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Background in #Economics, #Gamedev, #Sustainability, #Design, #Science || Always keep learning || May be a wolf pup in disguise

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jonny, to random
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#UCLA students and workers have established another Palestinian solidarity encampment at Moore Hall/Kerchoff Patio on the day chancellor block is scheduled to tell Congress how he should have called the cops on the last one faster.

ammy,
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@jonny This makes me wonder if someone's ever tried making a live tracker that informs protesting group the staging location & force count which lets them re-locate faster than kettle/raid efforts.

ammy,
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@jonny Makes sense the whole platform brained approach would fail since it makes it easy for bad info (and bad actors) to muddle things.

Good point about the no faces aspect. That rules out random ideas like using a 360 cam on a balloon unless it does something fancy like edge computer vision without storing/sending images.

ammy, to random
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Funny thing about non-software companies exploring AI is how they're inadvertently re-inventing automation from eons past.

Them: We tried a GPT-clone where you have pre-saved prompts to make a proposal where you fill in the blanks of who the client is.

Me: May I introduce you to the wonders of a .DOTX with ancient arcane secrets such as DocProperties, Content Controls, and VB Macros.

dangoodin, to random

I'm still trying to understand how a pastime like the NFL (or the MLB or NBA, for that matter) can have such mainstream appeal, and yet be almost 100% male dominated. All male players, all male coaches, all male managers, all male refs, 90% on-camera commentators. And don't even get me started on all the douche bags who shoot off professional grade fireworks and do side shows with their over priced muscle cars because a team they have very little to do with, other than living in the same general region of the country, wins (or loses) a game.

ammy,
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@dangoodin According to link found in web search, 752 coaches.

So not even 2%.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/11/02/nfl-coaches-diversity-report-statistics-2023/71383386007/

soatok, to random
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Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It

I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, "Don't talk about work." Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I'm going to bend that rule for once. And most likely, only this one time. Why? Since I wrote a whole series about how to get into tech for as close to $0 as possible without prior experience…

http://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/

ammy,
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@soatok Another indicator that the "return to office" push is foolish is few if any companies also upgrade their ventilation with MERV-13 / HEPA filtration.

pyrex, (edited ) to random

One of the greatest threads ever written:

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/oxX69KFvsm4/m/etbBho-VBQAJ

If you're on the fence about reading the whole thing, at least get to (or skip to) Rachel McPherson's first reply. Her second reply is really long -- when she starts outright copypasting text, feel free to scroll down to Watson Ladd's reply below, which asks the questions we're all thinking.

Some technical background so you can understand it:

  • A CA (certificate authority) is a company that you hire as a website owner. They certify you as real and give you (metaphorically) a special signing pen for all your messages, so that people can't impersonate you and so that users can communicate with you privately.

  • This is a really big deal: an evil CA could sell off the ability to impersonate anyone and read their secret communications.

  • PGP and SMIME are systems intended to defeat email interception. If a document called your private key is leaked, then your PGP and SMIME messages can be read and forged. There is no technical reason that anyone else should have your private key.

  • hushmail and protonmail are anonymous mail services

  • "Obfuscation" is deliberate scrambling of code so that reverse engineers cannot understand it.

  • "Debug symbols" are information that is usually only included with software during the development process. This information is useful to people who want to figure out why it is broken.

  • "Dynamic DNS" is a system for assigning a stable public name like batsareamazing.example.com to an IP address that is frequently changing, like my laptop's. It is uncommon to have an HTTPS certificate for a dynamic DNS domain.

ammy,
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@pyrex It's funny how almost every bad faith argument of this kind involves a near-perfectly organized cabal of government, business and paid agents working in tandem and that they're the latest innocent target in the crosshairs instead of "the real bad actors."

pluralistic, to random
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Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. 40 years of declining worker power shattered the American Dream (TM), producing multiple generations whose children fared worse than their parents, cratering faith in institutions and hope for a better future.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norms-code-laws-markets

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ammy,
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@pluralistic And now California may be joining NY & NJ to set the next norm: Unemployment benefits for striking workers!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-strike-unemployment-18362892.php

pluralistic, to privacy
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raises some thorny, subtle and complex issues. It also raises some stupid-simple ones. The American industry's shell-game is founded on the deliberate confusion of the two, so that the most modest and sensible actions are posed as reductive, simplistic and unworkable.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

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ammy,
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@pluralistic Awesome to see more US citizen-focused agencies dig into their basements and realize they have a derelict mecha that just needs a pilot.

antiproton, to random

Unfortunately, we probably need a significant collapse in some part of the ecosystem in order to scare the population into doing the moon landing level of effort that's going to be required to rapidly fix us.

It shouldn't be this way, but there are so many science denying people who think they're god will save them and that all of it is fake.

We may need this to scare them into waking up

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests

ammy,
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@antiproton Pretty solid synopsis. Each of those reasons can be backed by multiple volumes of evidence explaining how to an exhausting degree.

I might add a nuance that the Greed is so structurally baked in, many individuals who try to change things from the inside fail. And that 1 and 3. And look now I'm beginning to digress into said volumes lol.

molly0xfff, to random
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criminal mastermind

ammy,
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@molly0xfff
Makes me wonder if there are historical cases where suspect asks the neighborhood "hey, where do you bury a body so nobody finds it?"

CareLevelZero, to random

Starting up posting here again is like an exercise in social recovery, both because I've been on Twitter for far too long and because I crunched for far too long.

Both have resulted in making me varying degrees of socially goddamn FERAL.

ammy,
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@eniko @CareLevelZero I ended up going to a few in-person events this year and the feral skittishness I feel is very real.

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