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Comment Collapse is coming sooner then (Score 3, Insightful) 180

Implications of the New Reality
Doubling of heating speed shortens response windows, fuels feedback loops, and spikes instability.

Collapse trajectory is now steeper; best-case scenarios require immediate, unprecedented global action.

Timeframes are collapsing: impacts once expected in the late 2030s-2040s are now unfolding today.

Feedback loops (cloud cover loss, methane, permafrost) are likely to compound rapidly.

Policy inertia is now active harm, as the climate system accelerates beyond our response capacity.

Comment Used it to configure my home server (Score 1) 235

Using Warp terminal, it actually nice for a non-admin to ask questions to Claude and get some really helpful work.

I do not know every in and out of Linux server config, my day job doesn't depend on that I do. So I can connect up, ask Claude, "is this service running?" or " My plex server isn't responding, can we run some diagnostics?"

Is it perfect? No, is it better than me? Oh god yes. Is my system a mission critical server? Not in the slightest.

But its fun, I actually can get a working docker server, a secure ssh client, mailcow, plex, jellyfin, factorio....hell what else can I load. If I run into issues I ask Claude, and it can step me thru the correction, or just do it.

It has no idea what I want to do, it has no idea my end goal, but I say conquer that hill, its been doing it's best to do it. The campaign it doesn't know or care. Perfect little helper.

I don't have a subscription to Warp's services yet. They give a limited amount of tokens to Claude monthly, which seems fine to me. Only had 1 month run out. Which for non-production systems...is fine. I can wait. I'm am considering subscribing, it's just been dang helpful.

Coding? Haven't done it seriously yet, I typically code on an ERP system, that is just starting with AL/MLL stuff. Haven't gotten to far. But with server support, it's making me have fun, "hows this work? can we check this?" and there's no judgement on my actions as to why? For personal stuff, this is great.

For production environments, I'd worry. I don't use it at work. I asked the software team to check it out to see if we could, so it's on the list. But I'd want to be sure of security. some nooby could ask some server destroying question and try to implement, sure sudo should stop most, but there always seems to be one file or config that slips past, so I'de be a bit concerned till it proved itself there.

Comment Treat AI as your junior / intern (Score 1) 235

It will think outside the box, and maybe even come up with novel methods.
But none of this is of any use unless you are senior / experienced enough to ask the right questions
and guide your junior/intern towards optimal solutions.

In short its a tool but its a useless tool if the operator has little or no
domain knowledge in the areas for which the tech is being used.

Comment Subservient fools (Score 1) 363

Hybrids are the worst kind of #Greenwash.
Combining the weight of an electric and gas powered drivetrain,
makes for an heavier ineffficient vechle that fails to tackle to problem that
burning fuels ( synthetic or otherwise ) produces harmful greenhouse
gases. Hybrids also suffer from all the exact same other problems as other
types of vehicle.
* Interior and Mechanical plastics
* Dust from Tyres makes for the largest component of microplastics in our oceans
* Roads upon which we drive must be maintained 24/7 365 days a year a process that
        cannot happen without fossil fuel powered construction equipment.

Unfortunately this is the level we are at when it comes to taking climate
change seriously.

Were mandating people who can work from home must commute into the office again
were literally paying people to destroy the planet wholesale.

This civilisation has a 5% chance of avoiding catastrophic collapse and reversing
climate breakdown set against a backrground of war and suffering

Convince me otherwise.

Comment Re:The BBC is wrong (Score 1) 24

Thats why BBC is the nations LEAST trusted broadcaster and chief propagandists.
Its board of governers is a wholey selected panel of Tories.
BBC admitted it it would not expose ministerial lies "for fear of undermining public faith in democracy"

BBC are still complicit in the deaths and suffering caused by Austerity -a lie
which they aided the government in purveying.

BBC are routine violators of purdah during elections, and even stooped as low as to
photoshop the leader of the opposition outside the Kremlin , insinuating he was a communist spy.

#KnowThis

Content produced by an untrustworthy source SHOULD NEVER be used to train AI models.

BBC should be defunded due to its lack of ability to serve the nation, rather than allow it to
purvey a false narrative.

Comment Re:There's nothing audacious about it (Score 1) 122

I know , there is no reason at this juncture that this civilsation is going to last more than a couple of decades before total collapse set against a background of climate chaos and complete economic failure. At best we have about a 5 percent chance of avoiding this fate.
Whats worrying as neglect and underfunding continues apace - when collapse finally sets in there will be nobody looking after these facilities to keep them safe. This again just supports the likelihood of failing to avoid this catastrophic end-game scenario.

Comment Ive heard some fucked up ideas in the past (Score 1) 29

But this is ludicrous.
There is nothing smart about a tyre that sheds microplastics into the environment through use,
regardless of its ability to report on road quality.

Once again another reason to accept that this civlisation is on the wrong path with a 5% change of getting onto the correct path.

Bullshit ideas like "Smart Tyres" only lend more credence to this assertion, only a fool would think otherwise.

Comment Why Gloomy? (Score 1) 90

Why gloomy when our capitalist greed is killing us all. Theres nothing gloomy about people who wont be born into a civilisation thats in its death throws and a runaway climate with a 5% chance of averting disaster.

Rejoice that millions less people WONT be born into a dying world, because the alternative is far mor gloomy.

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