I grew up in the 1980's doing duck-and-cover drills in school until the Berlin Wall came down. Growing up a science nerd who practically lived at the library, it was pretty obvious that duck-and-cover would do jack-and-shit if anybody ever pressed the big red button. So, I had to come to terms with the possibility that somebody might nuke where I grew up, probably far too early than was good for my mental health.
What it comes down to is this: In the unlikely event that somebody pops off a nuclear weapon, there is precisely dick that you, I, or anybody else likely to read this thread could do about it. It's way above any of our pay grades, to steal a phrase. The only thing you can really do is take heart in the fact that there is nothing you did to cause it and nothing you can do to stop it, just like a solar flare or a gamma ray burst. The best you can hope for is that you're somewhere in the first two blast radii because the most likely outcome is a bright flash, and that'll be that. No suffering, no radiation sickness, no cancer eating you alive months to years later.
I get that's not the kind of response you're looking for, and I can't blame you for that. However, neither am I willing to lie. Nuclear war is possibly one of the most horrible things the human race is capable of, and there is no happy medium, nothing reassuring, nothing hopeful that can be said.
I don't know anymore. "Companies" is the key word there. Depending on how far you want to go to hold to your values, you might have go all the way back to scratch building a RepRap.
Before anybody asks, no, I'm not being sarcastic. That might be what it takes these days.
I don't expect to live long enough to retire. Any hope that I'd eventually be able to retire and enjoy life for a change went out the window in 2008 when the housing bubble popped.
I did not. Between the social backlash of Google Glass (c.f., what happened to Steven Mann in France about a decade ago) and the product being DV'd, I gave up on it and moved my research into cold storage.
I really want to laugh about this, but it marks the beginning of synthetic video and audio for political purposes. Coupled with personally tailored political ads, and this is going to be a total disaster.
I think it's a little too late. Amazon already bought One Medical, which is the only non-hospital medical provider in a lot of areas. That means they have access to all of the medical records.
When I worked for a telecom company I used to get stuck working double shifts (system maintenance cycle at night) because I had seniority. Rather than go into the office or the data center I worked from my apartment when I could get away with it.
At this point in life I lived maybe fifteen minutes off the DC Beltway in NOVA. This is somewhat relevant.
So, one night I'm waiting for Sylantro patches to install and the cluster to fail back over and I saw a bunch of shadows moving at speed through the window. The odd thing blowing in the breeze at night wasn't unusual but this was a pack. Then I heard a crash upstairs and shouting in at least two languages, English being one of them. Never did find out what the other one was because it was too muffled.
I found out later that somebody living in my apartment building two or three floors up had been raided. I asked the folks I knew on the local police force, and they said it wasn't them. I kinda suspect that it was the FBI. Anyway, he worked for somebody's government and was in the States on a diplomatic visa, and he was also involved in human trafficking somehow. I never did find out specifics.
The UI's a little bit sticky, possibly due to how busy lemmy.ml is right now. The set of communities is pretty thin as well, but that will probably change as time goes on.
Not in California. Been trying since I moved out here, and so far both landlords (the house we rent got sold to another investor when our original landlord retired) categorically refused the solar power upgrade. Fought that battle for two years with the first landlord, about a year with the second one. Both times it came down to "shut up or move out."
I don't think JWICS is DoD only. In theory, any TLA or FLA that handles TS material, has a SCIF and a local JWICS LAN can't be hooked into the rest of the JWICS network.
I was writing code for Google Glass that implemented facial recognition. A friend of mine suffered a TBI in an automobile wreck and developed partial facial prosopagnosia as a result. I was basically writing software that would recognize faces within 15 feet of the wearer and compare it to images of their contacts in their Google account, and would throw up an AR subtitle identifying the person on a match. Not too long after I filed the developer applications and outlined my project, the Glass project flatlined.
Yes. And the big G doesn't care. If they have to lie and say it's abusive and a violation of the ToS, they'll say it is. They're a megacorp, while Invidious is a small open source project.
Honestly? Not very.
I grew up in the 1980's doing duck-and-cover drills in school until the Berlin Wall came down. Growing up a science nerd who practically lived at the library, it was pretty obvious that duck-and-cover would do jack-and-shit if anybody ever pressed the big red button. So, I had to come to terms with the possibility that somebody might nuke where I grew up, probably far too early than was good for my mental health.
What it comes down to is this: In the unlikely event that somebody pops off a nuclear weapon, there is precisely dick that you, I, or anybody else likely to read this thread could do about it. It's way above any of our pay grades, to steal a phrase. The only thing you can really do is take heart in the fact that there is nothing you did to cause it and nothing you can do to stop it, just like a solar flare or a gamma ray burst. The best you can hope for is that you're somewhere in the first two blast radii because the most likely outcome is a bright flash, and that'll be that. No suffering, no radiation sickness, no cancer eating you alive months to years later.
I get that's not the kind of response you're looking for, and I can't blame you for that. However, neither am I willing to lie. Nuclear war is possibly one of the most horrible things the human race is capable of, and there is no happy medium, nothing reassuring, nothing hopeful that can be said.
Hug your loved ones.
I don't know anymore. "Companies" is the key word there. Depending on how far you want to go to hold to your values, you might have go all the way back to scratch building a RepRap.
Before anybody asks, no, I'm not being sarcastic. That might be what it takes these days.
And make a little money on the side.
https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2025-05-05/thinking-about-this-and-that/
I wish I could not confirm this, but I can.
I don't expect to live long enough to retire. Any hope that I'd eventually be able to retire and enjoy life for a change went out the window in 2008 when the housing bubble popped.
I did not. Between the social backlash of Google Glass (c.f., what happened to Steven Mann in France about a decade ago) and the product being DV'd, I gave up on it and moved my research into cold storage.
I really want to laugh about this, but it marks the beginning of synthetic video and audio for political purposes. Coupled with personally tailored political ads, and this is going to be a total disaster.
I think it's a little too late. Amazon already bought One Medical, which is the only non-hospital medical provider in a lot of areas. That means they have access to all of the medical records.
Time to start cloning the git repos for safekeeping, folks. yt-dlp, too.
Plush rumps and proboscises?
When I worked for a telecom company I used to get stuck working double shifts (system maintenance cycle at night) because I had seniority. Rather than go into the office or the data center I worked from my apartment when I could get away with it.
At this point in life I lived maybe fifteen minutes off the DC Beltway in NOVA. This is somewhat relevant.
So, one night I'm waiting for Sylantro patches to install and the cluster to fail back over and I saw a bunch of shadows moving at speed through the window. The odd thing blowing in the breeze at night wasn't unusual but this was a pack. Then I heard a crash upstairs and shouting in at least two languages, English being one of them. Never did find out what the other one was because it was too muffled.
I found out later that somebody living in my apartment building two or three floors up had been raided. I asked the folks I knew on the local police force, and they said it wasn't them. I kinda suspect that it was the FBI. Anyway, he worked for somebody's government and was in the States on a diplomatic visa, and he was also involved in human trafficking somehow. I never did find out specifics.
I really doubt it. He's more the kind of guy to organize a DDoS on some of the bigger sites, anyway.
The UI's a little bit sticky, possibly due to how busy lemmy.ml is right now. The set of communities is pretty thin as well, but that will probably change as time goes on.
It wouldn't surprise me. The definitely have a need for their own entirely separate network.
Not in California. Been trying since I moved out here, and so far both landlords (the house we rent got sold to another investor when our original landlord retired) categorically refused the solar power upgrade. Fought that battle for two years with the first landlord, about a year with the second one. Both times it came down to "shut up or move out."
I don't think JWICS is DoD only. In theory, any TLA or FLA that handles TS material, has a SCIF and a local JWICS LAN can't be hooked into the rest of the JWICS network.
I was writing code for Google Glass that implemented facial recognition. A friend of mine suffered a TBI in an automobile wreck and developed partial facial prosopagnosia as a result. I was basically writing software that would recognize faces within 15 feet of the wearer and compare it to images of their contacts in their Google account, and would throw up an AR subtitle identifying the person on a match. Not too long after I filed the developer applications and outlined my project, the Glass project flatlined.
Yes. And the big G doesn't care. If they have to lie and say it's abusive and a violation of the ToS, they'll say it is. They're a megacorp, while Invidious is a small open source project.
Things escalated, folks. They got a C&D:
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609/
Start backing up the source repos now.
A thousand dollar filter mask. Not difficult to see who the intended market segment is.