R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
@VirginiaEubanks @epicprivacy @shriramk I'm not accusing you of lynching, nor am I threatening you with lynching. I am saying that the rhetoric used in that article's title will predictably lead to the literal, lethal lynching of people like me.
Creating that threat is what is not OK. Pointing out the threat is OK.
@LovesTha Oh, uh, sorry, I got confused. I meant libotr. Libpurple is completely wrong.
@LovesTha Yes, libpurple. Probably something better now.
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@alcinnz @arstechnica Correction, I see that they also did a probe where the battery needed replacing, not just the audio-driver enablement test I first read about. And technicians routinely demanded passwords even for that.
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T. V. Raman: Announcing Emacspeak 57.0 (Tilden) https://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2022/11/announcing-emacspeak-570-tilden.html
@alcinnz @arstechnica There's no risk if you do your own repair, and the risks in this case would have been eliminated if the customer had removed the disk, though malicious repairpeople might try to backdoor your firmware. However, the "repair" wasn't a repair; was a software reconfiguration, so couldn't have been done without the disk.
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@VirginiaEubanks @epicprivacy @shriramk Am extremely uneasy with this demonization of "algorithms". Reminds me of ignorant people becoming distraught on learning they have "chemicals" in their bodies, that their house contains "atomic matter", that they have bacteria in their intestines, or that mobile phones emit "radiation".
Of course algorithms quietly run every government. That's why governments have been buying lots of computers since the 1950s: to run algorithms on them. That's all you can do with a computer!
How long until we hear of professors and grad students being lynched for working on developing type inference algorithms?
Is shameful to see this kind of rhetoric in a Wired article, and is shameful to see people who should know better endorsing it.
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I appreciate how they didn't go the route of "make the nazis hyper-competent in order to make them more intimidating" because:
1. Actual fascist governments & militaries tend to be ineffectual due to rampant corruption & the nazis were no exception -- when competence is trumped by loyalty, ass-lickers rise to the top
2. The image of hypercompetence was a big PR thing
3. The regular nazis don't need to be intimidating because there are nazi werewolves coming
@VirginiaEubanks @epicprivacy @shriramk Am extremely uneasy with this demonization of "algorithms". Reminds me of ignorant people becoming distraught on learning they have "chemicals" in their bodies, that their house contains "atomic matter", that they have bacteria in their intestines, or that mobile phones emit "radiation".
Of course algorithms quietly run every government. That's why governments have been buying lots of computers since the 1950s: to run algorithms on them. That's all you can do with a computer!
How long until we hear of professors and grad students being lynched for working on developing type inference algorithms?
Is shameful to see this kind of rhetoric in a Wired article, and is shameful to see people who should know better endorsing it.
@arstechnica Take your hard disk out first (and hope they don't backdoor your firmware)
@lxo Strict instance rules against endorsing hate
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Twitter, Musk
@allenholub Curbing aggression is a losing battle on Twitter. Is a trolling platform; Twitter success is measured by how many people you provoke strong reactions from. For motivation, you see your trolling score update in real time, and you get a metrics display to help you analyze how many people each Tweet goaded into detectable reactions. You can put videos or photos in Tweets (great for emotional manipulation) but not code, equations, or more than 60 words of actual reasoning, not even a 100-word abstract. Is optimized for quick reactions; nobody can see what you tweeted last month unless is linked.
Possible Musk will try to change this, but not likely; more probable to go the other direction.
Twitter, Musk
@allenholub Curbing aggression is a losing battle on Twitter. Is a trolling platform; Twitter success is measured by how many people you provoke strong reactions from. For motivation, you see your trolling score update in real time, and you get a metrics display to help you analyze how many people each Tweet goaded into detectable reactions. You can put videos or photos in Tweets (great for emotional manipulation) but not code, equations, or more than 60 words of actual reasoning, not even a 100-word abstract. Is optimized for quick reactions; nobody can see what you tweeted last month unless is linked.
Possible Musk will try to change this, but not likely; more probable to go the other direction.
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One thing that’s a bit of a hassle with Mastodon is that you can’t immediately follow people on other instances.
You have to copy the username and search for it on the server that has your account.
To make this easier, I’ve created a little bookmarklet. Press it, and you’ll be taken to the same account as viewed from the masto host you are on.
GitHub Gist: https://gist.github.com/bramus/d8bce55dab1881cde18aa2169c66ac33
(Change the value of `MY_MASTO_HOST` in the code to your mastodon host –not URL– and you’re good to go)
@allenholub Twitter has been super aggressive since about 2014.
@publicvoit Oh, I misunderstood this to be saying that you created a Mastodon *feature* already in 2017. How long did it take you to finish implementing the feature?
@sibbo CC-NC explicitly permits attaching advertising
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hi let's do an #introduction . i'm fbz. i am a hardware hacker (firmware, embedded, actual physical beeping with a multimeter and air wires and unsanctioned upgrades, etc). i love ham radio, 73's de K7FP. i love textiles especially knitting (i used to have an industrial knitting machine). i have two small kiddos and i don't sleep much right now. i love all things spaaaaaaace especially spacecraft and launches. i speak English, Français, und Deutsch. i'm studying for my OSCP. recently i've gotten into WS2811 holiday light shows and custom built outdoor animatronics.
@fbz Your work with the knitting machines inspires me much.
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
