robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
@jahtnamas It seems to me that sometimes it's rather "it sucks that you want to insulate yourself from people who don't want to insulate themselves from all sorts of assholes" (when instances choose to suspend instances because they don't suspend other instances).
If you have a pointer at description of why an instance would wish to suspend (and not e.g. silence) an instance in those kinds of situations, I'd be very obliged.
Anything other than posting to my outbox (so, at least all the other options you get when you create a text post, though IIRC some sensible and feasible options are missing there, too).
I don't support modifying messages that an instance's users intend to publish and pretending that they come from those users, or modifying the messages that an instance's users see without their knowledge. I support suggesting that users change their links to point at alternative YT frontends, offering an easy option to do so (e.g. a dialog when submitting a post that would ask whether you want them to be so modified), and offering an option to your users to see links modified in such a way when reading posts.
A boost is just an ActivityPub Announce message; there's nothing that forces the message to be public. Why does Mastodon's UI not allow me to boost messages privately?
@kuba To wygląda na beznadziejnie niekompletny skład (niezależne od tego czy ten sos jest ostry czy nie).
How do these lenses change their focal distance? I could only find a vague description ("a slider pushes fluid around") with a quick Google search. I assume there are two pieces of plastic and fluid inbetween, but don't know whether the shape is adjusted by increasing/decreasing the pressure of the fluid, or whether it's done by applying force to one of the pieces of plastic directly, or maybe in some other way?
robryk
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Autofocus glasses!
What with the inexorable march of time etc, I find it harder to change focus from near to far.
These glasses have refocusable lenses (from some horrible cheap dial-eye specs), a couple of little linear servos to drive them, and a couple of endoscope camera modules to track my eyes.
The focus is adjusted based on where my eyes are converging.
If you don't trust the entities that hold valid (according to your browser) TLS keys for the domain that provides the software, then you can't do anything: whoever provides the software can start providing software that does something different than you want it to do.
If you do trust any entity that holds valid TLS keys for some domain, then you can have javascript provided by that domain use normal localStorage (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API). localStorage is bound to origin: i.e. the browser will allow code that executes in context of a page to access localStorage for that page's origin and no other (by "origin" I mean essentially the domain: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Origin).
Possibly trivial: do we know of a group (well, family of groups indexed by the security parameter) where the group operation can be computed in PPT, but you can't invert an element with a nonnegligible chance of success in PPT? What if I also want a PPT algorithm for picking an element of the group uniformly at random?
I can't seem to find an example of such a group. At the same time, I'm pretty convinced that any algorithms that operate on group elements as black boxes can't do inversion using only group operation, comparison for equality, and choose-a-random-element even on cyclic groups (and, I think, even if we also give them an operation that takes group element g and provides a pair (a,b) s.t. a+b=g, a!=e, b!=e that was chosen uniformly at random from all such pairs).
@octopus So ability to swim is part of intellectual competence? Or lack of fear of heights (it affects whether you'll be a successful alpinist)? Or (lack of) claustrophobia? Or body weight? I don't think that definition says what the author intended: it doesn't really constrain the traits to ones that have anything to do with intellect.
@Hyolobrika@mstdn.io On one hand, it's not only the people who fight in the war who are affected by it.
On another, what do you do with people who are not fit to be a soldier but have voting rights? What about people who are already soldiers or reserve soldiers (~2M in the USA); I presume it would be a noop for them.
We were very rash. We did send the cake. Someone ate it. Ten minutes later, the cake disappeared: but the cake was at that point distributed around that person (some of it in the stomach, some absorbed into blood). Thankfully, the poor chap fully recovered.
@grzgrz Mam wrażenie, że zakres niewerbalnej ekspresji w tekście jest znacznie większy niż autorka sugeruje. W szczególności przywoływanie ograniczonej liczby emotikonów ma wersję symetryczną w rozmowie osobistej: jest ograniczona liczba np. rozróżnialnych wyrazów twarzy.
W moim dzieciństwie i gdy byłem nastolatkiem bardzo często rozmawiałem z przyjaciółmi prez tekst (mailem, ytalkiem, później przez gg); niektórych z nich widywałem na żywo często, niektórych kilka razy do roku. Miałem wówczas bardzo silne wrażenie tego, że dobrze się rozumiemy podczas rozmów. Każdy miał swój sposób pisania (widoczny w szczególności w czymś typu ytalk, gdzie rozmówca widzi każdy znak od razu), swoją manierę w zakresie używania kapitalizacji (i jej znaczenia), doboru słów, używania onomatopeji, znaczenia interpunkcji, etc.
Oczywiście takich interacji nie da się mieć z nieznajomymi, ale z nieznajomymi interakcja twarzą w twarz też są pozbawione głębi, używające raptem kilku wyrazów twarzy w bardzo stereotypowe sposoby (np. uśmiech jako analogiczny znak braku złych intencji), etc.
long, probably infeasible, babbling
@autumnal
Plant[1] behaviour is IRL usually caused by local application of same simple ruleset everywhere. This should make significant fraction of what you are thinking about not that complicated (but possibly still hard). Those rules can then be subject to inheritance and mutation.
Now that I think of this, this reminds me of framsticks and in general of the whole artificial life game genre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life#Notable_simulators). You want something closer to real life than most of those things, though.
@unperson Does any of you know why all those admins considered silencing to be insufficient? I feel like I'm not getting some weird edge case that makes silencing not effective at whatever they want to achieve (I do not believe they want to prevent their users from explicitly following someone from qoto, which is what suspending does, so I think they don't have a tool they'd want to have.)
@kuba Mastodon has per-user RSS feeds (for public posts). I wonder if:
a) it would make sense to add per-thread RSS feeds,
b) you'd find them useful, given the limitations (need to use an RSS reader, only public posts)
@rysiek@mastodon.technology
@moonbolt The complaints I saw had ~nothing to do with how complicated building is, but with things like dependencies between packages from language-specific pms and distro pm, different expectations on the number of eyes that have glanced at the new version before it's considered canonical, and lack of ability to "just update everything in my system".
If you'd be using them just for dev environments, then the last point is irrelevant, and the first one is much weaker.
@neauoire What language is that? It doesn't look like the Tandem Corp thing, and I can't find anything else that uses .tal as an extension.
@Ganderonus O, nawet do rzeczy pokrytych kamieniem? Jeśli tak, to co jest w twoim płynie do szyb (moim płynem który jest jakimś alkoholem mycie szyb z kamienia jest ~niemożliwe)?
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
