It may have been End of Eternity.

I actually remember most of End of Eternity reltively well, it was my first Asmov book as a kid. Read it again many times of course. Excellent and unique book.

Although for whatever reason, I can’t 100% say if that “space exploration as a global driver of advanced civilization” idea was from End of Eternity.

I think this was covered in some old school scifi, maybe Asimov or Clark? I vaguely remember one of their (non-mainline?) novels speculating that civilizations that didn’t eventually attempt interstellar travel enter a terminal decline of some sort (on a multi-thousand year scale post industrialization). I really wish I remembered who wrote this.

And if we we are able to harvest resources on system-level scale, we will most definitely attempt to send probes to the nearest systems (which are not all that far).

Excluding a mass cataclysm (nuclear war, a hyper destructive pathogen), I think we’ll find evidence of extra-terrestrial life (if not life itself) in our own solar system in the next ~100 years.

I would think somewhere out in the universe there is (was?) intelligent life.

We’ve only confirmed exoplanets in the last ~40 years and the information we have is minimal (and biased towards gas giant type planets).

There has to be intelligent life somewhere in the universe.

Is it really something to be worried about?

Scifi aside, inter-stellar space travel seems to be basically almost non-viable.

This does seem to be a more R&D or “proof of concept” type project.

How is it possible to brute force attack a MS 365 service?

Wouldn’t the service automatically lockout after a few incorrect attempts?

People stick x90 cards into SFF cases? Seems almost counterproductive.

Read this article earlier, it wasn’t very clear to me what the focus was of this illicit gen AI content.

Very sneaky approach I have to say.

Isn’t the daringfireball blog a de facto front for Apple PR?

[email protected] (self-promotion, I am a mod there) covers semiconductor related topics pretty well.

That being said, some articles do include business and tech news.

I am honestly shocked that someone at FB would post critiques about their board members in their internal forums.

Surely they should be smart enough to understand that:

1. Senior management doesn’t give a fuck what they think.
2. The internal forums aren’t actually for feedback. It’s an HR management tool.

That being said, if the posters are young, then it is somewhat understandable.

Headline should have included that this for the iSeq 100.

I am surprised that such devices are not air-gapped.

I had firmware updates for a 1080 Philips TV from ~2010.

You could do it via USB.

Not only that, but they tend to adopt the new tech on their terms and reject the mainstream adoption approach.

You really start to feel old when the cyberpunk novels of the 80s and 90s start to become reality (not in a literal sense, but elements are definitely coming true). It was 40 years since Neuromancer was released last year.

Big Macs, M4 Macbooks and AI Slop about the danger of woke to human civilization.

Fair point.

I generally avoid YT on any serious topics unless the video medium is used in a way that contributes to the discussion (e.g. a debate, interview, guest hosts, use of slides/charts/videos).

Is this spam for a clickbait YT channel or is this for real?

Unless this was generated via LLM, seems like a lot of effort for clickbait spam.

I didn’t think of it in this way, but it does sound very convincing.

Meta would love to essentially make fake virtual influencers to get all their money and have more control.

One thing that I do like about Lemmy is even the Apple community is somewhat critical. While this particular case seems to be more of an exception, you’ll get massively downvotes if you critique the standard PR narrative that “Apple cares about digital privacy” or point out how Apple removed content critical of China and AI tech from their streaming service.

Nice one! It’s honestly too bad they didn’t actually call it Putastation or Putabox! Putabox would have been even better IMO. That would have been so hilarious!