We have the tools but some lack the balls

Big facts

Miss me with it.

I ain't a victim.

My nuts hang. Never been a better time to be alive.

This post got me gassed up.

People talking about how millennials are so unlucky financially because of crashes and house prices inflation etc

Meanwhile we have the opportunity to own and understand the best performing asset in human history, earning returns in 4 years what took boomers 40 years to earn.

We can spin up businesses with a few AI prompts

We actually have access to information that isn't propaganda

We have it made, we are the luckiest generation

Miss me with that victim shit

You know what’s somewhat annoying. In a quantum future tower case computers we be popular again. 😅

I’m not buying one unless it’s beige plastic with an energy star and quantum inside stickers.

A day in my life:

- get excited about new project ideas

- spend hours finding the perfect domain

- create new project folder

- fire up vscode

- realize how much work this will be

- give up

More X-bots interested in #Nostr than weekly active users here.

Elon should fix his platform... or DROP it ;)

onboarded 2 federal agents today

That’s what I thought too. But how are these folks assigning jpegs to sats?

I can understand a transaction having information, similar to the genesis block. but I don’t see how can a single sat intrinsically have information.

sats aren’t numbered. I believe the ordinals program is what assigns them a number. So if you aren’t interested in ordinals, your sats are just sats. And their sats are just sats.

If someone told me their sat was special bc another program says it has a link to a website where I can look at a jpg, I would say I don’t care. It’s still just one sat.

Yeah I hate the term. Claims of genocide are widespread.

I don't even know on what basis Putin can claim Ukrainians are engaged in genocide.

Ukraine's claims are nutty too, and the ICC warrant for Putin's arrest is just as nutty. Putin clearly didn't remove children with the intention of destroying the Ukrainian people, as if they would all age and die and Ukrainians would be no longer because there were no longer any children. This was just a weasel-move.

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is not a call for genocide.

For someone to think it is a call to genocide, they have to make some heavy assumptions.... making an ass out of you and me.

They have to assume that in order for the entire region to become a free Palestine, a genocide needs to occur. But it doesn't. A genocide requires one of five acts: killing, serious bodily harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. At least one of those needs to occur with the intent of to destroy a national/ethnical/racial or religious group. The phrase does not specify how the area becomes Palestine. Maybe Palestine fights a war of independence, capturing all of that territory, assimilating it's people. Russia did not commit genocide when it annexed Crimea.

One also has to neglect it's power as a negotiating position. Likud wants all the land from the Sea to the Jordan river to be under the control of Israel (see their 1973 charter, this is long established fact). Is that a call to genocide? If Israel wants the whole place with no Palestine, then Palestine can (as a negotiation starting point) call for control of the whole place with no Israel. Why should they voluntarily weaken their negotiating position when offered nothing in return?

So the moral thing to do is to chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and wave those flags and give the finger to any assholes who lie about who you are and what you believe.

I think your assumptions start with a fallacy:

Didn’t get enough sleep? Who said it?

Fought violently? Again… who said it?

All kind of other bad things? Which exactly?

You start assuming the we are evolved and the people in the past were savages.. which again is just a false statement, or at least really hard to tell

I didn't say rotting things were good (let's put aside the question of fermented foods for a bit). Our ancestors were repulsed by things, that indicates strongly that they are bad.

But I think you are missing my point. I am saying that we are all dumb as rocks. We barely evolved any intelligence at all, and far too often we think we know things and we act on that supposed knowledge to our detriment. And so when someone says "It's very obvious which things were good and which weren't" my point is that it absolutely is not obvious:

* It was obvious that the sun caused skin cancer and we should lather up. It was not obvious that the sun's vitamin D production cut heart disease risk so far that sunscreen wearing caused more deaths.

* It was obvious that saturated fat caused heart disease, and so margarine would be healthier. It was not obvious that trans fats cause huge problems to human bodies that did not evolve to handle huge loads of trans fats.

* It was obvious that intestinal worms were bad (duh!) until we learned that our bodies expect them. I have personal experience on this one.

Nothing is obvious. We live in a hyper-complex system.

And so we have to trust that we evolved to work against a certain kind of environment and we should mimic that environment as much as possible to avoid risk, because any sort of changes to that environment are very likely to be in the bad direction (some could be good, but always bet the other way) even if they seem obviously in the good direction.

I am constantly amazed at how fine tuned life is towards it's environment, and how even small changes in the environment cause species extinctions. And yet us humans are tweaking our own environment in massive ways, and then suprised that we develop allergies, autoimmune diseases, metabolic syndrome. The causes are obvious. The solutions are hard to put into practice, but we know what they are. Tribal people don't have diabetes, autoimmune diseases, metabolic syndrome, allergies, etc.

Saying "fasting also comes with innumerable desteuctive [sic] effects the worst of which is an increase in cortisol" presumes we know far more than we actually know about fasting, about cortisol, about why your body is producing it, etc. I can point you to many studies showing how fasting is very healthy, despite the alleged spike in cortisol, but that's not the argument I'm trying to make here. The argument I'm trying to make is that humanity is a lot dumber than we pretend to be, to the extent that simple heuristics like "do what your ancestors did" do better than trusting the current science does.

It turns out our ancetors didn't have fruit all year round... we probably shoudn't either. It turns out they sometimes went days without eating, because they couldn't find any more food. Turns out that is good for us too. Our ancestors almost all ate meat - we should too. Our ancestors didn't use fluoride in their water or toothpaste - we shouldn't either. Fluoride hardens teeth with calcium, why shoudln't it then also harden arteries with calcium? that seems obvious to me but it is the opposite of what we are told. Flouride occurs naturally in some water supplies, but if your ancestors didn't come from there, you aren't attuned to it. Our ancestors didn't live indoors. Our ancestors sat around fires at night. Our ancestors squatted, they didn't sit in chairs. Lots of things to mimic that, if you try it, you will find you start to feel a lot healthier.

Evolutionary biology and game theory -- it is an entire way of thinking. It changes everything.

I didn't say rotting things were good (let's put aside the question of fermented foods for a bit). Our ancestors were repulsed by things, that indicates strongly that they are bad.

But I think you are missing my point. I am saying that we are all dumb as rocks. We barely evolved any intelligence at all, and far too often we think we know things and we act on that supposed knowledge to our detriment. And so when someone says "It's very obvious which things were good and which weren't" my point is that it absolutely is not obvious:

* It was obvious that the sun caused skin cancer and we should lather up. It was not obvious that the sun's vitamin D production cut heart disease risk so far that sunscreen wearing caused more deaths.

* It was obvious that saturated fat caused heart disease, and so margarine would be healthier. It was not obvious that trans fats cause huge problems to human bodies that did not evolve to handle huge loads of trans fats.

* It was obvious that intestinal worms were bad (duh!) until we learned that our bodies expect them. I have personal experience on this one.

Nothing is obvious. We live in a hyper-complex system.

And so we have to trust that we evolved to work against a certain kind of environment and we should mimic that environment as much as possible to avoid risk, because any sort of changes to that environment are very likely to be in the bad direction (some could be good, but always bet the other way) even if they seem obviously in the good direction.

I am constantly amazed at how fine tuned life is towards it's environment, and how even small changes in the environment cause species extinctions. And yet us humans are tweaking our own environment in massive ways, and then suprised that we develop allergies, autoimmune diseases, metabolic syndrome. The causes are obvious. The solutions are hard to put into practice, but we know what they are. Tribal people don't have diabetes, autoimmune diseases, metabolic syndrome, allergies, etc.

Saying "fasting also comes with innumerable desteuctive [sic] effects the worst of which is an increase in cortisol" presumes we know far more than we actually know about fasting, about cortisol, about why your body is producing it, etc. I can point you to many studies showing how fasting is very healthy, despite the alleged spike in cortisol, but that's not the argument I'm trying to make here. The argument I'm trying to make is that humanity is a lot dumber than we pretend to be, to the extent that simple heuristics like "do what your ancestors did" do better than trusting the current science does.

It turns out our ancetors didn't have fruit all year round... we probably shoudn't either. It turns out they sometimes went days without eating, because they couldn't find any more food. Turns out that is good for us too. Our ancestors almost all ate meat - we should too. Our ancestors didn't use fluoride in their water or toothpaste - we shouldn't either. Fluoride hardens teeth with calcium, why shoudln't it then also harden arteries with calcium? that seems obvious to me but it is the opposite of what we are told. Flouride occurs naturally in some water supplies, but if your ancestors didn't come from there, you aren't attuned to it. Our ancestors didn't live indoors. Our ancestors sat around fires at night. Our ancestors squatted, they didn't sit in chairs. Lots of things to mimic that, if you try it, you will find you start to feel a lot healthier.

Evolutionary biology and game theory -- it is an entire way of thinking. It changes everything.

Back before docker there was LXC. And I wrote a C program about that time (circa 2014) to run and contain another binary, basically doing the core of what docker did but without all the filesystem layering. It probably still works but probably doesn't do everything that should be done on a modern linux anymore. Here is the entirety of that program:

#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include // NR_OPEN

#include

#define errExit(msg) do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \

} while (0)

struct child_args {

char *container;

char *hostname;

char *rootpivot;

uid_t uid;

gid_t gid;

char **argv; // Command to execute

int daemonize;

char *pidfile;

int pipe_to_parent[2]; // for child signal to parent

int pipe_to_child[2]; // for parent signal to child

};

static int

childFunc(void *arg)

{

struct child_args *args = (struct child_args *) arg;

close(args->pipe_to_parent[0]);

close(args->pipe_to_child[1]);

/* Change hostname in UTS namespace of child */

struct utsname uts;

if (sethostname(args->hostname, strlen(args->hostname)) == -1)

errExit("sethostname");

if (uname(&uts) == -1)

errExit("uname");

/* pivot_root */

char putold[256];

snprintf(putold,256,"%s/%s",args->container,args->rootpivot);

if (chdir(args->container)!=0) errExit("chdir container");

if (pivot_root(args->container, putold)!=0) errExit("pivot root");

if (chdir("/")!=0) errExit("chdir /");

if (umount2(args->rootpivot, MNT_DETACH)!=0) errExit("umount2");

/* If changing to less-secure chroot() instead, also use MS_MOVE */

/* Mount a new procfs at /proc since CLONE_NEWPID was set */

char *procdir = "/proc";

mkdir(procdir, 0555); // ignore any EEXIST

if (mount("proc", procdir, "proc", 0, NULL) == -1)

errExit("mount procfs");

// Change to 32000, because that will be the new root

if (setgid((gid_t)32000) != 0)

errExit("Unable to become group 32000");

if (setuid((uid_t)32000) != 0)

errExit("Unable to become user 32000");

// Now change to CLONE_NEWUSER

if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) == -1) errExit("unshare");

// Signal parent to change UID/GID maps */

close(args->pipe_to_parent[1]);

/* Wait until the parent has updated UID and GID maps */

char ch;

if (read(args->pipe_to_child[0], &ch, 1) != 0) {

fprintf(stderr,"Failure in child: read from pipe returned != 0\n");

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

}

/* Be sure we are root */

pid_t uid = getuid();

if (uid != 0) {

fprintf(stderr,"eUID = %ld; eGID = %ld;\n",

(long) geteuid(), (long) getegid());

fprintf(stderr,"If we exec now, we lose all capabilities. Failed.\n");

exit(1);

}

/* Change to the requested user */

if (setgid(args->gid) != 0)

errExit("Unable to drop group privilege");

if (setuid(args->uid) != 0)

errExit("Unable to drop user privilege");

/* Get information on the requested user */

struct passwd *pw = getpwuid(args->uid);

if (pw == NULL) errExit("getpwuid");

/* Save terminal setting */

char **envp = malloc(sizeof(char *) * 7);

char term[256];

snprintf(term,256,"TERM=%s", getenv("TERM"));

envp[0] = term;

char home[256];

snprintf(home,256,"HOME=%s", pw->pw_dir);

envp[1] = home;

char shell[256];

snprintf(shell,256,"SHELL=%s",pw->pw_shell);

envp[2] = shell;

char path[256];

snprintf(path,256,"PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.8.3");

envp[3] = path;

char pwd[256];

snprintf(pwd,256,"PWD=/");

envp[4] = pwd;

char lang[256];

snprintf(lang,256,"LANG=en_NZ.utf8");

envp[5] = lang;

envp[6] = NULL;

if (args->daemonize) {

// New session

if (setsid() == -1)

errExit("setsid");

// Close all open files

int i;

for (i = 0; i < NR_OPEN; i++) close(i);

// Redirect 0, 1, and 2 to /dev/null

open("/dev/null",O_RDWR); // Will be stdin

dup(0); // Will be stdout

dup(0); // will be stderr

}

/* Clear parent-death signal (HUP), so we don't get a HUP

when the parent terminates (since it is preserved across

execve() */

if (prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, 0) == -1)

errExit("prctl");

/* Execute the program */

execve(args->argv[0], args->argv, envp);

errExit("execve");

}

#define STACK_SIZE (1024 * 1024)

static char child_stack[STACK_SIZE];

void do_parent(struct child_args *args)

{

char *stack;

char *stackTop;

pid_t pid;

struct utsname uts;

/* Setup pipes for synchronization */

if (pipe(args->pipe_to_parent) == -1) errExit("pipe_to_parent");

if (pipe(args->pipe_to_child) == -1) errExit("pipe_to_child");

int flags =

CLONE_NEWUTS // hostname

| CLONE_NEWIPC // IPC

//| CLONE_NEWNET // Network (need to setup veth)

| CLONE_NEWNS // Mount namespace (starts as copy of parent)

| CLONE_NEWPID; // Process namespace

// Not CLONE_NEWUSER yet or pivot_root() will fail (MNT_LOCKED)

pid = clone(childFunc,

child_stack + STACK_SIZE,

flags | SIGCHLD,

args);

if (pid == -1) errExit("clone");

/* Parent continues here */

close(args->pipe_to_parent[1]);

close(args->pipe_to_child[0]);

/* Wait for the child to signal us that it has done the unshare() */

char ch;

if (read(args->pipe_to_parent[0], &ch, 1) != 0) {

fprintf(stderr,"Failure in parent: read from pipe returned != 0\n");

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

}

char *map = "0 32000 32000";

/* Change uid_map of child */

int fd;

char uidmap[256];

snprintf(uidmap,256,"/proc/%ld/uid_map", (long)pid);

fd = open(uidmap,O_WRONLY);

if (fd == -1) errExit("open uid_map");

if (write(fd,map,strlen(map)) == -1)

errExit("write uid_map");

close(fd);

char gidmap[256];

snprintf(gidmap,256,"/proc/%ld/gid_map", (long)pid);

fd = open(gidmap,O_WRONLY);

if (fd == -1) errExit("open gid_map");

if (write(fd,map,strlen(map)) == -1)

errExit("write gid_map");

close(fd);

/* Close the write end of the pipe to signal the child */

close(args->pipe_to_child[1]);

if (! args->daemonize) {

/* Wait for child to finish */

int child_status;

if (waitpid(pid, &child_status, 0) == -1) /* Wait for child */

errExit("waitpid");

if (WEXITSTATUS(child_status))

exit(WEXITSTATUS(child_status));

}

else {

int fd;

if ((fd=open(args->pidfile,O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC))==-1) {

fprintf(stderr,"PID is %d (could not write pid file)\n",(pid_t)pid);

} else {

char pidtext[24];

snprintf(pidtext,24,"%d",pid);

if (write(fd,pidtext,strlen(pidtext))==-1) {

fprintf(stderr,"PID is %d (could not write pid file)\n",(pid_t)pid);

}

}

}

exit(0);

}

void

usage()

{

fprintf(stderr,"USAGE: contain -u -c [OPTIONS] [ ...]\n"

" -u [required] User to run the program as.\n"

" -c [required] Directory to contain within.\n"

" -g Set group of the process. Strongly recommended.\n"

" -h Set hostname of the container.\n"

" -d Deamonize the process.\n"

" -p Write daemon PID to . Only if -d is specified.\n"

" -r Root pivot subdirectory for pivot_root() call. Default is /mnt/root.\n"

"\n"

);

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

}

int

main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

int opt;

struct child_args args;

args.uid = -1;

args.gid = 100;

args.container = NULL;

args.hostname = "ocl_container";

args.daemonize = 0;

args.rootpivot = "/mnt/root";

struct passwd *pw;

struct group *gr;

while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "+u:g:c:h:dp:r:")) != -1) {

switch (opt) {

case 'u':

pw = getpwnam(optarg);

if (pw == NULL) {

fprintf(stderr,"No such user %s\n",optarg);

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

}

args.uid = pw->pw_uid;

break;

case 'g':

gr = getgrnam(optarg);

if (gr == NULL) {

fprintf(stderr,"No such group %s\n",optarg);

exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

}

args.gid = gr->gr_gid;

break;

case 'c':

args.container = optarg;

break;

case 'h':

args.hostname = optarg;

break;

case 'd':

args.daemonize = 1;

break;

case 'p':

args.pidfile = optarg;

break;

case 'r':

args.rootpivot = optarg;

break;

default: usage(argv[0]);

}

}

args.argv = &argv[optind];

if (args.uid == -1) usage(argv[0]);

if (args.container == NULL) usage(argv[0]);

if (args.argv[0] == NULL) usage(argv[0]);

do_parent(&args);

}

In Baldurs Gate 3, everybody is either gay or bisexual. I that why they call it the 'fantasy' genre?

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