What have ya got?
I'll start: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/14/google-internet-spiral-of-decline-deepmind-mustafa-suleyman/ Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (2023/10/14) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887562
>>XABZVY5U I read the article and It wasn't really about google sending the internet into a spiral of decline. The vast majority of the article was spent discussing "AI" chatbots, an "AI" threat panel, and the founder of deep mind leaving google. Only the first 4 paragraphs had anything to do with the spiral of decline, the rest of it was other random shit about the danger or "AI". Funny that a news article about everything being filled with clickbait is clickbait.
>>66DIUT63 Suleyman's a co-founder of an AI company Google acquired, so the article veering off in that direction shouldn't be surprising. He argues Google's hunger for ad revenue has had a detrimental impact on its search technology and results people may receive from it. AI as a possible replacement or supplement for search could be tainted in a similar fashion. He goes on to argue AI technology should be closely monitored with an eye toward regulation. Regulation of AI could also lead to problems down the road of course. Whether Suleyman recognizes that is an open question. Personally I'm watching open source AI efforts.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-climate-driven-extreme-earth-hot-humans.html Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans (2023/10/09) https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-debt-worries-mount-is-another-crisis-brewing-2023-10-16/ As global debt worries mount, is another crisis brewing?
>>SZVIKGYI The world is gonna be really shitty in the future if we don't do anything about global warming. I can imagine the USA collapsing due to famines, refugee crises, wars with other countries over resources, cities being flooded, and extreme weather events destroying infrastructure. I wonder if you could dig a hole underground to avoid the heat, the ground is usually at a more constant temperature when you get below a certain distance, if you can do that then I would guess people would build basements that go deep into the ground for their homes. Another thing I thought of was that you could get a weather balloon and fly really high up to avoid the heat.
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-plastic-pervasive-food.html Plastic pervasive in food supply, says new study (2023/05/19) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/un-report-ipbes-wild-species-extinction_n_62c992fae4b0359fa47c13ce Earth Is On Track To Lose More Than 1,000 Wild Mammal Species, UN Report Says (2022/07/09) >>5EQIYP8C > The world is gonna be really shitty in the future if we don't do anything about global warming. Yes, but climate change is only one problem among many more. There's a bunch of reasons we're headed for bad times. > I wonder if you could dig a hole underground to avoid the heat Probably. That idea makes me think of Arx Fatalis.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-gaza-palestinians-holocaust Israel must stop weaponising the Holocaust
https://nullchinchilla.me/2023/05/two-kinds-of-censorship-resistance/ https://nullchinchilla.me/2023/06/earendil-uncensorable-decentralized-network/ Interesting blog and project.
>>PB85GK8P It's annoying when people cry racism over things that aren't bad at all. Like Jews saying criticising Israel is "anti-Semitic". And I say this as a half-Jew.
>>8YZBEQI1 > shutting down the whole Internet, for instance, is a foolproof strategy for a Type-II censor of any Internet protocol, and we need to carefully model our attacker's incentives and capabilities to rule out these high-collateral-damage strategies North Korea does this. They cut off all access to the outside worlds internet aside from a couple of computers. > Decentralized collateral freedom: can we build a decentralized network that has collateral freedom? If we achieve mass adoption of some Type-I censorship-resistant decentralized technology — say, a cryptocurrency — censoring all usage of that technology would be as hard as censoring centralized services used for current collateral-freedom systems. The challenge here, besides actually achieving mass adoption, seems to be that censors can simply mandate usage of a surveilled gateway to such a subversive network, and ban properly using the network. This achieves all their censorship goals without much collateral damage. In the case of cryptocurrency, for instance, nothing seems to prevent a regime like China from banning self-custody wallets, Type-II censoring all blockchain network traffic, and still participate in the cryptocurrency economy through "compliant" custodial wallets. It seems hard to design a system where such a gateway-based censorship machine will actually cause collateral damage. If I was a tyrannical government who wanted to control cryptocurrency, I would target the miners. If you could get 51% of the miners (computing power wise) to accept a change in the bitcoin software that lets a "trusted" third party make transactions with other people's wallets. The governments knows where the large bitcoin mining operations are and they could force them to adopt the different version. I would also ban the version of bitcoin that doesn't have that feature. What would end up happening is there would probably be a fork in the tree where some people (outside the country) rejected the change and others accepted it (like bitcoin cash, which was another time the miners got together and made a choice that benefited them against the public good, Bitcoin cash would have made it easier for users to make bitcoin transactions but it would have meant the miners would make less money on transactions). China might be able to do this because they have a shitload of bitcoin miners (not sure if they have over 50% of computing power though). The custodial wallets idea mentioned in the blog also works. According to cnbc "China was once the world's biggest crypto mining hub, accounting for between 65% to 75% of the total "hash rate" — or processing power — of the bitcoin network." (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/china-is-second-biggest-bitcoin-mining-hub-as-miners-go-underground.html). They cracked down on crypto mining so not anymore. The author could have also talked about allowing the devices to connect through an alternative physical layer (like gnunet has talked about). Most privacy tools don't ever talk about alternate physical layers but they can be used if you are being blocked in one layer. You can connect to gnunet through bluetooth or wifi (wireless LAN) as long as there are enough people around you running gnunet through bluetooth and somebody eventually has wifi or bluetooth connected to the internet. You could also create a darknet using just wifi routers or bluetooth if you wanted to. Also using Censorship when it comes to paying people doesn't seem right to me. Censorship is blocking of speech and I don't consider payment to be the same as speech. The morality issues around speech and the moral issues around payment are different issues.
>>4PNMKA6J >The author could have also talked about allowing the devices to connect through an alternative physical layer (like gnunet has talked about) Have you heard of https://reticulum.network/ ? It can run over different transports, such as LoRa (the main one), TCP/IP, and others.
>>4PNMKA6J >Also using Censorship when it comes to paying people doesn't seem right to me. Censorship is blocking of speech and I don't consider payment to be the same as speech. The morality issues around speech and the moral issues around payment are different issues. I agree with you. But blocking one is a similar enough process to blocking the other that it makes sense to talk about them together. Or so the author seems to have thought anyway.
>>4PNMKA6J >If you could get 51% of the miners (computing power wise) to accept a change in the bitcoin software that lets a "trusted" third party make transactions with other people's wallets. From what I've read, you'd have to get the whole network to agree on a change to the software, not just miners. However, with 51% of miner hashrate you can control the blockchain (by directly adding/removing/modifying transactions, not by controlling the software). Which is what I think you meant?
https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/ Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (2023/11/20) https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/11/21/013246/secretive-white-house-surveillance-program-gives-cops-access-to-trillions-of-us https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353525
Nikki Haley Says Anonymous Social Media Posts Are a ‘National Security Threat,’ Demands All Users Verify Identity https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nikki-haley-says-anonymous-social-media-posts-are-a-national-security-threat-demands-all-users-verify-identity/
This is kinda funny lol: Anish Kapoor banned from using world's pinkest pink in retaliation for hoarding the blackest black https://boingboing.net/2016/11/14/anish-kapoor-banned-from-using.html
Redirecting one’s own taxes as an effective altruism method https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AskPyNg6hHP6SrmEy/redirecting-one-s-own-taxes-as-an-effective-altruism-method
tangara: open hardware portable music player https://sr.ht/~jacqueline/tangara/
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67448897 The quest to find healthy and cheap sweeteners (2023/12/15)
Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defense-for-onion-services/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/25/the_war_of_the_workstations/ War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38763933
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/dijkstra-and-logic/
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/
>>ZM2Q5JKP "A Bridge too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic" This is a description of dijkstras career and the scandal he caused after he tried to create a logic system. >>BYUZP357 This is an essay of how recursion was introduced into algol 60. The blog was written by an influential logic programmer.
>>7UR5V9HZ > It is a [sort of law of nature]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollo%27s_law_of_irreversibility) that when you try to replace features that you eliminated, the result is never as good as if you designed it in at the beginning. The link to dollo's law in this sentence is incorrect. Firstly because it's about evolution which has no designer, and secondly because it doesn't say anything about the quality of the features.
This looks like a pretty cool charity: https://www.wearepact.org/ >At PACT, we protect every child’s right to grow up free from sexual exploitation and trafficking through: education, partnership, legal advocacy. Just gave £100
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/28/new-romanticism-technology-backlash
>>ISJ83QDS The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms
https://web.archive.org/web/20060611185528/https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Criticizes Wikipedia. > Reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible closely. There are faint traces of the voices of various anonymous authors and editors, though it is impossible to be sure. > When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but something more subtle. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning. Personal Web pages do that, as do journals and books. Even Britannica has an editorial voice, which some people have criticized as being vaguely too "Dead White Men." Wikis are so shit. wiki.c2.com is slightly better because the disembodied voices argue with each other, and you can express your opinions. People are also allowed to sign their names with their opinions, but any seminal idea will inevitably be refactored into an anonymous summary of the previous conversation "4. If comments seem to be converging then prepare for PatternMode by suggesting single paragraph patterns that CAPTURE the ideas present in the discussion. These are better anonymous or collectively signed so that all contributors know they are welcome to fine tune them" [https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreadMode].
https://caffeinesymposium.blogspot.com/2015/08/trigun-and-japanese-narrative-structure.html Trigun and Japanese Narrative Structure: A Response to ThatAnimeSnob
>>8UIIIZKL One of wikipedia's own founders shits all over it: larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased That article is mostly showing how it is biased against the right in the united states, but here is a commie complaining about it too https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=wiki
>>ISJ83QDS the article it references about 'luddite teens' is really dumb though https://archive.is/ZcazG
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the-plastic-chemicals-hiding-in-your-food-a7358224781/ The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food (2024/01/04) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38878683 https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/01/06/011259/consumer-reports-finds-widespread-presence-of-plastics-in-food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8XBEJTXAwQ pretty cool.
>>Z1TWE001 CapROS also has data persistence across reboots.
>>V5OOLSUL "Classist" Lmao I like the idea of flip phones though. But I'd never get one unless it supported end-to-end encryption.
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html Coreutils Gotchas
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259073 Bras Make Breasts Sag, 15-Year Study Concludes
Cool short sci-fi stories: https://vgel.me/fiction/
https://www.nongnu.org/genshiken/ This web page was fact checked as true by GNUmerican patriots.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/21/hostile-architecture-is-making-our-cities-even-less-welcoming Cities are made to crush your soul.
https://www.techspot.com/news/101774-report-reveals-decline-quality-usb-sticks-microsd-cards.html Report reveals decline in quality of USB sticks and microSD Cards (2024/02/06) https://phys.org/news/2024-02-mimas-tiny-moon-young-ocean.html Mimas' surprise: Tiny moon holds young ocean beneath icy shell (2024/02/07) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68233330 Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (2024/02/08) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68110310 World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit (2024/02/08)
The world's first open source search engine to my knowledge https://stract.com/ https://archive.is/byCc3
First Nuclear Plasma Control with Digital Twin https://tube.raccoon.quest/watch?v=4VD_DLPQJBU
>>VF6IA30E The oldest free software web search engine I know about is YaCy (2003). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
https://www.theonion.com/god-kicking-self-for-not-coming-up-with-hentai-1849854260 God Kicking Self For Not Coming Up With Hentai (satire)
>>55GI4SJ8 How could I forget about YaCy lol
https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604 A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39420385
>>55GI4SJ8 And the only free as in freedom, I know of.
https://www.asomo.co/p/the-luddites-guide-to-defending-physical-cash
https://dw.com/en/fossil-fuel-majors-miss-the-mark-on-climate-targets/a-68617638 Fossil fuel majors miss the mark on climate targets (2024/03/20)
https://open.substack.com/pub/theseedsofscience/p/lets-build-a-fleet-and-change-the
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/26/cocoa-prices-are-soaring-to-record-levels-what-it-means-for-consumers.html Cocoa prices are soaring to record levels. What it means for consumers and why 'the worst is still yet to come' Is a world bereft of chocolate one worth living in?
My Schizoid Dilemma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xXAHyQadwA
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
>Is a world bereft of chocolate one worth living in? Yes, chocolate is nice to have, but it's not so important that life would be worthless without it. There are many things (like sex or masturbation) that are far more pleasurable than chocolate.
>>UTGILJMN All of them are temporary, as they only please the material part of our body. If you desire to be fulfilled on a long term scale, you must invest in the soul.
>>XO4EOQRC Crazy to see Ryan pop up here.
>>3CBB1NOL Based
>>3CBB1NOL I was comparing chocolate to sex because both of them are fleeting pleasures. It doesn't make sense to compare chocolate to any long term pleasure because they are completely different.
https://www.theblaze.com/return/what-dune-teaches-us-about-human-achievement-and-the-dangers-of-ai What 'Dune' teaches us about human achievement and the dangers of AI (2024/03/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/29/song-lyrics-getting-simpler-more-repetitive-angry-and-self-obsessed-study Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study
https://www.theblaze.com/news/harvard-researchers-create-intelligent-liquid-that-has-ushered-in-a-new-class-of-fluid-study Harvard researchers create 'intelligent liquid' that has ushered in a 'new class of fluid': Study (2024/04/06)
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