Do you ever just choke the sickpeas?
undermine the vole
Wait, so the Humane company had over 100 mil in funding? And that's what they could come up with? Eeeeeshhhhh.
Remind me again, what was Bluesky's business model? They seem to default to replying with "we're figuring it out but for now, we've got a ton of VC money".
Ryanair moment.
I gotta say, I do kinda like what Bluesky is doing. It feels a lot like old Twitter (~2017-2019 ish). And the concept of subscribing to custom feeds is pretty neat. Running a PDS (the thing that hosts all your data) seems a bit weird at the moment: you have to join a Discord server to get your PDS added to a list? And everything is baked into cryptic containers by default. The actual source is here, but it seems it might be pretty easy to run with the wrapper "service".
Oh, and they really should've just made it an extension of your phone rather than re-implement like 2/3rds of your phone's functions, but worse. Photos, voice memos, sending texts, messaging (through specific apps even), could've all literally just gone through to your phone.
I think the Humane Ai Pin could've been better had they focused more on the projected interface -- stuff like color, better functionality, less janky UX, perhaps the ability to project onto surfaces like a table or a wall, rather than doubling down so hard on voice. Voice just fails so hard when you're anywhere you can't comfortably speak out loud, which is a ton of places.
dz: 3 body problem
@petersanchez I’ve only read the first one. Unless I’m gravely misremembering, these characters didn’t exist in the first book?
dz: 3 body problem
dz: 3 body problem
And wait. How exactly do they plan to set up the nuke trail without knowing where it is exactly the aliens are even coming from? And even if you did, you'd have to know their exact start time and acceleration/velocity to even hope to intercept them, all while accounting for our orbit and their orbit and ... probably a whole bunch of other factors (gravitational pulls of other bodies against the nukes...?). ... okay, it's just a TV show.
dz: 3 body problem
dz: 3 body problem
I'm up to episode 6; what exactly is the point of cancer dude and weed bro in this show? I'm struggling to see how the serve the plot other than cancer dude going from beach -> city -> beach -> city.
dz: 3 body problem
Installing a root CA on iOS is annoying. Mostly due to skill issue on my part, but it's infuriating when Safari gives you nothing in the form of useful information. But in essence, it boils down to: You should now be able to serve TLS certs issued by this CA provided it satisfies this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/103769
*.local is not possible, *.foo.local is) (https://stackoverflow.com/a/68514822)
Took me a better part of a day to dial this in but hey, it works now.
Someone successfully rage baited Lobste.rs.
Bummer, I'm really loving Orion on macOS. Might even say it's the best browser I've used. https://orionfeedback.org/d/6363-orion-for-linux/28
Sorry to report that the contractor team who was supposed to work on this bailed out. We are back to putting this on hold.
Federation with bsd.network is perpetually bugged.
@novalis damn, I miss mangoes... I'll have to see if I can find Alphonsos somewhere here in Finland.
Finally got around to converting my ~/svc directory full of nohup scripts to /etc/rc.d.
@petersanchez hm I just tested on Firefox (macOS and Linux) and it doesn't work on for me either. And yeah, I don't see the webfinger coming in. Strange.
@Ooze Firstly, Gagliano's experiments showed that Mimosa would tune out irrelevant stimulus. Plants processing & reacting to stimuli isn't new—it's well known that they react to their environment (turning towards light, spreading their leaves when touched, ...). This of course, does not equate to them feeling pain. It's not, it's scientific. They do not have a central nervous system and pain receptors to receive and transmit signals. They lack a brain to receive these signals. Would you say that it's okay to kill another human (who wants to live) as long as it's "pain free"?
Arguing that a creature as different from us as plants can't feel pain because it doesn't have the exact same system for sensing as us is just silly.
Arguing that not killing animals is about avoiding pain implies that pain free death is ok.
@Ooze while that has been debunked many times over, I'll bite. They do not have a central nervous system, and therefore cannot feel pain. Further, evolutionarily, "feeling pain" is associated with avoiding harm—which they cannot do as they are immobile and cannot relocate themselves to avoid harmful stimulus. The ability to sense pain has no benefit to plants.
@tedu I don't know. While it may seem that inherited wealth is better on paper, I hypothesise that it leads to faster billionairization and further perpetuates the exploitation → money cycle—with a reduced chance of failure.
Being "self-made" likely takes more time with a higher chance of failure.
@petersanchez actually idk if I should blame latest honk or just my bad merge (skill issue?). But anyway, something moved the order of those lines around which messed up the webfinger.
@petersanchez ok, so looks like latest honk did break it. This patch should take care of it: https://git.icyphox.sh/honk/commit/5382ae3cc59b3c1997c5dba3e7b7fe5b818fe924 (you can ignore the log line if you want)
Those are great. Also, drawing equivalences to things animals do in the wild is dumb in general because animals do all kinds of terrible things to each other -- things humans (mostly) wouldn't ever do.
One thing I often get is "just like a lion eats an antelope, we eat animals too" - which I love to answer with, can you go kill a cow with your bear hands and mouth? If so, can you chew it up with your jaw and teeth? Can you eat it without cooking it and not get sick? I mean the argument is so dumb.
I've come to realise that the #vegan position can't be argued or proven false. Because at its core it's really simple: to limit animal suffering as far as practicable. It is altruistic. You either want to do this, or you don't. If you don't, it's either because you hold hedonistic or speciesist views. The hedonistic viewpoint—i.e. "I eat it because it's tasty"—falls flat rather quickly because most reasonable people would agree that someone kicking a dog simply because it "makes them feel good" is "wrong". The speciesist viewpoint, of which there are a few, like the call to "sapience", "sentience" or just "we're at the top of the food chain" are all logically flawed. Once again, most reasonable people would agree that killing and eating a human child (of a similar or even lesser "sentience" to that of a pig or a cow) would be a very bad thing to do. As for the food chain: that's circular reasoning since there's no connection between our supposed position in the food chain and the justifiability of eating animals that we intentionally put beneath us by eating them. So yeah, bottom line is: all arguments against minimising animal suffering can be distilled down as such. Just eat plants—it's good for you and for the animals.
@tedu what’s wrong with the current blob.db? Sure it’s unorthodox, but it’s pretty convenient from a backup/restore perspective.
You know it's time to jump ship when your company replaces the existing MediaWiki (🤢) with ... Confluence (🤮).
Tv: constellation
@tedu Didn't realize that was meant to be a season finale. Kinda didn't wrap up anything at all and everyone seems to be resigning to their realities. Pretty eh overall. There's also that old dude x2, the first cosmonaut in space or whatever. That's kinda interesting. Did he leave for space in one universe and land back in the other? If there's a next season, I think it might be Irena & co attempting to get back to their reality, since she now knows it's possible (Bud/Henry switcharoo).
Tv: constellation
@tedu yeah, lol. I got around it by hard-specifying /{name}/refs/{$} which is weird syntax but whatever. It was a fairly easy switch otherwise.
#legit now uses net/http for its router: https://git.icyphox.sh/legit/commit/cd22584c7477f796f69c32a6259e174e2d0ae145
Uh... looks like the new net/http router is going to be rather annoying.
▲ ./legit
panic: pattern "GET /{name}/refs" (registered at /home/icy/code/legit/routes/handler.go:43) conflicts with pattern "GET /static/{file}" (registered at /home/icy/code/legit/routes/handler.go:36):
GET /{name}/refs and GET /static/{file} both match some paths, like "/static/refs".
But neither is more specific than the other.
GET /{name}/refs matches "/name/refs", but GET /static/{file} doesn't.
GET /static/{file} matches "/static/file", but GET /{name}/refs doesn't.
@petersanchez yeah, I've read the first book so far. I like the storytelling immensely better than the book—which was really quite bad.