realreality

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by realreality 1mo ago
Why not complain about both? Industrial civilization is inherently unsustainable, no matter how you try to power it.
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by realreality 5mo ago
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
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by realreality 6mo ago
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&qu
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by realreality 6mo ago
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 certai
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by realreality 6mo ago
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
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by realreality 6mo ago
It's been working well for me as a kind of poor-man's tailscale, connecting several VPS and several laptops.
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by realreality 6mo ago
So, your dating photos were going to a government contractor involved with AI killer drone technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarifai#Military_work
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by realreality 7mo ago
She ran for President in 2024. Where were you?
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by realreality 7mo ago
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 w
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by realreality 10mo ago
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 throu
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by realreality 10mo ago
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&#
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by realreality 1y ago
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 w
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by realreality 1y ago
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).
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by realreality 1y ago
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.
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by realreality 1y ago
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 enacte
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by realreality 1y ago
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.
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by realreality 1y ago
Use `concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor` to submit jobs, and `Future.add_done_callback` to flip the transcription field when the job completes.
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by realreality 1y ago
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, asi
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by realreality 2y ago
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.
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by realreality 2y ago
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.
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by realreality 2y ago
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.
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by realreality 2y ago
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
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by realreality 2y ago
This can’t be all of the rules. Where are the instructions about avoiding controversial topics?
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by realreality 2y ago
You didn’t address anything I said. It takes a lot more than raw uranium or thorium to electrify all of our infrastructure.
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by realreality 2y ago
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
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by realreality 2y ago
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)
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by realreality 2y ago
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
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by realreality 2y ago
It would take a miracle for us to stop wasting energy on nonsense.
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by realreality 2y ago
That’s right (even though you’re probably being facetious).
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by realreality 2y ago
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

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