DreamlandLividity @ DreamlandLividity @lemmy.world

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I am not treating them as irrelevant, hence a password manager. But I am not treating it as fort knox. Most of my real-life friends probably don't even go that far.

Well, this is a bit tricky to answer:

1. The e-sim in a phone is a separate chip with proprietary firmware. The chances of a FOSS version of this HW are nearly nonexistent. It would require developing your own silicon and putting it into your own phones. Chances of FOSS FW for this proprietary HW are also very small, because it is difficult and there is not much reason to do so.
2. Currently, registering an e-sim requires a proprietary app (usually google). There is no FOSS alternative. Work on one is slow and there are some IP issues.
3. Using an e-sim does not require a proprietary app. So you can remove google services or remove their access to the e-sim HW once you have it registered. GrapheneOS uses this.

To my bank? No. To a Lemmy account? Yep.

Really says a lot about you that you would immediately try twist my words this way.

I was talking about this: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

Israely bombs sometimes hit Hamas, not just civilians. Does not make them good. Just like (supposedly) doing a good thing in this one case does not make it a good law.

And it was confirmed Rowling won't even be prosecuted. Because of course these kind of laws don't apply to the rich and famous hatemongers. They apply to the poor schmuck making a bad taste joke.

Well I am finally ahead of the curve. I mostly stopped using discord after I learned of their horrible privacy practices and braindead statements on e2e encryption.

Long live Matrix!

Well, I am convinced we currently have no idea how an AGI could be made. It shouldn't be a HW issue since it is possible to have a human brain worth of computing power in a small cluster. So it could be near impossible or we may be one great shower thought away, there is no way to know.

Exactly. As a SW engineer, I don't know how far we are from an AGI exactly, but I am confident enough Altman and openAi have no idea where to even start.

I did answer your question, you just assume like so many people that because I disagree with you on some points, I must be a contrarian who disagrees with everything.

I do not support the death penalty. I came here to defend N2 because after giving it a lot of thought, N2 would be my preferred method of euthanasia if I needed it.

As for point 2 and 3, I am just saying it would be a bit better to ban it. But there are literally hundreds of more important things to care and lobby about like Gaza, school shootings, healthcare, mental health, police violence ,... All much more important than a handful of convicted murderers being executed.

Just reforming the legal system to maybe not have 4% of the largest incarcerated population in the world be innocent would do a lot more good.

The Nazis were also using trains to transport them because it was more efficient. Lets ban trains. They used guns to keep them in line. Ban governments from having guns. They used fences to keep them in camps. Lets ban fences.

There is no logic to this argument. Its just an appeal to emotion.

This would only ban it in Nebraska. Scotus not taking appeal is not the same as scotus taking the appeal and denying it and even that is not the same as scotus ruling it unconstitutional.

Especially if the lower court ruled based on Nebraska law or constitution. Scotus rejecting appeal to such is just standard: We don't care what states do. Which is the default in Federalism. States can ban things the Feds allow*.

* many exceptions may apply

3 things:

1. It is not a good thing in the real world, because of how corrupt and incompetent governments are and can be. There isn't a benefit that could outweigh executing innocent people.
2. In a hypothetical world where we are certain who is guilty, do whatever is more practical/convenient: If it is cheaper or better at deterring crime rate, execute them. If it is more practical to give them life in prison then do that.
3. In the world we have where executions are happening, N2 is leagues better than any other method I heard of being used in practice. And there are many much more important issues to fix.

You mean unconstitutional? In the US? When?

The government not getting to misuse the death penalty and not bombing civilians? Sounds like a win-win to me too. Almost too good to be possible in a hyperpolarized two party system.

I am thinking more in terms of public and activist focus. Hey, if you don't like killing people, how about not sending weapons to bomb 10s of thousands of actually innocent civilians in Gaza and spread famine that could kill many more as opposed to handful of convicted murderers.

But if you can solve political infighting and get politicians to focus on solving all these issues, that would be even better. I just don't see how that would be possible.

You mix two very different issues. Whether our corrupt governments should have the power to execute people, which they shouldn't but its not what this article is about. Also, since they had this power since like the beginning of written history, I kind of am too used to it to be horrified.

And if we are executing people, what the method should be. Electric chair is something that actually horrifies me. So if we at least get a 100x more humane method, it is a win in my book. Certainly not gonna loose sleep because it has association with Nazis. So does VolksWagen and Fanta.

First of all, if after all this time electric chair and lethal injection were not found unsuitable, I have zero faith this one would be (at least for the right reasons) regardless of botched attempts.

Second of all, I don't advocate for our corrupt governments to handle executions. I 100% agree they can't be trusted with this.

But there is no issue with the method itself, which is what this article is about and I am commenting on. Purity of the gas? What for? Unless there is so much oxygen the patient survives, it should not matter. Certainly not any trace amount you would have in industrial nitrogen supply.

An empty swimming pool is bad. A burning house is bad. Filling your pool with limited water supply before putting out the fire is also bad.

There is so much focus to go around for politics.