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  • LN2 is about 500kJ per kg to liquefy, that’s less than 0.01$ per kg, I don’t know where you get your milk but I want some I that price. You do know that our atmostphere is 80% nitrogen ?

    The size of the dewars isn’t the relevant factor, what good is a dewar of LN2 when it’s the cryocaskets that need to be cooled, not dewars, you only need dewars to store LN2, but why would you store it in gigantic reservoirs when it can easy be produced on demand and on site ?

    1nm scanning volumetric precision isn’t really far fetch at the current rate of progress, like I said, cell wall damage isn’t going to be a problem, first there’s supposed to be very little of it because, you haven’t mentioned it but, of course they’ve been using cryoprotectants from a long time now but even if they weren’t, those scanned cells aren’t going to need to work, they’re just the machinery that produces the structure, before the first person is scanned they will have algorithm to repair any damage to any cell.

    What actually matter is the connections between cells, the person itself lives in the network of neurons of the nervous system and the most critical thing that actually needs scanning is the structure inside synapses, everything else is much bigger.

    “moore’s law hit a wall”, doesn’t matter, easilly parrallelizable as a simulation, the hard part was scanning

    “it’ll remain so for considerable time” pure speculation, but it does touch on the most probable downfall of this project and that is the very likely planetary scale collapse of human civilization from economic failure cascade.

    (humans will have more pressing issues to deal with) I assure you, humans dying today do not have more pressing issues than their own death

    “copy is not original” that’s a “you” problem, as I mention in my text regarding the Ship of Theseus problem

    “don’t want to admit that they made a religion out of misinterpreted scifi” you could paint whole building in one swipe with a brush that wide

    “not even single one frozen today will remain so” based on 1960 to 1973 ? How old are you again ?


  • Liquid nitrogen is cheap to produce at scale and LN2 loss decreases per unit of internal volume as the volume increases.

    As for the revival tech, of course the meat is never coming back, but once we have the technology to scan the remains with 1 nanometer cubic accuracy then we’ll just run simulated copies of them, the biggest question is how much of “them” was destroyed by the freeze/thaw/scan process

    But we can probably patch the large bulk of the damage with copies from other people that have undamaged structures,

    It will be a little chimeric, you’ll have your damage replaced with someone else’s or the average of many other people’s intact structures.

    And then the last thing to answer is the Ship Of Theseus problem, is a near perfect copy of you running in a simulated mathematical space still “you” or is there no “you” left ? That’s something only “you” can answer because to the people outside the simulation, the “you” will behave exactly the same as the meat “you”… That’s assuming the simulation technology of say, 500 years in the future, actually is that good.


  • I don’t think it’s merely “reporting unfortunate news” It’s about the flipper zero, not really about car theft per say and shitty, evil car security system where the dealer scams you as much as the thief for a key.

    There’s really no reason we can’t use contactless smartcards for this, and that we can’t program them ourselves with open source software.

    The flipper zero itself is completely irrelevant about this. It’s just a generic ISM band transceiver … Only of note to the ignorant and technologically incompetent, but the journos have made this the centerpiece of the article.










  • Like anubis, that’s not going to last, the point isn’t to hammer the web servers off the net, it’s to get the precious data. The more standardized and streamlined that’s going to be made and only if there’s no preferential treatment to certain players (open ai / google facebook) then the dumb scraper will burn themselves out.

    One nice thing about anubis and nepenthes is that it’s going to burn out those dumb scrapers faster and force them to become more sophisticated and stealth. That’s should resolve the ddos problem on its own.

    For the truly public data sources, I think coordinated database dumps is the way to go, for hostile carrier, like reddit and facebook, it’s going to be scrapper arms race warfare like Cory Doctorow predicted.


  • The ddos is caused by the gatekeeping, there was no such issue before the 2023 API wars, fork over the goods and nobody gets hurt, it’s not complicated, you want to publish information to the public, don’t scrunch it up behind diseased trackers and ad infested pages which burn you cpu cycles. Or just put it in a big tarball torrent, the web is turning into a cesspool, how long until our browsers don’t even query websites at all but self-hosted crawler and search like searxng, at least then I won’t be catching cooties from your javascript cryptomining bots embed into the pages !


  • Even if your server is a cell phone from 2015, if it’s operating correctly and the cpu is maxed out, that means it’s fully utilized and services hundreds of megabits of information.

    You’ve decided to let the entire world read from your server, that indiscriminatory policy is letting people you don’t want getting your data, get your data and use your resources.

    You want to correct that by making everyone that comes in solve a puzzle, therefore in some way degrading their access, it’s not surprising that they’re going to complain. The other day I had to wait over 30 second at an anubis puzzle page, when I know that the AI scrappers have no problem getting through, something on my computer, probably some anti-crypto mining protection is getting triggered by it and now I can’t no-script the web either because of that thing and it can’t even stop scrappers anyway !

    So, anubis is going to be left behind, all the real users are, for years, going to be annoyed and have their entire internet degraded by it while the scrappers got that institutionally figured out in days.

    If it’s freely available public data then the solution isn’t restricting access trying to play a futile arms race with the scrapper and throwing the real users to the dogs, it’s to have standardized incremental efficient database dumps so the scrappers stop assuming every website is interoperability-hostile and scrape them. Let facebook and xitter fight the scrappers, let anyone trying to leverage public (and especially user contributed data) fight the scrappers.