All aboard the LainTrain - We all love Lain!
Kinda, I'm frustrated at how little time I have in general more than anything.
I already don't have kids, I barely socialize anymore except with my gf on the weekends and occasional texts with friends, I work from home, even when I skip chores it still feels like barely enough time.
At one point I was convinced it was distractions, little minutes here little minutes there, it adds up, so I cut them out, and yeah I was more productive, but I also felt like absolute shit, every day was the same, work, study, life admin, chores, sleep etc etc. even then, it was barely, barely enough, and I often had to isolate myself for a week straight and blitz through whatever I wanted to do.
For instance learning about return oriented programming, over the span of 2 weeks of practically ignoring everything else I went from not really understanding computer memory beyond the fact that pointers exist in C to finding basic stack based buffer overflow vulns, creating an appropriate payload for shellcode, and eventually creating ROPchains without hints on retired hackthebox machines.
There was about 200 pages of notes I wrote by hand in there somewhere, explaining it to my future self in case I'd forget some subtle details and observations that helped my understanding.
To even scratch the surface of such a subject, it took me 2 weeks of doing it almost to the complete exclusion of everything else, including work. Maybe I'm just dumb as a rock, but frankly - I was pretty fucking proud of myself, in as far as the sheer intellectual challenge of it, it was glorious. But not sustainable, sadly.
Even if the worry and stress of "omg I haven't even said anything to my coworkers in weeks imma be fired" didn't catch up to me, the pace and an internal demand for "progress" eventually caught up to me and I got so burned out I fell into a full blown months long depression I'm still crawling my way out of.
I knew that I probably overdid it with the pressure I put myself under, so I relaxed, I decided that I'm gonna build a gaming PC and play some vidya games I've had in my backlog for probably years - maybe I'd start making music again.
So I did, I got into some games I liked but even still, beating them and experiencing them fully took up a lot of time, so did creating music, and I just ended up burning out even further. Every second I do anything I would ever want to do, I'm falling behind on doing things I should be doing, which is never want to do unless I absolutely had to (work).
I want to read more into things, to think about them more, feel them more, ponder and understand, and to do so in a relaxed way free of time pressure.
Oh sure I could glance up a history topic on Wikipedia or listen to some talking head drone on in the background for 20 minutes, but to really understand much of anything, it takes time.
Oh sure I could slap together a song in frankly about an hour, and my friends and family say it's great, so surely it must be (/s) but at this stage even as an amateur I understand that to flesh things out I simply need more time and it's time I just never ever seem to have.
Oh sure I could get a basic grasp of how one would go about reverse engineering or what assembly is, but to read even basic assembly programs and find your misplaced NOPsled in that program and understand not just that things are wrong and fix it in a "monkey see, monkey do" fashion but understand the why of all of it - that takes a lot more time, at least for me.
I started playing some Paradox games recently because they were a thing I used to really enjoy but had to drop, and I'm just about to finish my first campaign in Vic3 1.9, which I haven't played since launch, with Morgenröte and E&F and BPM mods and I'm just over 200 hours into this campaign at 1909 and I still feel I'm skipping over so much nuance and detail, not to mention I never reload an older save and play around with anything and I have the game running pretty much constantly at 5 speed, I'm loving it so much, it's healing in every way, but I just don't really know where I'm meant to get those 200 hours from to enjoy it.
Maybe it's like that "HealthyGamerGG" grifter on YouTube said - "failing to coalesce", a sensationalist way of saying that one lacks a focus, coated in shame and guilt to hide the opinion validating this demand as reasonable underneath.
Frankly I don't want to have a focus of any kind. If I want to - I will.
It's very pretentious but I really feel like I relate to Nietzche's bit about "not being done" when he mocked the German education system in "Twilight of the Idols" for pumping out eager soldiers and servants rather than what he saw as people reaching their own potential, (at least in my interpretation when reading it).
It's like, samesies bestie, I'm a human being, not a fucking meal, I'll be done when I want to be, and not a minute sooner.
And when it comes to "doomscrolling" - I wrote this post and it took me about 30 minutes, more or less as a matter of principle, I wanted to express myself fully and clearly even if it is ultimately self-defeating in carrying the message across and only be done when I think the thought is concluded, not when some external command demands it of me. Which is about now.
Bump. Would also like to know
Shame. Someone needs to steal these.
EDIT: Battlefield 6 Open Beta launches for me when I enrolled the HackBGRT hash into my mobo's SecureBoot lol. But I think I am shadowbanned.
Great article.
Probably a dumb question, but my mobo has an option in the setup utility to "enroll hash" and it seems to let me pick an .efi executable.
Can I just use that to sign any bootloader (or efi executable for that matter) I want, e.g. HackBGRT, GRUB2, and if so, would that allow me to play Battlefield 6, or would the other features like TPM attestated logs indicate the chain loading and flag me for a ban (or simply not let me launch the game) ?
I'm not sure if the medical records keeping can get any worse than it already is to be honest. It is borderline impossible to get anything done when despite endless records half the time the medical staff just ask you for your entire life story, only to proceed to not understand it and usually set you back a step or two.
Honestly pretty glad to be woke and not them. I'd rather hang out with the most vapid preachy liberal talking about alien feminism or some shit than these fucking losers and their coffin dodger in chief
Is the container exposed to the internet?
If yes, do not.
If no, I think it will be ok so long as it's actually not exposed to the internet, e.g. ideally behind NAT with no port forwards and all ipv6 traffic turned off or some other deny all inbound firewall outside the system itself that sits between it and the system on which the container runs.
In the worst case scenario: you've given someone a file share on your root partition, but if it's not exposed to the internet, then the chance of it happening is extremely remote.
I agree.
Even more broadly, politically - copyleft in general is very unpopular with people, even amongst leftists and self-identified communists who you'd think would be all about that since y'know, good of the commons and the fact that communist states literally didn't give a fuck about copyright and the literature seeing it transparently as another government method of enforcing corporate power, especially apparent today when it comes to pharmaceuticals snd the fact that capitalism needs this intellectual property monopoly as an added incentive for R&D is an issue with capitalism's broken incentive structures, not cost in and of itself or science/technology.
Few people seem to understand the power of intellectual property, and various critics of corporate technology either omit mentioning or openly defend intellectual property, despite corporations having monopolies being the reason enshittification is such a phenomenon in the first place.
It seems like a lot of arguments about the role of technology in society instead boil down to more-stuffism vs. less-stuffism, usually based on emotionally charged preference for modern aesthetics or how much they believe the noble savage/appeal to nature fallacies.
When it comes to AI for instance, anyone reasonable can see that if it's open sourced for everyone to use then it's just a simple common good like a public library, use it (responsibly) and there's no issue.
Closed source private models in use by corporations suck up the environment (which belongs to everyone) and use the capital they steal from wage workers who actually produce the things they sell to give themselves leverage over said consumers/workers and other corporations, and this is not fair to the 99%.
Picture a world where AI is good enough to where it actually provides value to use it in a good chunk of jobs, and the best AI is corporate and closed source, and they just enshittified it and jacked up the prices, but if you want to get a job, you better know how to use it well. It would mean that corpo has an enormous power over your life now and you got little choice but to pony up, and they can raise prices whenever they want and snowball that capital into more and more.
I think the reason in this instance is that a lot of artists are bourgeoisie themselves and they understand that. They may be progressive as a personality trait/gimmick/style and talk about "empathy" but they understand the material reality of things.
They had the opportunities and the room for failure necessary to go into such a high risk field, and their ultimate form of commercial success is essentially using that privilege to create intellectual property they could make money from, hence the "concerns" over "style theft" and moralist fearmongering over vaguely defined concepts like "soulless", which is usually as arbitrary as "white" for racists (not implying equivalence here).
I find generally that a lot of the anti-AI viewpoints are simple self-serving veils of bourgeoisie who's capital is threatened, no different from the culture war fearmongering about vaping, a dying grasp of the tobacco companies of old threatened by shenzen gadget slop factories.
The material reality is that digital goods are effectively infinite, copying an image isn't a crime nevermind copying a style or some such, it is transparently absurd to imply otherwise.
Few years old now but I think the first few songs on Brat are fine tbh I don't see myself not ever listening to them again. That's probably the closest I come to pop music tho
Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
-"It's been a good ride."
-"...the best."
From Mass Effect 3, Citadel DLC Ending.
I get a runny nose in cold weather without fail, like 5°C or less, it gets all red too, it's pretty embarrassing and makes me put on extra concealer I'd prefer to go without. Anyone else?
- JumpDeleted
Permanently Deleted
Okay? What a weird thing to say
- JumpDeleted
Permanently Deleted
- JumpDeleted
Permanently Deleted
I too read Mutual Aid by Kropotkin.
As he puts it in the very title: "Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution".
Key being a factor Not the factor
At the time, most of research into evolution revolved around the idea of competition as the driving force in an arms race for resources between organisms. Obviously this is still true, though like Kropotkin observed, we also understand that there is harmony and cooperation both between organisms for each others benefit and in the broader sense of ecosystem equilibrium.
I think it's important to have such discussions anyway because any doubts must be addressed not via faith, but via critical examination, so that we find the more correct reason to maintain revolutionary optimism, it is precisely to defeat defeatism with a resolve forged in fire of scrutiny. That said, I think this is too heated and came across as an attack, I also don't want to play into anyone's hands, I was being needlessly pedantic, I retract my statement.
Back like four years ago when I was at uni, I wrote a real cringy sci-fi short story set in a future where political dissent had been neutered almost completely by a total subversion of language via commodification.
Essentially everything and anything was a brand, "anarchy" was a brand of shoe, even "terror" was a pack of potato chips, and "terrorists" were stans of that pack of potato chips, making it impossible to even talk about any kind of rebellion or alternative thought, and bots would perpetuate these alternative definitions, making it seem like they were more common, sort of like how if you own 51% of some primitive blockchains you can manufacture transactions.
Sufficed to say I'm glad it's not true, but it's worrying how consensus reality has collapsed and is now shaped by the few rich and powerful interests, not too dissimilar from what I imagined as a fun hobby creative exercise in imagining the most soulcrushing world imaginable.
It was also just a prologue to a story that featured 'carbon capture gone wrong' turning the world into a Sahara-esque desert, through which caravans of brave desert travellers delivered scarce goods between human settlements, assisted by navigators who sit in office buildings and make sure the caravans don't get lost in the constant sandstorms. Then there was a conspiracy by the main love interest, a Fallout-esque cartoonish A.I. and the navigators' boss who liked to LARP as a pre-collapse middle manager, they'd drug the navigator crew to keep the protagonist from finding out the shock twist that the travellers are slaves, amongst other things like the fact the rich all left in space rockets, are in contact with earth, live in relative luxury and that there are still functioning rockets on earth.
Also at various stages of conception it had time travel, alt-history and of course - the space shuttle, because autism.
- JumpDeleted
Permanently Deleted
Nah that wasn't his point, I don't think at least. I'm Def with you there, mr.communism himself Marx addressed this dumbass argument before communism entered the vernacular again in the 1900s.
- JumpDeleted
Permanently Deleted
Wasn't me who posted it, but the way I see it, here's how it makes sense in a sort of rough common sense way:
They dump as much as they can get away with. Roughly speaking, half the people, half the regulators, half the people bringing down the cost of labor needed to dispose of it properly, half the researchers making it easier.
While yes it would also mean half the plastics produced in the first place, it doesn't really matter, the companies dump as much as they can get away with.
Yeah, no. Once I saw this kind of bullshit was needed for programming jobs I just pivoted to IT and cybersec.
These days the pay is just as good, and chances to find a job are even better, the environment is much lower pressure and this gross techbro exploited/exploiting attitude that somehow programming is special and not just a modern day 9-5 factory job is non-existent. With dev jobs, the goal posts are ever shifting. No I'm not doing a portfolio, no I'm not doing your "take home assessment", no I'm not doing a live coding exercise for your £20k ass minimum wage job where "we measure work by effort, not time" and I'll somehow end up on call. I love programming, but not enough to let myself get fucked by corpos every which way.
You do have to deal with corpo boomers though, but if you're lucky they mostly realize they're just cogs that got lost and they better not make too much noise or they'll be let go.