Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

@tshirtman @koyu@koyu.space It should be possible to allow customized infotainment software. In a properly designed car, the infotainment system should be isolated (aside from limited, hardened interfaces) from the software that controls the vital systems of the car anyway, since the infotainment system includes various RF interfaces to outside systems.

@Setok @masey @snazzyq This always makes me think of the movie "The Running Man", which included this car. And that was about a dystopian future.

@hyperplanes @jsrailton #USAA (credit union) has had app-based #2FA for a long time, although I'm not sure how easy it is to get around that via other account recovery mechanisms. Generally I agree with your point, though; banks tend to be terrible about offering non-phone-based 2FA. I'm interested to hear from others about banks that may have decent authentication options.

@mhoye I had similar feelings since the first Halo. I thought the levels and music were amazing, the game mechanics were good (if repetitive), and the story was mediocre (started out okay but as it progressed it seemed not very well thought out).

@baratunde I thought this Kurzgesagt video did a decent job of laying out many of the difficulties of long-term habitation on Mars, though it still seems to take the attitude that it would be worthwhile on a long enough time scale.
https://youtu.be/uqKGREZs6-w

@BartoszMilewski I know @seanmcarroll has talked about space as an emergent phenomenon that starts with underlying Hilbert space and then what we think of as spatial degrees of freedom are simply those variables in which interaction is "local" in the emergent dynamics. So that's sort of turning it around the other direction.

@john_philip_bell @dangoodin
I find this an amusing contrast because I was just looking at a Time article that @preskill posted yesterday (to criticize) that was on the other end of the hype spectrum. (The takes in this thread seem far more accurate to me, of course.). https://qubit-social.xyz/@preskill/109758337216775163

@SwiftOnSecurity Also, though I haven't followed it closely, I know that an effort called #UFoI has started to try to develop a more transparent, accountable process for making federation decisions among instances.
https://ufoi.org/

@SwiftOnSecurity I currently have an account on qoto.org, which seems to have been blocked by a number of instances and de-listed from joinmastodon.org for, as far as I can tell, unfounded or misplaced ideas that it allows hate speech. I have never seen anything I would even call intolerance on the local feed nor any evidence of the supposed transgressions. So I think your advice is badly needed.

@mhoye Or keep with French and call it sel sauvage, which sounds pretty dramatic.

@dmandl @Bman @lisabrawley Right. Any argument could be made in bad faith, but that doesn't mean it *is* being made in bad faith.

@JenLucPiquant If there's any more people around when the tour runs aground, and if you're still around, then we'll meet at the end of the tour

@filipw To be a bit more serious, I thought there was some ongoing debate about whether the Hilbert space of the Universe has finite or infinite dimension. I believe this has at least theoretical consequences for the late time state of the universe in cosmology, namely whether it actually settles to a steady state or you see Poincaré recurrences.

@filipw I think they prefer to call it renormalization. ;-)

@dpiponi @BartoszMilewski If we imagine, say, two non-relativistic massive charged particles having a collision, the interaction Hamiltonian is never strictly zero (assuming they've existed forever), but wouldn't the degree of entanglement be small until they have gotten somewhat close to one another (and the influence of the interaction Hamiltonian becomes large) with this entanglement then persisting afterward? In reality, with other environmental degrees of freedom being present (thermal photons, gas particles, etc.), it may be the case that there is significant decoherence that more strongly limits the degree of entanglement (in, say, positional degrees of freedom) except when they get close and the rate of entanglement generation overcomes the rate of decoherence to perhaps produce some non-negligible degree of entanglement. Depending on the details, this may then decohere again afterward leaving mostly just a correlated mixed state once you get far enough from the collision event.

@josemanuel To answer your question, that would be 100 zeptoseconds or 0.1 attoseconds.

@JoelMon @peterdutoit @roadskater Are any US federal agencies on the Fediverse yet? I would think that there might be a bunch of red tape issues: I believe usually government agencies are only supposed to use services that have gone through a specific (I think onerous) process called FedRamp, which entails some requirements on specific functionality. Also the issue of federation could be tricky for the government, as they are not supposed to show favoritism or promote certain viewpoints above others (the same reason why blocking people is fraught for government accounts).

@chrisp @lennyzeltser I always think of that line from Star Wars, "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."