R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en

Famous architect treehouses.

1. Eames

@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.

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

@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.

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)

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.

#TypedRacket has just got way more powerful. The following code gets typechecked as is:

(: eval-with (All (a) (-> (VariableMapping a) Any AnyValues))) (define (eval-with ht expr) (parameterize ([current-namespace (make-base-namespace)]) (for ([(x val) (in-hash ht)]) (namespace-set-variable-value! x val)) (eval expr)))

Six months ago I spent a couple days trying to get eval-with to typecheck, only to get the answer on the mailing list that Typed Racket couldn’t do that. Well now not only can it do this, it also has dependent types!

I’m extremely excited 😍

cozy in a mac rom scarf. specifically this is a slice of the ROM from a Macintosh IIsi. here's how it was made. i used @th 's script https://github.com/osresearch/prom/blob/master/hex2png and the mac roms on archive dot org https://archive.org/details/mac_rom_archive_-_as_of_8-19-2011

if you have ImageMagick already installed:

$ perl hex2png.pl -y 1280 -w 32 mac_rom_archive_-_as_of_8-19-2011/36B7FB6C\ -\ Mac\ IIsi.ROM \ | convert - maciisi.png

Then a slice four columns wide was taken of the resulting image and knit into a scarf. The scarf is 1280 pixels/knit stitches long and therefore wraps natively in the columns of the scarf. if you want to make your own, you'll need a hacked consumer knitting machine or an industrial knitting machine or someone with a setup to machine knit it for you.

Absolutely incredible that large groups of people have decided to spend their time hating on:
1) making sure your charitable giving is doing the most good possible, and
2) extending the number of healthy years of life

well, there is that, but really, if there might exist facts that would make one think an action one is considering taking that would cause irreparable harm if it turned out to be wrong, maybe you shouldn't take that action before checking the facts very very thoroughly. I find people often react to accusations by assuming the accused is deserving of punishment, as if being accused was proof of wrongdoing. malicious players have found this to be easily exploitable.

I just set up my own #invidious instance! It was easy.

https://invidious.lucci.xyz

1/7 With all the talk about moderation on mastodon, most of the discussions I’ve seen have centered on the work and experiences of paid commercial content moderators. But volunteer community moderators have done this work for a long time! I’m going to share some of my favorite papers about the experiences of community content moderators. Apologies to the authors if you’re on Mastodon and I didn’t tag you! And please share your favorites!

Weeknotes: Implementing a write API, Mastodon distractions - Simon Willison: http://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/23/weeknotes/#atom-everything

Eric Schlaepfer and @oskay 's book "Open Circuits' is a masterpiece. It makes me want to cut open every electronic device in my house to look inside. Helpfully, though, it solves the same problem it creates, because they already did this for me. My electronics are safe ... well, at least from the cutting wheel. Most of them. For now.

JOURNALIST WHO IS ON THE COMPLEX BANK FRAUD TRANSACTIONS BEAT: How masotodon work? How set up account? What instance mean?

It seems that the alleged shooter of #clubq is non binary. That would make the hypothesis of hate crime even more bizzare. Anyway I hope they will cripple in jail where they belong #coloradosprings

@freemo @radehi

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@mathlover Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see failwhales, maybe even for several days running. But remember that failwhales were common ten years ago, and Twitter kept growing. What fraction of Twitter's quarter billion users will abandon it forever if goes failwhale for a solid week in December? Surely less than half.

I think Musk's objective with Twitter is, as he declared in the TED interview, not financial. He'd previously declared an intention to start up his own press enterprise to compensate for what he saw as the bias of existing USA press outlets. (That's when the USA press started really going after him.)

Eventually he didn't have to start his own press enterprise; bought Twitter instead. Is Musk's tool for reshaping discourse in his favor. That will still work with only 100 million or 50 million users. Of course, better if doesn't lose too much money, but controlling memespace is key to controlling outer space.

Whatever I think about Trump, his politics, Jan 6 — I have opinions, everybody has opinions, I wrote a book if you want to read it — is not really the point here. It’s what the decision to me says about what the business model of Twitter is.

Twitter works as a business, if it does, by engaging you. And often, it engages you by inciting emotion. Largely negative emotions. Anxiety, anger, FOMO, outrage, contempt, glee. 2/