"force" seems a bit strong, as I remember it.
Yeah, I remember it being a fourth option alongside the others but I quit just before Google lost its serifs and its soul
Readit Newsthatoneguy commented on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI skyview.social/?url=https... · Posted by u/christoph-heiss
Substituted amphetamines were already very popular in the 1950s.
Methamphetamine was invented in Germany in 1937 and the German military at the time was very quick to adopt its use.
How much money did it cost to orbit Saturn V (including R&D of course)?
How does that matter? It's doing a thing already done nearly 70 years ago but at its own pace.
I bet it will get to the moon cheaper, too, and the Muskonauts will use less expensive lenses than Hasselblads to take photos.
thatoneguy commented on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/carride
X hides discussions. If somebody sends you a link you can't see the discussion without an account and logging in and being extensively tracked.
Not sure what you mean about anti-Elon bias. This was straightforward reporting of the truth. If reality has an anti-Elon bias then perhaps it's not bias.
Reality has an anti-Elon bias
thatoneguy commented on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/carride
Can't help but notice arstechnica seems to have an anti-Elon agenda.
I recall them posting articles claiming Twitter's content was important for historical reasons (agree on that) and would disappear once Elon took over, which afaik, didn't happen.
You forgot to add "yet" unless you can predict the future will 100% accuracy. Only once it's sold to someone else can you really say he didn't do it.
The data's longevity was probably helped by being a potent source of hate to power Musk's AI
thatoneguy commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
Is it fair game to just return fire and sink the crawlers? A few thousand connections via a few dozen residential proxies might do it.
thatoneguy commented on Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices me.pcmag.com/en/networkin... · Posted by u/teleforce
Isn't power consumption an issue though?
It doesn't take a lot of juice to send signals straight up. Iridium has been using transceivers to do similar IoT things for decades and my old Inmarsat satphone used a fraction of a watt to get my voice up to geosynchronous orbit just so someone standing next to me on an outdoor landing could hear a message from space.
thatoneguy commented on Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
The problem of authenticating footage has a disappointing but sufficient solution:
1.- Use filming devices that sign the footage with a key, and the device has some anti-tamper protections to prevent somebody from stealing the key.
2.- The thing above is useless for most consumers of the footage, which would only see it after three to four transcodings change the bytes beyond recognition. But in a few years everybody will assume most footage in the Internet is fake, and in those cases when people (say, law enforcement) want to know for sure if something really happened, they’ll have to go through the trouble of procuring and watching the original, authenticated file.
The alternatives to 1 and 2 are:
a) To engage in an arms race, like the one which is happening with captchas right now.
b) To roll back this type of AI.
b is not going to happen, even with a societal collapse and sweeping laws against GenAI, because the way GenAI works is widely known. Unless we want to roll back technology itself and stop producing the hardware, and culture so that people don’t know how to do any of this.
Film worked for a long time (and still works) despite the availabilty of film printers.
Amazing! Literally the premise of the HBO show _True Blood_ from the 2000s. Japanese scientists invent artificial blood which allows vampires to "come out of the coffin".
OK, I guess we'll wait and see about the vampires. But the blood substitute and Japanese scientists thing was spot-on, at least.
thatoneguy commented on AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder resobscura.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/findhorn
At least in the Soviet Union, they were free...
In Soviet Union, university education free but came at cost of living in Soviet Union
- Yakov Smirnoff, probably