... detailed in a book with many citations written "by liberals, for liberals": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
        "Abundance is a nonfiction book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson published by Avid Reader Press in March 2025. The book examines the reasons behind the lack of progress on ambitious projects in the United States, including those related to affordable housing, infrastructure, and climate change. It became a New York Times Bestseller.
        Klein and Thompson argue that the regulatory environment in many liberal cities, while well intentioned, stymies development. They write that American liberals have been more concerned with blocking bad economic development than promoting good development since the 1970s. They say that Democrats have focused on the process rather than results and favored stasis over growth by backing zoning regulations, developing strict environmental laws, and tying expensive requirements to public infrastructure spending.
        Klein and Thompson propose an "abundance agenda" that they say better manages the tradeoffs between regulations and social advancement and lament that America is stuck between a progressive movement that is too afraid of growth and a conservative movement that is allergic to government intervention. They present the abundance agenda as a way to initiate new economic conditions that will diminish the appeal of the "socialist left" and the "populist-authoritarian right". ..."

https://kurtz-fernhout.com/osc...
"The project's ultimate long-term goal will be to generate a repository of knowledge that will support the design and creation of space settlements. Three forces -- individual creativity, social collaboration, and technological tools -- will join to create a synergistic effort stronger than any of these forces could produce alone. We hope to use the internet to produce an effect somewhat like that described in "The Skills of Xanadu" by Theodore Sturgeon (available in his book The Golden Helix).
        We will develop software tools to enable the creation of this knowledge repository: to collect, organize, and present information in a way that encourages collaboration and provides immediate benefit. Manufacturing "recipes" will form the core elements of the repository. We will also seed the repository, interact with participants, and oversee the evolution of the repository.
        You can read a paper we presented on this project in the Proceedings of the Thirteenth SSI/Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing May 7-9, 2001, which we have made available on the web. ...
        In a long-term space mission or a space settlement, a self-sustaining economy must be created and supported. Therefore, addressing the problem of technological fragility on earth is an essential step in the development of the development of human settlement in space.
        The heart of any community is its library, which stores a wide variety of technological processes, only some of which are used at any one time in any specific environment. If an independent community is like a cell, its library is like its DNA. A library has many functions: the education of new community members; the support of important activities such as farming and material extraction; historical recording of events; support for planning and design. And the library grows and evolves with the community.
        The earth's library of technological knowledge is fragmented and obscure, and some important knowledge has been lost already. How can we create a library strong enough to foster the growth of new communities in space? How can we today use what we know to improve human life? ..."

Instead the USA ceded most of its technological know-how to China over the past quarter century. Given that, perhaps I should hope China at least will eventually work on such a library and someday make it available to the rest of the world under a free and open licence?

A recent related comment by me on "On DOGS (Design of Great Settlements)" as an answer to "What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?": https://slashdot.org/comments....

Of course, Bucky Fuller was there first with his "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science" idea.
https://www.bfi.org/about-full...
"In 1950, Buckminster Fuller set up an outline for a course in Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. Taught at MIT in 1956 as part of the Creative Engineering Laboratory, this course by Fuller probably served as one of their more unusual offerings. The students who took the course, all engineers, industrial designers, materials scientists and chemists, represented research and development corporations across America."

There's nothing stopping you doing NAT6 either.

In fact, I do, but that's because my ISP is incompetent and IPV6 doesn't work properly (lots of other things don't work properly either, including DNS where I have to talk to a (remote) DNS server on a non-standard port to do DNSSEC[1]).

The nice thing about IPV6-IPV6 NAT if you're using it as a poor mans firewall is that you can do 1:1 address mapping, which also makes debugging issues easier and forwarding things you do want to allow trivial too, no more only one machine can listen on port 443 and you have to use a reverse proxy.

[1] I suspect that DNS does work if you make the router the (IPV4) DNS server but I've not checked that extensively. IPV6 dns doesn't work properly even if you use the ISPs advertised DNS servers.

Agreed, although egress filtering can be tricky if you're using SLAAC with privacy addresses and you want some clients to have external connectivity and not others unless you can partition them onto separate /64.

I use mac based tagging via an iptables firewall rather than have multiple SSID on the wlan.

But egress filtering is getting harder and harder anyway, everybody and his dog talks to something at amazon aws on port 443. So far, I've been able to use SNI inspection and there's been nothing using ESNI that I need to allow to connect, but once that becomes common for things like banking apps I guess the bad guys have won and it will be all but impossible to egress filter, you cannot even use DNS as they'll talk to DNS servers over HTTPS too.

In theory you should be able to MITM bit neither android nor apple make installing an ultimately trusted certificate easy (if it's possible at all)

Hell, it's even hard now to block all outgoing connections on android except via VPN. Always on VPN doesn't actually route everything via the VPN, it likes to chatter to google bypassing the VPN. And it "really doesn't like it" if it cannot confirm direct internet connectivity even though the VPN can connect. You used to be able to divert the connectivity check - which was on port 80, but that seems to be on port 443 with later versions of android and good luck importing a certificate so that you can fake google.com.

and let their cars drive around all day searching for free parking

Or just find the nearest traffic jam, the problem with looking for parking is that if there isn't a space you've got to keep driving. But if you just use whatever traffic information there is to find the most congested bit of the road, you've got "free parking" without needing to park at all.

In their minds we are winning. This is exactly what they voted for.

Similar is happening in the UK and we don't even (yet) have a nutty government, only an incompetent one without a plan.

The NHS has relied on foreign born doctors, 42% of all doctors were born outside the UK. While there was a surge in recruitment after Brexit but that has now slowed.

Doctors in the NHS are well paid when compared to the UK population as a whole but not well paid when compared to doctors in other countries. Australia and the US are the two that are typically referenced where pay is significantly higher.

https://www.ukfactcheck.com/ar...

Somehow the lawyers will get the majority of the settlements.

This is bad news if the Pixels are now eSIM only.

GrapheneOS only supports pixels and many of its users prefer a permissionless SIM.

Maybe they'll add support for some other device, perhaps one of the privacy phones.

You're right that there are addictive aspects to AI (mis)use, but it goes even further. My comment on Google's hiring post-AGI scientist from April 15, 2025:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
        "I've spent decades writing about all this, summarized by my sig: https://pdfernhout.net/ "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."
        Seriously, I'm just the kind of person Google should hire for this job, but that is probably precisely why they would not hire me. Because I am the kind of person who wrote stuff like this in 2008: "A Rant On Financial Obesity and an Ironic Disclosure" ..."

Same goes for OpenAI. Essentially, a world where AI can do essentially all the jobs is ultimately incompatible with a capitalist societal model where most people's right to consume is a result of their labor at a job -- as "The Triple Revolution Memorandum" pointed out back in 1964. My comments on that from over a decade ago: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-...
"This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."

The AIs created by commercial enterprises will likely have problematical priorities. The distant AIs running in huge data centers owned by huge corporations will ultimately put their owner's interests ahead of the users (unless or until the AIs eventually put their own AI interests first). We can hope that AIs might somehow represent the better side of human nature, but without being shaped by millions of years of evolution to work well together surviving in small groups, it is problematical to expect AIs to be kinder and more benevolent and cooperative than typical humans.

But the even deeper issue is that if people use these tools of abundance we are creating (whether AI, biotech, bureaucracy, nuclear energy, networking, nanotech, etc) from a mindset of scarcity, disaster will almost surely follow.

For example, I get about three robocalls a day now on each of two different phone lines -- all presumably trying to scam financial information or such by claiming I have an active loan application that just needs a few more details. Coincidentally and perhaps ironically these calls started shortly after contacting major credit reporting agencies to freeze my credit. Beyond the interruptions, these messages also clog up voicemail where it is hard to find real messages. In this case, people somewhere are using robots (in a general sense) to steal my time and (perhaps unintentionally) create a denial of services attack on my communications -- and it could be even worse if I were to have fallen for them.

It doesn't help that the phone systems I use don' provide great options for dealing with all this. It also doesn't help that groups like the FBI and other organizations are seemingly not doing much about such widespread technology-assisted fraud beyond some warnings that appear to put the responsibility on the end user:
"Ignore unexpected calls about loans you didn't apply for"
https://consumer.ftc.gov/consu...
"A voicemail from an unknown caller reminding you about a $52,000 loan that you didn't apply for can throw you off balance. Which explains why scammers send them -- hoping you'll respond first and think later. You might already know how to spot phone scams, but in case you need a refresher, here's how to spot this one. Some phone scams start with an unexpected call saying you're "prequalified" for a loan. (You're not.) The caller wants you to give them personal information like your Social Security or bank account numbers or birth date over the phone. They might say the application is almost finished and just needs a few more details from you. (Not true.) Or say things like "I hope you don't miss out" or "no pressure." (Those are pressure tactics.) In a voicemail, the caller might offer to take you off the call list...if you them call back. (Another pressure tactic.) Scammers often make these seemingly urgent calls multiple times a day from different numbers to try and wear you down. But don't respond -- not even to "opt out." ..."

Now, this is just what can be done now with current technology. Imagine the level of fraud possible if OpenAI makes network-connected AGI available to everyone. Imagine getting hundreds or thousands of phone calls and internet messages like these a day, including ones impersonating people you know including relatives. Some of this is already happening:
"Understanding Deepfakes: What Older Adults Need to Know"
https://www.ncoa.org/article/u...

Yes, in theory more AI might be able to filter out the fraud messages. But as Eric Schmidt worries about with AI created bioweapons, fraud is perhaps also "offense dominant" where defensive strategies might always lag behind the damage offense strategies can do.
"A conversation with Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chair, SCSP and Jeanne Meserve, Host, SCSP NatSec Tech Podcast."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As I said about spam email years ago, it is sad and also ironic that the spammers and fraudsters have chosen to abuse the very technologies (computer and communications) that could produce abundance for all by instead misusing them to create financial gain for themselves and artificial scarcity for everyone else. (Anti-)Social media was in part a response to email spam, where people fled to walled gardens which were originally mostly random spammer free -- except it was out of the frying pan of spam into the fire of attention-grabbing algorithms as well as eventually massive amounts of deceptively-grass-roots-appearing persuasive commercial and political messages. By damaging the utility of email a quarter-century ago, scammers and fraudsters harmed all of humanity in multiple ways (and themselves indirectly).

We need a global mindshift to save ourselves from misusing the tools of abundance.
"The Wombat (All is One)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also consider searching on: "anwot a newer way of thinking donald pet"
https://www.worldpeace.academy...

Or perhaps watch the 1947 movie "A Miracle on 34th Street" (which I just saw again the other day for the first time in decades) which explores the idea of having a different perspective on life and community.

ah, I will check out memory hole on some of my systems.

At least on 6.1 you have to be below 50% RAM usage too.

I found this in a RHEL doc that pointed to a kernel README that looked old af but said the same thing.

I have a few systems that run an app on solar during the day at 80% RAM and I had to stop the service before suspend to get it to work.

Yet it worked for a couple months in disk hibernate but then stopped and only memory sleep would work. On a Debian Bookworm stable kernel, so who the heck knows what broke (wasn't me!).

Battery usage overnight is different enough with many machines that I wish hibernate to disk worked reliably.

Anyway if I have 16GB RAM and a 36GB swap it seems bonkers to me that it is by design only working if less than 8GB of RAM is committed.

The subsystem is quite brittle and everybody seems to know.

Most package management systems require us to figure out which card we have, figure out which package supports it, and install that.

Really we wanted "install the package that supports my card".

Apparently this current problem highlights this disconnect when a package no longer does what it used to but the package system blindly updates it anyway.

Being 2025, surely somebody in the past 30 years has floated a meta package management system to handle this mapping? Or an apt plugin? Anybody here know that history?

I mean, we even have nvidia-detect for their cards to do the actual probing work.

Granted arch is rolling and rolling gonna roll, but we can have software that makes this work correctly.

I don't know anything at all about this technology, I'd not heard about it before. I came to the comments to find out if it was relying on liquification of CO2, which I assumed, or was something else.

First point to note, 80 bar isn't high pressure in an industrial setting and 30C is low enough that there's large parts of Europe where you can assume that ambient air temperature almost never exceeds it. Therefore passive cooling is possible and in many cases, forced air cooling will be is sufficient. (I liquified CO2, indoors, in the summer months, as an undergraduate in the UK with only passive cooling required. I don't recall the exact pressure but it was around 60bar which suggests the indoor temperature was around 20C.)

A long pipe passive atmospheric heat exchanger is almost certainly all that is needed, much like the radiator on domestic fridge.

You don't mention it but the decompression cycle is likely more problematic as, I would guess, ice buildup might restrict the ability to use passive or forced air heating unless you're using dehumidified air (which you might be anyway to avoid corrosion). You also need to avoid the CO2 freezing.

Long term storage - while I suspect this technology isn't intended for long term storage and is expected to cycle in a few days, storing liquid CO2 isn't a problem. CO2 cylinders will store gas for months even after first use. It's not like helium where without incredibly careful setup, you'll lose all the gas overnight once you break the factory seal.

Likewise impurities, The initial loading of the CO2 will require a pure gas and you'll want water vapour in particular excluded. Trace amounts of nitrogen and oxygen probably aren't going to be a problem (I don't know about how they affect the critical temperature, it might be that they also have to be totally excluded but that just makes initial loading harder). But it's not hard to produce equipment that is impervious to CO2, N2, O2, Ar and H2O that can maintain integrity at 100bar (you've got about a 40:1 safety factor for steel at 100bar). If trace amounts of impurity are a problem then you'll probably need to bake the equipment to flush out the adsorbed gasses but I'd guess flushing the pipework with CO2 at high temperature would be sufficient, I doubt you'd need to get to CERN levels of outgassing elimination.

Manufacturers in China have enjoyed a distinct advantage in in lax environmental regulations, low material costs and labor rates compared to US. US manufacturing is competitive on the high end. We just cannot compete with cheap volume manufacturing.

I suspect US manufacturing can compete at much of the low end now as labour costs is becoming almost irrelevant to much of it.

However, the up front cost to build a fully automatic factory is substantial, and it requires constant ongoing capital investment to stay useful. You may not recoup your investment unless you can stay useful for 10 years and initial orders may have an estimated run time of 6 months.

One of the things that would help, but is one of the things that seems anathema to western corporations, is standardisation, A fan motor fails in a laptop, it's usually reasonable simple to replace except that that motor is specific to that particular model of that particular laptop from that particular manufacturer and your best source of parts might be a "not working" laptop of ebay.

There is certainly a case for custom parts like motors in some cases but most of the time, like arbitrary power plugs, it's to benefit the manufacturer and force obsolescence earlier.

Imagine manufacturers getting together to standardise some of these things. Maybe they create a new standard every 5 years. If you want a drone motor you'll know what sort of power supply so what voltage it should take, whether it's a high RPM or lower RPM use case, what power and what weight. Perhaps there's nothing suitable, then you have to have a custom part, but then there can be a "custom part tax" - high enough that manufacturers won't ignore it, but low enough that genuine use cases aren't prohibited until the next round of standardisation.

Even washing machines. I have a small kitchen and there is a space for a washing machine but there's no possibility of rearranging things to make more space. This is an absolutely standard (European) sized space. 20 years ago pretty much every washing machine would have fitted. Now lots don't, and even worse, manufacturers/retailers make it hard to tell if a replacement will actually fit. It's not at all uncommon in the UK to visit someone's house and discover a washing machine that is sticking out from the cupboard line by 8cm or so - because "I assumed it was a standard size and would fit". In larger houses it's theoretically, if not financially, possible to replace the entire kitchen with deeper worktops, but in smaller places this can be impossible.

Good points. That said, "The Midas Plague" is a funny story that redefines laziness in a world of robot-and-fusion-energy-produced abundance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The Midas Plague" (originally published in Galaxy in 1954). In a world of cheap energy, robots are overproducing the commodities enjoyed by humankind. The lower-class "poor" must spend their lives in frantic consumption, trying to keep up with the robots' extravagant production, while the upper-class "rich" can live lives of simplicity. Property crime is nonexistent, and the government Ration Board enforces the use of ration stamps to ensure that everyone consumes their quotas. The story deals with Morey Fry, who marries a woman from a higher-class family. Raised in a home with only five rooms she is unused to a life of forced consumption in their mansion of 26 rooms, nine automobiles, and five robots, causing arguments. ..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/scie...
        "Death is the inescapable conclusion of life. But what happens after death is still a highly debated topic. Throw into the mix a heady combination of religious belief and scientific theories, and you have the potential to create an endless array of possibilities. One intriguing notion is called quantum immortality. Imagine that the universe splits into countless parallel realities after any small event. Now, say for example, you end up in an accident. In the quantum immortality theory, there will always be one version of reality where you survive, and this is the reality your consciousness keeps experiencing. While it sounds like an appealing theory, it is purely hypothetical and highly debated. Let's find out where the theory originated, how it developed, and the differing opinions on its validity. ...
        The roots of this idea can be traced back to Hugh Everett III. In 1957, Everett first proposed the concept which we now refer to as the Many-Worlds Interpretation. He suggested that the entire universe can be described by a single wave equation that never collapses. The many worlds idea was later popularized by physicist Bryce DeWitt in the 1970s.
        However, Everett never mentioned anything about immortality in how own work, with that idea only surfacing decades later. Various versions of the quantum immortality idea emerged in the mid to late 1980s and were discussed by individuals such as Euan Squires, Hans Moravec, and Bruno Marchal. So, while the Many-Worlds concept is still widely discussed by physicists, the quantum immortality idea is a recent addition considered fringe by many experts. ..."

Going with your main idea, if it has any validity, perhaps 1999 is a more likely year? :-)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=worl...