UN is a joke that should be dismantled. Its primary function apparently is to pass anti Israel resolutions and to have various dictators jerk each other off while everyone else has to tolerate it Fuck UN

Yes, the AI-revolution will be hugely different to various "revolutions" that came before and not in a good way.

The industrial revolution saw manufacturing automated -- but the jobs that were eliminated were usually low-skill laboring ones. People could retrain and take on more skilled work with higher pay so the net earnings of the workforce actually increased.

The IT-revolution once again saw relatively unskilled roles automated by computers and once again people could retrain for more skilled rolls that grew due to the productivity improvements that IT systems offered.

However, the AI-age is hugely different.

That's because the roles being displaced are what we already consider to be "skilled" ones. Programmers, artists, writers, musicians, management -- in fact a huge swathe of professional or semi-professional roles will be hugely affected by AI systems. There no *new* jobs being created by AI (other than a handful of people to dust the server racks in the data-centers) so this will mean unemployment will rise.

Rising unemployment means less money in the pockets of the average citizen so the economy as a whole will suffer - despite the vastly improved productivity of AI-enabled companies. Without a market for the products and services that AI-enabled companies make, their revenues and profits will also be negatively impacted, despite that higher productivity.

This downward economic spiral could be even worse than a bursting AI bubble and lead to huge socio-economic problems with massive destabilizing effects.

I'm pretty sure that during the great depression of the 1920s, lots of people were on four, three or even zero day working weeks and that didn't work out too well for them.

With the potential for the Kessler syndrome to kick in any time now, it's an economic necessity for Starlink to do whatever it can to reduce the risk.

As Anton Petrov points out in this video, a Kessler syndrome catastrophe could be just around the corner and the only way to reduce the risk is to reduce the levels of congestion in certain parts of LEO.

In the event of such an event, Starlink would become worthless and SpaceX's stock price would fall through the floor so I guess someone's crunched the numbers and figured that they now have little option but to do everything they can to reduce the possibility.

might has right is now the only basis. Once there was some kind of international law, no more. Not since ruzzia invaded Ukraine. Since then what the world has learned is that only physical force has the right, go complain to the UN if you disagree.

why would I go by what trump says? His words have no meaning, we can go by what he does. Taking out Maduro shows that USA still has power, similar to what was done in Iran with the bombing, just a little more specific. Taking out maduro allows the opposition to try and come to power and obviously the US oil miners that were chased out by maduro now will be invited back, hopefully bringing oil prices lower. (hopefully, because I am for anything that reduces ruzzian ability to make money selling oil).

Trump shows that he can do what he wants even if China and Iran and ruzzia are against it and they are against it. Trump gets a few political points, gets some money from oil, gets to control the Western hemisphere. Too bad he hasn't done anything like this where it would really make a difference, in ruzzia.

I see so many crazy people comparing ruzzian invasion of Ukraine and this arrest of a specific dictator... if USA really wanted to do something useful, Trump would have arrested putin in Alaska instead of rolling out the red carpet (while yelling at Zelensky).
In any case, how about taking a logical step and doing the same thing in ruzzia, iran, north korea, cuba?

I've read that even though T-Mobile Home Internet offers IPv6, it blocks all inbound TCP connections even on IPv6. Its gateway appliance offers no port forwarding nor DMZ.

Once there are more Internet subscribers than IPv4 addresses, then by the pigeonhole principle, some subscribers aren't going to have the sort of dedicated IPv4 address needed to accept a TCP connection. Therefore every ISP is shit.

The problem with IPv4 is that there aren't enough possible network addresses for an ISP not to be shit.

A reverse-SSH tunnel requires one of two things: either your local computer is on a network that can accept inbound connections, or there's a relay ($) in the middle accepting connections from both the client and the server.

I believe there's a substantial qualitative difference between "extra effort" and "cost", especially when the latter is a recurring cost payable to the rent-seekers that run relays.

That's the easy part. Getting your ISP to forward a port to your LAN is the hard part.

it is good that it doesn't work for everyone, otherwise the other stores would shut down reducing choices and pushing Costco towards mediocrity and would destroy prices. So thank you.

I'm not so sure. Around here (Netherlands) we have something similar to Costco: a big box volume package retail store that sells only to members. The reason they only sell to members was a compromise: they were the first big box "supermarket" to be built around here, and the gov't decided against having big box stores that require a car to reach. Later they made some exceptions for shops like IKEA or DIY stores that require a large footprint. But back then, the compromise was that it was to be a members-only shop, aimed at food and beverage companies (though anyone registered as a business at the Chamber of Commerce can become a member for free).

Anyways, there's no lowlifes at these stores. But I'd be hard-pressed to find a more dour, resentful, impolite and malcontent crowd as the people that frequent them. So it must be something else that Costco is doing right.

Sadly, simply placing a work into the "public domain" means nothing these days.

I regularly see YouTube creators who are hit with copyright claims/strikes for using public domain footage from the likes of NASA -- because broadcasters have used that same footage in their own production and YT's content-ID system automatically issues a claim/strike when anyone else uses the same footage.

This wouldn't be a problem if YouTube's appeal process worked -- but it doesn't, it's so badly broken that even big creators like Scott Manley are being hit and having the revenues stolen from their efforts simply because a broadcaster like Channel 4 in the UK has claimed his video for using the very same PD NASA footage that they used in one of their videos.

Copyright is so easy to abuse and misuse that is now almost laughable.

Is it a good thing that everyone who needs to connect to a home NAS or remote desktop from outside the home LAN be required to subscribe to a relay like Pinggy, Tailscale, or Hamachi, on top of what the user already pays the ISP per year for an Internet connection?

When an entire neighborhood shares an IPv4 address through ISP-controlled carrier-grade NAT, how does a device on subscriber premises receive an incoming TCP connection? How would the NAT appliance even know for which subscriber's device the connection is intended?

Consider a subscriber whose home LAN is behind the ISP's carrier-grade NAT, and the subscriber wants to connect to a home NAS or remote desktop from outside the home LAN. Other people have recommended that such a subscriber additionally subscribe to a relay service such as Tailscale or Hamachi. And if they want visitors from the Internet to reach their home server, it gets even more expensive.