promethea.incorporated

thetransintransgenic:

arbitrarilychosen:

thetransintransgenic:

thetransintransgenic:

thetransintransgenic:

socialjusticemunchkin:

ilzolende:

Codeacademy’s Git course seems to include a Real Terminal that lets me ping Google and everything. I wonder how it’s implemented.

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The answer is: I managed to screw around so much I don’t even want to tell it all publicly on tumblr. The point where I’m executing arbitrary code around the filesystem really makes me hope their VM is secure.

I Am Sure They Know What They Are Doing

in the mean time, I Am Installing Nix.

I think they kill a process if it is using too much resources?

UPDATE: They Are Running A Tor Exit Node Now

Sorry, encountering inferential distance:

How does the Tor exit node fit in with the whole terminal VM thing?

$ nix-env -i tor zile
$ zile torrc
$ tor -f torrc

I installed Tor and ran it as an exit node for about 5 minutes maybe but I’m bad at estimating.

They didn’t KNOW they were running a Tor exit node…

AWESOME

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1 month ago · tagged #baby leet · 63 notes · source: ilzolende · .permalink

sigmaleph:

metagorgon:

conductivemithril:

lakefatherlakeson:

i don’t think straight people will ever truly understand why many of us gay people LOVE being gay and why we would not change ourselves for the world. even the most progressive straight people, deep down, they pity us. they think we’d probably rather be straight if we could. “progressive” people always make the argument that “being gay isn’t a choice, because who would ever choose to be gay??” guess what: i didn’t choose to be gay, but i would. they’ll never understand that once we’re able to accept ourselves and find a safe community, being gay feels amazing. i love being a woman who loves women. and it’s only because of them that i’ve ever had to even think about questioning that. 

*blinks* You mean the argument I dislike is disproportionately spread by straight people? That… does make as much sense as it being our own favored argument.

Queer people generally believe it’s okay to be queer and everyone else should be okay with it because… people just want equal treatment. We support it with verbal arguments, but it’s not our true reason, for all that some of us seem to believe it. But the straight people don’t accept it automatically and if they do they need an argument to convince people who don’t. This is complicated by people who think they’re straight being allies who know no one chooses to be gay, turning out to not be straight.

Also naturalistic fallacy or one of its relatives, sigh.

it gets even weirder when this moves down to trans people. being trans does not feel amazing. i hate it. but i would still choose being a trans woman over being a cis man.

perhaps this is connected to my wireheading aversion. i still don’t understand it. trans friends, please let me know whether you would take a pill that relieves all gender dysphoria from your asab permanently, or continue as you are.

I would definitely not take a pill making me a cis man.

No. No no nope not ever never. At least being trans would have to become way more uncomfortable for me to even consider taking the magical cis pill that would wipe away all of that. Cis man/cis woman I don’t care. Still way waaay nope all the way. The only thing I could imagine accepting is adding so many qualifiers on top of “cis woman” that I basically end up with “this exact kind of transfeminine enbie, except afab” which is totally cheating by any spirit of the rules.

My morph is modded and customized, I don’t want to switch it for a stock OEM model.

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1 month ago · tagged #just one word: plastics · 31,628 notes · source: lakefatherlakeson · .permalink

it is highly amusing to mess around with my i3 window color scheme, only to go afk and see the exact same colorscheme in the bathroom mirror

yes, I empirically seem to be very much about the purple, black, grey and white

1 month ago · tagged #baby leet · 11 notes · .permalink

soundlogic2236:

socialjusticemunchkin:

soundlogic2236:

socialjusticemunchkin:

voidfraction:

If you upload a raven (or some other corvid with problem-solving ability) and use copies of the resulting postcorvid entity to pilot, eg, trash cleanup drones, what moral responsibility do you have to them?

Uploads count Obviously the same as biologicals (or more if they’re uplifted in the process) so I’d argue that such postcorvids need to be treated pretty well. Piloting the drones should be sufficiently stimulating that they aren’t getting bored, they shouldn’t feel pain except where reasonably justified as a self-protective measure against damage (and if the drone is rendered inoperable the upload process should be frozen immediately), they shouldn’t be having urges they are unable to satisfy, etc.; basically treat the mechbirds the same you’d treat biobirds with equivalent minds.

And fully uplifted neo-avians should get the same rights as humans. No questions about it.

Wellll… I mean, the ability to do things like pause and copy should change some of the treatment-for example, if I procrastinate on letting the uploaded bird go fly a drone and it just stays on the hard drive a bit longer that is rather different from leaving a biobird in a cage. The mechbird won’t notice. The biobird will get bored. Uploads generally require less things. This is one of the advantages of uploading. 

Still, this is all implementation details: Mechbirds and biobirds are both ethically equivalent, even if the details of ‘how do you fulfill the needs of this creature’ varies.

Yes, obviously. That’s why you always suspend the mechbird except when its garbage collector needs to run.

…I’m not idly curious-what sort of psychological downtime do ravens need? Because only ever existing when you have a job to do also sounds questionable. 

Of course, we can just go with the simplest example: For exactly one of (bioraven/mechraven) is it ethical to plug it into a power grid. In fact, ethically required. For the other one it is unethical. 

Ideally the downtime would be built in to the “job” itself so that it doesn’t feel like “work”, but instead like “life”.

I’ll just quote this anti-work anarchism AMA I randomly found because it has a relevant TL;DR on what it’s about and someone asked about leftist work-abolitionist perspectives a few months ago or something like that and if that person sees this one it could be relevant:

The anti-work anarchist solution is to abolish work either through productive play or automation. Productive play is the process of turning certain tasks into play. Abolishing work does not mean doing nothing. It means creating a new way of life, a ludic existence. Automation could also play a role and work could be abolished through the automation of all dirty, dull and dangerous tasks. I personally think automation is extremely important for abolishing work. Everything mundane, from cleaning toilets to mining should be automated. This would finally free us from toil and allow us to truly live spontaneously.

So basically the mechraven would feel like it’s living to the fullest, while picking up trash as a side effect.

1 month ago · 26 notes · source: voidfraction · .permalink

soundlogic2236:

socialjusticemunchkin:

voidfraction:

If you upload a raven (or some other corvid with problem-solving ability) and use copies of the resulting postcorvid entity to pilot, eg, trash cleanup drones, what moral responsibility do you have to them?

Uploads count Obviously the same as biologicals (or more if they’re uplifted in the process) so I’d argue that such postcorvids need to be treated pretty well. Piloting the drones should be sufficiently stimulating that they aren’t getting bored, they shouldn’t feel pain except where reasonably justified as a self-protective measure against damage (and if the drone is rendered inoperable the upload process should be frozen immediately), they shouldn’t be having urges they are unable to satisfy, etc.; basically treat the mechbirds the same you’d treat biobirds with equivalent minds.

And fully uplifted neo-avians should get the same rights as humans. No questions about it.

Wellll… I mean, the ability to do things like pause and copy should change some of the treatment-for example, if I procrastinate on letting the uploaded bird go fly a drone and it just stays on the hard drive a bit longer that is rather different from leaving a biobird in a cage. The mechbird won’t notice. The biobird will get bored. Uploads generally require less things. This is one of the advantages of uploading. 

Still, this is all implementation details: Mechbirds and biobirds are both ethically equivalent, even if the details of ‘how do you fulfill the needs of this creature’ varies.

Yes, obviously. That’s why you always suspend the mechbird except when its garbage collector needs to run.

1 month ago · 26 notes · source: voidfraction · .permalink

ilzolende:

Codeacademy’s Git course seems to include a Real Terminal that lets me ping Google and everything. I wonder how it’s implemented.

original post

The answer is: I managed to screw around so much I don’t even want to tell it all publicly on tumblr. The point where I’m executing arbitrary code around the filesystem really makes me hope their VM is secure.

1 month ago · tagged #baby leet · 63 notes · source: ilzolende · .permalink

voidfraction:

If you upload a raven (or some other corvid with problem-solving ability) and use copies of the resulting postcorvid entity to pilot, eg, trash cleanup drones, what moral responsibility do you have to them?

Uploads count Obviously the same as biologicals (or more if they’re uplifted in the process) so I’d argue that such postcorvids need to be treated pretty well. Piloting the drones should be sufficiently stimulating that they aren’t getting bored, they shouldn’t feel pain except where reasonably justified as a self-protective measure against damage (and if the drone is rendered inoperable the upload process should be frozen immediately), they shouldn’t be having urges they are unable to satisfy, etc.; basically treat the mechbirds the same you’d treat biobirds with equivalent minds.

And fully uplifted neo-avians should get the same rights as humans. No questions about it.

1 month ago · tagged #uploads are persons #i'm willing to fight for this · 26 notes · source: voidfraction · .permalink

mugasofer:

socialjusticemunchkin:

metagorgon:

i have had some extraordinarily interesting thoughts about chickens, including, but not limited to:

• the trolley problem but with chickens
• chickens in gimp suits
• masses of chickens being spontaneously created and destroyed
• every chicken on earth being replaced with something that is almost but not quite like a chicken
• a chicken spa with rows of chickens being massaged
• an infinite amount of chickens
• chicken upload
• cyborg chickens
• becoming a chicken
• and a poor family watching in horror as their chickens disappear one by one.
  

Oh no, chicken politics:

Capitalism: You have two chickens. The chickens have planned obsolescence built in so you have to repurchase them every few years. The chickens are classified as software and you don’t really own them but simply license a right to use them, and thus PoliceMob will hunt you down if you try to breed more chickens or CRISPR away the self-destruct genes.

Social democracy: You have two chickens. The state takes one of your chickens. You spend several weeks filling forms to qualify for the Chicken Investment Subsidy Program, after which you can get your chicken back. If you didn’t do this, your neighbor would be the one to get your chicken instead. The website www.governmentisgood.com explains how great it is that the state gives free chickens to people.

Statist socialism: You have two chickens. The state takes both; slaughters one and gives the meat to its voters; sends the other to the president’s offshore bank account in Panama; sets a price ceiling on eggs; and declares you a class enemy for not being able to produce eggs under that price. You buy eggs from the black market for twenty times the official price.

Anarcho-capitalism: You have two chickens. After your regular payments to Dawn Defense to make sure that your chickens aren’t stolen and that any rooster you would hypothetically buy in the future would actually be a rooster and that you are protected against all the things you couldn’t possibly anticipate, you can save a few satoshis each day. But one day you will surely have saved enough to purchase a rooster and hire your own servants.

Anarcho-communism: You have two chickens. PoliceMob shows up and shoots them because fuck you that’s why. The mainstream media says the chickens must have deserved it because surely PoliceMob wouldn’t do such a thing without a very good reason.

Mutualism: You have two chickens. You keep your chickens in your living room so that they remain unambiguously in your possession. You spend every waking hour doing something vaguely chicken-related so you can claim your daily production of eggs are worth 16 work-hour-units.

Utilitarianism: You have two chickens. You slightly inconvenience yourself to increase their welfare substantially.

Postmodernism: You have two chickens and absolutely no clue how to produce eggs. You invent ever more complicated constructs to try to stop anyone from noticing that material chickens in the material world actually do produce material eggs, no matter how clever your arguments are.

Steel postmodernism: Chickens are a social construct. You can’t eat social constructs, but the social construct “egg” usually refers to something that can be eaten so you use it as a convenient shorthand to conceptualize reality. You laugh at people who seriously ask questions like “what came first, the chicken or the egg?”

Anarcho-communism is reality?

Every time someone attempts anarcho-communism a lot of angry authoritarians with guns show up and fuck things up, without exception. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s a demonstration in ‘016 or Catalonia in '36; someone is going to fuck the anarchists’ shit up.

1 month ago · tagged #still bitter for '36 · 102 notes · source: metagorgon · .permalink