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Shadytel aerial cable inspector. Searchable. ArchiveBot, Cryoflesh, AS398960. Parts 13, 97; 91 with instruments, 107. M.Sc., MBA. À bas le metaverse, pas de web3, milliardaires en enfer. He/they/that, bi, poly, various bird sounds. 🦢🏴🏳️‍🌈 🦀

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falcon, to random
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I hate when you have some VMs in Hyper-V for 2 years and you don't even remember they are running.

falcon, to random
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It's interesting that to buy stock in Equity Residential sufficient to pay you dividends that would cover rent on a given unit is around a 15% premium on what the reasonable market value of that unit would be.

ElleGray, to random
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who would you rather have at your author Q & A, a "this is more of a comment" person, or a bear

falcon,
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@ElleGray oh God, the bear please.

falcon, to random
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The local grocery store closed several months ago and now exists only in mind, but I still imagine going to specific aisles there when I am hungry.

alex, to random
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Testing propagation...

Sorry for the noise, but I just migrated my server and need to make sure folks are seeing my posts. Could the first person who sees this post reply to let me know? I'll delete it right afterward.

Thank you. Just totally normal social media things.

falcon,
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@alex beats trying to figure out if you're shadow banned though!

falcon, to random
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I used to wonder who the 500 or so people voting New Democrat in various Calgary ridings were during each conservative landslide (each riding was called individually; in those days people still mostly believed it was not a foregone conclusion). Now that I am one I have noticed that those people are basically my friends and our extended peer group, and that we would never be heard, and I left.

falcon, to random
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This apparently easy undergrad WGU course, C121 Survey of United States History, is stunningly painful having never taken US history in grade school.

18+ KatSteelwing, to random
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He has been here for like 10 minutes just watching me...
This would be a nightmare if I had anatidaephobia: the fear of being watched by a duck...

falcon,
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@KatSteelwing he is likely going to remind you to pay a bill.

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AI deployment in place of employment inevitably exerts downward pressure on wages. Which increases the profit margin for capital.

Much as prison is a discipline imposed by the capitalist state on the underclass, who in turn are used as a threat against the workers, so is AI being used as a discipline on the technoproletarian class—the knowledge workers.

falcon,
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@cstross I hazard that because it is so broadly ineffective at the tasks capital has set, workers will lose twice: once as you say, and once again as overall output declines.

falcon, to random
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No particular undeveloped technology is inevitable. Lots of things prove unworkable, or workable only in a form that is unrecognizable from today.

You know what is inevitable though? Your system that you built interacting with an unpredictable external environment.

Engineers do not get to wing it when there are stakeholders who didn't give informed consent to wing it.

falcon, to random
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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-owner-says-cars-self-driving-mode-fsd-train-crash-video-rcna153345

But!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332156993_Safety_Argument_Considerations_for_Public_Road_Testing_of_Autonomous_Vehicles

The fucking Valley of Degraded Supervision is not news. It was not news 5 years ago. There is no excuse or moral reason to ignore it.

And by the way, advancement out of that valley, especially with these systems, is absolutely not inevitable. It in fact looks increasingly uncertain.

But never let evidence get in the way of misanthropes and techno-optimists.

falcon,
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P.S., if you want to end the carnage of road deaths, and the environmental carnage of building and maintaining passenger cars? Build some fucking transit.

Autonomous systems essentially free from human factors errors already exist. In trains.

falcon,
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3 years ago I wrote my first master's thesis on basically the topic of how self driving cars as envisioned were somewhat impractical and vulnerable to maladaptive market-driven technology choices, how we were squandering and fragmenting useful aeronautical and vehicular enroute data and safety services, and on how blockchain did not substantially contribute to a solution in any of these areas. Fucking groundhog day.

falcon,
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You can read the stupid thing here if you must. Not really recommended; it's basically a position paper whereby Falcon has strong opinions on a variety of topics where uncontroversial and unremarkable evidence shows we collectively make poor decisions in this area of art, and Falcon also identifies that the problems are already solved and the solutions abandoned for no reason, and it's about as wordy, hastily written, and poorly-organized as this post. https://dtpr.lib.athabascau.ca/action/viewdtrdesc.php?cpk=0&id=50974

falcon, to random
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At the conference, "Universe of PCX 1700 PCX files" from the Internet Archive credited by the discoverers of the logofail EFI firmware security bug, via Alex Matrosov, because it was their only effective way to get a fuzzing corpus for the PCX parser in most EFI firmware. Bravo (and cc @textfiles).

falcon, to random
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Sitting in the workshop, "Towards Language-Theoretic Security for Dynamic Documents", Will Crichton and Shriram Krishnamurthi.

The authors are essentially proposing Android-style capabilities permissions with user prompts, except that you can mark individual classes as needing the capability. The point is to make rich documents without creating extra data flows, but it can be bypassed.

It does, however, pose a good threat model base for documents.

baldur, to random
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Ran across this on social media

"I just used ChatGPT to generate a 300 character regex for me, saved me an hour.

TBH if you aren’t using it that seems like a skill issue."

And it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say that “AI” tools are a fundamentally conservative force

falcon,
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@baldur right. Such a lengthy regex necessarily has a lot of marginal cases that need to be verified or at least tested. But the state of practice being what it is, I imagine the developer wrote (at best) some random accept-reject tests, and trusted that the LLM verified the regex.

Which is asking a lot of something that demonstrably lacks mathematical reasoning but oh well.

Making that verification cognizable to developers is a very hard problem which of course LLMs don't solve; it's new.

falcon, to random
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Capital is dumping its resources into AI because it believes it will advance capital's interests of further accumulation of labour's products. It does not matter in the short term that capital is sorely mistaken. Much like a bad king, capital's misallocation reduces output available to labour too (by preferentially allocating resources to those who participate in the squander). We will suffer this for so long as we permit capital to make macro allocative decisions.

falcon,
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Read this as advocacy for taking first-order account of the interests of stakeholders other than investors.

That probably looks like tax revenue funding open source, for example, without it being about defense or some objective beyond just making industry more efficient. Like any other project about maintaining the commons.

This isn't even so radical as expropriation. It's just recognition that the digital age made new types of public infrastructure.

falcon,
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The current all hands on deck for AI approach of capital is like if a 20th century property developer were able to allocate substantially all road building, electrification, and water piping resources to a new subdivision. Which they are sure people want to live in, but actually smells bad and is mostly built atop a landfill.

falcon,
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And that's the thing. If you end up with such a capitalist who makes wrong projections (technology will totally rise to the occasion and let us remediate the site in short order) and determines that is what we are all going to do, our choices are:

  • Participate in the squander
  • Collectively, by boycott, law, or tax, tell them what they may not do with their property.

For some reason the zeitgeist is convinced that the latter option is basically treason.

allen, to Seattle
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The board meeting with #SoundTransit on whether to continue considering Amazon and the Mayor's alternative proposal for #Seattle 's Ballard Link is happening tomorrow, May 23 2024, 1:30-4:00PM PT.

@ducksauz 's call to action:

https://snug.town/@ducksauz/112485377016797454

To participate and submit comments in person or electronically, see the following: https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/calendar/board-directors-meeting-2024-05-23

#Transit #Advocacy #Train #Subway

falcon,
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@allen @ducksauz I do believe I answered ST's survey about this many months ago, with something like "these options are negligibly different and any change along this axis is not worth the extended timeline".

falcon, to random
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  • angry bird noises *
falcon,
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@dr_a FAA medical.

When you see something online about the damage wrought by pilots avoiding doctors and therapists, this is the instrument.

And next time you see a "if you have any mental health issues at all you shouldn't be in charge of a plane full of people" shithead, think about how you have to report even a visit to get antibiotics here, or talk therapy for help adjusting to a change. Even that.

falcon,
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@dr_a Yes! It's also maddeningly tedious. It's taken me a couple hours to find all these records, and it's completely trivial things and negative tests.

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