If you thought the publishing industry trying to take down the Internet Archive was bad, and now you're watching Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia:
Billionaires are why we can't have anything nice.
Even when we do it ourselves, we can't have it. If it helps us learn, understand, think, reason, or argue, they don't want that for us.
They will kill it.
Is there a guillotine smiley? There needs to be a guillotine smiley.
It'd be so terribly unfortunate if the first year of Trump's second presidential term was marked by the implosion of the biggest tech industry bubble since cryptocurrencies leading to a stock mrket crash, the collapse of the commercial property market leading to a bank run, Musk-led deregulation of cryptocurrencies leading only to rampant fraud a la Sam Bankman-Fried, and simultaneous trade wars with Europe AND China destabilizing the US dollar, wouldn't it.
Is this too much to ask for, 2025?
Melon Husk has made *so* many illogical leaps here. The most obvious one being that simulated computer game characters will one day be capable of experiencing themselves subjectively. Because otherwise there's nowhere else we could be, but "base reality", as he puts it.
Is computer science going to achieve that? It seems unlikely, mainly because there are good reasons to think it might be philosophically impossible. Let's unpack this a bit.
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I have a 10Gbps link over single mode fiber and I didn't even have to fiddle with it.
Is this good?
status: link-ok@buttondown Thanks! That was it.
Is there anyway to reply to an existing reply that I haven't been notified of?
Suppose you wanted to host some software, and you're trying to be responsible so you do it gitops style. Imagine it's some fedi software, if you like. BUT! You don't want to do it in kubernetes, because you're just one tired queer, not a whole SRE team. And not using hyperscaler cloud stuff, for the same reasons. Just a VPS or two, running a custom app, with config, a db, a load balancer, that's probably it.
Is there a realistic tooling option to support that, other than Ansible?
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