more mature and has many interfaces (S3, webdav, SFTP, REST, fuse mount). It's most appropriate for storing lots of small files.

I prefer the command line interface and data/synchronization model of Garage, though. It's easier to manage, probably because the developers aren't biting off more than they can chew.

I use a slow cellular connection and noticed some apple service (I could never figure out which one, even after installing an outgoing firewall) was aggressively uploading some large blob every time the mac woke from sleep, which made the whole connection useless for up to half an hour.

At some point, apple must've fixed this "bug", but the experience -- and apple's increasingly obtrusive software -- convinced me to switch to linux.

Where I live, permits are only given to licensed plumbers, and all work on plumbing requires a permit (though I’m sure many people ignore the rule).

You’re wasting your time fighting a straw man. I never said all regulations are bad.

The question was why plumbers are expensive. I assert that it’s not because plumbing is especially difficult.

Designing sewage infrastructure isn’t rocket science, either. If citizens in your town needed to do it, they could figure it out, regardless of their credentials.

Sometimes regulations come about to protect the public. Often, they’re enacted to protect the profits of insurance companies, banks, and other influential industries. Don’t be naive about “the systems at work and their interplay”.

Plumbers make excellent money because regulations require licensed plumbers to do the work, and plumbing unions have a financial interest in limiting the number of plumbers.

But anybody can do plumbing. It’s not rocket science.

Use `concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor` to submit jobs, and `Future.add_done_callback` to flip the transcription field when the job completes.

In 10 years, resource, energy limits, and wealth inequality will become increasingly clear to everyone, while the climate continues to warm at an accelerated rate. Social instability might preclude the existence of software engineering, aside from a tiny minority supporting the lavish lifestyles of the ultra-wealthy.

The system was already authoritarian, if less blatant to most people. Any meaningful resistance to the power structure gets crushed, and everyone tacitly accepts that arrangement.

Are you referring to the climate and ecological crisis, or the many cascading problems resulting from overextraction of limited resources?

There won't be any tech on a dead planet.

Yes, it would be wonderful to be able to tune out the wretched poor people. Maybe a future headset will include a forcefield to actively repel potential muggers or oncoming vehicles.

The top photo has a blue-green cast, whereas the bottom photo has a magenta cast.

Maybe the bottom one is a more realistic reproduction of the scene, but I also prefer the top one, which is more saturated and closer to what I associate as a film image.

Each kind of film has its own character and color variations; it’s silly to try to neutralize everything.

This can’t be all of the rules. Where are the instructions about avoiding controversial topics?

You didn’t address anything I said. It takes a lot more than raw uranium or thorium to electrify all of our infrastructure.

Here's another exponential trend. It's showing no sign of slowing down, despite the exponential increase in solar power. (Gosh, I wonder why)

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/co2_2k_ce.png

So, your battery is good for 9 hours of compute time. What happens if you have a couple of cloudy days in a row? And what's the insolation during the winter (in many places, it's 1/10th of the amount of summer sunlight)

In order to replace the world's current energy mix with nuclear, we'd have to switch on a new nuclear plant every day for the next several decades. All of that new infrastructure would also require massive amounts of fossil fuels to build (which you've magically made illegal) and would only last a few decades before having to be replaced (presumably without requiring any fossil fuels by then).

There isn't even enough copper on earth to electrify everything.

Your scenario isn't a miracle; it's a pipe-dream.

It would take a miracle for us to stop wasting energy on nonsense.

That’s right (even though you’re probably being facetious).

I’m old enough to remember when companies were eager to claim that their data centers (or some aspect) were finally “carbon neutral”.

Now, with the enormous data center growth for AI purposes, companies don’t even bother pretending that any of this is sustainable.

At best, they might delude themselves into believing that a glorified text autocomplete program will magically solve the world’s problems, including the unsustainability of the machines running the program.