drKarl

I found this which is kind of hosted self-hosting: https://www.pikapods.com/

Lol that's hilarious, the url resolves to https://localhost:1313/posts/self-hosting-like-its-2025/, how ironic!!

And it's sentient

I think it's important to mention that when using Neovim as an IDE the secret sauce is LSP. Search in Google or YouTube Neovim as an IDE for some help setting everything up

Black mirror continues to predict the future, like this 2013 episode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

Alright so the claim is that "hackers" are constantly scanning the internet in search for vulnerable systems and a few minutes is enough for the "hackers" to find it and infect it. There are more than 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses, assuming a probe takes like 10 seconds to identity the IP, it would take more than 1000 years to scan all of the internet. Even if you use a distributed botnet it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Ok let's ignore that and assume they found the XP machine. Typical viruses and Trojans require the user to download and execute an infected file but this assumes unattended infection. Not saying it's impossible, as there are exploits that can open a back door but dedicating so much time and effort to hack an old machine that is not a high profile target seems unlikely.

It seems that senior management in these companies you are talking about are following Royce du Pont's advice.

This will continue until at least 2100 when numbers may finally peak and then fall.

That's due to the higher fertility rate of countries like Niger, Angola etc which far outpace the declining rates of most of the rest of the world like China, Russia, Europe, Japan, South Corea, USA, etc.

I see a lot of comments here focused on their individual experiences and opinions, which is fine. But on those comments I see a lot of people saying they won't have kids. Which individually is their choice, but collectively, combined with people who do have kids have them older which can lead to fertility issues when they want to have them, combined with the increase in the number of people who is LGBTQ+ which again it's their choice and nothing wrong with that individually, but as a species we can see how these factors combined, and other factors, are the cause of drop in number of children born in all countries. I recently read that in Japan there are more adult diapers sold than baby diapers because of drop in births and increase of aging population. This seems to be driving us to extinction as a species, just food for thought.

This is an infomercial. We don't need our id to be held captive in a private company, we need decentralized self-sovereign identity.

I didn't know about this novel, Manna, it is 21 years old and more relevant today than ever (I'm on chapter 4).

Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Rogue AGI/ASI?

There are better options anyway like the Lenovo Legion Go

May he be planning to escape the riots of most of the population who lost their job to AI agents and robots (in the following 5 to 10 years)?

What are their pronouns?

This looks like a war between the worshippers of Roko's Basilisk and its detractors.

For me it's not worth the effort to self-host, plus figuring out SPF, DKIM etc. Not being included in a blacklist because your server's IP address is on the range of a spammer... I use Mailfence for a couple of emails with my own domains, works well

Good thing I moved to Obsidian

If you're going to use KeePass, do it right and use KeePassXC (that's what I use). It's cross platform. I sync the password file between my computers and my phone and I use KeePassXC client on my phone as well. And I use a completely different KeePassXC password file for work related passwords which I keep on my work computer. How many times have Okta and LastPass been hacked already? If you have some really sensitive passwords you could have your password file inside a Veracrypt container. Also, you can use a key file (can be anything including an image) along with your password for added security.

That article seems to be written with resentment

You're right, I remembered it like that but it seems that it wasn't banned in the end although their office recommended to take it off tv: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-teletubbies-idUKL2...

This article seems to be written by a religious zealot, and the fact that the article opens mentioning his concern of whether or not his friends at church nod in approval or not about what he does is very telling.

I have 2 young kids, and I select what they can watch. And I'm aware that when I was a kid I watched lots of violent shows like Tom and Jerry like someone else said, or even Dragon Ball which is a million times more violent, but I hesitate to let them watch other much more innocuous shows.

I'm an atheist, so I'm not burdened with religious prejudices, and I'm very open minded, I think everyone has a right to sleep with and love whoever they want, and to identify themselves as whoever they want, I also think no one should be discriminated against because of their skin tone, nationality, beliefs, identity, disabilities or anything else.

But I also understand the outrage against wokism. There is an episode in Ridley Jones which is a show for young kids, where there is a bison saying that it's non-binary and what are their preferred pronouns. This is completely unnecessary for the plot and those are subjects that go miles above the heads of the intended audience. Also in many of the latest Disney productions and other shows in Netflix there's been a lot of queer characters and gay/lesbian relationships, which is not necessarily a problem depending how it is treated, specially if the production is for teenagers and adults, but I think it's completely unnecessary and kind of force feeding to include that kind of topics in the shows for the youngest kids. That trend also brings us ludicrous contradictions like an upcoming version of Snow White and the 7 dwarves, which are not actually dwarves, I think there's maybe 1 dwarf only.

Having said that, there's so many examples of religious extremisms taking things to the, erm, well, extremes. And I'm not going to even mention Muslim Theocracies because I think those are ultimate level of autocratic religion fuelled fascist regimes. But for example in Catholic Poland, the children's show Teletubbies was banned because they said the purple teletubbie was gay.

I think there are lots of shows in Netflix that it would be wise to don't allow your kids to watch, depending on their age of course. But the concerns the article raises about Paw Patrol are honestly laughable. There's a lot of illogical things in kid's shows. Just look Spongebob Squarepants and you'll see that they're under the water but most of the time physics and everything else behaves as if they're not. In Paw Patrol I always asked myself how a 10 year old doesn't seem to have adult supervision and seems to have unlimited resources and money to fund his organization. But again, in this show puppies talk and can drive cars, so you can't expect it to be based on reality. Of course in this show there will always be some kind of trouble which the Paw Patrol will happily solve, but there wouldn't be much of a show if that wasn't the case, isn't it? I can think of many series I watched when I was a kid and teenager, that also show a different problem or villain in every episode, actually that's the case for a large number of series. Just think of those oldies Knight Rider, McGuiver, A Team... The same critiques applied to Paw Patrol in the article would applie to all of them.

Also it calls the Mayor in Paw Patrol tyrannical when there's no evidence of repression or autocracy in the show, and I find it funny that he fantasizes with a resistance composed of poets and religious types. As if religious types weren't on the oppressing end of autocracies most of the time along history.

You should mint an NFT collection

This looks like it could be easily weaponized for political disruption and disinformation/fake news.

Should be named Icarus

What could go wrong?

Delamain, is that you?

His manager is a dev?

I believe the deeper the layer of ice, the thougher it is, so at the surface is relatively easy to drill but at those depths it might be like drilling on steel.

In the US most people have an iPhone, in Europe Android is much more popular, so it really depends where is your target audience.