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dragonsidedd

@dragonsidedd@sciencemastodon.com

Software Engineer by trade, scientist at heart, homeschooler of STEM.

As a kid I learned assembly language so I could make my TRS-80 Space Invaders program run faster. Now I am one of the army of people that make the Internet happen.

"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R. Buckminster Fuller

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kellogh, to rainbow
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the other day we had a in our front yard. absolutely crazy seeing a rainbow so close. oddly there was no pot of gold or unicorns. the 3yo was ultimately disappointed

dragonsidedd,
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@kellogh How do you know there weren’t? Proving negatives is tricky!

andrew, to github
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Reduced my thoughts on Copilot+ PC, as announced, to a piece for Forbes.

TLDR: Also we should think about compliance with things like subpoenas and how completely can anything ever be deleted with such a system.

The more I think about it, the less this seems like a well thought-out product for pros. Dreamed up by coders that already have had their life’s work sucked up by GPT through .

@law

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2024/05/22/copilot-pcs-could-be-a-privacy-nightmare-for-professionals/
https://esq.social/@andrew/112484905475208847

dragonsidedd,
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@andrew @law

Safety tip: Do not insert any part of into your AI Second Brain.

Think healthy, think privacy, think with open source!

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Like, I love the LoTR movies, even the Hobbit joints.
But show me the Black or PoC characters...where are they?

dragonsidedd,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 They are an allegory set in fantasy Medieval Central Europe.

One would expect Black characters there as much as one would expect White characters in fantasy Medieval Central Africa.

dragonsidedd,
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@mister_monster @fullmetalScience Consider standing up a Haveno test node!
https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/blob/master/docs/installing.md

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

dragonsidedd,
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@Edent

  1. Who actually takes phone calls from numbers we don't know? Mine go to VM.

  2. Banking apps? Not a good idea. Phones are too ripe an attack surface and banks too poor at IT.

dragonsidedd,
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@n3m37h @GregorTacTac number of transactions is largely unrelated to number of miners

wikicliff, to random

@mcc
Forgive me mcc, for I have sinned. I have invoked a regular expression (inside a regular expression (inside a regex (inside a regex))). Yes, 4 layers deep. In my defense, it was in a winning entry of the Obfuscated Perl contest, not production code.

dragonsidedd,
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@wikicliff @mcc I keep looking at the OP regex and wanting to somehow solve it by setting $/ to something really clever

dragonsidedd,
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@mcc @wikicliff Yes. That "language". We do not speak its name.

kellogh, to LLMs
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#LLMs aren’t AGI, and probably aren’t even much of a step toward it

but the proof isn’t, “because it’s just linear algebra”, “just logits”, or “just” anything. that’s like saying the brain can’t be intelligent because it’s just electrical modulation. or vortices are just swirling fluid.

all complex systems are simple if you break them down far enough

dragonsidedd,
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@leoncowle @kellogh "You know... it's all just ones and zeroes"

dragonsidedd,
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@prancing389 @SummerBreeze Abandoned in favor of more private/resilient options by privacy fetishists like many of us in the community. True.

But ... !

a) You'd be amazed how amazingly poor OpSec people have generally, and criminals in particular. A shocking number of public social media posts including the accused and the corpus delicti come up in court documents.

b) Signal is easier for my Mom than Matrix.

Making more privacy the default in more apps is an unmitigated Good Thing.

andycarolan, (edited ) to free
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dragonsidedd,
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@andycarolan

"Best Viewed With Any Browser", campaign from the first browser wars

arstechnica, to random
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Department of Energy’s plan to track Bitcoin mining put on hold by judge

The Department of Energy wants to know how 2% of the US's electricity is being used.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/department-of-energys-plan-to-track-bitcoin-mining-put-on-hold-by-judge/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

dragonsidedd,
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@arstechnica This is another reason why #Monero is what people thought #Bitcoin would be: Monero’s decentralized, individual CPU-based mining.

#decentralized and #uncensorable. Impossible to regulate. Impossible to govern except by consensus.

https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/releases

jeffgilchrist, (edited ) to random
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A great presentation with information all in one place - What people need to know about COVID in 2024. Originally designed for therapists but it has useful information for everyone ( https://covid-for-therapists.my.canva.site/ ).

MFT = Marriage & Family Therapist

dragonsidedd,
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@jeffgilchrist This is extremely useful.

Could you please clarify the sourcing? The only attribution is to "Olivia Belknap and Erin Batali MFT Trainees"; it's not immediately clear to me what "MFT" refers to. Did any specific academic or healthcare institution produce or review this?

A bullet point "Who are we?" would be very very useful.

dragonsidedd, to opensource
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7B parameters with context window up to 1M tokens (!)

Beautiful work.

“We fuse RingAttention with FlashAttention”, where RingAttention “leverages block-wise computation with sequence parallelism to theoretically extend to an infinite context, bounded only by the number of devices available.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08268v1

kellogh, to random
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the most fascinating part of identity politics is that “logic” can be an emotion

dragonsidedd,
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@kellogh Sometimes it’s not even that; it’s a Pythonesque “just a contradiction”

skaly, to random

The hate on Bluesky is on a completely different level. I'm Iraqi Moroccan Israeli Jewish and someone told me to get back to Brooklyn (where I have never been and have never known anyone in). Every single thing I say about my own family experience surviving the massacre is "debunked". You can't debunk my literal life experience lmao. I didn't say one word against Palestinians, I only said the victims of the massacre matter - this is literally all I've said, and I got neverending hate comments.

dragonsidedd,
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@skaly

Gargron, to random
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Watching old movies that were shot on actual film brings me so much joy now. Such beautiful colors. It’s downright relaxing. I’m tired of the over saturated digital look almost every new production has nowadays.

dragonsidedd,
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@Gargron So you're saying you want a "celluloid film" style transfer model... have you checked HuggingFace?

ZLabe, to climate

Our new publication is out in Earth's Future, which compares changes in summer temperatures across the USA between observations and climate model large ensembles using explainable machine learning...

#ClimateChange #MachineLearning #SciComm #OpenScience #Climate #DataViz

dragonsidedd,
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@ZLabe Thank you, that was a particularly nice summary

danilo, to random
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My first exposure to the mechanics of neoliberalism came in high school, when I sold consoles, phones, PDAs, cameras, and appliances for a certain blue and yellow retailer.

Managers would patrol the store with a little clipboard with hourly figures on how each department was succeeding, or not, at attaching high margin supplements to customer orders:

Cables, extended warranties, credit cards.

The store was brand new, with no baselines established. So a conspiracy emerged.

dragonsidedd,
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@dalias @glyph @danilo The concern I have with communism is what happens if I work really hard and want to keep more of what I earned than the guy that skated along?

dragonsidedd,
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@dalias @magitweeter @glyph @danilo I love what I do. I chose my vocation. I find it presumptuous and condescending — and terribly sad! — to assume one cannot love one’s work

dragonsidedd,
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@AlwaysTheir @XmrLovingAncap I do not have a degree in Economics. I used to self-describe as an Austrian. I heard and read a lot about it.

However, I have had to note, ~3 years, we had:
a) stay-at-home + money printing
b) war in Europe + supply chain insanity
which led to
c) big inflation
... which Austrians all predicted would happen.
BUT WE ALSO HAD:
d) the inflation fall back to ~2%
e) the economy surge forward

At this point, "Austrians" need to explain why their theory fails so hard, Sry

dragonsidedd,
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@tusker @WarmApplePieShrek There is no crypto that is a threat to Fiat.

Monero is a direct threat to surveillance

dragonsidedd,
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@stealths @User1 I don’t think any of us running nodes are going to stop because of what any particular corporation decides. We’re not running nodes to earn money.

dragonsidedd,
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@stealths I think Monero is the best available Internet Currency.

Speculating on currency is way, way outside my specialization and is not of personal interest.

As a software engineer, designing and deploying a currency that is conformant with the design principles of the Internet... is exactly my specialization and interest.

Viss, to random
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go to the cloud they said.
it'll be fine, they said.

dragonsidedd,
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@Viss #selfhosting and #opensource”, us curmudgeonly sysadmins said in response

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