harryprayiv

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This looks really cool. I’m worried that people might call it a mixer, though.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

During the US Presidential election: Yes

Now? Not at all.

IMO, they thought they were helping keep the narrative about Kamala positive (and before her, they censored criticism of a man so clearly demented and being shoved down people’s throats that it was laughable) but in reality they were just enraging their allies, making them into lifelong enemies. You can never come back from giving up your integrity and dignity to genocidal corporatist demagogues no matter how bad Trump is.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 17 points 2 days ago

Maybe Coppola could have also invested some of that money toward honest people to tell him the truth about how fucking hokey and laughable what he was doing would OBJECTIVELY be seen as.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 5 points 6 days ago

Greed stems from fear if you really stop to think about it.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Those rules actually seemed pretty reasonable to me. Shitty, obvious uses of AI will obviously not win Oscars.

Ahh the great hivemind pendulum where if something is hyped and has some notable cons, it’s time to throw it away completely and resist it without prejudice.

This is happening with crypto too. To me, it just signals that a person is highly receptive to adopting whatever the hivemind tells them to think without question.

Obviously crypto and AI have some properties that make them utterly horrible (especially in the hands of bad people). But they also have some properties that have the capability to revolutionize or accomplish certain things like no other technology can.

No one seems to acknowledge this dichotomy when they’re unflinchingly under the influence of the hivemind. For example, I’m ~~100% positive that this comment will get downvoted heavily~~ pretty sure I’d be ratioed for saying this on Mastodon.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Utterly backwards.

This thinking actually leads to Elon Musk worship and the dehumanization (and eventual massacre) of poor people.

This is what the most depraved sociopaths believe. They constantly repeat this lie to themselves to excuse themselves for utterly monstrous deeds.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Almost every horrific thing that humans engage in stems from fear.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Good question: the reply below is corrrct. Build time.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago

They’ll only come home when the healthcare profiteering stops in the US and we all know thats about as likely as the US ever having a fair election.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago

This is the way. Prototype in a regular distro then lock it in with an immutable distro.

I did exactly this with my XMonad/polybar/rofi/dunst/alacritty configs which I now run on NixOS.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You have to be trolling.

You actually CAN tinker with atomic distros even more.

Immutable distros offer penalty-free tinkering because of the aforementioned atomicity and rollbacks. If I screw something up, I can just rollback the entire OS or whichever parts I want.

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 16 points 1 week ago

Better, more fair voting systems: https://www.starvoting.org/

Better programming languages beyond even Haskell and Rust: https://www.unison-lang.org/ or https://granule-project.github.io/granule.html

better social networks (the one we’re on)

better systems of government

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27903191

"I am back with another Calm Carving episode and this time, I carve a bulbous pouring vessel from some incredible black walnut. The walnut was sustainably storm felled from a local park, a few kilometres from there I live and is the perfect canvas for honing in on these techniques. This particular pouring vessel is the first 'final' from a design and concept period that I have been working towards and I am really happy with the shape. I made a few playful prototypes before getting to this final and I plucked elements that I liked from them to condense into this piece. I am looking forward to making more of these and producing a batch of them for a project that I will tell you more about in the future. The pieces will be 80ml, perfect for their intended use, but it means that I will have to make sure that each one is to size each time."

 

Along similar (and superior lines) to the recent post I made about a federated tracker.

 

A federated BitTorrent tracker

https://sciop.net/

This is a good start toward building a backup of archive.org’s cache in a way that is much more difficult for fascist regimes to target.

 

A new model to explain dark matter based on observations of a distant galaxy that is far more evolved than it should be according to the standard model at such a distance.

This makes me feel very insignificant. In very dense galaxies, imagine the evolutionary cycle of living beings with a quicker evolutionary timescale?

 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/24940344

EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications technician for AT&T, most of that in San Francisco. But he always had a strong sense of right and wrong and a commitment to privacy. Mark not only saw how it works, he had the documents to prove it. When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in spying inside the U.S., Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth about the program. And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF’s front door in early 2006 with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?”  We did. And what Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.

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