Just read the spec; my mass estimate was low. They're claiming 2.4 billion tons which is 2.4 * 10^12 kg. So I under-estimated the energy almost by a factor of 10; we're looking at about as much energy as everyone on Earth consumes in 20,600 years.

To travel 40 trillion km in 400 years means an average speed of about 3168 km/s. And this ship is 58km long?? let's assume it's 58km x 100m x 100m with an average density half that of water. That gives us a mass of about 290 billion kg. To accelerate 290 billion kg up to 3168 km/s will take about 1.46 * 10^24 joules, or roughly as much energy as everyone on Earth consumes in 2500 years.

Good luck with that.

About time the AI industry is held accountable for its theft.

And no, I don't condone stealing software, movies or videogames either. But these AI companies are stealing on a far more massive scale than someone who copies the odd movie or game.

Meh. Systemd is fine. A bit of a learning curve, but it's fine and a lot more reliable than sysvinit. But you have choices; Slackware doesn't use systemd (I believe) and neither does Devuan.

Was waiting for one of those whiners to pipe up.

Debian's open-source. Don't like the CoC? Fork it and make your own Incelbian distro.

I can't see that happening. The Linux ecosystem is too unruly for it to succumb to corporate enshittification. There will always be Debian, Slackware, and other non-corporate distros, and if commercial software becomes too onerous, we'll do what we do now... not use it.

Not only that, but we need a googol percent tariff on dips to go with the chips!

Oh, that's going to help the US's "AI Strategy" immensely. And while some advanced chip manufacturing is starting to be done in the USA, I doubt you could build a computer with entirely US-made components unless you were willing to pay a lot more.

And of course, Asian countries can retaliate because they probably can make anything they need outside of the USA.

There are two ways out of this: Regulation, or revolution.

I'd much rather choose the regulation route, but if politicians can't or won't do that, they'll end up dealing with a revolution.

Vibe Resuscitation

(Commenting more on the "everyone should use AI for everything" bit...)

I fucking HATE this timeline. I want to be put in suspended animation until this AI bullshit hype has played itself out, and then woken up. Pretty please?

Maybe self-hosted is not everyone's future... but it's my future---and present, for that matter.

A cloud service as a regulated and public utility is a good idea. But I'm still gonna hang on to my self-hosted setup (and maybe use the cloud service as a backup.)

AI-savvy employees would tell executives exactly what kind of bullshit hype AI is. Is that really what executives want?

I think an advanced Western economy and democracy won't go the way of the Soviet Union.

If people are generally happy, why should they "strive to achieve things"?

Anyway, I think there will always be people who "strive to achieve things" in any society, but it's not as if that's necessarily the peak of morality.