That’s kind of the point; it’s not a straw man, it’s saying that the options should be considered on their merits not on irrelevancies. “There are no bonus points added to the scoring just because nuclear looks cool when it glows”

“Glowing in the dark” refers to nuclear power sources. Hope this helps.

It doesn’t need one perfect solution, just needs the best solution to become dominant. Obviously solar is not perfect or even best in every situation, but you don’t need 100%.

batteries degrade over time, meaning we will need a continous way to replace them, and since most manufacturers of batteries are located in China

Batteries are largely recyclable and worth recycling, at least the ones of the scale used for grid-scale power storage.

And manufacturing can be done outside of china; it’s just a bit more expensive.

I’ll keep that in mind in case I ever shower inside a boiler.

Not one of those but XMPP (once upon a time called Jabber) is available worldwide.

So is Matrix.

Yeah that’s true of Google as well I believe. I think Archive is more careful, but I’m sure some books get damaged in the process there as well.

Digitized for private consumption.

Nobody cares when Google did this or when archive.org does this, because they’re sharing the results with the world. (Idiotic shortsighted lawsuits from the authors guild notwithstanding)

Are you saying his mother is stupid?

Yup.

Although I’d expand texting to “messenger apps” specifically Signal for me.

Fuck SMS.

Odds are neither and it’s a “plausibly deniable” attack.

You know what would probably REALLY actually help?!

Requiring the phone companies to authenticate the incoming calls. They know perfectly well which numbers should be coming in from where.

Can it not?

It would be impossible to distinguish the malware from the apps intended function

You’re officially invited.

What is an “AI storage service”?

Does that mean you just store your info in AI weights/contexts and hope it can regenerate an approximation of what you put in?

I think you might be thinking of databases… Access (barf), not Excel.

I do think databases and tables are a useful thing but most database systems require over-specifying fields via esoteric “column types” while spreadsheets underspecify them via formatting (and extremely limited formatting at that)

Some happy medium must exist out there, but I haven’t seen it. Notion and Google Docs (Format /Convert to Table) approach this but don’t quite get there.

Nah, it’s Martin Shkreli

He needs to go there personally to break ground though.

Well, yeah. That’s what the spectrum is.

Low end: “you can see the source but can’t do anything with it” (questionable whether this counts as open source at all)

High end “do what you want, it’s literally yours” (public domain).

One can debate where the low boundary of “open source” is, or what makes one license more or less free than another, but the spectrum is the range of limitations.