Probably not even true. That’s the great thing about rituals like marriage, you get to make up whatever rules you like but it sucks when someone calls you on your bs

I remember when my daughter was tiny she had some very cute behaviours that I was trying to capture on camera but sometimes those precious and elusive moments must remain as sweet memories.

You paint a touching picture. There is a famous picture of a Japanese woman cutting a corner off her kimono rather than disturb a sleeping cat.

Do you think the bird was dreaming? I like to watch cats and dogs paws twitching while they sleep. It seems that dreaming is something that every creature does.

The workshop build continues, year 6. Getting my lathe back into action after a six year hiatus. She’s also receiving an upgrade - variable frequency drive.

The successful candidate

Well said. Anarchism has received horrible press at the hands of Big Democracy but many of our current problems are rooted in the concentration of power, money and influence that capitalist societies seem to produce. On the other hand, can we live without the many products and technology that require large scale effort? It feels like that would be a major challenge for any fledgling anarchic society.

Make the eggs bigger

Almost all of them.

Holy crap that’s a lot of people and gear to lose generally, never mind throwing it away on such a pointless mission.

Let’s make an algorithm army, get it drunk and it will start a fight with American tech.

I’m probably in the same boat as you, I have zero formal CS education. The way I originally learned was various: by embarking on small projects, fixing broken computers so I could play games, reading books, watching videos. The key thing in learning any subject is to recognise that when you don’t understand something it’s usually because some foundational knowledge is missing. You cannot properly understand a computer file system before you grasp the concept of binary numbers, bits and bytes, for instance.

Lately I’ve been using Chatgpt. You can ask it to write code in any language. Ask it to solve a particular problem and then start dismantling the answer, step by step. When you don’t understand the answer, ask it to elaborate. For your purposes, you could ask it to script a port scanner on your home network. This is key skill for any aspiring hacker and if you can get that working on your LAN, those principles can be adapted to WAN. Get a copy of the CIA vault 7 library, ask chatgpt to explain snippets of the code. I would imagine you have to preface your questions as coming from a ‘white hat’ perspective or it may balk.

A basic grounding in computer science would be a good starting place.

Do you know the difference between the various processor architectures and operating systems? Do you know the difference between real time computers and interrupt based systems? Are you familiar with the seven layer network model and which layers the different services interact with the hardware and application software? Are you grounded in cryptography and the system of public and private keys, modulo operations, prime number factorisation?

This is assuming that you already understand coding and are proficient in at least one language. None of these skills and knowledge on their own are indispensable or completely necessary but these things are what computers are made of, how they communicate and how they are secured.

The English are slowly fading into obscurity. They became hugely powerful during the hegemonic colonial era and that shine diminishes relentlessly year on year. These people cannot change and have consistently failed to take the necessary action to reform. Ironic that they took the word ‘reform’ to create a party that attracts reactionaries and racists to lead them backwards into obscurity. Good luck English people, you will need it.

The current scale of Lemmy is appealing. It doesn’t have the same breadth but I happily trade the toxic elements of Reddit, etc, for a little breadth.

I wish I didn’t have this giant penis.

That depends what colour your skin is or if you wear any non christian headgear, symbols, etc.

It comes from chy-nah

Amen brother

Those are some nice slip-ons

The premise of most of these type of arguments is that intelligence is something we can measure. Meanwhile, nobody knows what’s going on inside their own brains, never mind other species.

Until very recently we just assumed that animals don’t have a complex inner life because it doesn’t superficially resemblance our own. It’s also convenient to make that assumption if you’re going to industrially farm those animals or destroy their habitats, etc.