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by masswerk 3y ago
I was just mentioning this, because I had a personal email certificate back then (when this became an integrated option with the built-in Netscape Navigator email client and the like), and this was a rather convoluted process and it took ab
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by masswerk 3y ago
> There is no opportunity for websites to provide a message like “you have not registered yet, go here”. As I remember it, you had to buy a certificate from a CA and provide some real-world credentials along with this, and this wouldn&#x
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by masswerk 3y ago
An interesting detail is the substitute Lisa system font. (I'd conclude, this is either a handmade drawing, or a screenshot of a prototype before Apple settled on the final font. Maybe used as a comparison showing off the use of bitmap
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by masswerk 3y ago
Mind the substitute system font. This (img. 5) isn't just a screenshot from a real Lisa, but either a handmade drawing, or maybe some kind of emulation (which I deem rather unlikely), or a prototype image leaking from Apple.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Also, black & white chairs only (halftones, i.e. shades of grey, are ok, though)…
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by masswerk 4y ago
Well, nowadays, we may have another look at this. E.g., when it comes to Freud's interpretation of dreams, think of an embedded semantic field with some activation, probably in another dimensionality than that of the field itself, much
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by masswerk 4y ago
I guess, from a technical perspective, it should be pretty simple: if you can extract an image (or major features applicable for protection), the image is stored in the model. For this purpose, it's yet another compression algorithm. (
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that this about none of these. It is about what images mean to us, how we are accustomed to read them, and how this may be thus invalidated, or, even worse, how these simulacra may produce a false vector pointing towards us, including
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by masswerk 4y ago
However, for whatever reasons, we have decided that OTPs (as in TANs) are insecure. (Hint: 2FA is much easier and less costly to administrate.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, it's about the kind of fascination with an image that connects us to a greater narrative that is our identity. The notion that these generated images do fascinate, while connecting us to a non-existing narrative, is neither ou
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that this is about the public image. (They expressly state that it is not the historians, those with expertise in fine detail and congruence with out-of-frame context, who they are worried about. It just happens so that they have devot
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by masswerk 4y ago
I'd argue, their argument is that their skills will be now needed more than ever. But this isn't exactly about individual careers. It's more about identity (who are we, where do we come from, how do we know?) and the system e
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by masswerk 4y ago
But you recognize the difference in economic costs of forgery – and thus the probability of this happening?
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by masswerk 4y ago
> There will be value in curated data sets again, like we used to have with Encyclopedias. The problem being, we destroyed all the infrastructure around this and it will be hard to rebuild, lacking any underlying economy in the first pla
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by masswerk 4y ago
> Shane Balkowitsch is a wet plate collodion photographer. (…) His life’s work is “Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective” a journey to capture 1,000 Native Americans in the present day in the historic process.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that we made one-time pads (like TAN sheets) pretty much a thing of the past, in favor of 2FA…
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by masswerk 4y ago
I guess, there's still a use case for modal pop-ups, since they provide an ideal break point for considering, whether the piece in question is worthwhile your time or not. So, you may simply leave instead of bothering to operate the bu
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by masswerk 4y ago
For the actual article see: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/08/canadian-police-b...
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by masswerk 4y ago
Form factor and mobile devices aside (there are already plenty of good comments on that), I simply don't see any eligible programming language for this. I.e, something that can be learned in an afternoon or two, a single loop construct
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, many did try themselves at code, or, at least, attempted it to some degree. But, and this is a big but, I also think that there were very few finished programs to show for all these attempts. I'm much under the impression that
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by masswerk 4y ago
On the use Fraktur in general: It really seems to have taken off in the second half of the 19th century. In the Biedermeier era (roughly equivalent to Regency) it's predominantly Latin writing, both in books and hand written documents.
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by masswerk 4y ago
> Fraktur is now associated with the Nazis, who used it extensively in propaganda, going so far as to outfit government offices with Fraktur typewriters. Actually, Fraktur was banned in 1941 and the regime transitioned to Latin writing
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that we're are not, by any means, at any state of social interaction with LLMs. (Any such thing would be a mere hallucination on the user's side.) However, these are semantic fields, with whatever consequence comes with this.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Generally, don't start with the "ecrits" (writings), they are hermetic and you really have to have some head start on this. From the seminars, Livre XI, Les quatres concepts fondamentaux de le psychoanalyse (1964) may be a
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by masswerk 4y ago
Is it still Twitter? At this point (4 days into the logo change), I'd expected the company to have been renamed to Yapper…
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by masswerk 4y ago
Hum, > Tesla managers sometimes "would crack down on inappropriate sharing of images on public Mattermost channels since they claimed the practice violated company policy," Reuters wrote. somewhat implies that this has been a
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by masswerk 4y ago
Why not both? Things like philosophy or metapsychology tend to be prismatic, each framework comes with advantages and disadvantages and boundaries of its own. (A turn towards the dogmatic is something I'm pretty much expecting from the
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by masswerk 4y ago
> But Lacan? Well, if you're in need of an established theory of (semantically driven) talking machines and what derives from this, and what this may mean for us in terms of freedom, look no further.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Much of cognitive science reinvents wheels that had been established in the 1920s and 1930s already, namely in sociology of knowledge and related fields. fRMI actually often confirms what had been already observed in a psychoanalytic contex
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by masswerk 4y ago
"There is no Oedipus complex" is, using your own words, "fashionable nonsense". Of course there is a crucial conflict as we learn rules, and this establishes a universal foundation of ethics. And of course this takes pla

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