It was intentional not to include it. I don’t think that global warming likely poses an existential threat. It may impose high costs on humanity, greater than the benefit of burning fossil fuels, and thus be something that we want to avoid, but I don’t think that we’d likely put ourselves in a scenario where humanity doesn’t survive.

Existential threats are specifically those that end humanity’s existence.

It doesn’t look like the article as a whole is downloadable without an account, but from what is accessible:

The Commission identifies two threats as having extinction-potential:

• The malicious use of artificial intelligence (AI)
• Nuclear conflict

I think that it’s reasonably likely that by 2100, we will have at least two other potential candidates (if we aren’t there already):

• Engineered, self-replicating biological organisms that create pandemics or other situations problematic to human life (e.g. if we produced something like the Great Oxidation Event on a short timeframe). We are increasingly able to craft and modify life, and I would expect that we will explore all sorts of possibilities.
• Self-replicating nanomachines that do similar; something like the gray goo scenario.

In all cases other than nuclear conflict, I think that rapid replication that spirals out of control is the common factor that could render a risk existential.

I also do not think that the most-likely existential risk from AI comes from intentional, malicious use—the article is specifically identifying malicious use—but from an error coupled with a system that can expand massively and spin out of control. Something more like the paperclip maximizer scenario.

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They have a list.

https://opensource.fb.com/projects/

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trials-of-the-trump-administration/tracking-trump-administration-litigation

Highly-educated voters also don’t like Trump and do very strongly turn up to vote, but they are a comparatively-small group (particularly in older generations), so they don’t, on their lonesome, have the clout to move the needle much. They need other people to also be getting ballots in as well.

https://www.270towin.com/election-countdown-clock/

2026 Midterm Elections
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
25 DAYS

If you are eligible to vote in the upcoming US midterm elections, please actually do so rather than sitting them out. People who have the right to vote, don’t like Trump, but then don’t bother to actually vote are a major reason for Trump being in office right now. Younger members of the electorate in particular generally do not vote. The elderly, on the other hand, very reliably vote.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voter-turnout-2020-2024/

Turnout in 2024 was, by US standards, high. But…there is still a very substantial chunk of the electorate that does not bother to vote.

The midterms will (probably, unless likely investigations turn up something sufficiently damning to get Republican votes for removal from office) not remove Trump from office prior to the end of his term. But they will trigger investigations and limit his power in various ways, like restricting his ability to fairly-freely replace cabinet members.

It is incumbent for

I’m pretty sure that that should be “it is incumbent on”. It’s part of a phrase that can’t take just any old preposition.

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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/incumbent

be incumbent on/upon someone

to be necessary for someone because it is their duty

Yeah.

I don’t presently, but back when I was working on a large codebase and needing to know when a painfully long compile finished, I used an XMPP client and server.

They probably should have made customer-facing descriptions more-flattering.

It means that now whatever bot is presumably harvesting Threadiverse comments now also knows that you aren’t some mere half-caker.

I wouldn’t push either button in 2026 or 2027 if you can wait.

I guess some kind of home automation setup could start coffee brewing when you wake up or just before you get home.

It does seem like a pretty marginal benefit.

That being said, I have a hard time understanding why so many people own other IoT things, say, smart speakers. Like, I just don’t see the problem that they’re solving.

If you’re a developer for an important open source project, they might.

Attacking the xz project wasn’t done because the attacker cared about anything that the xz maintainer had. It was because he was trusted and the software he maintained had been given a fair bit of trust by certain maintainers and could be compromised and used as a vector into other systems that indirectly relied on that open-source project.

I mean, you could always put something like this on any vehicle.

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https://www.amazon.com/HornBlasters-Watt-Public-Address-Sirens/dp/B0076ZPOAS

Make sure you are heard loud and clear with 100 Watts of power blasting your voice or waking the neighborhood with the built-in selection of popular sirens. If that wasn’t obnoxious enough, hook it up to the built-in auxiliary cord to ensure everyone can hear your favorite Taylor Swift song whether they want to or not!

Granted, having it pre-installed probably lowers the bar to use, but it’s not like it’s something fundamentally new.

The article from four days back that was submitted on here about the SR-71 being brought back, for context:

https://lemmy.today/post/60858103

I don’t use Mastodon, but I don’t know if it’s possible to do this particular combination:

without owning a domain

users on the local server should still be able to follow accounts on other Mastodon servers

Like, a client that supports having accounts on multiple Mastodon servers would work. Then they have a local account, and they have an unrelated account elsewhere on another Mastodon server and follow people using that, so that the “following” has nothing to do with your local server.

But if you want federated behavior, where a user connects to your server and has their account there tell the local Mastodon server to pull down posts from another users somewhere out on another Mastodon server, you might need to have a certificate on your server that other servers recognize as valid, which in practice would mean one signed by a public CA.

I don’t know for certain whether this is actually necessary, but I could believe that it is.

first Wi-Fi 8 router

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_8

The standard is projected to be finalized in May 2028.

Anything that anyone is selling now as being “Wi-Fi 8” is at best a guess as to what Wi-Fi 8 will be along with (hopefully) later firmware updates.

This is going to make life complicated for The Economist’s Big Mac Index.

Yeah, I’m sorry, but this is on the business. There are business-class services where you will pay to have someone available to talk to you and deal with your data integrity. Facebook is not that.

And this isn’t a “hate on Facebook” comment, either. I’d say exactly the same thing if someone set up a business on lemmy.today and then was outraged that the server had data loss and that the server admin wasn’t providing personalized human tech support. It’s not that lemmy.today is a bad service when used for its intended purpose, but that it’d be an extremely bad decision to make it your business’s identity.

If someone has irreplaceable photos (or any other data) that they absolutely cannot lose, sticking their sole copy on some free online service is a really bad decision.

EDIT: Actually, that is kind of a neat advantage of the Fediverse that I’d never really thought about. If there were enough demand, I’m sure that you could get a Threadiverse instance with that level of service for you. I know that there are at least two providers that I’ve seen that provide managed instance service, and while I don’t know what-all they include, and it’s probably not the most-extensive level of support, I bet at least backups are in there.

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You’re not gonna get much human time for $4/mo, but they do apparently offer custom packages, and I’d imagine that one could probably arrange for a higher level of service if one wanted.