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by woodrowbarlow 4mo ago
actually, it looks like this is happening inside Google right now. DeepMind workers are unionizing, and most of their demands revolve around ethical boundaries and the right to refuse to contribute based on ethical grounds.
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
it's an example of how a union can use collective financial power to fund the services they offer to their members. a software engineer's union could prioritize income insurance over retirement.
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
yes, true sometimes (not always). but if more people have access to a way to confidently say "no" (with protection behind them), then i think saying "no" would happen more often, by people who might've otherwise com
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
i don't believe that software development should require a license. imagine having to get board-licensed to download gcc; therein lies the death of free software and owning your devices.
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
are there examples of unions that have started around a focus on the ethics of the services they provide? unions traditionally start locally, around issues for which the locality is a hotspot, which is why they usually focus on pay and work
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
that's definitely a big question and i don't pretend to have enough expertise to answer fully; however, i will point to the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan which is (per Wikipedia[1]) "one of the world's largest inst
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
maybe, but the union could provide a lot of services to someone who loses their job this way (like income insurance and legal services) and could leverage collective power over companies that demonstrate a pattern of behavior.
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
i would love to have a software engineer's union, not so much to get better working conditions but to be able to say stuff like "i can't implement that unethical feature, it's against union rules and i'd lose my mem
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
ha, so you could run this on the server and send down a page with no javascript at all? (with, i assume, a static camera only.) that's fun. i mean, you could also just render the model to an image at that point, but still, this is neat
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
preach. and i want this to extend to phones too.
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
"a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a [legal] decision" in my observation: when humans are automated out of a process due to the human element being inconvenient, the perceived efficienc
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
they weren't expecting to receive attention out of the blue today. it seems rude to attack someone's engineering skills because an online profile is out of date.
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
am i understanding correctly that Docker Hub is inaccessible in Spain during football matches? do sports get bandwidth priority?
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
i mean, in git (on its own) you can use your email + GPG key across every repo as a universal ID. it's just that forges add an identity layer on top, too.
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by woodrowbarlow 5mo ago
forge "fragmentation" is a good thing. git was meant to be decentralized from the start. re-centralizing on a single provider would just repeat the github saga all over again.
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by woodrowbarlow 7mo ago
looks like it's a rust lib with a python wrapper. making a CLI tool should be just a few lines of code.
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by woodrowbarlow 8mo ago
gosh, the scene where he stumbles into the lecture hall, almost late, and then delivers a flawless retro-encapulator-esque pitch... that had me giddy.
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by woodrowbarlow 8mo ago
yeah there's some truth here. from what i understand, the radios that give the best "imaging" are also the least resilient for data -- you need basically line-of-sight. and 5G did have some optional ULF "add-ons" th
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by woodrowbarlow 8mo ago
the article is off-base with wifi. the real story is in 6G cellular. there is a working group at 3gpp, an EU-funded research group (6th sense, Open6GHub), universities (NCSU, Bristol), and many companies working very hard right now on propo
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by woodrowbarlow 9mo ago
you might appreciate "lena" by qntm: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by woodrowbarlow 9mo ago
well, sure, but RC2 was ten years later.
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by woodrowbarlow 9mo ago
RC2 had "exciting" menus? they looked like Windows 3.1... made me feel like i was using ancient accounting software. which was actually pretty fitting for the genre.
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by woodrowbarlow 9mo ago
huh, cool. what happens if you use vanilla-git to clone a repo that contains empty folders? and do forges like github display them properly?
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by woodrowbarlow 9mo ago
here's an example of how model censorship affects coding tasks: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603
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by woodrowbarlow 9mo ago
yikes
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by woodrowbarlow 9mo ago
uhhh... you're running generated code on your customers' PCs? what kind of sandboxing do you have?
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by woodrowbarlow 10mo ago
> what security researchers call a "Pickle Bomb." is anyone calling it that? to me, "pickle bomb" would imply abusing compression or serialization for a resource-exhaustion attack, a la zipbombs. "pickle bomb&quo
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by woodrowbarlow 10mo ago
this prevents claude from directly reading certain files, but doesn't prevent claude from running a command that dumps the file on stdout and then reading stdout... claude will just try to "cat" the file if it decides it want
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by woodrowbarlow 10mo ago
by putting secrets in your environment instead of in your files, and running AI tools in a dedicated environment that has its own set of limited and revocable secrets.
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by woodrowbarlow 11mo ago
the minisforum ms-r1 has the same SoC and supports UEFI

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