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Working to eat and improve one's own livelihood is great. The problem with our model is that most of the output of my work doesn't go to those things - it goes to some rich dude who's gonna keep shoving ads to my face and burning the planet I live in.

most of it?

> root/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key and root/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub and root/root/.ssh/authorized_keys for obvious reasons.

What are the _obvious_ reasons for the NAS root to have an SSH key?


To log in and administer it? There's even an example; search for "extlinux --once". (There are other options, like a web UI or non-root SSH, but that's the obvious thing. Also if you want to advocate non-root I'm going to want to hear a threat model.)

You don't need a private key on the host for that, only your public key in authorized_keys.

Edit: Oh boy I should have paid more attention. Those are the host keys. :facepalm:


In the UK, I believe parking companies need to have a way to pay without the app but it's usually so bloody inconvenient that it's about the same as requiring it.

> to reduce or, in my case, even eliminate the motion sickness felt when trying to use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.

Does it also help people who get carsick without looking at a screen?

I get carsick in pretty much any modern car, unless I'm the one driving.


Yes. Ive been using for a long time now. Im middle aged and get sick easily (example: vomited last plane ride). Doesnt matter what i do, despite being inconsistent.

These dots help tremendously. On airplanes and commuter trains and such, i just pop open phone and stare at screen, sometimes a blank note even. It has helped me clearly see: My brain does not perceive acceleration correctly. When it can visualize the motion with the dots, somehow that helps cue it in as to what is really happening. I am very often surprised at the direction of acceleration, ie when the plane is turning, if im not looking out the window, i think i would be unable to tell you if the plane is turning or not; but the dots are flying sideways off the screen - ah.

My favorite discovery which really cemented this, and a good correlary to how even looking out the window is not enough: When the commuter train stops, and is no longer moving, the dots on the screen will remain moving (forward, ie im reverse) a few moments. Or when the plane is taking off and shifts from straight to up, the dots often stop moving, or change direction.

This change in acceleration you feel, which is not merely "which direction are we going", is the part brains like mine arent picking up right. These dots help a ton. I wish i could embed them into glasses - one day!


Thanks!

For me it's really just modern cars. Older cars which are more spacious and have better outside visibility, as well as being better at transferring the sensation of movement and acceleration don't affect me in the same way. Trains and planes are also fine.

I'll try this out, hopefully it will make taxi rides a lot less dreadful!


I've been the same way my whole life. Utterly miserable with profuse sweating across my entire body when it does happen, and then I'll feel varying degrees of nauseous and uncomfortable in other ways until I wake up the next day.

The method I've settled into for consistent results is:

1. Eat a full meal & hydrate 30+ minutes before traveling. Sometimes this involves overeating in a day, but the alternative is worse for me. 2. Take 6.25-12.5mg of meclizine 30-45 minutes before traveling (quarter, third, or half of a standard meclizine tablet depending on road conditions -- windy, hilly, and/or frequent stop-and-go traffic for long periods of time = half, while a mostly straight road with smooth acceleration = quarter). 3. Eat small amounts (periodic snacking) while traveling; more sugary foods like dried mango seems to work best. 4. Include ginger in any form with the snacking (sometimes I'll simply cut a chunk of raw ginger and take small bites out of it).

I don't even bother trying to read or use electronics while in a car or while on a flight during any taxiing or ascent/descent. Some buses or trains are circumstantially fine. Definitely will be trying some of the Android versions of this.


Thanks! I don't take medicine for things I don't need, and it's so rare that I go through this that I don't think I'll ever have some handy.

Ginger does help although not as much as I'd like. Eating in general does as well but even less than ginger.


Not sure if the word 'modern' is meant to carry meaning there. Did/do you not get sick in non-modern cars? I could imagine less good soundproofing giving your brain extra clues or so but it seems odd. Are non-cars an issue (bus/train)?

I have the same question. It would be convenient to be able to be a passenger for once without feeling like the world is escaping from me.

Um, no. What a strange question to post publicly


Seriously, how can this fix which is a solution involving looking at a screen help when not looking at a screen?

I don't think you understood my question. Read the other responses to my question and it might give you a clue.

> Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet.

I get what the author is saying but I really dislike this hyperbole. The Internet will be absolutely fine if FFmpeg suddenly disappears.

Companies that rely on it in the core of their product may not, but the Internet absolutely will, and the vast majority of websites and other Internet services will keep working just fine.


It's how LLMs write. The tweet / article is written by an LLM and that's how it does.

Without YouTube and porn, is there really an internet?

More like without video, is there still internet..... Absolutely yes. It's a tad hyperbolic I agree

My kids strongly disagree.

Fortnight isn't a video

although, somewhat ironic to your argument, I bet the intro that fornite plays when starting the game uses ffmpeg

It would still be a game without the intro video.

For us- sure.

For most of the internet users- very likely no. Social media and video streaming IS the internet for the majority


it sounds like paradise, we should start working toward this immediately

It’s the invisible engine of what makes up the majority of today’s internet. I don’t think that’s hyperbole. Tomorrows internet might not be the same.

Ffmpeg has nothing to do with the internet other than being distributed on it

It powers the content that makes up a lot of the time a lot of internet users spend their time watching. I don’t think the pedantry serves a purpose.

Most bytes traversing the internet is video these days. Arguably, ffmpeg has processed most of that video.

Then unicode powers the internet by that same logic.

That's... Interesting. But if the goal is to move towards "a genuinely smart home" (as opposed to driving a handful of devices with AI), why not integrate via Home Assistant, which can do all that without the need for this, using a common interface to the whole home?

Home Assistant shipped an MCP server and client: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mcp_server/

Yep, and there's a community one for driving configuration as well.

https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp


More government money to fund the ever elusive doomsday AI.

What does this question mean? Of course they are state-of-the-art. After all, they are the most recent and most advanced models out of Anthropic. If/when they release a new version of their models, Mythos/Fable will cease to be state-of-the-art, as the new ones become it.

It means Mythos/Fable was the strongest model globally, not just the newest model from a company.

Yeah if the analogy is LLMs are doomsday devices it's hard to say mythos wasn't the best. That was my point

Arguably, it was Anthropic's decision to abide by their Government's orders. They could have not done so, but that would likely have consequences they weren't willing to face.

I choose to follow the law, but it’s an obligation not a decision. Framing it like this just misses the big picture entirely. A few words from a tech CEO is all it takes for this government to take extreme measures like this.

Viewing it as an obligation means you are weak. There are consequences to disobeying the law - a successful person will view them through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, not of dogma.

Good luck with that. I hope you’re successful in your law breaking endeavours with your highly informed cost benefit analyses.

I've broken many laws. Have you not? Never crossed at a red light with no cars in sight?

At the end of the day it's not really a decision at all, the government has a lot of men with guns, Anthropic has (presumably) low numbers to zero of men with guns.

You don't really have a choice if the government decides to play hardball


There are other things that can happen. For example, Anthropic could secretly transfer a copy of the model to a Chinese company in exchange for a large sum of yuan at a Chinese bank. Both parts of the transaction would be invisible to US authorities. I don't think this is a likely occurrence but if you think it's impossible then you need to think outside the box more.

Fair point, but doing that from inside the US under the direct view of multiple three letter agencies would be extremely risky to put it mildy

If it's lucrative but risky, it will happen.

Yeah if they legalised cannabis use for teenagers that's a failure of how it was regulated - not of the act of legalising it.

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