Disaster

@Disaster@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU… and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn’t need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.

  I’ve been trying to work with SBC’s for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just… annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another reason to keep away from shitty offices then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I am stuck in an apartment in NYC with one option… spectrum cable. That’s it. I mean you COULD get Verizon DSL (lol) or some horrendously overpriced LTE thing, but realistically you’re at the mercy of whatever bloodsucking landlord thinks you deserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re actually quite annoying, the documentation is there but makes a lot of assumptions about what you already know.

  I prefer podman systemd generate…just makes more sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I snagged an old fiber LTO5 drive… just got to work out how to get it powered and then spend hours fiddling with silly old tapes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ipvlan / macvlan containers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people don’t like what’s happening, don’t like the people loudly supporting it and are working as best they can to do something about it. There is international pressure from nations that have experienced parallels (South Africa, for one) and although it looks like nothing is happening, there are things going on which are not reported on and actively minimized, which nevertheless apply pressure to the bad actors in the situation.

  It’s disappointing how many people, particularly in the west, are displaying bad political judgment…well, it’s almost like they aren’t thinking about it at all… but that’s just going to have to catch up with them as a consequence later on. This has had the effect of serving to reveal an entire crop of bad actors, which we all know must be removed.

  Make no mistake - We Will Never Forget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone could look at the evidence and come to a different conclusion, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hoped nobody would come to the conclusion that was the core argument, but it is a consideration.

  And I would like to draw attention to the totalitarian nature of our attitudes towards suicide. It’s been enforced heartlessly for a very long time - if you commit suicide, you’ll go someplace worse. It’s this, it’s that. All ultimately to remove the last escape for people who are in some form of extreme physical, mental, emotional or existential pain to the point where they don’t believe there’s another solution.

  I’d sooner discuss why we have those attitudes - maybe it’s so we get a free pass to be extractive and shitty whilst simultaneously denying the people we abuse even the dignity of leaving on their own terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Suicide is not assisted, leaves a mess for those that discover a corpse, EMT’s and others to clean up. Someone’s suffering might end when they jump in front of a train but the train driver’s suffering only just begins at that point.

  Suicide is often an unmanaged, chaotic process which causes trauma. It also often fails whilst leaving those that attempt it in bad physical shape. A law like this reduces the necessity of discussing, normalizing or enabling suicide because there is a safe and properly counseled path out of a no-win situation for those that truly need it. A policy on containment when there are probably household cleaners that could do the job effectively with a small amount of chemistry knowledge is absolutely insane - and if someone truly is in that much pain, they’ll find a way. Families and loved ones also have time to work through grief and loss rather than getting the wind knocked out of them when they hear the news.

  The fact that we’ve hit a point where we can even have a discussion about this is probably something that should be celebrated, rather than being so totalitarian and controlling that we effectively force people to live even when they’re in enormous pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ah yes… “I was only following orders” - Otto Adolf Eichmann

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe real estate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just as Chris Hedges predicted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels between railway tracks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the same bunch of people that wanted to make solar roads/bike lanes too?

  I could see a solar road working with some kind of passive heating medium circulated underneath but even then, the maintenance on that would be a nightmare. We can barely maintain all the roads we have already, and that’s just goopy rocks and grading.