@jeffcliff @matrix At that point, if you're talking about Elon Musk sticking a computer chip onto your brainstem to connect you to the Internet, then YES, I WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S IN IT.
@jeffcliff @matrix I feel like the difference between your only human body that if permanently damaged can never be restored and if killed means the end of your existence and some computer program you're just working on cannot be overstated.
And if you're working on something that will kill people, then yeah, you should probably be limiting your dependencies and auditing as much as possible.
And if you're working on something that will kill people, then yeah, you should probably be limiting your dependencies and auditing as much as possible.
@djsumdog Unfortunately, too many computer guys have never been subjected to the systems they create, so they create things that are intolerable but "theoretically sound"
@p @shinji @RobinWils The biggest thing I always note is that "nazi" is whatever the person saying it says it means.
There's lots of people who the actual nazis and actual neo-nazis today would happily line up against the wall and murder because they're clearly not.
There's lots of people who the actual nazis and actual neo-nazis today would happily line up against the wall and murder because they're clearly not.
@search_social @Leitis @NEETzsche @leyonhjelm @mushroom_soup @racism_man tbf, he's right.
The purpose of "STEM" is pointing at specific roles that are important in an organization for certain reasons.
Art is important, and I'd argue there is an element of art in STEM, but ultimately the roles in an organization are different. Scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians do live in one wheelhouse where the artists live in another.
Scientists use tools the mathematicians put together, engineers use the tools the scientists put together, technologists use tools the engineers put together.
The workflow is quite different between doing art and doing STEM. Notably, in art there is no objectively wrong answer, but in STEM there is.
The sort of person who does great engineering might not be well catered to doing things on the more artistic side of things. The temperament of someone doing engineering or technology as a vocation is quite different than the temperament of someone doing art as a vocation.
To give an idea, you could take someone with training as a scientist, engineer, technologist, and possibly even a mathematician(That one may be borderline since it's more abstract) and put them into a technical role along the same spectrum successfully. To take someone with training as an artist and put them into a similar role would not be successful because they don't have the tools for the job.
Leonardo da Vinci may have done some engineering, but it's notable that most artists did not. That's one of the things that makes da Vinci exceptional, the fact that he's an exception.
The purpose of "STEM" is pointing at specific roles that are important in an organization for certain reasons.
Art is important, and I'd argue there is an element of art in STEM, but ultimately the roles in an organization are different. Scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians do live in one wheelhouse where the artists live in another.
Scientists use tools the mathematicians put together, engineers use the tools the scientists put together, technologists use tools the engineers put together.
The workflow is quite different between doing art and doing STEM. Notably, in art there is no objectively wrong answer, but in STEM there is.
The sort of person who does great engineering might not be well catered to doing things on the more artistic side of things. The temperament of someone doing engineering or technology as a vocation is quite different than the temperament of someone doing art as a vocation.
To give an idea, you could take someone with training as a scientist, engineer, technologist, and possibly even a mathematician(That one may be borderline since it's more abstract) and put them into a technical role along the same spectrum successfully. To take someone with training as an artist and put them into a similar role would not be successful because they don't have the tools for the job.
Leonardo da Vinci may have done some engineering, but it's notable that most artists did not. That's one of the things that makes da Vinci exceptional, the fact that he's an exception.
@rabbitsonthemoon This entitlement from big companies wouldn't be a problem, except that unlike entitlement from the workers, the companies can jump over to the state and say "Hey, let a bunch of people from the third world in, they don't care about living a first-world lifestyle in the first world!" and the state will do it.
@sizzletron Samsung stopped being the preferred vendor for liberating phones a long time ago. My S9 is specifically unable to be unlocked through any normal means.
https://conduit.rs/release-0-2-0/
Conduit is now officially in beta!
Conduit is a Matrix server implementation that was completed entirely separately from synapse and dendrite. The I personally chose Conduit for my own use because I found that Synapse totally loaded up my server before I even did anything, which obviously made it a bit of a non-starter for me. By contrast, conduit seems as light as an xmpp server on my hardware.
Conduit is now officially in beta!
Conduit is a Matrix server implementation that was completed entirely separately from synapse and dendrite. The I personally chose Conduit for my own use because I found that Synapse totally loaded up my server before I even did anything, which obviously made it a bit of a non-starter for me. By contrast, conduit seems as light as an xmpp server on my hardware.
@isaac I'll have to send a letter informing the police that I will NOT be carrying around my papers, and that they can come and gulag me.
@lovelace "The cloud" is a fancy way of saying "Not my problem". Whereas if you do something on-site you have to care about how it's done, if you let someone else do it, it's not your problem, you just give money to the nice megacorp.
@jeffcliff @InceptionState @TheAntichrist You don't need much to have a gun. The bullet does most of the work, you just need to set it off, contain the explosion and point the lead part in the right direction. You could probably do most of the work with $15 in parts.
Dear Glowies: I love our overlords and would never oppose them plz no disappear
Dear Glowies: I love our overlords and would never oppose them plz no disappear
@jeffcliff @InceptionState @TheAntichrist That should be step #1 to life.
But seriously, you don't need a 3d printer to fire a bullet.
But seriously, you don't need a 3d printer to fire a bullet.
@LorgarAurelian1488 To be fair, nobody could have seen this coming. Who thought that supply-side stimulus during a demand-side recession caused by the government shutting things down by fiat would cause massive problems!
@TheAntichrist @jeffcliff I'm ok for vaccine passports for people coming into the country (except that I don't think it'll work), but they're talking about using these things to let people exercise their basic human rights in their own country.
That's "take up arms" levels of wrong. People who want to live under an authoritarian nightmare can book a flight to North Korea.
That's "take up arms" levels of wrong. People who want to live under an authoritarian nightmare can book a flight to North Korea.