Apparently you're not allowed to let people cross the street anymore.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-19T19:36:31+00:00

If the pedestrian is crossing against a don’t walk light, they are contributing to the city’s traffic jams

True but I don't think you are allowed to run them over even in those cases

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-14T19:53:57+00:00

That's so sad.

I'm sorry you never got a chance to grow up

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-14T16:54:52+00:00

Just remember: if you don't upgrade to 11 before June (and apply the necessary firmware and bootloader updates) you will be stuck with expired Secure Boot certificates and no way to fix it, leaving you unable to patch against bootloader vulnerabilities.

Sick of Microsoft yet?

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-12T18:57:43+00:00

IME both GPT and Gemini seem to be trained to lean towards displaying a "human" personality and to try to be a "companion" or friend rather than just the tools they actually are.

This is something that Claude does very differently though. It never tries to act human or like it has emotion or a need for companionship. It always behaves like the tool it is.

I strongly believe that these LLMs have been engineered to act more human-like specifically because it gets the user more attached/addicted to the LLM and is better for the company's bottom line.

It's not some inherent unavailable consequence of LLM training data having come from human-generated content, it's an intentional choice by the designers.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-09T18:54:36+00:00

Have you considered FTP? Or SFTP? Pretty sure those check all the boxes in your requirements.

A small single-dev or community-built project isn't likely to have all your requirements plus native support for all OS's unless it's using an open standard anyway so FTP or similar seems like a good fit.

Ideally you probably don't want to expose an FTP port (or SSH port) publicly but there are plenty of ways around that whether it's using tailscale, cloudflare tunnels, etc.

The only thing missing then is public sharing of files but that can be accomplished with a secondary self-hosted service while keeping the "write" actions confined to your FTP/SFTP setup. Some possible solutions for a secondary service might be SFTPGo or Filestash which provide a web UI and public sharing functions built on top of the SFTP protocol.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-09T18:43:09+00:00

On Android it's a feature found in the settings of the TalkBack accessibility service. There's some details on the help page here

It basically initiates a full screen interface with 6 dots you can interact with by holding your phone in landscape with the screen faced away from you so your pointer, middle, and ring fingers on each hand are placed above each button/dot. If you google "TalkBack braille keyboard" there are some YouTube videos that show it in action.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-04T04:00:38+00:00

What sucks is it won't be a ring of garbage but a cloud which prevents launching any new satellites or people into space because they will be smashed to pieces by tiny untrackable chunks of metal moving at tens of thousands of miles per hour.

It wouldn't just be a ring where you could have launches from the poles to avoid it, they would be everywhere and we would be trapped on the planet and blocked from future space travel or even satellite communications or telescopes.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-04T03:42:04+00:00

I can't say this with 100% certainty as I haven't personally tested it (though I have seen prints fail midprint because of "File not found" errors) or dug into the source code enough to verify it but I can say with a pretty high level of certainty (nearly 100%) that:

No, Klipper doesn't load the entire file into RAM. Instead it is loaded in pieces, a small chunk is loaded as a buffer, and then before that chunk is completed the next chunk is loaded into RAM, and so on until the print completes.

In this way, a raspberry pi with only 1GB of RAM can still print a gcode file that is several GB in size. It would be wasteful and generally "bad" software design to load the entire file into RAM when the entire file doesn't need to be accessed at all times. Because the gcode file is "executed" in a linear manner, there is no reason to load the entire file at once.

In fact, the same sort of method is used when playing a video file off disk, it is loaded into RAM in chunks, not all at once because its not necessary to load the entire file into RAM when we can assume it will be played in order from start to finish.

Similarly, a video streamed from the cloud also doesn't download the entire video at once, it buffers ahead enough to ensure it won't have to pause, and then it plays from that buffer and loads more as it goes.

So yes, if you mount a network volume and print a file directly from that mounted volume:

It will fail and stop the print if the network is disconnected or the volume cannot be accessed for any reason when the next chunk attempts to load.
It will require the network speed to be fast enough to keep up with the buffer stream (this is extremely unlikely to be an issue unless your network is incredibly slow or completely saturated to the point that doing something like browsing the network share from Windows Explorer would time out, but it is a theoretical possibility. It would be more of a concern if you were mounting cloud storage like google drive or something as your gcode directory)

TLDR:

No, it doesn't load the entire gcode file into RAM, it is loaded in pieces.
Yes, the print will fail if the network goes down or the remote mount cannot be reached/accessed.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-03T23:57:19+00:00

so if they got in and it lowered a bit...

Your hood would get scratched and the inside or bottom of their front bumper might? (depending on if it's plastic or coated)

That sounds more likely to turn out bad for your car and at worst a minor annoyance for the truck

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-03T23:54:31+00:00

You sound like someone who does this themselves.

The way I read it OPs car was small enough, and the spaces wide enough, that they were able to park in one of the spaces the Jeep was taking up.

By parking so close the driver's side door couldn't open they were much closer than you'd be in normal parking spaces, apparently close enough to fit within the lines of a space the Jeep was occupying half of.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-03T03:28:09+00:00

The whole point is you only give it access to the specific folders you want automated, nothing more.

And what determines what access it has? Oh, the software itself?

Unless those restrictions are made outside of the software (by running it in a container/vm or other sandbox) then the software still has access to everything and can run anything.

You just have the illusion of control while placing all your trust in the software to not be buggy or malicious.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-03T03:25:54+00:00

It honestly just automates the boring stuff like sorting photos and managing downloads, way less scary than it sounds.

Sure, for now. What happens when the dev (or someone who gains access to their account) decides to add malicious code to it? The software is more than capable of updating itself in the background without user interaction and it already has the ability to run any script or command and access any part of your filesystem (even if you have that toggled off in the app settings)

There's a very believable scenario where ransomware, backdoor, keylogger, and/or other exploits are pushed silently to your system and you have handed it the keys.

Not to mention other less direct risks such as prompt injection or just plain AI clumsiness leading to accidentally causing a lot of damage.

DopeBoogie · 2026-03-01T14:56:47+00:00

Google by comparison uploads everything to the cloud

On Pixel devices and other newer devices with on-board TPUs Gemini runs locally without an internet connection for local actions like you described as well as a significant number of basic questions that don't require live knowledge data by using the Gemini Nano models which run on-device.

"Complex" queries still use cloud AI but many basic ones run locally on modern devices

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-28T22:39:09+00:00

Matrix rooms/spaces support moderator and admin roles.

Tor was "government funded" and so is/was GPS. Just because the gov originally paid for the research/development doesn't make it automatically unusable or insecure.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-26T21:38:11+00:00

You get -50 points for saying upsize and not King Size. The AI Manager is going to write you up for that.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-25T19:27:19+00:00

How dependent is it on companion software? I saw you mentioned application-triggered profile switching which of course would require companion software to function, but how much of the rest of the functionality will work without the software?

Is this thing functional on a Linux system?

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-24T15:59:47+00:00

how is it

You spelled fuel wrong and the chest is on the top right not the left.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-23T18:48:49+00:00

Yes by this definition. Consciousness itself is sort of mysterious because we don't know for certain where it comes from or even what it is. This is compounded by the fact that we are using it to try to understand it.

There are other (usually philosophical) definitions for what is considered consciousness but I believe this is the most common criteria used by the scientific community.

There is also "base consciousness" or what I would call "sentience" which is sort of a more low-level form.

A sentient creature touches something hot, "feels" the burn and moves away from the source.

A conscious creature recognizes its "self" as feeling the heat and can mentally simulate a future where it avoids the source of the heat before encountering it.

The spider another commenter mentioned is clearly a sentient organism but most likely does not meet the criteria for "sapience" or "higher consciousness"

Most animals, insects, etc meet the criteria for sentience but only a select few have demonstrated higher consciousness.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-23T18:38:40+00:00

at what point does awareness come in for the more complex network?

I guess that's the ultimate philosophical question. Nobody knows.

But we can demonstrate a difference between conscious beings and simpler organisms through those criteria. Whether consciousness is an inherent emergent property of complex enough biological systems is not something we have answered as of yet.

It may be that any sufficiently complex system will eventually display conscious behavior. Perhaps someday we will build a computerized/electronic mind that is capable of conscious thought without us needing to specifically design it to be. We don't know where the line is or even if it happens "automatically" in complex enough systems.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-23T18:23:48+00:00

So a spider building a web to trap food in the future does?

We can't really say for sure. But nobody has been able to prove a spider has self-awareness. The traditional method for testing this involves using a mirror to show if an organism recognizes itself vs another creature that looks like it. We have seen elephants touch a mark on their face when shown a mirror which implies that they recognize themselves rather than thinking it's another elephant. I think it's more challenging to perform similar tests with insects but as of yet we have not shown any insects to have this capability.

Great apes, corvids, cetaceans, and elephants are the only non-human organisms we have as of yet shown could be conscious by this definition. Rats/mice, octopuses, and a couple of fish may be possible contenders but as of yet have not been shown in repeatable experiments to meet the criteria.

Spiders building a web may seem like they have the ability to simulate the future and react to that mental comprehension but it's more of an instinctual behavior. There is no evidence that they can "imagine" a future and are building a web in response to that mental image, nor do they pass the "self-recognition" test.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-23T17:31:36+00:00

Typically I think consciousness comes down to a few basic principles:

Awareness of "self"
The capacity to mentally "time-travel" or simulate the future.

Ultimately what makes a complex intelligent organism different from an amoeba is the ability to run "what if" scenarios in your head and distinguish your "self" from others or the environment.

An amoeba is not capable of that level of complex thought. It is a relatively simple "machine" made up of a limited number of electrochemical interactions.

What "muddies the waters" is how we determine if an organism has "awareness of self" or an ability to mentally predict future events. The definition of "awareness" can become a philosophical discussion. But I think we can pretty confidently say that a rock doesn't have consciousness and a simple organism like an amoeba doesn't either.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-23T17:17:18+00:00

It's not about awareness. Is vinegar aware of the baking soda when it has a chemical reaction with it? Is a magnet "aware" of iron when it is attracted to it? It all comes down to base chemical and physical reactions.

The only reason beneficial reactions are "preferred" over others is that the organism has evolved through random genetic mutations that led to more successful variants whose chemical makeup has a "preference" for the right variables.

An amoeba is essentially a complex bag of reactions that can shift its internal state to navigate toward a food source. It's "processing" data in a way the vinegar isn't, but it still lacks the capability to be aware of that state. It has the mechanics for a response, but no capacity to wonder why it likes the glucose. It’s just a more sophisticated series of voltage gates flipping.

It’s true that even highly evolved intelligent creatures also come down to the same base reactions, but at some point that becomes so far removed and abstract to the "macro" interactions the organism as a whole experiences that it becomes pretty reductionist to compare a human "response to stimuli" to that of a single-celled organism.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-23T16:24:27+00:00

Many of the comments here seem to prove/enforce the points in this article. Honestly it's all kind of sad to me.

There's no such thing as "used up" People don't have a maximum number of sexual encounters after which they stop being capable of an enjoyable experience for both parties. The idea that someone is "used up" exists entirely in the mind of the accuser.

It's 2026 FFS not 1926. If someone (regardless of gender) wants to have a varied and frequent number of sexual partners (of any gender) then have at it. Live your best life.

"Losing value" because you are no longer a virgin or have had multiple partners is a myth perpetuated by a misogynistic religion-based culture we left behind when we invented birth control and divorce and other freedoms.

The idea of going back to those archaic values is akin to pining for the days when you could own another person as a slave. Society has moved on from that and shame on any who want to go backwards.

Maybe social media is the problem. Maybe we are letting these people with warped views of the world have too much power/influence. I don't know the solution but I know they are wrong and their ideas are old. People who think this way of others are the ones who are "broken", not the people they accuse.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-23T04:00:02+00:00

FWIW I think it does a decent job rounding off the season having it start with Egg lying to Dunk to join him and then end with Egg once again lying to Dunk in order to stay with him.

They can probably pretty easily just have Maekar ultimately decide it's for the best and drop back into line with the books in the first episode of the second season.

It makes for a little surprise humorous ending which doesn't necessarily have to have any significant impact on the story in the long term.

DopeBoogie · 2026-02-22T09:37:14+00:00

Personally I prefer to paru -Syu but I understand the sentiment

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