Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]

I had to have a hard conversation with my wife and in-laws about posting pictures of my son online. They agreed but didn’t get it. Once AI deepfakes became common, they got it.

Here is something moderately unhelpful but still personally important. Switch to librewolf. I dont get Firefox trying to autofill old or unhelpful logins on Librewolf and I use bitwarden.

A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder: megamix edition

Luckily, it’s a lot easier to train electronics inspectors than decent coders who can follow the whole system or module design. That should help for a bit but, man, to be the QA person looking at that atrocity…

Y’all it’s the Spongebob coffin meme.

Yeah, Medtronic is a bunch of assholes for things like that. If you really wanna rage, look at how the company does everything they can to not allow communication between blood sugar live sensors and pump controllers. Biomedical enthusiasts (I loathe the term biohacker) have been working this idea with older, more easily hackable pumps.

Peak design. We have strayed from the Holy T9.

You aren’t wrong to suspect the timing. They have been working on a variety of bills to work on the KYC aspect of the business. This major push, along with Android Developer Verification, are the ways the corpos want remove any anonymity.

Sorry, minor correction. Not all the systemd developers. One single dickhead wrote it and two chuds who work at microslop merged the PR made this happen. The git structure got hijacked. People are arguing over the validity and necessity of the PR while ignoring the broader goals this serves.

To be frank, I am so sick of this invasive nonsense. I have a son and you know how I’m going to manage access for him? Not fucking letting him have the damn computer before he knows how to use it safely. I grew up on Web 1 and web 2.0. They were much scarier places back in the day and easier to find.

Moreover, this also follows with the trend of sensationalizing threats to make the pearl clutchers feel this is a good choice. Its no different that how the news screams the US is unsafe with tons of violent crime to justify this kind of bullshit when violent crime has been declining on the whole.

This ginned up controversy serves one interest. Control access to knowledge so you never question the State again.

This idea is also in the beta canon Star Trek novels. If I remember correctly, it was the Vanguard series with Carol Marcus and James Kirk dissolving their marriage.

You cannot use an unethical mimicry tool in an ethical way. You are asking a theft engine to create for you based on others work.

The Zenkethi have been in both alpha and beta canon with wildly different interpretations. I’d like to see more of them even if it isnt major and they just decide what they should be.

As predictable as it is, I still believe Anisha is working with Nus(topher). I’m not engaging in the pictures or anything because I don’t want to be spoiled.

Possible silly idea but could the reference to a gemstone be a possible nod to the Emerald Chain having some angle here? I realize they were only namedropped maybe once, but they are an active player in the region and could be part of the scaffolding for the villains in season 2.

Gotta love “apolitical” scientists. “I just want to do my work building things to kill people. I dont care who I build it for. You all will use it to kill each other somehow.” - Wernher von Braun, probably.

As someone raised by a very ignorant silent generation grandfather, there is a middleish ground. Listen to the stories. The lesson you may take may not be the intended but can be instructive. What is important to remember is their world no longer exists so take the advice with a grain of salt. While I am just as mad as anyone else with the mess we have been left, close personal older family and friends can still provide useful advice. Just… Weigh it out with your lived experience. Use what serves you. Edit: spelling

Civilization and cooperation are intrinsic. The rules of human cooperation dictate rules of behaving. You do not require a god to establish murder and hording of resources and sexual violence as bad. They are defined as malum in sae for reason, in law.

Community sets the rules, adjudication, and punishment regardless of the inspiration of the rule. A god can provide a framework but people can do it too.

In regard to the second paragraph, I am very much a metaphoric horse who will not even be led to water, let alone drink. This has, unsurprisingly led to a great many humbling moments in my life. In regards to those who “know themselves”, those who are most sure are those least humbled. Even if misfortune never visits you, always question yourself, your actions, and your intentions. You will find insights by doing this as a mindful part of your life.

Yeah, but did the generals ever consider if your President is a pedophile controlled by Russia and Israel? Huh? Checkmate, professional military thinkers.

It’s one more tool in the bag that the State can wield against us. My more conspiratorial thinking as this as an accidental part of the frame work of how they create the slave knowledge worker class since anyone who actually works in tech will disable this. That way they can sweatshop devs into fixing bad AI code without paying them.

Love the writeups they cook up. Always useful stuff. The Beetsflask guide is pretty helpful too.