We have had the technology to decarbonise the grid since the 1950s and we have known about the problem since the 1970s. Politics however has driven the use of CO2 instead of nuclear energy and required the drastic development of high end wind and solar. Even that wasn't enough, it also had to get considerably cheaper than CO2 producing energy sources and the entire time the entire worlds population has been subjected to massive amounts of propaganda to keep burning oil, gas and coal. This transition was possible 55 years ago when the problem was first surfaced, the political will just wasn't there so it didn't happen.

Its not an education issue, it has always been governments getting in the way and refusing to change the power source. its why I think Solar will win out, it can be deployed on an individual house level unlike everything else and that changes things enormously.

eh... imagine a planet scale messmer plan... too bad petro-dollar is a thing

Ollama is working on adding image generation but its not here yet. We really do need something that can run a variety of models for images.

Yeah, I'm guessing they were bound to leave behind the whole "Get up and running with large language models" mission sooner or later, which was their initial focus, as investors after 2-3 years start making you to start thinking about expansion and earning back the money.

Sad state of affairs and seems they're enshittifying quicker than expected, but was always a question of when, not if.

Fraud rates on benefits are also absurdly low.

I read that more that the benefits society gets from lifting people from poverty as opposed to the food stamps benefits you seem to have in mind.

That is indeed what I meant.

Severely disabled people need social media to get any form of communication with others. It is a key mechanism of infrastructure that provides connection for those limit to their homes and bed, which nowadays is an increasing amount of people with Long Covid and ME/CFS patients. We are talking about 10s of millions of people here that you would cut off from each other and the wider world.

Social media isn't just bad interactions, there isn't just one twitter or reddit, its about what you choose to read and interact with and most of its not toxic its just people talking on the same topic.

The reason they consume water is the same reason space is a bad place to put data centres, getting rid of the heat is a challenge. Having only radiative heat dissipation is going to severely limit space based manufacture and computing, it puts significant constraints on the space station already.

yeah but Elon said so and thus it must be true

Just because there are more studies doesn't increase their quality. The right way to do a systemic review is to assess studies based on their quality, such as design against bias, their size and method to include a combination of good studies and exclude the poor ones. Then assess those studies. Most studies are very low quality and combining them doesn't increase their value or their chance of being right, high quality studies are much more likely to be of value and ground truth and the better the methods and size the greater the chance of something that we can trust.

There is an awful lot of junk in Psychology in general, it has a serious replication issue and bias due to poor methodology resulting in a high chance of fake and biased results. So no you can't assume the accumulation of many studies is better than one, that is not how systemic reviews work.

That's nice.

What is your critique of Haidt's work, specifically?

We also have found out that Covid decays less quickly in air with high CO2. So highly polluted areas and poorly ventilated ones compound the problem by trapping CO2 in and allowing the virus to survive longer in the air. That is very likely the case for other viruses as well as it impacts the aerosols.

That's really interesting; I had thought it was just the high CO2 was a proxy for greater occupancy, but it does look like there is a physical effect.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47777-5

Yes, it's due to changing the pH of water in the air.

At the moment I am docker compose down everything, run the backup of their files and then docker compose up -d again afterwards. This sort of downtime in the middle of the night isn't an issue for home services but its also not an ideal system given most wont be mid writing a file at the time of backup anyway because its the middle of the night! But if I don't do it the one time I need those files I can guarantee it will be corrupted so at the moment don't feel like there are a lot of other options.

Its especially important in the CGNAT world that has been created and the enormous slog that IPv6 rollout has ultimately become.

What I wish routers did was make UPNP a pending request something I could go and approve. Limit it to the device making it, let it switch it on and off but fundamentally I want to control if I want that hole made or not. OpenWRT comes without UPNP in its base images for a reason, its a major security hole. But I think there is a middle ground here where UPNP isn't just no or yes but rather authorised which will reduce the problem and provide autoconfiguration but without automated firewall holes.

It isn’t a security hole (the info page on why it is turned off literally says it is because people mistakenly believe is is a security hole)

But if you don’t have it on, software just falls back to STUN, which achieves the same exact result as upnp, just an order of magnitude slower and less reliably (though doesn’t require any router configuration or cooperation)