I wasn’t ever even looking for support. I just wanted to not be treated like I was a burden and that their money and physical possessions, inanimate objects, were more important to them than me.

Like why even fucking have a kid if you’re going to act like they’re a fucking burden by the time they’re fucking 8? Yeah, because I totally asked to be here, mom. You didn’t fuck me into existence or anything.

Bob Dole: The average American’s dead!

Savage, and true, in the case of that film.

But Jeff Goldblum is still alive, so you’ve got that going for you, in that universe.

He’s only doing it now because it’s clear Cuomo will lose. If the race had been tight at all, they would have withheld endorsing anyone until the race was over.

I am the walrus

Donny, The Big Lebowski

Is this the Steve Buscemi quotes part of the thread? Because if it’s not it should be.

There’s just something enticing to me about the “man vs. nature” theme when it comes to an alien planet’s flora and fauna, which both Pitch Black and Riddick offer in spades. I can understand why you like it for the reasons you laid out, I just found the world building and politics boring myself.

Also, Riddick has Katee Sackhoff while Pitch Black has Keith David.

I feel like Chronicles of Riddick is the weakest of the three Riddick films personally. Very big on world building but feels like a slog compared to Pitch Black or Riddick.

Sorry, added the film title. Fight Club.

When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.

Fight Club

Doesn’t really give me goosebumps, but I think about it a lot because how much of a lie it is, especially because the Narrator/Cornelius is too full of himself to recognize the only people stopping to listen to him are people who are actually dying themselves. He isn’t dying, and isn’t actually listening to any of their stories, certainly not with sincerity or care. He is just merely… waiting for his turn to speak.

It doesn’t get better than JC Denton in Deus Ex.

Fight me.

Yeah the idea that they can’t just start deleting shit because someone told them “no” is just dumb. If they want it gone, they’ll torch it as fast as they can. I wouldn’t be surprised if the library of congress was already on the chopping block planner.

Altman and a few others, maybe. But this is a broad collection of people. Like, the computer science professors on the signatory list there aren’t running AI companies. And this isn’t saying that it’s imminent.

You realize that even if these individuals aren’t personally working at AI companies that most if not all of them have dumped all kinds of money into investing in these companies, right? That’s part of why the stocks for those companies are so obscenely high because people keep investing more money into them because of current the insane returns on investment.

I have no doubt Wozniak, for example, has dumped money into AI despite not being involved with it on a personal level.

So yes, they are literally invested in promoting the idea that AGI is just around the corner to hype their own investment cash cows.

Our media is bought and paid for by wealthy interests who want all this.

It’s actually ironic that MAGA were right that a lot of mainstream media couldn’t be trusted… Just for the wrong fucking reasons and instead of being skeptical and thoughtful they just started listening to random asshats on the internet.

I feel like these people aren’t even really worried about superintelligence as much as hyping their stock portfolio that’s deeply invested in this charlatan ass AI shit.

There’s some useful AI out there, sure, but superintelligence is not around the corner and pretending like it is acts just another way to hype the stock price of these companies who claim it is.

IPv4 has DHCP. Is there something in the way of applying a similar solution to IPv6?

That in itself is implemented a few different ways, and each one is more useful dependent on your use-case, but these also have very little to do with how your ISP hands out the IP to your modem. When you get an IP handed out to your modem by your ISP, it’s often not being handed out by DHCP but an entirely different technology purpose built for whatever medium (cable/DSL/fiber) is actually going into your modem, so knowing their implementation is still important. Things work a little differently at enterprise-level. Although you’re not wrong that eventually there could be routers with auto-configuration based on which type of IPv6 network the router detects, there just currently aren’t any that I know of.

But if you’re interested in the modern equivalents of DHCP you should look into SLAAC vs. DHCPv6 which are similar but oh so very different.

Thanks for holding us back, champ.

I guess fuck stateful packet inspection as a tool or anything.

NAT isn’t a security measure you know that right?

Further, there’s often not clear documentation from your ISP which of the ways they have it set up!

It’s like the opposite of Dr. House’s “It’s never Lupus.”

“It’s always DNS.”

I feel like we really need to speed up the embrace of IPv6 to solve this kind of issue. DNS is helpful to humans sure but a lot of these outages are triggered by services not being able to reach one another because they’re hard-coded to a DNS to avoid shifting IPs due to things like NAT.

It feels like we could do an end-run around a lot of this by having a failover to an IPv6 address that is associated with the DNS entry if the DNS fails. Kind of like you generally have multiple DNS servers in sequence in case one of not-responsive, what if, at the service-level we stopped relying on DNS so much and instead used the benefits of IPv6 to not have services fail when DNS does? DNS should be for humans not for computers especially not in a world where IPv6 exists.

(someone who is more familiar with the ins-and-outs of IPv6 is welcome to tell me if and why I am wrong in thinking this)

Yeah my point was less about the copyright aspect and more about the free distribution aspect. It’s definitely sad that they don’t have their own free-and-open-for-all version but oh well.

Look into the Gideons. I don’t agree with all their philosophy obviously, but they’re like the Open Source/Open Knowledge group of the Christian faith.

One of their main things is that they think since the Bible is the word of God, and people deserve to be saved, that it’s their job to ensure everyone gets a fair shake at access to a Bible without having to pay for it. You used to always be able to find a Bible in a hotel thanks to them, and they’re often at public gatherings handing out copies as well.

I’m not religious, and I don’t agree with much of what they believe, but I do think that is an appropriate way to view the situation, that it should be freely available to all instead of essentially locked behind a paywall.

Same story as ever: Republicans refuse to negotiate in good faith and then blame it on the people not bending over to be raped by them.

The entire Republican apparatus is basically a DARVO abuser in the form of a political party.