markr
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- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 4 months ago:
You’ve doctored your first two points to avoid the fact that widespread corruption and crumbling infrastructure are in fact a feature of the USA. That said, obviously we are not a ‘third world’ country, nor a ‘developing or under-developed’ country. We are, instead in our own special category of fucked. We have an absolutely giant economy, but as we have decided politically to disinvest in all of our public sectors, either by privatization or under-funding, we are rapidly becoming dysfunctional. Add to that the huge global reclaiming of surplus value from workers wages to plutocrats profits, and we are, as is obvious, in a political crisis shared by the rest of the neoliberal democracies.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 4 months ago:
Everyone will be working multiple shitty service jobs that robots are not cost effective to automate. Our miserable wages will be just sufficient to keep the wheels on the cart from falling off.
- Comment on How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists 9 months ago:
Capitalism and neoliberal globalization is great as long as your capitalist organizations are dominating the system. But that inevitably results in the emergence of other competitive capitalist organizations. Then it’s back to trade barriers, and when that fails, military conflict.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
You can list all the current loaded drivers. You can examine the system event log for service start operations. You can run with a kernel debugger attached and examine any loaded driver. The driver itself is likely correctly signed and will not require additional user acknowledgement beyond what was given when the game was installed.
- Comment on Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge 9 months ago:
This is part of the ‘EV apocalypse’ FUD campaign.
AFAICT one super charging site in Chicago had more than one non-functional chargers. Why they were not functioning is not known. Quite a few Teslas queued up there in the cold and some of them ran their batteries down to zero. Each regurgitation of the this event has the same pictures of the same cars at the same place.
It is a fact that EV range decreases with cold, and that decrease can be significant. Drivers unaware of this, and who don’t monitor their battery levels, can indeed find themselves effectively ‘out of gas’.
We need much better urban charging infrastructure. Street level L2 charging should be ubiquitous, and that can be easily achieved using the existing street level power line infrastructure.
- Comment on Adding services to an existing Docker nginx container 10 months ago:
Containers are very lightweight. I have no desire to build anything so I always just add another service container to my existing stacks.
- Comment on OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools 10 months ago:
intelligent swarms of lethal drones are the near future battlefield. Also they will be deployed shortly afterwards by the police.
- Comment on Now that it is getting legalized everywhere, Cannabis should fall under the jurisdiction of the ATF rather than the DEA. 10 months ago:
nope. It should be regulated by each state. The federal government should just back off.
- Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft 10 months ago:
There is zero need to revive SSTs. We need to focus on slow transport using renewable energy.
- Comment on They hated him, for he spoke the truth 10 months ago:
Leg breaking was invented to handle the idiots who were in to their bookies for way more than 100%.
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
I did forget. 2 out of 78.
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
well the Japanese Liberal Party has exclusively ruled Japan since WWII, and it might as well be considered a one party authoritarian state with a facade of democratic legitimacy. But yes, not strictly speaking fascist.
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
GTFO Shitter.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 10 months ago:
From now on I’m calling it Foot Football. That other game is Hand Football.
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
Both parties are the same!
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 11 months ago:
And whenever they have control, more tax cuts for the rich.
- Comment on Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (Do Not Disturb) 11 months ago:
The reason our corporate overlords went to open office plans is that they are much less expensive than actual offices. All the other reasons were bullshit to justify enshittification.
- Comment on FCC votes to ban termination fees for cable and satellite services 11 months ago:
So I assume the fascist knobs will initiate a law suit to block this.
- Comment on Any recommendations for monitoring my servers? 11 months ago:
Add in alertmanager and hook it to slack. Get notified whenever containers or systems are misbehaving.
- Comment on Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws 11 months ago:
It is the terminology required by the NHTSA regulations. Those regulations were obviously written before software updates were relevant to automobile components. The public documentation of defects are ‘recall notices’ by regulation.
- Comment on Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws 11 months ago:
actionable defects are ‘recalls’. How they are remedied is irrelevant.
- Comment on Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws 11 months ago:
Because tesla has to comply with the regulations just like every other manufacturer, and that includes notification of recall issues and remedies. The use of the term ‘recall’ is of course outdated, but that is irrelevant. How the manufacturer remedies the defect has always been up to the manufacturer, as long as they comply with the regulatory process, most of which is simply documentation, like issuing recall notices.
- Comment on Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws 11 months ago:
tesla has had numerous hardware recalls as well. The whole industry does, it’s absolutely normal. It is in fact the point of the recall system. Identify and repair defects before they cause massive harm.
- Comment on Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws 11 months ago:
Or perhaps tesla could deliver a functional ‘full self driving’ system that drives itself fully?
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 11 months ago:
It’s not a choice. You are until you aren’t.
- Comment on Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis 11 months ago:
At some point in the near future social media will be chatbots all the way down.
- Comment on The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable 1 year ago:
The corporations ‘doing the right thing’ by subsidizing FOSS are under the same enshittification pressures as the rest of the global economic system, and as a consequence they will sooner or later not be doing the right thing at all.
- Comment on Anyone knows a good lightweight self-hosted alternative to GitHub? 1 year ago:
Gitlab at least used to be the open source release of GitHub. I ran it in my lab for a while but stopped as I was using github anyway. It was easy to setup and maintain but it used a lot of resources. I ran it on a vm, there is likely a docker build as well.
- Comment on US immigration enforcement used an AI-powered tool to scan social media posts "derogatory" to the US | "The government should not be using algorithms to scrutinize our social media posts" 1 year ago:
The government should not be scrutinizing anyone’s social media outside of a criminal investigation with a warrant.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
Oligarchs funding a resurgence of fascism in order to protect the global system that is wrecking the environment, successfully it seems.