As far as I can tell, so far, AI hasn't 'taken the jobs', but executives have stopped hiring and put the squeeze on those who remain because they've been hoodwinked into thinking that it can. Everyone I know who is working is getting absolutely slammed, while people who are not are only finding closed doors.

@aj hmm. Brookfield defaulted on my local mall recently. Similar story, it was stacked with debt that they decided not to pay back. Now everyone thinks the mall is failing, even though it's quite profitable.

Seems like they're doing fine financially, though. Just socializing the losses and keeping the profits.

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.

@deirdrebeth @drdrowland @hjwp @ned going back to the OP...

...some days she would have another friend's kid there. So she handled three kids (one her own) and made more money than the person working at the daycare watching 12, AND the parents were paying less than the ones dropping their kids at daycare.

It's weird that we do this via private companies instead of a public service, but it's even weirder that in lieu of a public service, there aren't more 'ad hoc' arrangements like this.

@drdrowland @hjwp @deirdrebeth @ned in our case, when we had a little one, we knew a stay at home mom with a similar-age kid who gladly took our little guy at a low daily rate. It was mutually beneficial.

@ariadne Ahh, I misunderstood the terminology.

@ariadne I used to run an honest to goodness server (Xeon, RAID, big case, VMware ESXi, etc.) and had the same problem.

I eventually moved services to individual Raspberry Pis and have been trouble-free since. It's pretty silly that a $45 SBC on a MicroSD card is getting better overall uptime than my $2,000 servers ever did, but here we are.

So if the takeover of the US Institute of Peace was unconstitutional, as a judge found, and three separate law enforcement agencies just 'did as they were told' to physically take it over, are there any sanctions or commentary from the courts on how those agencies abjectly failed to 'not follow illegal orders'?! Will LEO administrators and officers that did it be held at all accountable or even TOLD that they did the wrong thing? Will the folks (assuming there were any) who objected be rewarded or given credit for doing the correct thing in the face of unlawful orders?

I feel like we are getting a very clear picture of how fucked we are.

@GossiTheDog I have yet to see a decent customer support chat bot. They seem to be delightfully chipper, but infuriatingly useless.

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@osma I think the current carbon sequestration 'industry' is more about conning us into overbuilt tech. I'm just thinking about ways to accomplish the goal that are within reach at lower tech levels. It's definitely not 'healthy forestry' though, I'm talking about stuff that would be more like Canadian and Siberian geoengineering projects with transcontinental train lines putting billions of tons of biomass onto container ships to deep-six in the arctic.

I'm not talking about digging up the soil though, I'm talking about mowing the grass and shipping that so you can grow more ASAP.

@osma and to be pedantic... roots are made of carbon, but so are the above-ground parts and much of the humus. If you leave roots and swipe away the tops for storage, that would be carbon sequestered.

@osma Understood that that's the normal cycle. I'm talking about something different instead of storing carbon in the soil. Growing plants (from sunlight and CO2), then swiping them away for storage *instead* of letting bacteria gobble it up into CO2 into the air and ground.

I'm curious what the efficiency/effectiveness of natural photosynthesis & an industrial effort to interrupt the carbon cycle is vs. building machines to do it with electricity.

No idea if carbon180 is legit, but this is what I'm talking about.

https://carbon180.org/pathway/biomass-carbon-removal-and-storage/

@osma what if you dry it and store it instead of letting it rot? Are there places where we could deep-six it where it won't end up putting the carbon back into the atmosphere? Either in landfills or under arctic oceans?

@osma my (non-expert) understanding of the physics of 'carbon capture' have me thinking that it MUST use more energy than fossils created to make the energy output, and that the only way they could possibly make sense is if you had an overabundance of renewable electric input to feed them.

In short: Carbon Capture *might* be something we need *after* a global green energy revolution, or to soak up power if you build enough nuclear to exceed baseload, but it's a massive distraction until then.

IMO, the most efficient 'carbon capture' is probably to grow grasses, harvest it, bundle it up under tarps that divert water to prevent it from biodegrading, and keep layering on top. Basically landfilling grass.

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@djspacebunny I do enjoy several of those things! I think I'm gonna Staycation a bit though; Southeastern New England is having amazing weather right now.

I got really tired towards the end of the day on Friday and decide to take a rare nap right after work. I dreamed I was INSIDE the SIEM interface, pulling on data flows to push values into fields.

I think I need a vacation.

@gfxstrand Yep. I was misunderstanding how the build worked and where that was coming from. I was wrong. Looks like Alpine's package isn't building that.

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/master/main/mesa/APKBUILD

Also looks like that type of enablement is most likely to come from this developer:

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/mps

@gfxstrand Not an Alpine user myself, but it looks like Alpine's builds of Mesa don't enable 'beta' drivers. I suppose you could toggle that and rebuild the Mesa APK, unless you're trying to get it to all Alpine users.