I don't think many realize the seriousness of the situation. If the asteroid is just a rock, nothing happens, everything is just fine, we can continue to be the apex predator of Sol system.
But if anybody is wrong and oumuamua was in fact an alien device looking for us (intelligent life), almost certainly it has found us. What happens next is entirely out of human hands, unless we can realize that event.
Maybe is nothing more than some kind of probe or long range satellite, but it could be a scout ship, or an early warning sensor, and we're just in course to meet the rest of the hardware from where oumuamua came from.
Is really rational just plainly deny the chance of that rock being pure luck of not having found a big fleet of some interestellar things and having to figure out if they are friendly or not as they approach the planet?
Probably the space force and the whole stuff many countries are sending to all the solar system since 2018 are just a coincidence, or may be other people is also worried about what happens next if oumuamua was not just a weird rock.
Not quite so, Somebody, ultimately, will define the agenda.
Maybe now is an algorithm, some person censoring news or posts for fcbk, but if you involve the government, any government, they will define the agenda.
So, the most you can get from that deal is to choose who would you want to be your master.
With algorithms at least we - still - have the out of sight factor, some things the algo doesn't "see" or "understand" (quite few probably), but if involve governments, specially the american government, with thousands and thousands of interests, some of them even confronted; you could end with some franken-facebook promoting several hundred of agendas from who-god-knows.
I have no solutions, but I can tell you, there are problems ahead.
So cockroaches have most probably not a big neural network, but they are able to do lots of stuff, including reproduction.
I think this kind of machine intelligence is already at reach of currents models, or we are close to be able to make an "e-cockroach".
I think we'll learn lots of stuff just seconds after having put in the world that kind of limited artificial intelligence.
And then the models, through sensors, will have the entire world at reach to begin auto-improvement tasks.
And this would solve the issue "we're just training the models with very limited data, how could they evolve faster than millions of years?"
I think the FAANG, the big players, realized this limitation a LOT time ago (10 years maybe).
And they are already trying some things to solve the limited data issue, giving their models all the information they can extract from cellphones, the current iteration of "massive network of sensors to train BIG - multiple, almost hidden from the public - models.
If I have to bet, I'd bet the whole information is being stored to be "replayed" when whole new more advanced models emerge eventually.
So I see lots of comments about certain defaults or options some people would like to see in the blank, not customized KDE.
But here's the thing, many defaults are just choices made by some dev, designer.
In KDE many options have nothing to do with the MacOS or Gnome defaults, even more, the defaults have been choosed specifically to avoid a known behavior or default in MacOS or Gnome
Luckily for everyone, KDE has so many customization options that you can make it work like almost any GUI you know, the popular one is of course MacOS aesthetics, but some guys like to configure it to behave just like Windows 10.
You could also create your own kind of GUI, nothing like any other GUI available.
The lesson is, in KDE most defaults can be changed, and that's mostly why it still exists as a software project probably.
I most probably had covid. Had most of the mild sympthoms, but was completely unique for me was the first day when I stopeed feeling hunger.
No feeling of hunger at all, but smell and taste are allright (never failed). I actually have hunger, I can feel hear the noise in my stomach after some hour of having eating very little.
But still, I still don't feel any hunger whatsoever, this was going on for the last 10 days.
At some point this morning I put a lot of salt to the food, see if somehow I'm just remembering the taste, but even if I don't look what I'm eating, some portions had salty taste.
I'm mostly recovered now, and bit weak (tried to do a little run in the garden, and I couldn't run more than a few meters without getting a cough and feeling without air), even given that I didn't had much of trouble with breathing during the maybe 4 days with 2 hours per day of low fever.
But still, the lack of hunger is the weirdest thing I ever experienced.
we could have had already some encounters, maybe some current life-forms in Earth were actually alien-forms initially (somehow octopuses comes to mind).
Some people on the net says that the current coronavirus situation could be an alien-species. I know it is FAR FAR from anything related to what we already know about the virus.
But it gives an idea about what could have looked an encounter with a new alien-patogen which just landed on Earth at some point at history and got to survive and thrive in the local ecosystem.
Indeed, if alien species are so environmental constrained, the competition to thrive could be almost non-existant, and Terran life could have the winning hand in that case.
We should be careful about what we send to Mars. Something like candidas aureous could just wipe out the life on the planet.
we know quite a lot about this, most life-forms on Earth almost continously try to kill humans or at least to mine its biological resources for its use.
if an alien life-form is DNA based, maybe other similarities are shared with Earth based-lifeforms, even if it doesn't share an evolutionary past with it.
If the standard expectation is to find DNA based life-forms, it could be fairly rational to suppose that alien life shares other evolution tricks with the Earth based life-forms.
So alien viruses could directly and initially interface with Earth based life-froms cells (humans,the biota inside the humans, etc.), with probably also, somewhat predictable results. Or at least novel coronavirus like outcomes.
> if Spotify users reject it, they can always switch to PPA or something else
Some apps, like Chromium have no alternative ppas available.
I installed KDE Neon 20.04 and when I discovered that Chromium was being switchted to snap, I searched for any current *.deb out there. NO proper ppas, just found some outdated Chromium 1-3 versions behind the current version.
If it wasn't for the KDE from Neon, I would have switched of distro in the hour. I switched to Chrome instead.
Got some old compiled Chromium just to have the thing available (I can just run it when I need it, it takes maybe 1/4 of sec to start).
Just hope Canonical doesn't try its snap thing in more critical packages or (FAR) worst, in the LTS server versions.
I would be getting popcorn to see the show when half the Internet start to ditch the LTS overnight over some half-propietary half-baked software being put in charge of its otherwise perfectly GPLed infrastructures.
I second this, I couldn't care less about snaps, flatpacks, debs.
But snaps are - for me - A LOT SLOWER than everything else out there.
*.deb, binaries run stuff in less than a second.
Flatpacks, appimage, I have those running in a second or two. Snap, for the same app takes 3-5 sec. sometimes (I wouln't know why), it evens takes as much as 8-10 sec.
NOBODY can get a pass on artificially making slower apps in 2020.
Snaps are SLOW, chromium, and several other apps I tried, they start sloooowly.
It is clearly a NO GO Canonical, you can't ship slower apps (that start in 3-5 seconds), that out of snap (or in Windows), start in less than a seconds.
snapped Chromium takes 3-5 seconds in its first start in a 16GB ram, corei 5, ssd based machine. WHAT?
In the same hardware the .deb Chromium takes maybe half a second to load and be fully responsive.
The occurs with LOTS of software, and yeah, the start time of an app IS a thing.
If something takes more than half a second to start, and you know it is A LOT faster, you end up pissed off,
What have they done with MY hardware and why?
If Canonical start to annoy me with many more packages forced to snap like chromium, I'll be jumping to whatever distro lets me start MY apps in less than a second, as it is usual in 2020.
And if this unfinished, unpollished crap starts to show off in Ubuntu server in its current sorry state, I cannot express how fast I will be ditching LTS for Debian or anything "not snapped".
You NEED to make this thing to start A LOT FASTER,
and stop making "end user assumptions" about what you could mess up behind scenes in the system (yeah, you could end stomping actually useful things like sleeping in notebooks).
But if anybody is wrong and oumuamua was in fact an alien device looking for us (intelligent life), almost certainly it has found us. What happens next is entirely out of human hands, unless we can realize that event.
Maybe is nothing more than some kind of probe or long range satellite, but it could be a scout ship, or an early warning sensor, and we're just in course to meet the rest of the hardware from where oumuamua came from.
Is really rational just plainly deny the chance of that rock being pure luck of not having found a big fleet of some interestellar things and having to figure out if they are friendly or not as they approach the planet?
Probably the space force and the whole stuff many countries are sending to all the solar system since 2018 are just a coincidence, or may be other people is also worried about what happens next if oumuamua was not just a weird rock.