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this guy was cool, Dan Kozak, friend , musician, philosopher https://www.discogs.com/artist/3732131-Dan-Kozak-2

unrznbl (Craig Comstock) boosted:

@unrznbl @h3rald @neauoire i’ve been thinking about this one for a bit, and it hasn’t left me - i love the concept of culturally preserving important info like this. i’ve seen attempts to do things like it before, but it makes me wonder what knowledge would be most important to distill. what information from this age is worth keeping? (aside from voluminous cautionary tales). perhaps a lot of the medical advancements and knowledge we have now about things that have plagued our species for such a long time. but aside from that - what algorithms, useful things, from this computational age, do we want to keep embedded culturally?

this is a super open ended question because i promise i’m not the person to ask about this, haha

@m @h3rald @neauoire
No doubt! And what is our cultural capacity for remembering if we reduce it to songs and stories! Woah. I'm afraid we'd be going backwards for sure in terms of achievement and knowledge.

I heard a Microsoft guy, Jared Spataro talk at an MS365 keynote about how "knowledge workers" and their value is going to be factory-ized aka become a cheap commodity in the form of LLMs in big datacenters so... :shrug: seems like the most reasonable way "forward" is to try to go "back" to 5-10k years of indigenous knowledge that the folks around my place (turtle island aka north america) had.

Biggest problem there is how do you protect yourself from the drones/computers/capitalists? ;)

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I find that gemini is not better at telling me how to use the jira-cli command line client than `jira sub-command --help` :) There, I just decreased t
he perceived demand for this LLM a smidge and if everyone did that where possible we might reduce the horror that is datacenters.

unrznbl (Craig Comstock) boosted:

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup.
"By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything).
The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"

Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol.
Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil.
The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow."
In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"

Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc.
"We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel.

"What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia."
In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back.

"Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."

Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!"
"The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!"
"How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.

@oppen the link after "See the main webpage for more details:" is 404. aka https://orllewin.github.io/elmet_brae/EB01/

unrznbl (Craig Comstock) boosted:

This is looking ever worse

"UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon boss"

Likely outcome: the nuclear projects will be vastly over time and over budget, forcing the use of fossil fuel generation to power all those data centres, because prioritising nuclear means deprioritising renewables.

[I removed the claim about profitability as it is disputed and muddles the waters.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewd5014wpno

#FrugalComputing

unrznbl (Craig Comstock) boosted:

One of my favourite track that plays at #theGym right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjtHjcF40zk
#theStudio

@h3rald @neauoire @m

another thought, about The Book, is instead of manufacturing a physical object we need to re embrace songs and stories with each other to embed survival knowledge in our selves.

songs and stories are the ultimate long-term storage I'd say.

Thanks for all the links. Appreciate yall.

@h3rald

@neauoire @m

In following permacomputing and collapseOS I found myself wondering why computers and coming up with not much. communication and connection probably are the top useful aspects but that can be achieved easily without them and until I can have a local organic computer I dont see them as viable. They are a product and result of extractive and harmful commerce and industry.

I want to be a part of the project that gently sunsets the whole field.

@aral pay-walled to keep out AI scrapers I guess. I feel like we need some secret society of mutual-aid humans on the "other side" of the internet.

unrznbl (Craig Comstock) boosted:

A little lightning talk at CERN about #permacomputing and #uxn.
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2931835

A breakdown of the cuneiform tablets of computer paper.

unrznbl (Craig Comstock) boosted:

Screenshot taken from a mobile phone of a Wired article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable." More than half of the screen is covered by a cookie warning.

@philvuchetich outstanding, thanks for the resources... I have seen hardenedbsd here a lot and the amsterdam thing via duckduckgo so will keep researching!

question: I was thinking I would bring an OpenBSD host up on the internet for folks to login via ssh and do stuff kind of like sdf but local ish. Any recommendations? hardened bsd? a tutorial on hardening?

I am tired of ed not being installed by default on say Debian. ex is too noisy and does not have my favorite command: 1zn, the n part I guess.

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