@futurebird If it's this:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00127400.pdf

.... that sure looks like it was recoverable data. You can usually lose several disks in a RAID array before losing data, that's the whole point.

@futurebird so, uh

That reads like "one drive in a raid set failed" - as in, one of the drives that things are simultaneously recorded to". In that scenario, "installing new hard drives" means the system reboots and formats the new drives, which absolutely makes sense.... kinda?

It doesn't explain what happened to the other drives.

Speaking as a parent my current opinion on internet age verification laws is that after the state starts putting the Epstein class in prison en masse then maybe we can start taking anything else they say about protecting children seriously.

@tante https://github.com/mhoye/maintenance-terms

Holy shit:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/

@anderseknert

@anderseknert This is, at the very least, a novel form of AI psychosis.

@david_chisnall when you think about it all of us are skeleton pilots, the people at the olympics are just the really good ones

@Qbitzerre just remember to have a sock puppet when you use it so you’re nowhere near the crime scene and have a perfect alibi.

When you think about it, he said from the podium next to the flowers and candles a month later, it really it’s the machines that - pardon me, the machines _who_ - make googly-eyes and little pompoms that are really to blame for this tragedy. And the real victim here is all of us. Society.

What if the sock puppets are actually intelligent but in a way we cannot yet comprehend. What are our ethical responsibilities in a world with far more socks than humans, that could become puppets at any time. We need to invest in responsible sock darning and better puppeteer training.

But the beating continues, our clankbrained assailant yelling “ethically this is a gray area it’s very complicated”. The victim may or may not have been pleading for their life. They’re silent now so who can say.

Clankbrained techbros, watching somebody with two sock puppets on their hands hitting a homeless person with a tree branch: socks and puppets were invented so society needs to accept this new reality and adapt.

Anthropomorphizing the technology is just one more way humans try to escape accountability. “The AI contributed a patch”, “the AI wrote the blog post”, “the car hit the pedestrian” and “the knife killed the victim”, those are all the same framing.

https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296

@BlackAzizAnansi What an incredible time capsule of a video, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNj9bXKGOiI

@BlackAzizAnansi Monster talent, no question there.

@BlackAzizAnansi You have a top five, top ten?

@Mabande

I don’t think I have a lot of toxic traits but if you ever hear me refer to something I’ve cooked as “my famous (recipe)” you can be 100% sure it was hastily assembled from whatever I had in the fridge.

@benroyce @evan I am reflexively mistrustive of any proposal that can be described as "in this simple and obvious solution, this decision is made implicitly and invisibly, but people should still know about it and act accordingly."

@flyingsquirrel @evan Possibly worse: I've got almost 6k followers on here, because I guess I bring some funny now and then.

But if I have a vulnerable friend On Here, who maybe feels safe with a small number of curated mutuals and posts something friends only, and my reply brings _six thousand randos_ into the mix? Then I ... can't be that person's friend anymore; not on here at least, not responsibly. I can't talk to them at all.