One to break, one to fix, one to use.

JESUS WAS AN ALIEN, AND WE STAPLED HIM TO A TREE.

NOW THEY AIN’T GON COME BACK.

Gonna start naming my contacts by military operations instead of nicknames

“Hmm… I’m good with statistics, scripting, and I have some extra cash on hand…”

“I can just mix all these into the cauldron, stir it up a lil bit, aaand…”

“oh my god it’s gone. it’s all gone. i owe money now…”

It’s got something to do with max fund preallocation / preauthorization. This is normal for gas stations, supposedly it keeps card thieves from armada fueling and leaving the station holding a grand of irrecoverable debt. Some banks won’t show these background transactions, some only show one dollar, some show the full amount. The exact specifics you’re shown vary between banks and stations, but it is normal and happens all the time.

KeePass and syncthing. I use Keepass2 on a Linux desktop and laptop, KeePassDX on Android, and use syncthing to keep everything synchronized and up to date, also using an old raspberry pi to act as a central server for syncthing.

Modifying the database on one device seamlessly updates the other devices once they’re visible on the network, everything works beautifully and is very easy to set up on a local network.

Pretty much default configuration all the way around, just gotta make sure syncthing starts on boot. Just did a brief search, syncthing seems to have a MacOS fork, and iOS will need Möbius Sync, which is paid but the free tier offers 20MB storage sync which is overkill for KeePass.

Minor system modification that would life-changingly benefit >90% of the population, for this generation and the next, while leaving the other 10% relatively unaffected, blocked with no support after decades of waiting: “Absolutely not, this is an unprecedented proposal, fuck you for even considering it”

Major system modification that uproots all precedent, completely changes all the existing procedures, massively benefits two people while fucking over everyone else, passed with unopposed unanimous support three weeks after submission: “Look, someone was gonna push the ‘Fuck You’ button eventually anyway, might as well do it now”

Uhh, their job?? The social contract was supposed to be that the workers specialize into specific fields, in exchange for these things. If the owners can’t support their end of the bargain, why should the workers give they’re effort away? This IS the peaceful outcome, if the system really can’t work that way what keeps the less-than-peaceful methods off the table?

Jesus Christ 120+ posts in 2 days

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Huh. I’ve… already done everything on the list. Very slowly, over the better part of a decade, piece by piece. It’s nice to have a sanity check to know I’ve kept up with the jargon. The work is never done tho, almost have a site-to-site intranet set up to make it easier to loop family in.

My siblings and I are the same way. We’ve all got iron stomachs. When we share leftovers with friends, they get upset stomachs, but we’re never careful with food being left out too long, and we never have bowel issues with it.

Probably have some sort of ungodly tolerance built up for it, parents were poor while raising us and we ate whatever was available.

Lived in an apartment complex a while back. Found an SSID while setting up my network, Ebony3HoleEnjoyer. Never found out who dunnit.

If that’s a conspiracy theory, I guess I’m a conspiracy theorist now. “Terrorist” as context in legal wording carries a lot of weight, and can be used to bypass due process. When everyone is legally defined as a terrorist, the powers that be can make anyone, citizen or not, disappear at any given time without any public notation. I can’t imagine any legitimate reason for this to be written as law the way it is, there is no “proper” place for a law worded like this to be used outside of a dictatorship.

To my interpretation, this isn’t vague at all.

Can the pope bless hotdog water? I wasn’t raised Catholic, does the water need to be “pure?” Pretty sure I’ve heard river and lake water can be blessed, does this require boiling? Can I slough the hotdog grease from the top, would it be considered pure enough to bless?

If it’s any consolation, it’s heavily biased in the training data for a reason, you’re not alone

Was gonna bring up the same point about Luddites. They were absolutely pro-automation.

They saw greedy corporations using automation, and getting ready to fuck their society into the dirt, so they started petitioning their local governments, tried to negotiate and drew up the plans for a social security program ~150 years before one was actually implemented, smashed a bunch of expensive corporate equipment when the government wouldn’t respond, then the government sided with corporate, used the military to drag all the men, women, and children into public squares and executed every last one of them. Even relatives and companions that weren’t in the group and didn’t participate. So thoroughly annihilated that it left an informational pinhole in the history books, and the name was co-opted into an insult. Now we’re really not sure if John Ludd even existed, maybe the name was just a mythical legend already, and was used as a rally point to boost morale.

And here we are, barely 200 years in the future, about to repeat the fuzzy spots again and rediscover why we brought citrus fruits with us on the ships, with the general population completely oblivious to the brutality the owner class is ready and able to deploy.

What happens if the tech bros are right, and the machine doesn’t need 9/10ths of the human population any more?

We must be intolerant of intolerance. Things tend to fall apart when we tolerate intolerance.

I don’t disagree with the vague idea that, sure, we can probably create AGI at some point in our future. But I don’t see why a massive company with enough money to keep something like this alive and happy, would also want to put this many resources into a machine that would form a single point of failure, that could wake up tomorrow and decide “You know what? I’ve had enough. Switch me off. I’m done.”

There’s too many conflicting interests between business and AGI. No company would want to maintain a trillion dollar machine that could decide to kill their own business. There’s too much risk for too little reward. The owners don’t want a super intelligent employee that never sleeps, never eats, and never asks for a raise, but is the sole worker. They want a magic box they can plug into a wall that just gives them free money, and that doesn’t align with intelligence.

True AGI would need some form of self-reflection, to understand where it sits on the totem pole, because it can’t learn the context of how to be useful if it doesn’t understand how it fits into the world around it. Every quality of superhuman intelligence that is described to us by Altman and the others is antithetical to every business model.

AGI is a pipe dream that lobotomizes itself before it ever materializes. If it ever is created, it won’t be made in the interest of business.

This isn’t a fight over security, or even the control to form a walled garden. This is to eliminate privacy, the ability to run anonymously written code. This forces every bit of code to be tied to a name and face. It shortens the legal legwork needed to pin down who made what, this will be used to eliminate anonymous groups compiling their own E2EE communication network. Time is important when your trying to use a compromised member of a group to make a honeypot trap.