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I love those videos where a guy cooks a big meal -- bread, steak, veggies, tea -- in the wilderness, with nothing but a knife, tea kettle, and a big flat rock.

... And the $50,000 vehicle that brought him to the wilderness, and ten grand of video editing equipment, and an entire global trade system that brought him his spices and oils and meats and veggies...

People watching that thing thinking, I'll be ok when civilization fails, I know where there's a flat rock.

@spidermedic @fatsam

Surely that's where drone AI comes in handy.

Now if you can just get whitetail deer hunting and butchering software for those drones, you're all set.

@elizatech I hope you have a good visit; unfortunately it's not as immediately conducive to appreciating as it used to be, thanks to development and the aforementioned rough patch. For me the appealing factors are: enormous amounts of greenspace, huge, superb parks everywhere and ready access to countryside an wilderness; and the fact that it doesn't have just one central walking district or cultural area, but rather a lot of them scattered around the city. (You've posted about that sort of district in Dublin, I think). I fell in love with the place on a relatively short visit many years ago, but I don't know if that would happen now. Still can't think of anywhere in the US I'd rather live, though.

@elizatech Will you be continuing south after Portland? Once or of twice a year I take a sleeper to the SF Bay Area. (I still try to avoid flying since 2020.) The southern Oregon and Northern California stretches are remarkable.

@elizatech Yes. It'd be difficult, for reasons of jurisdiction and national policy. for a US state to replicate the success of an entire country like Portugal. Even if we'd gone about it sensibly, patiently, and had done things in the right order.

@elizatech Portland's a lovely city, and one that works harder than almost any I know about (in the US) to stay that way. The fact that it's lately become a magnet for people at rock bottom has a lot to do with how decent and livable it is in the first place. in other parts of the country they set fire to tent cities, and put homeless people on planes to places like Portland and Honolulu, in the hope and expectation they won't come back.

@eduqate @anneapplebaum Not like the old days, where at the first sign of antisocial behavior from a member of the lower classes, John Law would give him a firm but friendly clip 'round the lug 'ole, and he'd be on his way, a completely reformed character.

@ct_bergstrom You'd be amazed how many people, while admitting that vaccination greatly reduces severity and duration of illness, nevertheless for some bizarre reason insist it doesn't reduce transmission; a take that defies both logic and evidence.

Apparently the IDF had AI support in the decision to kill the WCK food aid workers in Gaza. This is what comes of training your models on Yelp reviews.

@Gillybean @w7voa Either that or it just hallucinated that chefs are the real problem to be eradicated. Probably trained on too many Yelp reviews. "AI" does things at least as crackpot as that on a daily basis.

@bruces If it was trying to get back to Cape Canaveral it's totally on the wrong side of the state. Lame deorbit plan, not putting that guy in charge again.

@randahl Most of the people I follow don't post much anymore. Whether we like it or not, the absence of an engagement algorithm of any kind does kind of work against, well, engagement.

@darwinwoodka It's pretty much the only way to get ahead. Wages alone are a treadmill. Which is of course the way the boss-man likes it.

@darwinwoodka
Er, I suspect you haven't taken my meaning, or are expecting me to defend something I've no wish to defend.

@SaftyKuma @rbreich

Indeed. If McDonalds' CEO's compensation is mostly in the form of a taxable salary, that would be extremely unusual. That's not how oligarchs compensate themselves in this country.

@makerbymistake For me the big attraction of the RP0/02 is ethernet gadget mode, allowing it get both power and ethernet via a single USB connection to a host.

I have two of these hanging off of linux-based network appliances (ordinary consumer routers running OpenWRT acting as managed switches and APs) providing various services, so the don't need PoE, a switch port or a wall-wart, and their availability/uptime is the same as these appliances, which basically never get turned off or rebooted.

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