Posts by mlg@ideath.net
(DIR) Post #3125562 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-19T03:06:51.314618Z
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@xj9 @the_gayest_doggo @LexYeen in my version of this dream solar energy production is decoupled from the electric vehicle. the ebike is lighter and cheaper, the solar panel is installed where it gets the most sun every day, and I own several battery packs for the bike that cycle between the vehicle and a home battery bank. when not installed on the bike, panels charge the batteries which can also be used w/ inverter for lighting and electronics in an emergency or off-grid use
(DIR) Post #3126955 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-19T04:09:08.767197Z
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@xj9 honest criticism is a gift! its a hard thing to think about. career/job is a huge part of life, so choose wisely. if you care too much about money, you'll end up at morally compromised doing something you don't really care about. but if you can't figure out how to satisfy people's real needs, you just get stuck pipe dreaming about some vague high level concept like "start a non profit that ends all human suffering" that's hard to go anywhere with unless you're already super rich. i do daydream about utopias all the time but i don't call it a business plan.
(DIR) Post #3172524 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-20T03:59:20.168901Z
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Dude why that sounds so deep imagine exploring what it would be like for a Borg to understand what it means to be human
(DIR) Post #3172894 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-20T04:08:46.115022Z
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@kaniini @xj9 no no no please dont tell me you don't like the doctor focus episodes either? What about the episode where he gets hacked and programmed to feel pain like humans?
(DIR) Post #3173008 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-20T04:10:49.119882Z
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The ending of Voyager is so complex, I imagine less than 5% of viewers could fully comprehend the mindfuck
(DIR) Post #3175602 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-20T04:34:37.724381Z
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really glad this didn't get lost to the abyss https://web.archive.org/web/20171013235945/http://www.powercubes.com:80/listers.html
(DIR) Post #3196566 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-20T20:01:32.898053Z
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@dtluna hard to answer in terms of universally better, but in some aspects for the common person I think a peasant lifestyle ideal (working at a village scale to satisfy most of your needs within small community, more rare use of money for tools/expertise/luxury) is better than a consumer lifestyle ideal (work all day on something not at all relevant to your personal or community needs, use money to buy everything). so this is based on the assumption under feudalism the masses are likely to be peasants, while under capitalism the masses are likely to be consumers. it also doesn't consider if feudal lords are more cruel than 'corporate overlords', but maybe thats the more interesting side of the question?
(DIR) Post #3196625 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-20T20:03:21.364653Z
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@dtluna damn, as soon as i posted this I thought "what if the conversion from peasant to consumer is because of industrialization, not because of feudalism or capitalism?" so sorry in advance if its a stupid argument
(DIR) Post #3197032 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-20T20:25:01.149134Z
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@dtluna in that aspect i agree, I prefer commonly known and accepted rules/laws that apply equally to everyone, rather than the whimsical opinion of a master.
(DIR) Post #3299250 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-23T19:49:36.392530Z
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@dtluna you make strong and coherent critiques of the state and intellectual property.today, many humans benefit (or even survive) from advanced medical knowledge and medications. for many reasons, people consider the pharma companies that own these drugs to be exploitive, overcharging greatly for medications compared with their production costs.HOWEVER, to develop and test these medications, somehow you needs lots of smart and talented people to spend their time doing this development and testing to get to a place where the medicine can help people.Without using an authoritative goverment to coordinate medical research, how do you see advanced, complex, expensive, but ultimately beneficial research from continuing, without the reward of the violence backed government granting you a temporary monopoly on profiting from this research?
(DIR) Post #3299823 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-23T20:09:19.917247Z
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@dtluna so the injustice of IP outweighs medical breakthroughs that would occur from people competing to discover/patent/exploit new knowledge?you don't have provide an alternative if you don't see new medical discoveries as necessary, and thats fine i mean humanity worked just fine before modern medicine, just more ppl get sick and die. was just wondering if you have an alternative incentive for long term payoff R&D, i'm not saying this is a FATAL FLAW of anarchism or trying to pwn your philosophy btw.
(DIR) Post #3371113 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-25T20:25:28.335182Z
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i used both sunshinegardens and then sunbeam (when sunshine shut down for a short bit), i'm totally surprised you would compare the two. similar names, really different instances, sbc was to me an example of how to take something which could have almost universal appeal and make it so unnecessarily polarizing (disclaimer: based on my limited interactions with some users during a specific time of the instance).
(DIR) Post #3378525 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-26T01:28:13.074155Z
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@puffinus_puffinus @xj9 Maybe a year or so ago. At the time there was basically a an-cap witchhunt, which seemed to 1) devolve to basically chanting super violent revolution type ideas that doesn't lead to anything except violence and power vacuums at best, and 2) really isolating anyone who believe free markets could be a distributed solution to an efficient marketplace (so overly sensitive against an-cap, throw out a lot of more reasonable economic ideas)basically i saw it drive away a number of people who imo agreed on 99% of the actual import values, but pushed away because of an extremist political flavoring that was added by some.this is perfectly fine if admin's goal is to create a online pep rally, like infamous r/the_donald. thats doesn't encourage growth towards a discussion forum to share, challenge and refine ideas, and this is personally the goal of any online communication I want to put my time into.
(DIR) Post #3400668 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-26T17:54:14.192678Z
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@feld hah really would be nice if we could get some of that "global warming" liberals keep talking about to cancel this out
(DIR) Post #3402780 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-26T19:14:54.176660Z
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@feld "There are very strict rules about what a string does"i used to believe this until I saw emojis show up in the browsers url barmy belief was always a little shaky every time i saw utf-8 errors in python and just shrugged and added extra str() everywhere all while getting paid fucktons of money
(DIR) Post #3403105 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-26T19:23:09.992000Z
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@feld my admiration and respect to anyone who can keep all of that in their head between what shows up on my web browser and what you see looking through a hex editor. i'm a cargo-culting tech bro who just host holds their breath and hopes they use the right function call, or that a qa team finds it before a pentester i guess
(DIR) Post #3478717 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-28T18:08:03.181039Z
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@emsenn @emsenn @ajroach42 Same concerns, different conclusions. Giant cities surrounded by hectares of robot farms isn't the future, its the present. Watch videos of crop harvests, there's maybe a human sitting in a combine for show, or its just GPS controlled. Incredibly efficient in food per human labor, obscenely inefficient in a thermodynamic sense in that it ONLY works because its completely fueled by subsidized fossil fuels, both in building/operating the machines and production of fertilizer used in commercial ag. To answer the question of what people know who think going off-grid is the answer: US national debt doubled under Obama,and considers to grow currently. US gov't can print money to bail out banks, but they can't print energy to replace millions of barrels of oil that we can't buy once their credit is no longer good internationally. Diss small scale agriculture all you'd like, but it fed humanity for at least 1600 years.Cities are an overpriced scam to the glee of big-time property owners, so its good for them to push the idea that its impossible to move rural. In fact, not only has my expenses dropped massively since I moved, I can now plant fruit trees, raise livestock, and grow a garden for less than I could buy a townhouse on a postage stamp lot in the city I was living in before. I was prepared for an isolating existence but I found the community is stronger and more welcoming than anything I experienced in any city I've lived in. The reason I didn't do it sooner was the fear of not finding employment, so I sucked it up in cities for a long time to save up, but thankfully that hasn't been an issue either.
(DIR) Post #3478719 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-28T18:30:29.295044Z
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@ajroach42 @emsenn @emsenn Hi Andrew, i'm 'mlg', pleasure to interact with you for the first time :)What you see as a stopgap, I think I see as the ideal I'm voting for with my feet and wallet.To a technology maximist perhaps I sound like a luddite, but I personally believe in an future built around Appropriate Technology as described by EF Schumacher if you're familiar. In a nutshell, we'll all be better off if humans are working on meeting human needs with human scale systems. "Specialization is for insects" and all that. Fundamentally, I don't see how industrial agriculture is more "efficient" unless you only ignore human effort as a cost, and not energy. I think we can both easily strawman the other side, certainly if you export a suburban lifestyle to the middle of the country, and make up the difference with longer car trips, you end up with a very inefficient lifestyle. but that's a big stretch from organizing your life so you need to restock on a few long-storing supplies a few times/year, producing as much as you can locally and choosing to patronize your local economy as much as possible too.
(DIR) Post #3482803 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-28T20:53:25.611302Z
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@kaniini "apparently I'm offensive just being alive. Bye"hey im the guy logging in to see threads about people trying to block me. who knows if i was just mashing the button because there's no "follow request sent" feedback or if my install is screwed up. either way, i'm gonna echo this sentiment "apparently I'm offensive just being alive. Bye"except replace "Bye" with ssh root@ideath.net rm -rf /won't be offending ppl no morehows that for a mic drop? i just pray that bugs or corner cases in fediverse implementations don't cause my posts to echo around offending more people.
(DIR) Post #3482901 by mlg@ideath.net
2019-01-28T21:05:18.346696Z
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@kaniini just to add details to the bug report, I used to follow velartrill, fat fingered to unfollow on accident even though i enjoyed their posts, and then mashed follow a few times since it usually seems take a number of clicks before 'following' shows, even though i now realize thats probably lag from the remote server confirming the follow.i suppose this is the first person who had following set to 'by approval only' so i mashed the button an extra lot before shrugging and moving on (basically i thought following someones public post didnn't require their approval)anyways i'm runnning a surely outdated pleroma I installed from copy/pasting some blog late at night and have no idea how to update it so that could be causing the bug too. technical or social i'm apparently no good for the network and questioning if its good for meimage.png