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chacha2 commented on A case against security nihilism blog.cryptographyengineer... · Posted by u/feross

tptacek · 5 years ago

Sure, you can outlaw NSO itself. I won't complain! But all you're doing is smearing the problem over the globe. You can push this kind of work all the way to "universally acknowledged as organized crime", and it'll still happen, exactly the same way, with basically the same actors. You might even increase the incentives by doing it. Policy is complicated.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

Isn’t this the security nihilism the article is addressing?

chacha2 commented on Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/hassanahmad

DoubleDerper · 5 years ago

From an early age more public investment in STEM, financial literacy, empathic education.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

Pre-school STEM is your plan to get people off twitter?

chacha2 commented on A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020) economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/jedwhite

cratermoon · 5 years ago

I'd just like to point out that enormous numbers of people doing basic, physical, labor today would be considered highly educated and worldly were they dropped into anywhere in the world up to about the end of the 15th century. Worse, many of the facts they just know from pre-school or watching Sesame Street would be considered heretical and dangerous and land them in trouble in short order.

Brainy is completely relative.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”

chacha2 commented on Blender and the Rabbids blender.org/user-stories/... · Posted by u/Tomte

smoldesu · 5 years ago

One of the biggest problems I have with professional software (eg. Bitwig, Ableton Live, Sony Vegas) is that I lose interest in learning how they work after the initial learning curve. All of those programs have a featureset that can be fully explored and understood in a few weeks, or perhaps months for the more complicated stuff.

I have been using Blender for 6 years, and still have seen less than half of the features. It's not for lack of searching, but Blender's density is hugely under-appreciated in the industry. If you're a creative or artist in any capacity, Blender has features that you can take advantage of right away.

Familiar with NLEs? Hop into the video splicer and play around!

Comfortable mesh editing? Stay in the modelling view!

Wanna get your hands dirty? Sculpting is just a tab away!

Perhaps the most impressive part of Blender is that it's provided for free, in a tiny download, with a deeply caring userbase that maintains it. Here's to another decade of Blender releases!

chacha2 · 5 years ago

The industry doesn't appreciated that blender can mesh edit and sculpt? What can it do that their existing software can't?

chacha2 commented on How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World literaryreview.co.uk/meat... · Posted by u/jseliger

silicon2401 · 5 years ago

Unpopular opinion, but I would completely outlaw any pet ownership or animal husbandry on the simple basis that it's impossible for animals to consent to being owned.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

They didn't consent to nature either.

chacha2 commented on Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days under30experiences.com/bl... · Posted by u/Knajjars

bequanna · 5 years ago

Ah, right. If only we all would have embraced minimalism from the very start! There would be no need for these pesky warm houses, abundant food, or relatively cheap medicine.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

Won't have that stuff in an ice age.

chacha2 commented on What if plants were animals like any other? booksandideas.net/Are-Pla... · Posted by u/whocansay

grawprog · 5 years ago

That sort of implies trying to blow up the universe wouldn't be a fruitless effort in and of itself. You'd have better luck just waiting for the heat death of the universe at that point I think.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

It is the struggle, itself, that is important!

chacha2 commented on What if plants were animals like any other? booksandideas.net/Are-Pla... · Posted by u/whocansay

grawprog · 5 years ago

I'm never really sure what the point of things like this are. I've grown enough plants in my life to understand they're at least 'aware' in some way when bad things happen to them.

But in the end, it's a basic biological fact, unless a form of life can photosynthesize, it likely consumes some form of matter that was likely from something living. Extremophiles that eat sulphur and minerals and such aside, the majority of non-photosynthesizing life consumes organic matter. Said matter was at one time from something that was alive.

In the end debates about whether plants or animals suffer the same or more seem sort of moot. Life involves suffering of some kind for every living thing on this planet. It's another one of those inescapable facts.

I agree we should all try and minimize the amount of suffering we directly cause, but every day something somewhere suffers because each of us exist. Trying to pretend we can erase any and all suffering we may cause ever is a fruitless effort.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

> Trying to pretend we can erase any and all suffering we may cause ever is a fruitless effort.

I wouldn't be so sure. Eduard Hartmann came up with a solution in the 19th century.

https://theconversation.com/solve-suffering-by-blowing-up-th...

chacha2 commented on Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature alex.flounder.online/geml... · Posted by u/Melchizedek

minitech · 5 years ago

A client for HTML and CSS is much more complicated to implement than a client for Gemini and its rich text format. But you can serve HTML pages over Gemini either way.

chacha2 · 5 years ago

What good is competing implementations if they all have to keep to the same spec?