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  • Sure of course of course but umm have you seen software?

    There are still windows xp computers on the internet.

    It's not insurmountable, and of course I have no idea if/how this will roll out.

    Just it seems to mess with a rather deep assumption we have about how computers operate when we develop software and threat models.

  • Maybe, it depends how it works.

    Memory is often unencrypted and/or contains encryption keys. Many programs rely on the assumption that it's cleared on powerdown for security.

    Depending on how this memory enters the long term state it seems that a lot of legacy software might become vulnerable to a really simple attack.

    Pulling the plug might no longer be something that forces someone to engage in rubber hose analysis.

  • Ok so assuming good faith:

    There's a huge cohort of idiot savant type technologists that are obsessed with the idea of machine consciousness and the incredibly important implications of that (according to them). Yet these same people by and large absolutely refuse to engage in any behaviour modification regarding the incredibly strong evidence of consciousness we find in extant earthlings. Human and non human.

    So I can't take their claims of being interested this any more seriously than a teenager's musings on the meaning of life because they don't actually believe anything they're saying.

    Knowledge without belief in it is not knowledge, it is mere rhetoric and wordplay.

    If you care about machine consciousness and think it would carry any weight or demand modification of our behaviour you would already be acting with urgency against humanitarian crises and animal agriculture.

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  • haha got me I suppose?

  • Ok then, go plant based but eat honey. If you agree with the rest you should do it.

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  • Literally a dude hit me up with that once. That's all I know.

    Just since you're looking for a vegan and it's such a winning line hahahaha

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  • eeeyyyyy baby. Want sum fuck?

  • the smell of frying onions

  • nudity is as much a mechanic as having head hair is though? it's just what humans ( and humanoid) things are?

    non sexual nudity is a normal part of life.

  • I am generally of pretty radical political leanings but holy shit hexbear is stupid.

    Taking frustrations with the monsterous inequity and suffering of the current USA lead military hegemony to such a useless extreme that everyone who opposes the usa is an angle and anything that remotely aligns with the interests of the usa must be unredeemable evil.

  • Let me plug into the hive mind real quick

    connecting... ... ... Error: connection refused

    Damn, I guess I'll have to give my own personal opinion:

    Most of the world is cishet, how could I possibly judge based on that? I will say fence sitters are the people that horrible people rely on being the majority in order to enable their horribleness.

    Might want to reflect on what it is that enables you do sit out the fight, what kind of burden that places on other people, and whether it's fair to do so.

  • I think I rented it for the gamecube but never played much. Apparently it's famously good! I'll have to check it out.

  • I think you're seeing backlash against being involuntarily exposed to (and often pushed to see) unbridled and deranged hatred and fear on traditional socmedia.

    A conservative opinion like "I'm not sure communism is practical" is something that can be engaged with pretty cordially, "I think that education should focus on marketable skills" is an opinion I think is pretty misinformed but it's not something that exhausts me.

    Unfortunately a lot of online conservatism is stuff like "I think there's a conspiracy by $minority to mind control us with vaccines" or "Should we be trying to make queer people afraid?" which aren't positions you can engage with.