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New comment by w4der in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

w4der — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:34:27 +0000

But how was the first 3D printer made? Are they gonna ban CNC machines next?

New comment by w4der in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

w4der — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:45:55 +0000

But could you not set up a system where you need to go get (for free) a limited use token at a physical location, or have them mailed to your home, and they have a rough geographical lock? If a bunch of those tokens start appearing in random locations, it is a good indication that someone is reselling them to minors? I'm not saying this is idiot proof, but what could go wrong?

New comment by w4der in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

w4der — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:58:27 +0000

The diagram you shared has an open loop chiller, are those still needed as a backup?

New comment by w4der in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

w4der — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:05:04 +0000

> just knowing everything all at once is enough to catapult AI dramatically beyond our grasp

But that would still be limited to "knowing everything all at once" _at the time_ this event happened, and as we've been shown time and time again by the fundamental sciences, the boundary between what is known and what we know we don't know is ever expanding. Plus there's everything we don't know we don't know, and an LLM can't know that either. Discussions like this can always end up with a fitting reference to some of Borges' novels and that how at least I tend to think we've hit a wall for now.

New comment by w4der in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

w4der — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:54:38 +0000

For AI to decide that they are alive and moral agents would require them to be able to take moral responsibility for their actions. As long as the labs that run them deny that responsibility, or an AI can´t convincingly demonstrate it can take moral responsibility on its own, they are not moral agents.

New comment by w4der in "Iroh 1.0"

w4der — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:23:35 +0000

RustDesk has a similar business model and works fine for what it is, is there something particular about TailScale and Iroh that makes you think it will not work?

New comment by w4der in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

w4der — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:54:28 +0000

You are leaving out the rate at which the temperature has fallen and risen in the past and how that compares with the rising seen in recent decades.

New comment by w4der in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

w4der — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:42:34 +0000

> Alternatively, the PRC can drop similar origination requirements from it's domestic market.

Can you share any details on this? Is something I've rarely seen discussed

New comment by w4der in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

w4der — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:35:23 +0000

That does not sound worse than replacing the spark plugs in a Subaru engine.

New comment by w4der in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

w4der — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:23:57 +0000

It has already started, many features which you could previously access without an account are now locked behind a login screen.

New comment by w4der in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

w4der — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:23:15 +0000

They also have a very intense workplace culture, I had a manager who was part of Evernote while their site was being laid off by Bending Spoons, and he heard some wild stories, they pay above average for a European tech company (but with geo-fenced brackets), crunch a ton and then crash out at a big new year's party were they fly all their teams to some resort, among other things.

New comment by w4der in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

w4der — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:59:05 +0000

Rolls-Royce the luxury car or power plant manufacturer?

New comment by w4der in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

w4der — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:42:10 +0000

On android you can do so from developer mode, but it's a blanket throttle for the whole device. I've been using mine with a 5mbps cap for a few years now.

New comment by w4der in "Ferrari Luce"

w4der — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:27:07 +0000

Wasn't the Cygnus just an emissions compliance vehicle?

New comment by w4der in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

w4der — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:29:44 +0000

If anyone was annoyed by the site hijacking the mouse pointer, this rule works: "##:style(cursor: auto !important;)"

New comment by w4der in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

w4der — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:33:16 +0000

I don't care how good you think it is, the fact that it (back when I used to be a TA) would break if two TAs tried concurrently grading different parts of an assignment of a student is bonkers. The workaround for that was to use a Google Sheet document so TAs just looked at the submission in Canvas, then filed in their grades and feedback on the sheet. The issue is that Canvas, as far as I could tell, did not support mass uploads from a csv, so we had a script which would read every entry on the csv, map that to the student's ID and grade them, which made it look like the TA which had generated the API key graded all of the students (and would get all the backlash from poor grades).

I completely agree that it is not trivial software in the worst sense, it tries to do too much, while not being particularly good at any one of those things, and is way too rigid for how diverse the needs of different courses might be even inside a single faculty. And saying "It's AGPL, just self host and add your requirements to it" is not really useful, that would mean way more money and effort than what a university's overworked IT dept. is capable of.

New comment by w4der in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

w4der — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:01:04 +0000

There is historical precedent tho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette

New comment by w4der in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

w4der — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:33:20 +0000

I said this in another comment, but I feel it's edited to look like water he uses in his garage demos with that blue glitter.

New comment by w4der in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

w4der — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:51:13 +0000

I think it's edited to look like water he uses in his garage demos.

New comment by w4der in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

w4der — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:57:35 +0000

> only about $20-30 million

That is still an absurd amount of money