I’m talking about my direct experiences with these people.

I’m onboard with not defederating but holy shit these people are shitting themselves all over the place on [email protected]. They’re way worse than the typical lemmygrad.ml fare.

God I can only imagine the smell of 100s of unwashed fursuits and basement nerds crammed into the plane.

Yeah it should be a per user decision…

Why?

This is excellent advice and makes me feel less crazy…

Space launches were “much cheaper” a half a century ago? You don’t really follow any space news whatsoever do you? That’s patently false.

This comment doesn’t make it sound like you have much real world experience. Maybe read literally anything about Neuralink and BMIs, I’ve been following this for years.

All very good questions. The only one I think I can answer is that I think it was inductively charged but I forget what the pigs had on them. It may have been an external battery pack. The implant itself is definitely not external accessible.

We could probably look at existing BMI devices to get our answer, I’m sure it’s even less pretty.

By all appearances yes, it’s an appreciable jump in the technology compared to current brain interfaces that are used for the immobile. They did a whole live tech demo with pigs as well as the people he’s hired to work on it there. He has top level surgeons and neuroscientists all working on it who choose to be there. Oh and also it just passed FDA approval for testing in humans.

It would be hard to bullshit this passed all the people involved. I have the belief it’s quite a different situation compared to the continuing failure of FSD.

I guess they may have come into existence without him. Unfortunately with the way capitalism has a death grip on the world… it seems like the only way risky ventures get off the ground is through the whims of megamaniacal filthy rich motherfuckers.

The brain science and neurology advancements that would be required to get to such a point would be absolute mind-blowing breakthroughs in medical science and would completely change the world as we know it. The mental/personality disorders we could now understand and solve would make me so hopeful for humanity and the upbringing of welfare for everyone. This would without question be a good thing.

I agree with your assessment except saying that SpaceX’s advancements are “not that bad” is a massive understatement. They’ve completely disrupted and forever changed the space launch industry, with the help of government subsidies.

Everyone also forgets how Starlink is serving remote indigenous communities and scared the pants off shitty dominant ISPs that have been screwing rural communities over since forever.

I’ll re-emphasize my point that I think the results of some large companies, which comprises the efforts of many many smart people, can have facets of it be considered overwhelmingly good.

Edit: some more words

Neuralink is an excellent advancement for brain science and it is greatly going to help disabled people and those with little function left over their bodies. It’s okay to celebrate this technology while also hating musk.

Like SpaceX, they’ve both been excellent ventures that he so far hasn’t ruined (probably thanks to the people he delegates to). Just because it’s fashionable to hate him for how he’s absolutely fucked over Twitter (which i’ll remind everyone we’ve always hated and agreed is bad, use Mastodon instead) doesn’t mean his other companies largely spearheaded by others, and their results, are also bad.

That’s not even to mention that the kind of dystopian technology people are imagining isn’t anywhere close to what the Neuralink device is actually capable of. What everyones fearmongering over is still just science fiction. It’s just barely able to interpret brain signals, it’s not as powerful as everyone makes it out to be.

2nd edit: forgot what instance I’m on, this comment probably ain’t going to do well lol

AWS is expensive and confusingly structured, but I’ve been impressed with the ECS stuff. The UI for all of it is also way overcomplicated and stupid, but once you have it working it works.

That’s what happens when Reddit unilaterally bans everyone but those with milquetoast opinions. Those people have to find somewhere else to go. It’ll change over time as people migrate.

We really should have a method of banning remote individual users from your own instance. I’m as anti tankie as they come, but defederating isn’t the answer. It’s just continually shrinking and sharding the fediverse in a way that will hinder our growth.

Off the top of my head we use AWS ECS which provides a rolling upgrade method. Push up the new container into ECR (from github actions after they pass tests) run the upgrade command, and new containers will start booting. Once they pass their health checks the load balancer starts serving traffic to them. Once they’re live, the old containers are removed.

We also use a blue/green deployment method so we don’t have to worry about breaking the production database with database changes.

Not too much, just that it would be incredibly tempting of an option for a millionaire. Anonymously destroy your competition by paying some dark web site in Monero? Sure why not?

Haters. Groups paid by Steve Huffman. Script kiddies. Any rich trust fund pissant with a couple hundo to spend on the dark web.