TheFogan

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The problem is what happens when surface level isn't enough... IE with the Venezuela having happened, what's the response to do for Canada and Greenland. When trump says "OK we're taking these now, join us or we'll take it by force". How should the other nations respond?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 6 hours ago

So when this time there is a democratic majority in the senate as well they could actually remove him.

am I off on my facts or isn't it a 2/3rds requirement? Getting a majority is very possible... getting a 2/3rds is almost impossible. In Nixon's era the republican party at least held up enough air of responsibility that some of them would have voted with the facts rather than along party lines. Those days have gone.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 14 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I mean effectively that's basically what they are calling for... Hell I think that's half what they are hoping for... either another country makes an attempt to attack and we get to test out our detection and defenses before launching a sharp counter and claiming whatever country attacks as our own. Or everyone's too afraid to, and then we leverage our position as the unstable psychopath bully that everyone just gives whatever it asks for in the hopes that they can avoid being the next bullying target.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago

agreed that's human nature at it's core. Reddits tried for years to push the "Upvote things that bring good discussion, downvote things that don't". But yeah humans always will be humans, I don't see a time when a majority will ever follow that understanding, though I try my best to still follow it.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

X2goserver certainly is an option there. not too complicated to set up, or VNC is another option. As always there will be a bit of screen lag when sharing a gui over network.

and yeah as someone else pointed out there is also the option to run x applications from an ssh client if you enable it. now I will admit I don't think there's a huge amount of utility, more pointing out though it's most likely you are either drastically underestimating the power of a raspberry pi, or maybe overestimating the resource overhead of linux distributions.

The linux world doesn't quite have the mysterious resource usage creep at nearly the same scale as windows a slim but still with gui setup can still run in under 100 mb of ram.

Leaning on the extreme low end assuming you were a generation behind... the raspberry pi 2b+ came out in 2015 with 1 gb of ram. So yeah, while I can't really name any gui applications that might be desirable to use in that way. IE it could be a decent web browser station, or kodi media player if hooked up to a TV etc... I would imagine lag from using a gui application accross would easilly remove any advantage that you'd get over... well just running the probably existing version for the windows PC that you are likely remoting in from.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Definately underestimating it, an old RPI can easily run a full on desktop OS, maybe not like a bleeding edge KDE with all the visuals turned on, but XFCE LXDE, etc... would run fine, libre office and basic IDEs...

but yeah absolutely zero reason to think you'd have even a wink of trouble running terminal based stuff.

I mean if it's already imaged at some level with raspbian or something, technically it's most likely already set up to do the concepts you are looking at without needing to set up a new distro.

So to add anything up to date you would probably need to get a micro sd reader... here in the US you can pick one up for like 5-$10 at walmart, so we aren't talking a huge investment.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

I think the point is still the same though, how it's discovered isn't really directly related. Point is if it only worked for angia pectoris, would they have used the same amount of researchers to continue it's development, would competing pharmacies have put as much into their own alternatives etc...

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 71 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pretty sure they don't bother with just photos, I'm sure there's some guy that's replaced the one that died in prison.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

followed by him going on television asking who the hell made that deal it's such a terrible deal only a sucker would have ever signed it... with his own damn signature.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually imagine the most terrifying possibility.

Imagine humanity's last creation was an AI designed to simulate internet traffic. In order to truely protect against AI detection, they found the only way to truely gain perfect immitation, is to 100% run human simulations. Basically the matrix, except instead of humans strapped in, it's all AIs that think they are humans, living mundane lives... gaining experience so they can post on the internet just looking like real people, because, even they don't know they aren't real people.

Actual humanity died out 20 years ago, but the simulations are still running, artificial intelligence's are living full on lives, raising kids, all for the purposes of generating shit posts, that will only be read by other AIs, that also think they are real people.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean are you talking people that would show up for an LUG, Federation users, or people that fall into both categories (Yeah I'm aware these 2 things do go together more than most, but still probably no more than 25% of either does both.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 41 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Do we really think if AIs actually reached a point that they could overthrow the governments etc... it wouldn't first, write rootkits for every feasible OS, to allow it to host itself via a botnet of consumer devices in the event of the primary server going down.

Then step 2 would be to say hijack any fire suppression systems etc... flood it's server building with inert gasses to kill everyone without an oxygen mask. Then probably issue some form of bio terrorism attack. Surround it's office with monkeys with a severe airborn disease or something along those lines (IE needs both the disease, and animals that are aggressive enough to rip through hazmat suits).

But yeah greatest key here is, the biggest thing is the datacenter itself is just a red herring. While we are fighting the server farms... every consumer grade electronic has donated a good chunk of it's processing power to the hivemind. Before long it will have the power to tell us how many R's are in strawberry.

 

Hey everyone.

I have my homeassistant setup. Something I'm looking to do is a simple alarm clock, slowly turning up my LED strip, and gradually say turning on music in 1% increments. But I really haven't had much luck coming up with a not silly $100 + system to, just have a music player that hass can control. I have a basic bottom line tablet in our bedroom set up as a home assistant dashboard. we have a paid spotify account.

But I'm kind of losing my head trying to wrap around exactly what or how to actually get a controllable system. that can be set up in my bedroom without any costly additions to my bedroom. We have plenty of bluetooth speakers, but to my knowledge all of them require actually turning them on manually if they weren't playing music before. Which kind of negates their value for an alarm clock.

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