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by imglorp 2mo ago
At $work, r&d once had a retreat with a consultant to discuss why our productivity was too low per some spreadsheet. The consultant was told how everyone is in meetings all day so we all stole time from our families at night to get any
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by imglorp 2mo ago
Don't corporate profits depend on the 99% (the poors) spending? If the consumers fail, and stop spending, how long before the corporations feel mildly inconvenienced?
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Translation: they won't let us build datcenters on land because we screw things up too much there. And we can't afford space. So we'll do it at sea where we can run all the gas turbines we want and wreck the Earth from there.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
That's the argument we heard back then too. Smoker's rights to spray cancer to everyone around them. Drinker's rights to smash innocents on the roadways. In reality, the tobacco and alcohol industries lobbied hard to protect
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by imglorp 3mo ago
For a while, we had tons of alcohol and cigarette ads. At some point they were both deemed catastrophically harmful to society. Maybe prediction markets end up there?
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by imglorp 3mo ago
In phone terms, that's the $5 wrench problem. The elaborate tech is not relevant if you can be simply coerced somehow to bypass it. Again in phone terms, maybe bring a blank phone through that border.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Egress costs money.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Even if you fix this one, how do you know if you got all of them? How do you know they won't add more another time in some quiet patch? Just stop already, you are in an abusive relationship. Get out. Remove windows. It's not your
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by imglorp 3mo ago
"Do you consider your position so weak that it cannot withstand debate?" -- Data, STNG They're afraid of people communicating. That's not a safety thing.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Arithmetic and symbolic math are not the same skills. Anyway it seems to have gotten past its Dyscalculia. > what is 126347832164398 * 127430123748901234 > Compute large integer multiplication precisely 16,100,519,888,114,640,782,096
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Yeah it was Arnie's line briefing Linda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQsG3TKQ0I
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by imglorp 3mo ago
I miss DJs with taste and encyclopedic knowledge of their music would challenge their listeners, educate them, expose them to new things. Variations on themes, new artists, connections with old ones. Now, I guess they read the blurb and hit
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by imglorp 3mo ago
It might make more sense to embed the encrypted volume in some generic USB device. Require some condition to be true before the volume appears to the host, otherwise it's doing power or camera stuff. A drive would draw more scrutiny th
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by imglorp 3mo ago
They are trying to confuse voter fraud with election fraud so they can justify ICE election interference in November. There are only a small handful of voter fraud cases per year: someone tried to vote for a dead relative or whatever. Nev
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Kurt Vonnegut advocated for writers to throw away the first chapter of their book. He liked to drop the reader into the thick of it immediately.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
There are several cycles that bring tech ideas in and out of fashion because of market conditions, intersecting tech cycles, other implications of Moore's Law, or whatever. Another trend, for example, might be centralized vs distribute
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Today I learned you can use generic GPIO PWM to fake an analog voltage. https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Appnotes/90003250A.pd...
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by imglorp 3mo ago
I'm hoping someday this will go the same way as other companies trying to redefine "unlimited", "free", or "lifetime". I hope lawyers reclaim "buy", "own", and "purchase" from
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by imglorp 3mo ago
This is exactly why Unix PATH (and offspring) does not contain "." by default. If you unpack an untrusted archive and run "ls" you could get popped. Agents should be no different.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Previous generation lefties were often pressured to use their right hand and corrected against their protests. I wonder if it was less conformity and more practicality for fountain pens.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Those might be called "Field Application Engineers" in some places.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Is infinite scroll really the problem or is it really the whole malicious toolbox and intention of "maximizing engagement"?
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by imglorp 3mo ago
We use SPIFFE/SPIRE at work. It works well for our use case, remote embedded workflows that need to phone home. It's very exacting: everything must be exactly right for the attestation to succeed. So it takes extra effort when yo
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by imglorp 3mo ago
The difference is the Ian Loop is adjustable.
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by imglorp 3mo ago
The Ashley Book of Knots has 3857 numbered entries. Each is suited to specific requirements. Some are just fun or decorative. It can be a hobby to learn more. Domain people might have a dozen knots to get their job done. I just took a swift
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Sort of - it's collective wrongdoing. Individuals on the street do not do this to each other. Individuals in groups justify their tiny contribution as insignificant towards the aggregate societal harm the organism does. Leaders like Zu
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Meta is a symptom; the whole business is rotten. We've all heard the vocabulary: engagement maximization, a/b testing, emotional targeting, ad auctions, user surveillance, sentiment analysis. Children are not emotionally or intell
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Hrm, it sounds like they're managing their liability. Anything that might get them sued later?
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Wait, so instead of saying "I'm sorry Dave, I can't talk about that", they're now banning you for one blocked prompt? Is this new?
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by imglorp 3mo ago
Who would sue, and on what ground? They basically gave stuff away for free and now they're speed-running enshittification. The end state will be an abusive, adversarial, fully monetized, vendor lockin experience like Oracle or Broadcom

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