^ This.

Especially the last line.

There is nothing that an a AI "wants" that involves harming me - until a human rigs up an elaborate training and reward system carefully designed to achieve that outcome.

Probably with the intention of gaining monopoly power over something mundane, and while standing behind a phalanx of lawyers and armed government security forces.

As they say in zombie movies: "Fear The Living".

He was tanking for Team Europe against a multi-continental Boss, his teammates were mostly AFK, and then Hungary went for an intentional teamkill just to get the gold the Pope was passing him.

I'd be feeling rather cruel and inhumane after that, too.

He was also a sexually-abused child hostage turned child soldier turned major league badass. Respect to the Vlad! :-p

The heated seats are nice, too.

But man, the singing household appliances, I can't do it...

One moment Japan looks like Western Europe, and the next suddenly you're inside a children's anime where the bath sings when its ready.

With a caisson, anything that is weldable is field-maintainable these days. At least, carbon steel is, I have on good authority.

Concrete I am deeply conflicted about. Wire-reinforced concrete is the traditional material for oversized, under-capitalised "heartbreaker" projects that end marriages but never leave the building yard (except eventually to a landfill) :-p

Concrete has very good compressive strength and creep resistance. But is hopeless in tension and shear. The steel wire mesh upgrades "hopeless" to merely "poor". Until it rusts into powder and bursts the surrounding concrete as well. And it will - high pH concrete doesn't protect against chloride for long. Instead of steel reinforcement you might think to try using glass. But the high pH makes glass hydrolyse into gel. You can use stabilised glass with a high % of non-silica glasses, but there's no real advantage (cost or otherwise) over glass reinforced plastic then.

What concrete CAN do is something unique, and Luke I think you alluded to it with your "reef friendly" comment.

Biorock. Aka Seacrete.

If fully submerged in seawater, and if the reinforcing mesh is electrically conductive (metal or carbon fibre), and if a current is impressed on it (with the mesh as the negatively charged terminal), the concrete "grows" and "self-heals" with minerals from the seawater (mostly Brucite). Hard-shelled marine invertebrates colonise the surface and grow at amazing rates, using the electrical current to fix shell-building minerals more efficiently than they can in nature.

At least, that is what the patents and many articles tell us.

I plan on doing some experiments myself, starting this weekend.

For a permanently submerged module (or entire seastead), concrete could be amazing. I planned to do a proper writeup with links, but for now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorock

The Director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is resigning in protest over the UN’s failure to stand up to Israel’s “textbook case of genocide” in Gaza.

“The European ethno-nationalist, settler-colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase”, wrote the top UN official in a scathing resignation letter.

Mokhiber said the UN has “surrendered” to US interests and the “fear of the Israel lobby”, while describing Western countries not as “credible mediators” but as “active parties” in the war against Gaza.

He went on to slam “western corporate media”, for parroting its governments’ propaganda and the dehumanization of Palestinians “to facilitate the genocide” which he warned was an “open breach of Article 20 of the ICCPR.”

Mokhiber listed a 10-point plan the UN must implement, including “fighting apartheid” and for a one-state solution aimed at a “single, democratic, secular state in all of historic Palestine.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20231101001219/https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-11-01-the-gaza-assault-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-top-official-tells-un-in-resignation-letter/

Molten zinc spray will melt our aluminium, I expect. Maybe not literally, but enough to make it sag and creep under load. Steel would be fine, but need it sandblasted and perfectly dry for adhesion. So while this may be possible in manufacturing on land, its not maintainable "in the field".

There are a lot of different paints and coatings we could use. I wouldn't attempt to choose just one, but its a mature industry with huge economies of scale and many niches.

Practical Wave power is something of a Holy Grail in alternative energy. Friction, biofouling and corrosion have defeated every champion so far.

But storage is a Hard Problem, too, especially at scale. An old colleague is now working with flywheel storage, which is very exciting, but not something I'd try to use at sea!

Wave power is not locked to daylight hours, even very marginally-economic wave generation could be attractive for a seastead even if nowhere else.

^ This is going in my letter to Santa Claus :-D

True confessions: I still have a Reddit account. And another on StackExchange.

#hashtags are not my usual way of finding content.

But I also get the technical difficulty and resource requirements of running a modern indexing and search pipeline. We can't push this onto the relays, or soon we wouldn't have any.

It IS possible to do this in the client in a minimal way, but to be better than plain text search its going to have to be a pretty heavy client with a vector database (Milvus?) and a ML model (MiniML?).

Maybe I need to get better at using #hashtags. Its cringe, but old Twitter's "trending tags" concept could be reimplemented in Nostr clients. Build the ranked list locally as an indicator of what tags other nostriches are using, and a guide to what tags to add to ones own content. This can be gamed, of course, but Web of Trust narrows the scope for that quite a bit.

Look, that sounds workable.

But I'm wondering if a modernist, centrally-planned, all-eggs-in-one-basket approach is really best, or if a different, more incremental approach would suit this challenge better.

We could divide up the problems to be solved, and tackle them in parallel. (Yes, there are some that only emerge at scale).

The minimum viable product for a seastead might be "a floating marina in international waters, with its own physical infrastructure and administrative processes, managed in an organised but decentralised and voluntary manner".

Then we start breaking it down into what each of us can do with the skills and resources we have, what we need to come together to do, and how to engage others.

A little #linux #bash script for viewing image urls in a #commandline #terminal client. Allows you to quickly check out image urls in your #nostr feed when you are using #algia. #publicdomain, do with it what you will.

Warning: contains glorious #monochrome #vector graphics. May cause you to suffer flashbacks and/or install a retrogames emulator.

#!/bin/bash

# vtekr - view an image url over SSH using tek4014 terminal graphics mode

# Remote SSH server requires imagemagick, wget and https://github.com/autotrace/autotrace

# Local terminal client needs to be an xterm or similiar

TERM=xterm

AUTOTRACE=/opt/autotrace/autotrace

DOWNFILE=`mktemp /tmp/vtekr.XXXXXXXXXX-down.png` || exit 1

TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/vtekr.XXXXXXXXXX.png` || exit 1

wget "$1" -O $DOWNFILE

convert $DOWNFILE -despeckle -enhance -resize 1024x768\> -morphology Convolve DoG:5,0,5 "$TMPFILE"

$AUTOTRACE "$TMPFILE" -output-format tek

rm $TMPFILE $DOWNFILE

I think https://github.com/mattn/algia might be my second-favourite #nostr client. #linux #commandline #slacking

Interesting. Can we have a non-paywalled link pls?

Lunr! But its not really a search engine, more a tiny, tiny toolkit for building one, usually for a single site.

Solr and OpenSearch are better and more scslable but more complex approaches.

The technology isn't the barrier, and the data scraping and storage is doable.

Its the lawyering, man. That's what restricts search to suck.

(I mostly use DDG)

Very clever!

What I couldn't find in the docs is where AYLIEN sources its news articles from, and how to add different publications.

If that's not possible, it's just pushing filtering/censorship back one level in the process. And making it very inscrutable and opaque.

"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."

- Joseph Stalin, to the Central Committee, 1923

^This, but for news

And all of them need to generate a return on investment!

Which means turning the screws even tighter of those doing the work...

And by harmful, scams and spam is likely, of course, but I'm expecting also entrapment and malware. Demand for "domestic threats" rises and falls with the political weather, the wise agent prepares her lists ahead of time.

Helga from Sveden... isn't. Even if 1000 bots follow her.

Thanks Jims! :)

I need to figure out a process for setting up a Lightning wallet over Tor. Zeus didn't connect for me, will do more reading. May end up running my own node.

Yup. Exactly.

To elaborate slightly on your second option, the "no-bios" may later provide "Web of Trust" access and targeting info for new, more obviously harmful bots.

As puzzled as you are! There's a conversation about it here:

nostr:nevent1qqs9gjd6h0v8rxnta0x6qh0k44zz9kqvvl2dwd3jemn4q4zmkhtncpqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzp89qh469qapddgsrr8qw84xx08y7q34fm3cw3m64c2g9ufq9ydqtqvzqqqqqqyf3p9kp

Cyborg, less is more my silicon-bro!

You be more overexposed than Trump himself