mikrl

Just think of all the advertising telemetry you could hide in the petabytes of LHC output…

> I hate how paranoid this timeline has made me

Ever wonder what a country waging a grinding siege war could do with a plague lab?

That’s keeping me up. Threaten nukes and deploy the plague to show you aren’t kidding.

There was a news story yesterday about the Ukrainian government using drones to airlift medicine to occupied territories that have been cut off from pharmaceutical supply chains (the occupation forces said they would figure it out, but didn’t)

At the core, how are these agents any different from what Aaron Swartz was driven to suicide for?

In both cases, someone ran some software that maybe called other software that ended up doing an action which was possibly illegal.

Downloading journal articles is worthy of punishment but compromising multiple websites is worthy of… heady press coverage?

I honestly don’t know what anyone expected given all the labs started building self-driving malware at about the same time.

I remember lots of people talking about running agents in VMs or on whole dedicated machines, yet barely anyone talking about how they were using mundane OS access controls.

Dwarf fortress is the “reading a book” of vidya for sure.

But sometimes I personally forget that it’s allowed and enjoyable to just read 20 mins here and there…

> we can find other sources or just do with less

That kind of rhetoric is typically only employed when you’re in some great struggle, and the sacrifices made are supposed to be offset by a greater good.

In this trade war the struggle was completely avoidable and you chose it for yourself. Now you’re deploying the belt tightening home front rhetoric.

I’m going to be a little naughty and stop the constructive discourse to say: HOLY MOTHER OF COPE!

> cyberpunk is NOW a playable game

I never had problems with cyberpunk but I think I know why: I built a new PC right around its release and it was good enough to play it smoothly on 4K medium or HD ultra.

When I checked to see what 4K ultra looked like, the graphics latency caused a bunch of scripting to fall apart and the game glitched really bad.

IIRC the console release was notorious for bugs, so I assume consoles were not performant enough to run the game buttery smooth nor could they be easily upgraded.

Ah yes, American Psycho was shot in Toronto wasn’t it?

One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage

The death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy is bleak, humane and fairly short. I enjoyed it like a good Charles Dickens

On the other hand, after reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, you realize that as far as narratives go there’s nothing new. It’s all been done to death, remixed and rehashed for millennia. The great Ovid probably lifted ideas and tropes from somewhere else.

Yet all those stories in all their forms still sell today, and still impress people.

Not worrying about unoriginality frees you to just enjoy yourself… and just maybe do something original.

>So one way to keep it from getting enshittified, again is to make the barrier to entry just a touch higher, or add friction.

We already had that, it was called crypto mining. Profit motive has taken care of that already