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sardaukar, 12 days ago to random

My Dinner With Andreessen

Billionaires I have known: Part One of a three-part series

https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/

hamoid, 5 months ago to linux

I'm very stuck. I restore an image using the #Linux dd command to a new m.2 disk, but the computer fails to boot with it.

ERROR: device ´UUID=´ not found. Skipping fsck.
mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.

I can mount the disk in another computer and see that the uuid seems correct in grub.cfg and fstab.

Maybe the BIOS? 😢 #help

ernie, 5 months ago to random

So here’s something weird. For the last 30 minutes, I have been targeted by an aggressive spam attack on my inbox. Someone appears to have gotten into one of my subscriber’s emails and is using them to just flood my inbox with junk.

I literally have a thousand of these. It’s a reply to an issue I ran over a month ago.

ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to comics

Precarious
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/precarious (click for bonus panel)
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

stux, 8 months ago to random

Anyone an idea when Putin's next flight departs? 🧑‍🏭 ✈️ 😇

w7voa, 8 months ago to Kansas

Police raid #Kansas newspaper. https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

Radical_EgoCom, 8 months ago to random

Landlord brags about evicting a single mother.

video/mp4

aral, 8 months ago to random

arstechnica, 8 months ago to random

Russia heads back to the Moon with Luna 25

Luna 25 will attempt to land on the Moon the same week as India's Chandrayaan 3 probe.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/russia-heads-back-to-the-moon-with-luna-25/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

breadandcircuses, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to environment

A beautiful, sad, and justifiably angry essay from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) about people continuing to ignore the climate crisis...

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Today I watched a math professor and climate activist named Eliot Jacobson talk to CNN about global temperature records and arctic sea ice. He sums it up in the simplest terms. Climate scientists are shocked at what’s happening. None of their models predicted any of this. A mass extinction usually takes millions of years. As he said, “We’re going to do it in a hundred.”

For Jacobson, the collapse of global industrial civilization has become a certainty. A recent column in The Guardian says the same. We’re already breaking through the 1.5C limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement. Scientists are telling us to brace for 2C or even 3C of warming. All of the books I’ve read make it very clear: That kind of warming will turn the planet into something humans have never seen. Large parts of the earth will become uninhabitable for us.

Even the gloomiest climate scientists are left speechless by the disasters unfolding this summer. Climate activists who’ve been urging for an emergency declaration are saying: “I thought we had more time.”

The scenarios scientists were predicting for 2050 are happening now, and they don’t know how much worse it’s going to get. They’re starting to admit, they can’t predict anything anymore.

It’s hard to plan for a future when not even the climate scientists know what’s going to happen next.

Best not to think about it, right?

Nobody wants to talk about reality. They want to talk about Barbenheimer. They want to pretend we’ve still got time. If you face the truth of what’s happening, then suddenly the vast majority of what we’re forced to do makes no sense anymore.

Maybe that’s why people get so angry now when we talk about climate change. They know, but they want to spend however long they’ve got left chasing and consuming whatever pleasure they can. Part of them knows their time is growing short, and they don’t want to spend it angry or depressed, or even trying to stop it.

When you understand the full scope and gravity of what’s happening, most jobs don’t make any sense. It doesn’t make sense to plan a vacation when half the world is burning. It doesn’t make sense to save up money to send your kid to college in ten years.

But it’s easier to ignore it all.

It’s easier to keep working and going to movies while you wait for the wildfire, the flood, or the heat wave that kills you. It’s easier to delay the realization of your climate death as long as possible.

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FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.li/hGjWt#selection-327.0-327.16

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

arstechnica, 9 months ago to random

Watch out Porsche, Polestar is working on a proper Taycan rival

It's a powerful electric four-door GT on an all-new bonded aluminum platform.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/07/watch-out-porsche-polestar-is-working-on-a-proper-taycan-rival/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

johncarlosbaez, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

I don't like the options either - but come on, folks, there's a clear winner:

Option 1: Do a shitload of work now to slow down or halt global warming.

Option 2: Wait until things get even worse.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/us-public-wants-climate-change-dealt-with-but-doesnt-like-the-options/