Played system shock 2 for the first time in January.

Joining with The Many didn’t sound like such a bad deal.

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I love movies with abstract imagery and themes. Usually I can piece things together and figure out what the film is trying to say, but not Megalopolis.

Like, what was Megalopolis (the in-film construction project) supposed to represent? It was one guy’s vision for a better future that he was going to build no-matter what. Fine! But then Adam Driver’s character makes a big speech at the ribbon ceremony about how we need to start a conversation about the future. What conversation? The guy never listened to anyone else during the film! Maybe his wife?

Why was everything wrapped up in the names and imagery of late Roman republic? To imply that American society is reaching an end of its current unsustainable phase. Ok, but then you name Adam Driver’s character after the guy who turned Rome into a militarist principate. So what better future should we be looking towards?

What was the whole deal with Carthage, the crumbling Soviet satellite which destroyed part of the city? The Megalopolis project only got underway when the destruction cleared out a chunk of New Rome, so are we to assume that our bold conversation about the futute can only happen when the once-forgotten ghost of Communism smashes America? But then the satellite’s crash has no impact on anything except some buildings. The mayor doesn’t face any problems as leader during or after this disaster, and the MAGA-coded villains don’t really change tactics either. Adam Driver’s plans are obviously helped by this, but he already had buy-in from the Mayor. It’s not like the disaster was some catalyst for change, but rather a convenience so we don’t have to watch Adam Driver finger-snap another building demolition.

Megalopolis threw a lot of ideas on the screen, but I kept waiting for a payoff that never arrived.

You can use devcontainers without vscode. At work, I use https://github.com/devcontainers/cli

I had to look up what possible edible someone might confuse with a death cap.

Apparently there’s an Asian mushroom that can be confused with death caps. The secret to not confusing it with a death cap is knowing it doesn’t grow in the US. I wonder if this is AI identification going amok, or if there are people from Asia who are foraging it and not realizing the problem until too late.

A sad reminder to make sure your foraging guide is tailored to the area you are in.

I know it’s late advice, since you already switched from Bazzite, but I’ve never understood why people have an aversion to adding a layered package to the immutable system.

My attitude has always been: If an update breaks something, the whole point is that I can roll back. I’ve been running Fedora Silverblue with many layered packages for several years, and the worst thing that ever happened was when I had to delay a system update by a few hours because the latest build of a layered package hadn’t hit the repos yet.

Plus, for anything like development work that requires build dependencies, I spin up a toolbox to compile it. The nice thing about the default toolbox is that it’s a base Fedora install, so all the system libs are compatible with my host machine. I’ve found it’s often simple to compile a project in the toolbox and then launch the executable from my host system without adding any new layered packages to it.

Bladerunner 2049

ban trangender soldiers

surprised pikachu when they lose a lot of cybersecurity talent

inb4 they double down and ban furries too

Looks like she’s waving a crab over its head

I. Drank. Your. Prune juice!

I think it was August or September. Issue is documented in this forum thread:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19928

I lile my pinenote a lot. I mostly use it for reading.

As long as I’m reading or doing any touch-screen-y things (taking notes, viewing images, etc) it’s great! For anything that involves writing/copying/pasting text, it’s not very usable with just the on-screen keyboard, you really need an external bluetooth interface. I find web browsing very tedious if I have to type anything in the url bar without a physical keyboard.

Also, it’s still very much a WIP. The version of Debian it shipped with had a bug where I couldn’t install any software updates without deleting some random lib64 directory. Once I did that, everything was fine. The device has no security by default, so I created a new user with an encrypted HOME.

With import tariffs to the US, I ended up paying $500 for it, which really got me down. As a $400 open hardware machine, it would have been easier to look past the rougher edges. And I wish it had more RAM.

But overall it’s worth it to me because I’ve wanted a more libre e-reader for a long time. It’s gotten me back into reading books, which has been a lot of fun. Plus, because it’s an actual computer, I set it up as a tablet-like interface to my home automations.

Man, I fuckin’ wish they directed me to the website. Every phone helpline I call these days tries to get me to install an app.

Seems like this system relies on defending from well-defined entrypoints to the network. I’m not sure how a group of enthusiasts could use this unless they centralize their systems.

Conspiracy time: Trustee #3 “lost” their key because polling suggested that they wouldn’t like the results.

I have no reason to believe that’s actually the case, but it’s interesting that the org uses a 3 key system to prevent collusion between trustees, but didn’t think about how this might enable lone-trustee sabotage.

Can you deliver?

Based on the phrasing, as long as you don’t upload it to the forums or their library repository, they have no ownership.

From the original 404 article:

And yet, this is of course an extreme example of the broader political project of AI chatbots and LLMs: They are top-down systems controlled by the richest people and richest companies on Earth, and their outputs can be changed to push the preferred narratives aligned with the interests of those people and companies. This is the same underlying AI that powers Grokipedia, which is the antithesis of Wikipedia and yet is being pitched by its creator as being somehow less biased than the collective, well-meaning efforts of human volunteers across the world.

You may already know this, but a lot of everyday people don’t. They still think that a computer can’t have bias, and if all these tech bros and business leaders are talking about AI then maybe it does make sense to replace our society with an impartial machine. This article is for them.

Still a win for the shipping companies. I’m sure DHL’s flat $17 “duties processing fee” won’t get refunded.

It’s quite insidious, and tbh there’s only so much you can do to control how you feel after work. Instead of hoping to feel good every day, I try and set myself up for success on random days where I do leave work with energy.

In my case this means I have 1 or 2 braindead-easy dinners waiting in the wings. Good leftovers I can reheat in the oven, or a meal that takes 2 steps to prepare. If I don’t have to worry about cooking dinner, then I have that much more time to dedicate to a hobby when the fancy strikes me.