TFW you seg fault youself today, just to see if it is real.

More likely, skynet already happened, you’re probably the cpu.

Even more likely, You’re the dream inside of the brain of one of skynet’s electric sheep.

I don’t see it as a paradox, but as rational. But there are people who I think do hold tolerance as some sort of moral compulsion, and get offended by the notion that it might just emerge from people figuring out how and why to cooperate, without any high and mighty guiding morality.

These people will also object to using rational models to understand/describe human behaviours, because they can point to many examples of people acting irrationally. Many of these examples are psychology lab “experiments” so are irrelevant to the real world. But plenty of real examples of things like loss aversion and risk (mis)percepion, sunk costs, time-inconsistent decisions and so on where individuals clearly do behave “irrationally”.

I often come across people who believe that this undermines anything any “rational model” has to say. And so I do try to use such reasoning with those people, or even challenge those observations with examples where collective rationality does seem to emerge as a social (not individual) phenomenon, then I’ll be derided as some sort of neo-conservative capitalist fascist or whatever.

So I find that it’s generally good practice to chuck in some insult about one type of political zealot or other every so often, so as to quickly establish where I stand. I’d rather be vague than waste my breath with zealots.

It’s a great argument for backups. I don’t think clod/DRM based services are the best backup - certainly they’re not a complete backup system.

If you have a local system and/or communication failure, or bandwidth limitation; how long to restore the backup?

A backup on a local storage should be possible to plug into another computer and access fairly easily.

Ideally your backup system will give some resilience against many types of risk scenario, especialy for the data you care most about or can’t go for a long time without. The fact that it’s harder to backup DRM stuff is a limitation - so I’d avoid DRM unless i don’t care about the thing.

WTF “vibe coding”? I’m not even wasting the electricity to googgle that one.

Social contract not a moral imperative.

Or seen as a repeated prisoners dilemma, play tit-for-tat, or maybe (N*tit)-for-tat (where N gives a ‘punitive’ damages expectation for breching the accepted norms).

Quite a lot of lefties don’t like thinking about what is “rational” though because “people aren’t cognitively rational” so rationality based social equilibia can obviously never have any relevance.

I’m sure by windows 12 or 13 coprolite will be so good they will get rid of both control panel and command prompt/powershell. The best ui is no ui.

In any case, the users won’t want to mess with settings once the OS already knows which advert they want to see next.

Remember this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1759791.stm

Agreed bad example, I think there are better cases to look at.

I think there’s plenty to be learned from safer cities like Oslo and Helsinki.

I think they reduced traffic deaths by a combination of road/street design and building alternatives but they do also cite speed limit reduction and enforcement.

I do like what they’re trying to do in Wales: https://walesupdates.uk/news/welsh-road-deaths-plummet-after-20mph-speed-limit-roll-out Hopefully it continues long enough to get some more decent stats on it before they are forced to relax the policy.

Scotland also has some pretty extensive 20mph zones. I also like that the 40mph that often extends out from villages for a km or so before the 20mph zone. That makes it a lot easier for occasional drivers like me to get my senses accustomed to what speed I should be going - and i can keeep my eyes on the road not so much the speedo. I’ve not seen any decent stats on reductions in deaths from those specific changes. I just feel a bit safer (and less dangerous) driving through a small town in Scotland than in England for some reason.

What’s stopping you? It’s a personal choice, pretty much only you cares, you should do what you like.

I use windons for 35 hours a week and linus for like 5. but i can still pretend i’m a linux user on here and no one gives a fuck…

fantastic story.

yes

Adverts for public transport? Makes about as much sense as adverts for fossil fuel - I guess. I don’t recall ever seing one where I live though.

The concept of “the average person” is a good example of the type of crass generalisation that propagndists often use.

You have to be careful to get a phone and model supported by one of the projects. Check all compatibility and install instructions before buying a phone. And if you need a manufacturer supplied unlock code, make sure the manufacturer still gives them out . Some will discontinue that service after a few years.

For graphene os you need one of the gogle devices - i’ve never tried it but i think its the one most people like.

lineageos supports more devices usually older.

I recently got lineageos working on sony experia xa2 - very happy with it. But to get there i had to go try like 6 computers before one of them sucessfully sent the bootloader unlock code over the ADB. For some reason usb is temperamental when doing stuff like that

It is a lot easier on really old stuff like samsung galaxy s3 or s4 if you can tolerate something that old. Maybe you’ll lso end upon an old version of lineage.

Once you get the bootloader unlocked it is generally straightforward. but modern phones make that fist part awkward.

I backup my precious dick pics at several offsite locations by sending them to as many people as possible as often as possible.

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Getting Embraced and Extended must feel nice.

Vital feature.

Just in case your game fogot to put in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

One of them will, and the others will ape it.

Repeat this process enough times and more and more of them will get a bit better.

It’s sort of like education; except the students are a bit better motivated.

They just ned to sell their crypto.