tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@knud
Is the difference between a mansplainer and a crank only the gender labels of the two interacting parties?
@renordquist @academicchatter
tobychev
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Really great (absolutely terrifying) research by plasma physicist @carlysagan is being highlighted today on https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=02&year=2024
Is there *anything* that tens of thousands of disposable satellites won't completely fuck up?
Satellite companies need to stop launching until they fund research on the upper atmosphere and magnetosphere(!) and show their plans are safe (which...is probably impossible since they aren't safe).
@vicgrinberg
(I wondered if you meant you didn't like the instance running beta features)
I couldn't find any other "official" channel, and since open source is at its core a developer philosophy I'm not surprised: open source projects tend to expect a substantial level of familiarity with development practices from those that address them directly.
Usually what exists is github and maybe some social media channel, and it takes a long time until a project develops enough formal structure that it creates some sort of public friendly feedback mechanism.
@vicgrinberg
If you mean the server admins they list an account and a contact email here:https://mastodon.social/about
Since dev happens on github I expect that is the most direct way to highlight your complaint to devs, but I've also seen people speaking directly to some of the more famous devs on masto, like Eugen. Not sure how well that works in practice.
(my wife tends to just make a new girhub account when she forgets the details to the old one)
@EuromaidanPress
Weird choice of colour scheme, usually red is bad.
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Really lovely how #censorship has been thriving in German institutions these last few months. Countless academics, writers and artists who have expressed solidarity with Palestine or dared to criticise Israel have had their contracts and engagements cancelled.
I hope one day there will be some realisation that this was deeply, deeply the wrong moral high horse to sit on.
@kaiarzheimer
Do you think this is portending a redistribution of the pure protest vote away from AfD leaving only the dedicated racists, or is it more likely to be a temporary setback?
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#Bard can now generate images. Attempts to make "safe" #AI continue to be both overreaching in their censorship and simultaneously porous and ineffective at reducing actual harm (e.g. the Swift images).
Making the AI print statements about the risks of bias and harm rather than responding to user requests is neither "safety" nor ethics. It's virtue signalling from a toaster.
The below prompts are in the same conversation, and were the only context in that conversation:
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"the U.S. has lost almost one-third of its newspapers and nearly two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005. The shocking decimation of the journalism industry has led to the proliferation of ever-expanding news deserts in which more than one half of American counties have little or no access to local news. And it will only get worse." https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/
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@danlyke Their iOS app seems a little more interesting, pulling text from other websites into a new page with answers, but it divorces everything from the original sources and makes it impossible to judge what is reliable, etc. From an information credibility perspective, this blind reliance on AI seems like a nightmare.
@philipncohen
Has the relative proportion of these groups changed significantly over the time period you show?
I'm thinking that if I were looking for someone to marry, I'm limited to the convenience sample of people immediately around me. Though with the advent of dating apps maybe prospectors in metro areas aren't supply limited?
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In the comments Andrew Gelman recommended I make the figure like this, which I have to admit is probably better.
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@Mabande
Jag vet inte, personskydd är inte direkt en ny uppgift för polisen, känns som de borde kunna lösa sånt.
Men att mota arga rop från Vetenskap och Folkbildning tillsammans med Skattebetalarnas förening, det tror jag inte ordningsmakten kan hantera.
Fast ska jag ärligt låter hela det här "möt dem där de är" tänket inte heller som något polisen som helhet förmår svälja...
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@Mabande
Med det sagt så är det nog inte så lätt att trolla fram en pålitlig exorcist som kan tåla skeptisk granskning i media och samtidigt övertyga offer om att medlingen med det övernaturliga var framgångsrik
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@Mabande
Det är ett intressant område du öppnar här, jag skulle säga att i grunden utgör ritualen en typ av hot, med den viktiga detaljen att den som är satt att verkställa är fysiskt onåbar.
I praktiken är det kanske inte så stor skillnad för den troende som utsatts mellan en förbannelse och ett hot om att någon säkerhetstjänst vill åt en.
Om vi använder Säpo scenariot som utgångspunkt kan vi översätta prästens exorcism till ett samtal med en tjänsteman för att bevisa oskuld, vilket för mig känns som en användbar omformulering.
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It's been ten years, so a short story about the "gotofail" bug.
Someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation.
I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.
They didn't know exactly what it was, just some vague details and the key point is that it allowed use of the real certificate.
This was enough for me to find the bug (yay open source), which would go on to be known as "gotofail", and produce a working exploit in less than a day.
The details were anonymously back channelled to Apple, who released a fix.
@matthew_d_green posted on Twitter about it, concerned by the Apple's vague release notes.
I used a burner phone to share the details with him anonymously.
Then everyone forgot about the whole thing because heartbleed.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
@janrosenow
What does "energy supply" mean? Not at all clear how that excludes new coal for example.
@Gurre
Fast Benkö skyller neddragningar på att inflationen är större än den fasta uppräkningen:
"Huvudorsaken är att inflationen urholkar anslagen snabbt vilket gör att kostnaderna ökar snabbare än anslagen räknas upp."
Det hade inte tv-avgiften automatiskt hanterat bättre eftersom dess storlek var fastställd i antal kron av lag (SFS 1984:41 §7). Möjligen hade regeringen i fallet med tv-avgift lättare ändrat dess storlek än de kan skjuta till extra pengar som det är nu, men det är svårt att se att SD alliansen skulle göra något sådant.
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/darfor-maste-sveriges-radio-spara-pengar
@ifixcoinops
How much is that in computer years?
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
