Being protected by law doesn't mean you are not harmful to others. I was just responding to that one reddit comment, he might have the right to do so, nonetheless it's very self centered
The containers are literally the "bolting on". You need to give the illusion of the software is running under a full OS but you can actually mount the system directories as read-only.
The merger was most likely now because they have to do it before the IPO. After the IPO, there’s a whole process to force independent evaluation and negotiation between two boards / executives, which would be an absolute dumpster fire where Musk controls both.
A mile is exactly 1000 paces, or 4000 feet. You may disagree, but consider: the word mile come from latin for "one thousand". Therefore a mile must be 1000 of something, namely paces. I hope you find this argument convincing.
I despise AppArmor and SELinux, especially in cases where they actively get in the way of security like this.
But you shouldn't need to make a global change. Do this:
if [[ -f /proc/$$/attr/exec ]]; then
# AppArmor is active. Request "unconfined" for our next exec.
echo 'exec unconfined' 2>/dev/null >/proc/$$/attr/exec
fi
exec ...
Or I think you can do this:
$ setpriv --apparmor-profile=unconfined [command]
(You'd think I'd be more sure of the exact circumstances under which the latter works given that I literally wrote setpriv... At the very least, it will error out if apparmor is not running, which is mildly obnoxious.)
This has needed to be said for some time now. I hope all the Apple tech pundits don't have collective amnesia when the annual score card voting comes around.
Increasing federal power is what is going to lead to balkanization. Now that the 10th amendment is null and void the executive and federal government have nearly limitless power, particularly through expanded interpretation of the commerce clause, we find ourselves in a hell where we teeter between two extremes who badly both need to get into power to not be dominated by the other.
Allowing states to differ wildly was what let bygones be bygones, but no we can't have that anymore, everything nowadays seems to need to be imposed on everyone via 190,000 pages of federal regulations and 300,000 federal laws.
True, but that’s going to be a noisy process until there are a few theoretical breakthroughs. I personally would not leave myself legally on the hook hoping that Grok faked something hermetically.
Generally you'd need a killer app/device designed from the standpoint of a vision and once the app/device spreads, so does the vision.
I had the idea of a trashcan that knows what's being thrown away, say with a handheld barcode scanner. The product can be a wifi connected barcode scanner. Each time you scan something, you'd say something like: need 3 more now, past expiry, didn't like, find alternative, order more in 2 weeks. And that barcode scanner would do the ordering through an Agent for replacements.
Not sure if it needs to be wifi connected, but needs web access somehow at some point.
On the other side, suppliers would pay to access and fulfill these orders. Eventually that would be done by Robotaxis and drones. There could be a screen attached to this barcode scanner too ( see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699782 )
So I guess the goal is to setup a site MyStuff. And aim to slot in OmniLinux in there.
Also worth taking into account the recycling aspect.. trash is money.
Maybe you could even take the scanner shopping to discover and scan things with it... not sure how retailers would feel about that.
Could also be used to quickly and easily sell one's stuff, or tokenize it.
But yeah, this is just zooming in on a starting point. The other idea I had was community notice boards. Always important across the world, especially for launching a business. Maybe they could have little cameras in them to record new pinups. Sell to local councils.
So with MyStuff, I am not sure how that overlaps with IoT and Tokenization, some things would be assets, some just things.
Maybe get a really good website going and find a way to let people populate it with data.
I am attempting to move away from smartphones as well. Maybe there's a way to give away these scanners forA Social Network for AI Agents free or provide rebates if the data they collect is solid and/or leads to real transactions. Can also be used as a crypto wallet in face-to-face transactions. That'd be nice - and a way to limit the loss if the scanner is lost/stolen.
The energy economics in space are also a bit more complicated than usually thought. I think Starlink has been using Si cells instead of III-V-based ones, but in addition to lower output they also tend to degrade faster under radiation. I guess that's ok if the GPU is going to be toast in a few years anyway so you might as well de-orbit the whole thing. But that same solar cell on Earth will happily be producing for 40+ years.
Also the same issue with radiative cooling pops up for space solar cells - they tend to run way hotter than on Earth and that lowers their efficiency relative to what you could get terrestrially.
Workstations/servers have forced air cooling that drives a significant amount of airflow over the ram sticks. Gaming PCs don't. I don't think you can make the assumption that heat spreaders / sinks on ram don't help in them.
Every time I see one of these stories I wonder how many tools I would have to remove from my garage to make it impossible to build a primitive gun in there. With enough ingenuity I'm really not sure there would be anything left.
It's so annoying. Transformers keep improving and recurrent networks are harder to train so until we hit some real wall, companies don't seem eager to diverge. It's like lithium batteries improving easy faster than it was profitable to work on sodium ones, even though we unfortunately want the sodium ones to be better.
> Yes, and the made up words of kilo and kibi were given specific definitions by the people who made them up
Good for them. People make up their own definitions for words all the time. Some of those people even try to get others to adopt their definition. Very few are ever successful. Because language is about communicating shared meaning. And there is a great deal of cultural inertia behind the kilo = 2^10 definition in computer science and adjacent fields.
It will be interesting to see exactly where Texas decides to come down if there really was a split in the US. I have to imagine they would want to follow the rich blue states rather than be stuck footing the bill for Arkansas and Mississippi.
I guess they probably just try to become their own country, like they already did once anyway.
I mean, come on, we kidnapped him. Yes, he was arrested, but we went into another sovereign nation with special forces and yoinked their head of state back to Brooklyn.
Many apps require unnecessarily broad permissions with Flatpak. Unlike Android and iOS apps they weren't designed for environments with limited permissions.
Don't combine it with von Neumann probes and you've solved the Fermi paradox: a civilization that puts that much work into computing power is either doing the equivalent of mining crypto and going nowhere, or is doing AI and is so dependent on it that they inevitably form a vast echo chamber (echo sphere?) that only wants to talk to itself (itselves?) and can't bear to be left out by adding the latency unavoidably added by distance.
tl;dr: civilizations advanced enough to travel between stars end up trapped by the resources and physics required to keep up with the Joneses.
