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thebardingreen , 9 hours ago

Actually… a Fediverse OK Cupid clone could totally be a thing… runs away to ponder

thebardingreen , 6 hours ago

I feel like we can figure this out with end to end encryption.

thebardingreen , 1 day ago

Roughly 240 miles.

thebardingreen , 2 days ago

Not a movie character, but when I was a teenager the answer was 100% Willow Rosenberg.

Can’t really think of anyone as an adult.

thebardingreen , 1 day ago

So… You’re not staying then?

thebardingreen , 2 days ago

It’s not a secret. I am a cishet male 90s girl. I love Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos and to a lesser extent the Indigo Girls, Jewel, Dido (though she came a little later).

thebardingreen , 2 days ago

cisgendered heterosexual

thebardingreen , 3 days ago

They have the choice to negotiate or not, but if they choose war and lose, then their lot is to reckon with the consequences of their actions. Vae victus, as the Gauls said to the Romans.

You sir, are an asshole. You have no moral high ground here and in the face of starving civilians, your beliefs, attitudes and viewpoint ring of hollow and despicable demagoguery. Your soap box is built of boards of blood and suffering and we can ALL see it, pooling around your feet. You’re waving a sign that says “Good people of Earth, despise me, oppose me, ostracize me and disregard my words.”

It’s not OK. You have picked the wrong point of view and when you open your mouth or reach for your keyboard to dispense it, nothing will wash the resulting stench from you, because you’re standing on top of this and there is NO WAY to make that a good look. No amount of reasonableness, logic or polite discourse will put you on the right side or make you persuasive.

The side you support has already lost the moral debate and now it’s just the practical matter of what can be done about it, given the geopolitical and cultural realities surrounding it. The world will never forgive you for standing where you stand. Someday, you may realize you need to forgive yourself and when that happens, MAYBE we can have a different conversation.

Until then, farewell.

thebardingreen , 3 days ago

Gross.

thebardingreen , 4 days ago

U.S.S. Making Shit Up by Voltaire, definitely my favorite.

I also once wrote a version of Short Skirt, Long Jacket about being in love with a Klingon woman.

I want a girl with a forehead like a washboard.

I want a girl who knows what’s right.

I want a girl with blades that cut who’s… not afraid to start a fight.

I want a girl with a strong sense of honor, who’s fast and brave and hard as a rock.

She’s playing with her cutlery, she’s putting on her armor, she’s got a Bird of Prey down in number 4 dock…

I want a girl with a short temper and a loooong memory.

Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah Qapla’ Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah, Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah Qapla’ Nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah naaah.

I want a girl who fights with bravery.

I want a girl who bites my cheek.

I want a girl with unbridled ferocity, who uses a Bat’leth with stunning technique.

Disruptor pistols that that burn out justice, and a voice that is harsh like a good blood wine.

She’s fast, and brave and hard as rock and she tosses Gem’hadar right out the air lock…

I want a girl with a short temper and a loooooong… long memory.

thebardingreen , 3 days ago

First OS was DOS. Then Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, then Debian when this happened.

thebardingreen , 5 days ago

My parents were going to name me Heather, but then I was a boy.

When my son was born, I suggested the name Percy to his mother. She was like “Oh, I really really like that!” I was like “Good, then if we have another boy, we can name him Timothy, after your father.” She was like “Aww, that’s so sweet! I know you and my dad get along really well! I like that too! What if we have girls?”

I said “We’ll name them Sage and Rosemary. Then we’ll have Percy, Sage, Rosemary and Tim.”

My son’s name is NOT Percy.

thebardingreen , 5 days ago

My nephew (it was my own damn fault for leaving the equipment set up because I was halfway done with a project) siphoned 55 gallons of water from an aquarium I was building into the carpet.

And that’s the story of how I learned to do flooring and replaced the carpet in my home office with linoleum so that the next time something like that happens it’s non issue.

thebardingreen , 6 days ago

Such hostility my child. I can only pray that the Prophets will help you find peace.

thebardingreen , 7 days ago

No, because FOSTA.

thebardingreen , 8 days ago

When you’re in a Jaeger, you can fight the hurricane.

thebardingreen OP , 8 days ago

Because her papers are PDFs and “Adobe does PDFs.” I was not part of this decision making process.

thebardingreen , 10 days ago

Rhawk-Arrgh, rrrooaarrgghh.

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

Meanwhile Boeing be like “Hold my beer…”

thebardingreen , 14 days ago

During the pandemic, I actually did a couple projects with old, broken phones for fun.

One was, I ran Kubernetes on them. Why? I was on lockdown and bored and lonely. Another was, my son and I experimented with using them as robot controllers, instead of RasPis. We sort of got this to work.

thebardingreen , 14 days ago

You want OpenWRT. They’re not too limited, but they’re not very powerful either. Fan controller? Probably. Pihole? You can probably hack that together, though I’ve never tried. Media server? Erm… not my first choice. Other stuff? Limited only by your imagination, time constraints and willingness to troubleshoot weird problems most people have never had before.

thebardingreen , 15 days ago

It depends. I run an instance with a whole two users and it costs me about $25 a month.

But if I let 200 users join, I would need beefier hardware and a higher bandwidth limit.

However running an instance like Beehaw is probably on the order of hundreds, not thousands of dollars a month.

thebardingreen , 15 days ago

Believe it or not, I had a girl read me that fanfic in 2003. It didn’t turn me on, so she lost interest in me. True story.

thebardingreen , 15 days ago

10/10. Would watch.

thebardingreen , 15 days ago

Nothing pisses me off in life more than when some Bronze Age PoS fortifies a Phalanx on a goddamn mountain, pillages my mine, throws the nearby city into civil disorder and I attack it with 3 Mechanized Infantry units and it fricken’ kills all three of them.

thebardingreen , 16 days ago

This is the best answer.

thebardingreen , 15 days ago

• sshfs. I use it for everything.
• autossh
• git. It always annoys me how Debian doesn’t come with it out of the box. Gets me every time I set up a new server.
• Signal desktop app.

thebardingreen , 15 days ago

If we put Elon Musk in a box along with a detector calibrated to detect the emission of a radio active particle, with a device that will cause Elon Musk to do science if it detects the particle and make up bullshit if it doesn’t, does Elon Musk remain an arrogant asshole no matter what the particle does?

thebardingreen , 15 days ago

Across the board, we have let people who are primarily motivated by accumulating wealth and power accumulate wealth and power unchecked, and then make all the rules for how everything around them works.

These are the last people you want making the rules if you desire sane and sustainable social environments.

The best thing we could collectively do for ourselves is strip and block these kinds of people from positions of authority on the sheer basis that they seek it so eagerly, tell them to their faces WHY, tell them they can’t have it back and that they can ONLY have it back when they stop wanting it so badly, no matter HOW HARD they cry about it and then treat them with the same kind of disdain they’ve treated people who don’t want to play by THEIR rules for centuries.

thebardingreen , 18 days ago

I miss weird niche creative silly roleplay reddits like

r/vxjunkies

r/enlightenedbirdmen / r/madmudmen

r/earth999

r/nsfwworldbuilding - mostly bees with boobs

thebardingreen , 21 days ago

Damn it, idiots both in the US and Israel will see that as a sign from God.

thebardingreen , 22 days ago

Maxolx / Kzin / Kilrathi - Always gonna start shit with humans, always gonna have a tech edge, always gonna be arrogant and convinced of their own superiority, always gonna lose.

thebardingreen , 23 days ago

If it’s me, my nose is just itchy, and I’m not even thinking about it, or aware I’m doing it. Happens all the time.

thebardingreen , 24 days ago

How about Reagon / Carter? El Salvadore Death Squads? School of the Americas?

thebardingreen , 24 days ago

I encountered an engineering firm that did this. I wanted to do it too.

The company I worked for at the time (said engineering firm was doing subcontracting for us) was full of older business people who could never in a million years have wrapped their heads around the idea.

thebardingreen , 25 days ago

Compared to them, I’m broke. My street has 1.8mil+ houses on it. We got a super good deal on this place, it’s getting leased to us at cost.

We have to drive 10 minutes away to go grocery shopping. Not that there aren’t stores around here, but who wants to pay $8.39 for a box of organic hippy brand cereal?

thebardingreen , 25 days ago

I read this as “40k porn” and was like…wtf mate.

thebardingreen , 26 days ago

Just as an amphibian enthusiast / custom aquarium maker, if my wife gave me a frog this way, I would squee like a little girl.

I mean… she got me a hamster and three months later I had built this:

lemmy.starlightkel.xyz/post/128358

thebardingreen , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

Man who can’t let go of past allows childhood bully to goad him into unwinnable challenge, forces friends to play history’s most boring sport. They get their asses kicked.

thebardingreen , 30 days ago

That the many worlds interpretation is sort of correct, but incomplete. Hear me out.

Many worlds isn’t as mind bogglingly ridiculous if the worlds are constantly merging back into each other. Like the universe where a photon bounced left and the universe where it bounced right are functionally identical, then they ARE just the same universe. As long as which way the photon bounced didn’t make a meaningful difference, those two realities aren’t suddenly new separate lines, they’re like a rubber band that stretched in two directions, then bounced back together.

But let’s say you measure the photon and keep records of it. Now there’s two versions of you right? One measuring the photon going left, one measuring it going right. You’re in separate universes that shall never meet right?

No… you’ve stretched the rubber band a little further. Over a timescale that’s totally meaningless compared to the age of the universe, you will die, your records will decay and once the information is effectively scrambled into chaos… the two realities can just snap back together. Two universe… but now one again.

Now for some really mind bendy stuff… this stretching isn’t just localized in time it’s also localized in space. Meaning… if you measure your photon and split into two versions of yourself, but I’m on the other side of the world (or even just down the street from you) and I have no idea that there’s two versions of you, stretched across this temporary universe split… Well, there’s still only one version of me. Up until I encounter one or the other version of you. And if I never do… or if we just cross paths in the local grocery store and your photon experiment doesn’t come up at all… there’s still just one version of me.

And that one version of me can EASILY encounter both versions of you simultaneously without me ever knowing or it making a meaningful difference in my life. So your split reality is localized… possibly even microscopically in your body (like… most of your neurons in your brain didn’t really change at all because of your experiment, only a few of them have to fire differently, the rest don’t have to split… also, wtf) and in the parts of your lab equipment that kept records of the photon measurement.

Now, even whackier… the remerging isn’t perfect, just perfect enough that the universe doesn’t fall apart. Like… you know how sometimes you’re SURE that the neighbor had a red car, but then you look outside and it’s green and your spouse tells you it’s always been green? Stuff that fuels r/glitchinthematrix.

“OK thebardingreen,” you say, “sure, but wouldn’t that mean our records would detect the imperfections all the time and we’d have clear evidence when we go an check the database that it’s impossible to keep consistent records because of this spliting and remerging?”

“NO!” I say, “because of entropy.”

See, if the universe is going to try to flow along the arrow of time to it’s lowest energy state… and as we all know, something stretched (like a rubber band, but ANYTHING really) is in a high energy state. If we found lots of evidence this was going on, well that would keep the universe stretched out more, over longer periods of time. The universe can’t have that, so when you start checking records, things tend to snap to their lowest energy state (possibly even to the point that you realize the neighbor’s car WAS always green, and you just had a dream last night that it was red. But something’s bothering you about that… doesn’t seem quite right. You post on the internet and tell a eerie story about your strange experience and then go on with your life. The feeling fades. Becomes a funny party story.

Decades later, your grand kids remember a story you used to tell… and they retell it, but they don’t quite remember what color you said the car was. There’s no need for them to split into multiple versions (one who says red and one who says green), they just both say “the car was blue, then it turned out to be yellow.” The universe is FULLY collapsed.

(Also, we KNOW that keeping perfect records / taking perfect measurements is actually incredibly hard and we tend to throw out anomalous results as garbage data, especially if we can’t reproduce them, this could be going all the time and we would just consider it statistically insignificant bad data, within our expected margin of error, easily explainable as a common, everyday screw up)

So yes, that means there could be a small infinity of parallel universes where evolution / history went differently. A universe where sapient rat people are squeeking over their version of the internet about weird science facts. Sure… but so what? The sun is going to expand into a red giant and consume the Earth and erase most of that information and then the local planetary stretch collapses back into it’s lowest energy state… one where there might have been rat people, or hairless ape people, but either way, they’re gone.

Ready for MORE whackyness?? THIS is the Great Filter. Sort of.

Intelligent civilizations spreading across the stars will create a HIGH energy state, as all those potential diversions splinter in more and more ways across greater distances. SO the universe will tend to favor outcomes where chaotic, clever and unpredictable life forms DON’T spread out of their own solar system, or travel across vast distances, because THAT would be a high energy stretch state. Although even just spreading across a galaxy is still only a LOCAL stretch as far as the universe is concerned. Heck, beings 100 light years away who never build a huge solar system sized radio telescope to pick up our faint emissions don’t need to cause weird reality splits. They could exist in a weird little myriad of their own stretched realities and NEVER interact with ours in a meaningful way. And if one day one of their radio astronomers detects a strange radio signal from our star that NEVER repeats and is NEVER explained… well it really doesn’t matter to them at all if we sent that signal or the rats did or the sun just hiccuped in way their physical models can’t explain. Our whole solar system becomes a Schrodinger’s cat box in which both us AND the rat people sent that signal existing in a superpositioned state until someone measures it… which they probably won’t and probably CAN’T so the universe maintains it’s low energy state.

So if you’re ever like “If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, does that mean I never existed”, what if you just created a weird stretch reality that will paradoxically persist for a while and then all collapse back together as soon as the universe can get away with it?

In this thought experiment, it’s possible that a small infinity of time travelers showed up to Stephen Hawking’s time travel party. BUT, that would cause a high energy stretch over a weird knot in time… so the universe will TOTALLY favor outcomes in which no one showed up, so in the vast majority of universes, NO time travelers show up to hang out with Stephen Hawking, BECAUSE that’s less stretching for the universe to do before it snaps back to a low energy state.

So, the many worlds interpretation doesn’t mean that infinities of universes are being created constantly, it means there’s JUST one universe, but multiple pocket realities can exist in it, localized in both space and time, and these pocket realities are constantly snapping back and merging with each other, sometimes inconsistently. Which is EXACTLY what we’d expect from an energetic system progressing through time, experiencing entropy.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Yeah… it’s very clickbatey to NOT include that detail.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

It’s probably less about telling off the UN and more about sound bites / video clips that will play well with his bosses and their political base back home.

Historically, right wing isolationist ideologues of all nationalities seem to cheer and double down when faced with international criticism. They know it’s them and their beliefs against the world and they have a fantasy that they can win, right up until an overwhelming number of them die for it.

Israel as a nation is not in a mood for self reflection and definitely doesn’t want to understand the hole their digging themselves into.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Regional Lemmies. Not holding my breath.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

I googled this and that’s enough internet for today.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

As someone who does cybersecurity consulting for govt. contractors, companies invest in security when some external force forces them to, and then they spend the bare minimum to meet whatever that force requires (and they try to get away with less at every opportunity).

Right now in government contracting we’re experiencing this paradigm shift where the NIST-800-171 standard (which everyone was required to follow, but kind of on the honor system) is going to be replaced in 21 months or so by something called CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification). But, CMMC is basically just the same requirements as NIST-800-171, so why?

BECAUSE, everyone just SAYS they’re NIST-800-171 compliant on all their contracts. Everyone self scores themselves on it and gets a WAY higher score than they do when being scored by a 3rd party, and then reports their self scores up the chain. The way this works in both DoD and NASA projects, which is what I’m familiar with, is the big players like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, etc, have thousands of smaller suppliers and those suppliers have smaller suppliers, so the requirements flow down from the govt to the big contractors to the small subcontractors and each link in the chain is responsible for making sure the upstream links are compliant… which they NEVER are, but they all say they are!

Of course, the government KNOWS this is happening, but lacks the resources to do anything about it. So the solution is to make everyone get third party certified that they are compliant. Half that industry is setting themselves up for failure to meet that deadline (which, of course, has already been delayed and pushed back multiple times) and I have a feeling that when small companies start failing their CMMC certs, they’re going to get stern warnings instead of losing their contracts because the government has to buy shit from someone.

When I talk to the money / business people at my clients, this goes in one ear and out the other.

There are wide spread (willful) misconceptions among those folks that cybersecurity is something IT people do and everyone else just does their jobs without having to think about it. I’ve had CEOs say things like “No, we’re not doing that, we can’t work that way.” when I educate them about their requirements… and then look to me to provide the solution where they don’t have to change anything about the way they work and when I can’t, they get frustrated with me and my team. I’ve had them ask me “Well what do the big companies do?” and I say “Look, they actually TRY to do all these things they require you to do and they fail at it ALL the time, but I’ve heard you complain about how their bureaucracy and rules slow everything down and make working with them difficult. A bunch of that stuff IS what they do to deal with this.” And they just don’t believe me. I’ve had CFOs say “We don’t have the budget to do all of this, so which parts are the most important?” and I’ve said “This is the LAW. You’re supposed to do all of it!” But they know and I know that for the time being no one will hold them accountable.

Right now, tons of companies just say “We’re NIST-800-171 compliant” or “We’re working towards NIST-800-171 compliance” and their contracts go forward and they hire someone like me to tell them what to do and then they don’t do 60% of it and delay doing 20% of it.

This is in an industry that is required by law to try extra hard on their security. In industries where there are no such requirements, or less requirements… good luck.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Nuke hurling trebuchets are an underexplored fantasy tech.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

I’ve written more than enough words to win, while failing to finish my story. I’ve also played a lot with local LLMs. Can confirm on all counts.