cecilkorik

joined 2 years ago
[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It will be hardly any work once a law passes, because they'll make sure it is. Everyone knows where the proprietary code is. It doesn't just get merged in "by accident" unless you are a really shit developer (and to be fair some are).

Besides, no one is saying they have to open source it. To be honest, the outcome from this petition that I would most like to see is simply a blanket indemnity to the community attempting to revive, continue and improve the software from that point forward. If the law says that it's legal once a software is shut down, for the community to figure out a way to make it work again and make it their own, and puts no further responsibilities on the "rights holder" at all, I think that honestly solves the problem in 99% of cases. It would be nice if they gave the community a hand, released what they could, and tried not to be shit about it, (and I know some of them will be shit about it, but we're pretty resourceful), as long as they're not trying to sue every attempt into oblivion I think we'll make a lot of progress on game preservation and make the gaming world a much better place.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My point is, even without AI, if all AI were banned tomorrow, all the data centers shut down, what we're doing to the environment WITHOUT AI is most likely going to kill us all and render the Earth uninhabitable, possibly within 100-200 years. It is, as far as science's ability to predict, the end of the human race and almost all life on Earth. People thinking we'll adapt, or that we can just go live on other planets or space stations after this one is destroyed, or that we'll magically find out a solution and have the technological means to fix it, are all frankly delusional and their wishful thinking is unsupported by current climate science and space science.

My point is we can't stop fighting for the environment and throw it under the bus just because AI is the new threat of the day. If you truly believe "the world has already decided it doesn't care about the environment" then there's no point fighting AI or fighting for anything anymore, because if that is the case then we're straight up doomed, humanity is cooked (literally), the game is over, might as well have fun on the way out.

My point is that if you intend on humanity having any future, both these things need to be fought. You can't claim defeat on one and still fight the other, there's no point and you're wasting your time because the other will get you. They're both utterly existential threats, and either one is as completely fatal as the other.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do you think it's more important to make the world care about AI or to make the world care about the environment?

The "front line" is irrelevant when either one is an existential threat on its own. You can't just redirect your forces to one side. You argue we should make a strong "front line" in front of AI, while we are being overrun from behind by the environment. It doesn't matter that people don't care about it, it's still going to kill us.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

The rules will be the same as they always are: First Come First Served, and Might Makes Right.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you are burning yourself often enough that it's impacting your water bill, you're worrying about the wrong thing.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You will likely have to use a temporary alternative until the name is removed so you can reclaim it. No idea how long that takes, it might not even happen automatically at all. It seems like there is a forum thread for it

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Aha I see you did the text-based install then? I've never done that myself but I just tried it now and it worked fine for me with the default password it mentions. Make sure caps lock is off. You will not be able to see the password when you type it, so be extra careful you are typing it correctly.

Most of the same cautions about internet access still apply, if your networking is active on this VM there's a non-zero chance you can get hacked right away when you're in default passwords/initial setup mode. If you continue to have trouble getting in, you should reinstall it once again onto a fresh VM with network mode set to NAT if possible, or even disabled completely, and see if it works in that configuration. It really is critical to get the password set up before opening up the internet.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The D and R are only pretending to fight each other to create the illusion of opposition. They actually have the same agenda, they are two peas in a pod, and it does not matter if you vote for Kang or Kodos, you will get the same outcome in the end. Fascism is the goal, it's not an "oh no we accidentally voted for fascists" situation, they're all fucking fascists funded by billionaires and none of them give the slightest shit about any of us beyond having different ideas of how exactly they're going to take all our money before they kill us.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Not sure what you mean by "what was provided"... who is providing a username and password for your yunohost?

You are supposed to create your own username and password during the "Begin" setup process after it first installs. "root" and "yunohost" are very insecure and if you use passwords that are copy/pasted from somewhere else on a machine connected to the internet it will be hacked, potentially almost immediately. People have bots that literally just try to connect using these common default passwords all day every day to every site on the internet. I have literally had machines with such crappy passwords hacked within minutes of spinning them up. The same thing can happen even when you are first doing the setup process. If somebody else can get in, they can (most likely with a bot) do the setup process themselves and set up their OWN username/password, and now it will ask you for that password that THEY set, which you have no way of knowing. The instance belongs to the first person to claim it, and if that's not you, you have to wipe it and start over.

Your yunohost VM interface should not be exposed to the internet during setup. Even briefly, or someone else can immediately compromise it like this. The only way to ensure you are the first person to access it is to make sure you are the ONLY person who can access it, until it is properly set up and secured. Bots are WAY faster than you can be.

Use localhost console, VM port forwarding or some other secure method of making sure nobody but your own host computer can access the IP of the server where you are setting things up, until it has a strong, secure password (not "yunohost") and make sure you have all its security features configured and working before you even think about making it accessible to the internet.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 week ago (13 children)

From my understanding (and experience) dating apps/online dating in general is dead, fucked up beyond repair by capitalism, toxic incels, predators, scammers, crooks and most recently AI. No technology can possibly survive such an onslaught and most of them wouldn't profit from doing so. They have a financial incentive to attract repeat customers.

In person meeting and dating should be the obvious alternative, but apparently nobody goes out socializing anymore since COVID and nobody can afford hobbies because of the economy and chronic social malaise and terminal online doomscrolling has broken people's ability to form human connection anyway so I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly.

If there is a useful option I'd love to know what it is too.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe rural school zones are sometimes 50km/h. In context the non-school zone speed limit is usually 80km/h or more, often with visibility from one horizon to the other and a sprawling parking lot, it's not quite the same as a congested urban school with a driveway big enough to fit a single bus and dozens of cars parked along the curb.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In absolutely no particular order:

https://www.youtube.com/@VBirchwood - historical fashion/lifestyle
https://www.youtube.com/@EmmaThorneVideos - a self-described "silly little guy" (hint: not a guy) politely mocking religion and other stuff that deserves mockery
https://www.youtube.com/@darbinorvar - woodworking and maker stuff
https://www.youtube.com/@AtRachelGilmore - Canadian independent journalist
https://www.youtube.com/@AnnaRudolfChess - originally chess (she's an international master and chess commentator) and video games but after a long mental health hiatus, lately more mental health discussions and variety
https://www.youtube.com/@LauraFarms - farming, obviously
https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceMog - astronomy, astrophysics, space
https://www.youtube.com/@karilawler - retro computers/video games and programming
https://www.youtube.com/@acottonsock - Playing The Sims with sometimes inappropriate commentary
https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringwithRosie - engineering explainers with an emphasis on renewable energy
https://www.youtube.com/@BeckyStern - electronics maker stuff
https://www.youtube.com/@aprilclucks - incredibly deadpan sarcastic Australian life advice and mockery of everything and herself too usually, in a style appropriate for the 4chan crowd

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