Me: I’m gonna season and dry the wok for a few minutes while I do the dishes.

does dishes

walks out of room.

air quality alert from filter goes off saying bad air quality.

Shit the wok!

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, LLMs

I’m not going to change what happened.

Thats also fair. It’s a story you’re telling and it’s what happened.

No he’s gonna ban anyone who disagrees with him.

The sentiment is right, but using the phrase wrong with you, might be a little harsh. There’s nothing wrong with them, they are who they are.

None of that excuses being an asshole though.

Wrong with you would be more like if they’re going through a breakup and they aren’t themselves, or going through grief over something etc.

But directed at a ND person where it can come off as being about their ND isn’t good.

Edit: “I don’t care what’s going on with someone, if they’re an asshole they’re an asshole” would be a better option

What about dirty bombs? Less effective, but still a deterrent?

E.g take out the refinery and deny the entire area moving forward.

Actually using it’s another matter, but the idea being it’d be a deterrent.

Closed PRs and Closed issues?

What if it’s a side project with 1 star, 0 issues (because no one made any) and no PRs because no ones done work on it?

Ya, that’s a really good point as well.

It’s worth noting that there are limited spots you can land on the Taiwan coast for an assault, and they are heavily guarded.

It’s a very different war up until they can get and maintain a foothold.

The stars are more important when you’re a developer. It indicates interest in the project, and when it’s a library you might want to use that translates into how well maintained it might be and what level of official and unofficial support you might get from it.

Other key things to look at are how often are they doing releases and committing changes, how long bugs are left open, if pull requests sit there forever without being merged in etc.

Ya, its quite possible it was related to that.

And you’re right, had the DoD contacted them and said were approving this, do it, they would have done it. They won’t fuck around with that. The DoD has control now and does whatever they want with dishes given to Ukraine.

ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

While those might be reasons, he has claimed its because of his trans daughter. It’s a pretty disgusting stance.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/09/elon-musks-journey-from-humanitarian-to-poster-of-rightwing-memes

Emphasis mine below

According to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, around this period Musk began sending “rightwing memes and conspiracy theories” to Grimes, who replied: “Is this from 4chan or something? You’re actually starting to sound like someone from the far right.”

At the same time, his daughter Vivian came out as transgender and changed her name, declaring that she no longer wanted to “be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”.

Musk himself has cited Vivian as a reason for his political shift, telling the pop psychologist Jordan Peterson that he had “lost [his] son [sic], essentially”, and concluding that his son “is dead, killed by the woke mind virus”.

Why is dying in quotes? She has cancer… she’s kinda dying, not ‘dying’.

What’s your point? Yes, he denied a request to turn it on.

SpaceX made the decision prior it wouldn’t be available in Russian controlled territory. Also had he turned it on, that would be using Starlink as a weapon and break US laws (edit: and the terms of their contract with Ukraine), and jeopardize starlink being available world wide for civilian use.

He did not actively turn if off to thwart an attack though. It was already off.

I figured it out…

It’s trickle down war supplies.

SpaceX can’t support Russia directly, so they give all sorts of support to Ukraine. Then, they know Russia will get a small portion of it somehow and that’s how Russia will win the war.

All SpaceX has to do is keep giving more and more hardware to Ukraine and eventually Russia will be able to turn the tide and defeat them!

You just know that once the direct to cell service is live, Russians are going to kill Ukrainian civilians, take their cell phones, and use starlink to send a message, and it’ll be yet more proof that SpaceX does Russia’s bidding!

Because at the start of the war in ukraine a journalist eventually reported that Musk turned off access to starlink to thwart an attack on the Sevestapole port.

Except that didn’t happen, they were never on in Russian controlled territory, and the journalist retracted the statement.

People are still hung up on that though.

This was also when the US Department of Defense was not yet involved and SpaceX was doing this for free, out of pocket, with strict rules about not using starlink as a weapon, because it’s a civilian tool, and being used as a weapon would contravene US law and put starlink at risk of falling under ITAR or some other law which would be VERY bad for SpaceX.

Shortly after that, the DoD went into contract with SpaceX and now they deal with all that and it’s no longer a risk to SpaceX so they can use it as a weapon now.

Then, it was reported that Russia was getting dishes from 3rd parties (smuggling them in) and that again was proof that Musk was supporting Russia. Except it’s not an easy problem to solve, and even the DoD said it was complicated and would be an ongoing game of cat and mouse to prevent.

Edit: I like how hours after I made this reply, someone above is again claiming Musk shut down Starlink to stop the attack, and in the article they link it even talks about what I wrote in this post saying that the claim was retracted. I can’t tell if that person didn’t read the article and took the first link he found… or doesn’t understand the difference between turning something that was on to the off state (action), and simply not turning something that was off, on. (inaction)

Guess you forgot about the time he shut down Starlink to stop a Ukrainian assault? -> link to snopes article

USB-CDE

It’s when they become loud mouth attention seekers like Musk that people begin to care. But if everyone claiming to boycott Musk products actually boycotted all the companies that have done terrible things (and way worse than musk), they’d suddenly have nothing to buy.