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stalbaum

@stalbaum@mastodon.social

Artist, long engaged in the internet and technology in the landscape, networks and remote projects. Founding member Electronic Disturbance Theater 1.0 2.0 3.0. Teaching Professor of Visual Arts, teaching mostly history of computing in the arts, and technical topics in the ICAM major at UCSD such as electronics, making, parallel compute, "super computing", video walls, etc. Specialist in undergraduate education. Internet origin of leet $#!+

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ai6yr, to random

LOL they're still running this bit-o-publishing-sc.. (err... ego-boosting-cash-generating-business)

stalbaum,
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@ai6yr meh, would rather own real estate on mars, or a Scottish nobleperson title, or get a star named after me. All scams but at least a little more creative.

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Judge Howell, Politico reports, 'noted that [a] Trump adviser connected to his Save America PAC had acknowledged scanning the contents of the box that contained the classified materials in 2021 and storing them on a personal laptop provided by the PAC.’ “

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-adviser-scanned-and-saved-contents-of-box-that-had-classified-docs-report/

stalbaum,
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@StillIRise1963 already sold

ianRobinson, to random
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Would you let these Copilot+ Windows PCs into your business? History tells us that cyber criminals will find a way to breach security and access this Recall data. It has to be decrypted for the user to access it. And we all know that users accounts never get compromised. What could possibly go wrong? 🤦🏻‍♂️
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

stalbaum,
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@ianRobinson No, I would not. But they are going to come in, people I work with will use them, and thus we are all compromised. Just like we used to get spam just from being stored in a hacked relative's Outlook email address book. Except now it is all of your communications, data others hold about you. All to train the great AI. Maybe security by obscurity is better here on , just put the email pipe down.

Anyone have an email sig we can at least pre-shame people with?

stalbaum, to random
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If I am honest, Roger Corman is one of the most influential filmmakers on my current practice, which has nothing to do with cinema. But I got this idea of high impact, low cost from him! X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes is burned in my retina. I will not pluck it out. RIP, what a run. 1926-2024.

https://youtu.be/qXaGPc_vFSg?si=HwhokhIdDNjiPfEF

stalbaum, to Palestine
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I frequently disagree with Sal, prone to a particular kind of boomer militarist hardon that matches his shirt. But, I am always open to narrow expertise. Israel is blocking most transport from these other ports he mentioned. What do my libs of Mastodon think? Fwiw, the United States is spending down a lot of antiquated, broken down equipment, and the labor of Marines, to do this. What do the and and the other stans out there think of the Trident pier?

https://youtu.be/hfsZiR17sZU?si=pG8ngx5Y0l4vKKDG

stalbaum,
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@inquiline bc, into shipping...

stalbaum,
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@inquiline of course you follow him how silly of me!

stalbaum, to random
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Acknowledging the mutual will to between and is not any kind of It is just demonstrable historical fact. I'm going to stand over here and insist on Israel's right to exist, and Palestine's right to exist. If that makes me an outsider to those who want to fight and see entire peoples erased from the Earth, I'll take it with great pride.

stalbaum, to RaspberryPi
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The Golden era of Mini PCs - more powerful and often less $ than a - because we are in the tail end of 's monolithic die. Notice has no super value proposition low end chips to go into a ~$150ish mini! Why? Chiplets and fabrics. Intel missed this boat and when an i9 doesn't come out of the oven right they fuse off features and it becomes an i7, i5, i3, all the way down to the kind of amazing value n100 which you find in $120 PCs. Intel is onto chiplets now, era to end!

BruceMirken, to Columbia
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Honest question: Have or the administration provided evidence of the "outside agitators" they kept talking about last night?

stalbaum,
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@inquiline @BruceMirken same claim made as a statement of fact in an email from our chancellor, and my immediate thought was, if the tent city appeared just hours ago, how exactly is it we KNOW that?

impactology, to random
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People above 60 or with parents above 60, what makes you hopeful and excited about life right now?

What is something that makes you "un-jaded"

Something that helps you suspend the mixed feelings of defeatism, weariness, despair and disappointments and makes you pumped, even if for a temporary period.

What's something that has been a constant source of energy, drive and excitement in your 60+ years of routinized life

stalbaum,
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@impactology lacking the discipline to be routinized, I guess... I work at a research university and I think we are both very lucky and that all of my colleagues are addicted to the dopamine rush from new ideas and new research initiatives. So we get to pursue new things, invent, and make new programs and initiatives, often. I have seen other happy workplaces where freedom to initiate is built in somehow (Google's famous and now defunct 10% of time for passion projects) but that is sadly rare.

stalbaum,
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@impactology and I am sorry we are not doing better as societies at unlocking parts of the workday that might allow both more satisfaction and innovation or reflection. We don't take time to learn from the experience of everyone in an organization when 1) we don't care what the experience is and 2) when we don't give everyone some time to be creative. We leave cognitive assets on the table and reduce happiness. What are we thinking?

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Yikes, WhatsUp for disaster situational awareness in the Maui AAR. I guess no worse than Slack, but seems haphazard. Looks like they know that and are looking to improve all their tools. 😬

stalbaum,
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@ai6yr CALFIRE saved our little community in 2011. Yeah, start teaching amateur radio in schools again. Just a thought but having expensive centralized communication, and the now very affordable gear of enthusiast hertzian community gives you what they call defense in depth. Both/and, just saying!

stalbaum,
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@ai6yr I'ma get on the side of reading paper maps too. Doesn't even need electric on average half the day + moonlight.

stalbaum,
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@ai6yr you up on any 40 meter nets in CA? I'm in socal.

dangillmor, to random
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Why are so many (legal) drugs in short supply? Because a cartel of pharmaceutical middlemen have rigged the market to ensure shortages.

Monopolies/oligopolies are killing people, deliberately, and the law -- including the lawmakers in Congress -- keeps letting them get away with it.

https://prospect.org/health/2024-04-17-our-uniquely-american-drug-shortages/

stalbaum,
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@dangillmor capitalism (really all economic systems) start to fail when they become frauds, and collapse totally when they become death cults. Jim Jones. Idi Amin. Pol Pot. Soviet Union. Blink-182. MAGA. WE ARE ON THE PRECIPICE.

GottaLaff, to Idaho
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🤞🏼

Politico— Democrats are running candidates in every state legislative district for the first time in at least 30 years, seeing opportunity in an extreme GOP agenda.

stalbaum,
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@GottaLaff and we can both feel good about that, and disappointment that this otherwise weak, soft, appeasing, pos party did not wake up sooner. Both/and welcome to waking states.

stalbaum, to ai
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Writing in higher academics means more important than ever. We need careful and ethical thinkers, but they also need to be able to challenge conventions question knowledge. This is why I think that in terms of evaluation we don't need to worry about , s and the like of as much as we need to worry about how we teach. The models for how we might teach implied in this article leave me cold, in part because they are trying to preserve how we already teach.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/06/tech/teachers-grading-ai/index.html

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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One of my students has hit a wall trying to sign up for a Wikipedia account -- blocked (for no reason we can figure out) and then going in circles trying to get unblocked...

Update: After much difficulty, my student got her account signup to work. We're still not entirely clear why she was blocked, or why she was unblocked, but we're happy.

stalbaum,
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@dangillmor

paulgribble, to random
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Is it fine or is rude to ask in advance of applying for a position about what the compensation is? (Also would you ever even apply for a position in the absence of information about compensation?) OK I answered my own question. Welcome to academia.

stalbaum,
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@inquiline @paulgribble that is dark. Needs more legislation. (Publish the median, see I fixed it.)

stalbaum,
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@inquiline sign me up....actually as UC faculty (and staff, administration) our salaries are already public and we do sometimes get a thing at least called a cost of living raise. So I am signed up. And it is something I am proud of about the state of California.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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The recently discovered backdoor into the "xz" tool that's core to much modern computing is terrifying. Even though it was caught before widely deployed, the reality that a patient "bad actor" can insert malicious code into key open-source repositories -- a known possibility -- now becomes a looming reality.

See this report from @dangoodin at @arstechnica for some alarming details: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/

and this thread for grimmer perspective: https://federated.saagarjha.com/objects/1d3f8160-fa82-4834-ab79-319da4bc89f3

Corrected a spelling...

stalbaum,
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@dangillmor @dangoodin @arstechnica important - oh and there is some evidence of a new speed to match this careful slowness, AI auditing source and just being very persistent about finding cracks... For me all part of a looming

stalbaum, to wildflowers
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If you want to see in a place that is popping off right now, the Cactus Loop trail at Yaqui Wells in Anza Borrego State Park. All the cactus are blooming along with, not comprehensive: chuparosa, creosote, ocotillo, scorpion weed, brittlebush, Mexican poppies, innumerable belly flowers. Kind of everything from trees to bushes to the tinys. In nearby Earthquake Valley you have showy Eaton's Firecracker, a kind of pentstamon, Scores of hummingbirds wherever you go.

dangillmor, to random
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WordPress experts, can you tell me what this means (and what I should do about it)?

When testing the REST API, an error was encountered:

REST API Endpoint: https://dangillmor.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post?context=edit
REST API Response: (http_request_failed) cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

(Dashboard menu pages are horribly slow to load, and the site is anything but speedy as well.)

stalbaum,
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@dangillmor called a web service that did not respond... Just no answer. The service is down or non existent. Problems could range from a server down, software farts in some stack or even a bad url. Curl makes requests and receives files via http, much like you do with a web browser but between two programs.

stalbaum,
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@dangillmor I explain it to students like this:

Could contact the server and it responded but could not find what I was looking for:
https://google.com/my_file_my_file_not_there.html

This url points to no server, so 0 response.
http://wwe.wweisnotrealjustlikebirds.poop/

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