Do you think it’s more important to make the world care about AI or to make the world care about the environment?
The “front line” is irrelevant when either one is an existential threat on its own. You can’t just redirect your forces to one side. You argue we should make a strong “front line” in front of AI, while we are being overrun from behind by the environment. It doesn’t matter that people don’t care about it, it’s still going to kill us.
The rules will be the same as they always are: First Come First Served, and Might Makes Right.
You will likely have to use a temporary alternative until the name is removed so you can reclaim it. No idea how long that takes, it might not even happen automatically at all. It seems like there is a forum thread for it
Aha I see you did the text-based install then? I’ve never done that myself but I just tried it now and it worked fine for me with the default password it mentions. Make sure caps lock is off. You will not be able to see the password when you type it, so be extra careful you are typing it correctly.
Most of the same cautions about internet access still apply, if your networking is active on this VM there’s a non-zero chance you can get hacked right away when you’re in default passwords/initial setup mode. If you continue to have trouble getting in, you should reinstall it once again onto a fresh VM with network mode set to NAT if possible, or even disabled completely, and see if it works in that configuration. It really is critical to get the password set up before opening up the internet.
The D and R are only pretending to fight each other to create the illusion of opposition. They actually have the same agenda, they are two peas in a pod, and it does not matter if you vote for Kang or Kodos, you will get the same outcome in the end. Fascism is the goal, it’s not an “oh no we accidentally voted for fascists” situation, they’re all fucking fascists funded by billionaires and none of them give the slightest shit about any of us beyond having different ideas of how exactly they’re going to take all our money before they kill us.
Not sure what you mean by “what was provided”… who is providing a username and password for your yunohost?
You are supposed to create your own username and password during the “Begin” setup process after it first installs. “root” and “yunohost” are very insecure and if you use passwords that are copy/pasted from somewhere else on a machine connected to the internet it will be hacked, potentially almost immediately. People have bots that literally just try to connect using these common default passwords all day every day to every site on the internet. I have literally had machines with such crappy passwords hacked within minutes of spinning them up. The same thing can happen even when you are first doing the setup process. If somebody else can get in, they can (most likely with a bot) do the setup process themselves and set up their OWN username/password, and now it will ask you for that password that THEY set, which you have no way of knowing. The instance belongs to the first person to claim it, and if that’s not you, you have to wipe it and start over.
Your yunohost VM interface should not be exposed to the internet during setup. Even briefly, or someone else can immediately compromise it like this. The only way to ensure you are the first person to access it is to make sure you are the ONLY person who can access it, until it is properly set up and secured. Bots are WAY faster than you can be.
Use localhost console, VM port forwarding or some other secure method of making sure nobody but your own host computer can access the IP of the server where you are setting things up, until it has a strong, secure password (not “yunohost”) and make sure you have all its security features configured and working before you even think about making it accessible to the internet.
But if someone can’t be bothered to even use a throaway protonmail address to file a bug report or feature request? Quite frankly, what they have to say wouldn’t have been worth our limited time anyway.
You don’t know that, because you’ve never once heard what someone didn’t say. Their time is limited too.
Too much color is bad for your health.
Absolutely true, but the point isn’t whataboutism (well, sometimes it is, but it shouldn’t be). The point should be admitting and owning our mistakes and doing what we reasonably can to:
a) admit that we did and validate the experience of the people who suffered from it
b) make sure we’re not still doing it (way too often we still are, just through subtler means)
c) try to make reparations if we can
Even getting to step ‘a’ is a big fucking step. Nobody’s innocent, but honesty is the foundation on which improvements can be made.
You can only be banned on certain instances/communities in the Fediverse. Some people take being banned from certain fascist instances as a mark of pride.
My favourite AI project was the one where some guy proudly posted that he made this thing entirely with AI with no coding experience, and then proceeded to get hacked. Again, and again, and again, using AI to fix it each time until he gave up and blamed people for being “mean”. AI projects are full of endless bugs and security holes that people with no coding experience don’t notice or know how to fix? Who would’ve guessed? The future of coding is here, and hackers are going to have a fun time. As a professional software developer, I can’t wait because I’m going to charge (at least) double to fix it.
The next escalation will be from expanding the protests until they can be organized into a general strike.
People need to stop going to work. Together. All at once. A lot of people. Enough that they can’t be replaced and that important things that the government and billionaires rely on, stop happening, potentially for a long time. The country needs to shut down, like COVID. This is going to have consequences. But it has to have consequences. That’s the point. Consequences for both sides, and more consequences until the situation gets resolved, one way or another. People have to come to terms with the fact that they’re going to lose their jobs anyway. This is really just accelerating the inevitable. People are losing their jobs right now, when they are deported. People are losing their jobs when they’re imprisoned. People need to realize that no one is safe, and in the longer term the way things are going with AI and robotics and utopian techbro billionaires owning everything and being handed whatever they want by the government it seems clear you’re ALL going to lose your jobs at some point, so why not now? Do it early, in a coordinated fashion, for a cause. Accept the inevitable consequences, and turn them to your advantage by doing them with intention, on your own terms.
Everyone thinks they have a great job when they have to confront the possibility of losing it, but that’s the scam. You have a shitty job, working for someone else who is much, much richer than you and your shitty job and its “benefits” are the reason you are not rich despite living in the richest country in the world. There will be new, better jobs to get when you win. If you win. The need for these jobs to be done isn’t going away. It’s time for people to start creating some intentional artificial scarcity to drive up wages while there are still things that can’t be easily or effectively automated.
People have to organize, and do it quickly, while there is still time. A lot of people are still trying to “prepare” for what’s coming but that’s not a luxury you have anymore. They’ve been preparing for this a lot longer than you will be able to. The clock is ticking, the administration is working furiously to remove the people it considers most dangerous to its goals and remove the systems and supports that could be used against it. The more you delay, the worse it’s going to be. Time wasted “preparing” is time wasted, period. The time for action is now. The rebellion is forming. Be part of it.
They do see them as people, but specifically bad people. A non-person would be beneath their notice. A bad person on the other hand, becomes the target of their wrath and cruelty and it is justified to do this to them because they are bad.
They are freely expressing their fear of dangerous western ideas which must be censored to protect the motherland /s
You need to work on your reading comprehension then, because as I said:
OP’s comment is clearly saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation. That’s why they said “BUT I’m not stupid”. They are agreeing that it would be stupid to go there now, that’s why their statement of wanting to go there is made conditional on a “but” that is false.
Like saying, “I love spicy food and I wish I could eat a whole ghost pepper at once, BUT I’m not stupid [implied: so I WON’T eat a whole ghost pepper at once]”
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and respond to your 4-word insult comment, because I think it’s important and I’m assuming you either didn’t realize that OP is saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation, or you’re saying that the existence of the current political situation completely erases any potential historical or cultural value the people and the country may have or have ever had or ever will have and that’s a really awful thing to say and I can’t imagine how someone could have that attitude without intentional hyperbole unless they’re being a disgustingly intolerant bigot.
Iran is a beautiful country, in most of its history it was Persia. They were fierce warriors yes but also academics and scholars. They provided the foundation of modern astronomy and mathematics and were a beacon of civilization and education. We literally use “arabic” numbers today because of them. There is beautiful architecture, beautiful geography, beautiful wildlife in Iran and none of that had any choice about the government. There are wonderful people there, including ones who protest the regime and fight for democracy and human rights.
The modern tyrannical islamofascist government sucks and of course nobody should go there now or at any foreseeable point in the future, but it’s not stupid to want to go there, and if they had a safe, friendly democratic nation (which it should be pointed out many of the people in Iran and who have fled Iran’s current regime would also like) I absolutely would love to visit too. I’m less interested in North Korea, personally, but I can understand that it might appeal to others and there might be interesting places and things and people there too that I’m just not interested in or don’t know about. I would also love to go to Russia too. Again, I would only do that without the government or the bad parts of their culture, but I still love many of the parts of their history and culture. I don’t hate the people or the land. I hate the evil governments and the shitty cultural attitudes.
Try not to have shitty cultural attitudes yourself, appreciate and avoid invalidating the good parts of other people’s cultures, and it will help the world to be a better place where we can all get along.
wasn’t the League of Nations largely the brainchild of Woodrow Wilson, US president during WW1?
Yes it was, quite ironic that the US never became a part of it right? But they’ve always been like that. I can’t figure out why anyone would rely on an agreement with them when every 4 years they switch from Jekyll to Hyde, do an about face and throw you to the wolves. They’re useful allies when they want to be useful, but I wouldn’t rely on them or trust any agreement with them any further than I can throw it. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I’ve always been partial to restarting the League of Nations, which notably never had the United States anyway… sounds familiar.
Invade Brazil, install puppet regime, attend summit.
My point is, even without AI, if all AI were banned tomorrow, all the data centers shut down, what we’re doing to the environment WITHOUT AI is most likely going to kill us all and render the Earth uninhabitable, possibly within 100-200 years. It is, as far as science’s ability to predict, the end of the human race and almost all life on Earth. People thinking we’ll adapt, or that we can just go live on other planets or space stations after this one is destroyed, or that we’ll magically find out a solution and have the technological means to fix it, are all frankly delusional and their wishful thinking is unsupported by current climate science and space science.
My point is we can’t stop fighting for the environment and throw it under the bus just because AI is the new threat of the day. If you truly believe “the world has already decided it doesn’t care about the environment” then there’s no point fighting AI or fighting for anything anymore, because if that is the case then we’re straight up doomed, humanity is cooked (literally), the game is over, might as well have fun on the way out.
My point is that if you intend on humanity having any future, both these things need to be fought. You can’t claim defeat on one and still fight the other, there’s no point and you’re wasting your time because the other will get you. They’re both utterly existential threats, and either one is as completely fatal as the other.