WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
He’s going to end up running a consultancy where he charges absurd sums to give talks to corporate leaders on how to prevent this sort of attack. 😁
- Comment on 4 hours ago:
The difference is, the rich and powerful do their crimes with lawyers. A contractor could actually write something into their contract that allowed them to install such a kill switch. And it would be perfectly legal. No different than if you stop paying for a software license and the program stops working. But regular employees don’t have the leverage to demand such a kill switch. Maybe more programmers should form unions. Write it into the contract that if the contract ever expires before a new one is signed, the union has the right to remotely activate a kill switch, shutting down crucial operations within the company. As long as this was all disclosed and signed to, it would be perfectly legal.
- Comment on 5 hours ago:
Is it even possible to do this in a way that can’t be tracked back to you? Unless you’re a Hollywood hacker that will rig something up to literally burn down the building the server the malicious code is contained on, there will always be some fingerprints left behind in the software. And there will almost always be a relatively short list of possible suspects. Even at large companies, there won’t ever be more than a handful of people with the skills, motive, and access needed to pull something like this off. Oh, the company’s entire database suddenly and mysteriously deleted itself? I wonder who caused that, maybe the disgruntled sysadmin we just fired? There really aren’t that many suspects in situations like this. And once you’re a suspect, they can get a warrant, seize all your computers, and scour them to dig up even more evidence against you. Hell, even just documentation of ill will against your old employer would be evidence in court. You better hope you really left no trace, otherwise you will be found out very quickly.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 12 hours ago:
I’m not in that community myself, but from what I hear a high quality for suit can cost $10-20k. Not sure what differences in construction may exist between those and what you made. But some artists definitely make decent livings making them.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 19 hours ago:
I’m just imagining the scene in a sci fi comedy.
“I thought you said we were getting mechanical tails? Why the Hell is this attached to my front?”
“Experiments determined that this was actually the more effective and cheaper option. Don’t worry, a front tail works just fine for balance!”
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 19 hours ago:
Won’t someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now they’re going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 19 hours ago:
Improve it by covering it in fake skin, the same used on limb prosthesis! /s
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 1 day ago:
The idea is you have investments running that return enough to keep the place running indefinitely.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
Wait, what the hell did Denmark do to New Zealand?
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
If it was working for everyone, there would never be a widespread movement that got Mercator largely phased out of education.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
If we were to talk about education injustices we could argue about how the USA stole the name of the continent for theirs and how most of the world went along with that, and you people don’t seem to like that talk…
I propose that Brazil go for the option of maximum chaos. Brazil should formally change its official name to Os Estados Unidos da América. Ain’t no rule that says two nations can’t have the same name.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
Pfft. Antarctica is but a few islands in an ice-sheet trench coat. If the ice sheets melted, it would remain uninhabited except for some stalwart rancher folk.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s any standard that requires it anywhere. So I’m not sure exactly what this is about.
Don’t give the right any ideas. They’ll be on about “geometric purity” or other such nonsense. Or anything but Mercator will just be “woke.”
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 week ago:
After all, Cain only ever killed one man…
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 week ago:
- Comment on My kind of bar 1 week ago:
I mean, if the bar was mostly regulars, and they’re all used to one of them bringing their dog in, and letting them sit at the bar? I imagine that would become mundane quite quickly. Humans can get used to damn near anything.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
China values actual technical skills and knowledge. The US values talentless hacks who exploit the labor of those that actually have technical skills and knowledge.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
The solution is to just spam solar panels. Solar power is getting so comically cheap, that this is the solution we’ll likely use. Have enough storage for overnight. Then spam so many solar panels that your grid can meet demand even on a cloudy day in winter. You have enough to meet demand at the lowest productivity point in the year. Then the rest of the year we have cheap hyper-abundant power.
- Comment on The hidden mental health danger in today’s high-THC cannabis 1 week ago:
We’re talking on a casual forum. This isn’t an academic discussion. Blog posts are a lot more approachable than most journal articles. And blogs often contain references.
Not everything is a formal academic debate. Most things aren’t. Note, you didn’t reply to the parent commenter demanding that they provide journal articles for their point. You just saw something you didn’t like about my comment and decided to demand a journal article as a citation. Usually when people who aren’t participating come into a discussion to demand peer-reviewed sources, it’s done in bad faith. They demand high quality sources from one side while not extending the same requirement to the other.
Here’s another blog posts that address the original topic. You can look up the primary sources if you are so inclined.
newhopecg.net/…/so-your-brain-actually-isn-t-full…
Or if you want to improve the quality of discussion, perhaps add your own sources instead of demanding others provide them.
And note, even you don’t provide academic sources for your claims. You claim you’re seeing blog posts linked everywhere, but where is your journal article defending this claim? Where is your paper performing a statistical analysis to prove that people are citing blog posts more frequently than in the past?
And I would argue that linking to a blog post is far from pointless. Blogs are less rigorous but far more approachable and digestible than journal articles. The real purpose of linking to them is so that a commenter doesn’t need to spend the time greatly elaborating a point that could be made simply by linking to a larger outside discussion. That has value. And a blog post certainly has more value than a random short Lemmy comment. At least if someone is taking the time to write a blog post dedicated to a single topic, it shows that they’ve put the time in to consider the subject.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 1 week ago:
Is it actually an Irish company, or just one of those Irish companies in the same way Apple is an Irish company?
- Comment on The hidden mental health danger in today’s high-THC cannabis 1 week ago:
Please stop posting comments offering nothing of value.
- Comment on The hidden mental health danger in today’s high-THC cannabis 1 week ago:
There is no age where the brain stops developing. The idea that the brain stops developing at age 25 is a myth. This myth comes brain studies that studied brain development…up to an age of 25. Pediatric studies of brain development don’t extend into far adulthood.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Cop guns really are like “the call of the void” aren’t they? All I know is if I’m ever trapped in a Groundhog Day time loop, one of the first things I’m doing is grabbing a cop’s gun. I don’t want to grab it and shoot anyone with it. I just want to grab it and run off into the distance, cackling with glee like a madman.
- Comment on Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 2 weeks ago:
Fed into woodchippers like they deserve.
- Comment on Enlightenment 2 weeks ago:
Oma Desala approves.
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 3 weeks ago:
What makes you think I don’t do that on my current computer?
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this isn’t saving us from climate-induced civilizational suicide. We are not capable of saving ourselves. Conservative governments are science-denying fascists, and liberal governments can’t see any solution that doesn’t involve the free market. They’re both slaves to capitalism, and capitalism is destroying our world. Every societal collapse is driven primarily by a delusional elite powered by high levels of wealth inequality, and our story will be no different than countless societies that have collapsed before us, crushed under the weight of their own dysfunctional political systems.
Renewables are not replacing fossil fuels. Fossil fuel use hasn’t declined at all. Emissions have never been higher. Rather, what should have been obvious is happening. Capitalism is very good at exploiting any available and useful resource, and there is no more useful resource than energy. The market is more than happy to gobble up the output of any number of solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. A use for all that energy can be found. No matter how many solar panels we produce, their output is used to increase the total amount of energy consumed, rather than using them to replace fossil fuels. Meanwhile, fossil fuels are still very useful energy, and the market continues to find a use for them as well. To a capitalist system, the answer to the question “how much energy should we produce?” Is always “yes.”
Solving this problem will require actions that no liberal government is capable of. If you worship the free market as a religion, then you won’t be capable of making the changes that are needed to save our species from extinction. Conservatives know only delusions, and liberals know only subsidies. Both are equally useless at solving the problems we face.
What do we need to do? We need to be using non-market solutions. We need to be phasing out fossil fuels entirely. We need to be limiting the total amount extracted, and we need to lower that cap rapidly over time. Then we need to make it illegal to extract fossil fuels. We need to make it a capital offense to dig an oil well. Anyone caught drilling a well should be buried alive inside that well. Then we need to go to war against any nation that refuses to do the same. Eventually we need to waging outright military campaigns against fossil fuel infrastructure, regardless of what country the infrastructure belongs to. We need to be willing to risk nuclear war, as that is the level of crisis we are facing.
Note, your skin probably crawled when you read those last few sentences. If it did, you’re likely not psychologically capable of truly addressing the crisis we find ourselves in. You’re so conditioned to capitalist realism that those actions seem violent and absurd, rather than acts of rational self-defense of a species against its own annihilation.
- Comment on DOGE's next target revealed after $59 million spent to put illegal migrants in luxury hotels 6 months ago:
I find your lack of critical thinking disturbing.
