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cykonot

@cykonot@mas.to

Polyherbal cyberpolitics posting. Gay vegan living.

Avi is me in a hat and a short-sleeved flamingo-print button-up in a parking lot. I am mixed and 29 in the picture (30 now).

Background is a blooming palo verde bearing pendulous boughs laden with yellow blossoms almost completely obscuring the thin, skin-like green bark.

https://justmytoots.com/@cykonot@mas.to
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angiebaby, to random
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Joe Biden: "See? I can close the border, Republicans! You like this, huh? Huh? Please clap."

Donald Trump: "I will do mass deportations."

cykonot,
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@angiebaby Donnie won't even check ur papers 💀

cykonot, to random
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Ira glass:
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit...

futurebird, to random
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When I bought this titanium teapot as a gift to myself for finding a new job years ago I really felt bad about how much it cost— but I’ve decided it’s, in a way the ideal sort of expensive treat: absurdly durable, timeless, utilitarian, strange.

This one is going in my will. I hope someone takes it with them to space someday. (that is my new heirloom benchmark: how likely is this to be in the 1 ton allowance for those moving to the dyson swarm never to set foot on earth again?)

cykonot,
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@futurebird beautiful! Does it affect the flavor? Do you typically just use it for bright greens etc?

Here's one of my zisha pots 🤓

StillIRise1963, to random
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I’m the only person with a mask on in JFK. I shit you not.

cykonot,
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@StillIRise1963 people just don't care until they have to

jonny, (edited ) to random
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Dear computer friends - as information workers on strike at , im trying to think of some digital picketing strategies. Ways of incurring additional costs and disruptions to operation that are within the bounds of the law. One of the biggest levers we have is grading, and UCLA uses a fork (?) of Canvas (bruinlearn). Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to run up a cloud bill? Something along the lines of uploading enormous files to course pages, asking students to download a directory with millions of files as a .zip, that kinda thing. Something thats an arms length shy of CFAA but something that could let our students and remote colleagues help with the strike. Any ideas? Boosts welcome. (I do not speak for or represent UAW 4811 in any way as a rank and file member)

Edit: dm me for my signal if you are curious about such a topic and are not necessarily volunteering any information in the affirmative or negative

cykonot,
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@jonny the kali irc channel would be a good place to start /s

maybe the server automatically compresses certain types of data, and they didn't limit the compute / queue? Or takes some other automatic action that could be abused.

Edit: they probably dont charge for compute but that could affect availability? Idk good luck

cykonot,
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@jonny kali linux is for pentesting and stuff. They may give good advice, but once you begin exploring hacker IRCs you may be tempted to take extremely effective action.

The /s itself was sort of sarcastic? 😅

aral, to Israel
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How does genocide happen in 2024?

It doesn’t, of course. As Graeme Wood from The Atlantic explains, there are only tens of thousands of legally killed children, that’s all.

(Thanks, Graeme, we were all apparently very confused.)

See, y’all were getting worked up for nothing.

https://archive.is/sT6ne#selection-1057.275-1057.295

cykonot,
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@aral i will note, as many have before, that the holocaust was legal.

cykonot, to random
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HOAs should have residents, not owners, vote. All they do now is let landlords write laws.

HOA reform now! Let residents vote! LANDLORD'S Associations are some of the most antidemocratic legal institutions in America today.

jonny, to random
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what am i even reading.

https://json-schema.org/blog/posts/dynamicref-and-generics

cykonot,
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@jonny well, do you control array creation? That is more ellegant than access control if you dont have to write too much.

You could also duplicate arrays before any manipulations, and change the dupes in any necessary ways or generate new ones if they are not satisfactory.

Embed them in a higher dimensional object? (Again, at creation. Just an array with an extra dimension to pool all the squares of a given size)

Edit: I cannot imagine the use of breaking the highlighted rule? So maybe idk

cykonot,
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@jonny my initial experience with json was absolutely cursed, sorry I am not super familiar with the tools built into it. Maybe there's another js library that will help you?

(Pic makes sense wrt C structs)

cykonot,
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@jonny you could store the arrays in other arrays named for a given dimension

Honestly im not a json guy and was giving a language-agnostic answer. Apologies i could not help more.

Edit: I think dynamic generation or duplication>manipulation makes sense? But i do not know what your goal is.

SallyStrange, to random
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"Democrats need to--"

Bitch they WILL NOT. What do YOU need to do?

cykonot,
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@angiebaby @Aethelstan @SallyStrange calling out zionism or israel is almost officially hate speech :(

Not in my name

Dhmspector, to random
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I’ve been in this business, writing software professionally, since I started my first software business at 16 in high school an an Apple ][. That’s 45 fucking years. It would never occur to me to steal other people’s code, let alone their likenesses, voices, or art.

Just eject these thieving “AI” companies into the sun. These people, and the VCs that fund them, are a cancer on the software industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/ai-voice-clone-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE0.1KUx.2vYNvYuSXMmW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

cykonot,
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@Dhmspector

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

cykonot,
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@ben lawsuit! Lawsuit! Lawsuit!

"Terms can change without notice" etc clauses are often unenforceable.

People should class-action these predatory scrapers. I BET m$ has used data they did not have rights to for training. Errbody should sue. Sue sue sue. "AI" is the providence of mankind, not some rich douche

cykonot, to random
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With the passage of H.R. 6090 I, an ethnically Jewish American, am legally engaging in hate speech by criticizing the country of Israel.

This is not justice. This is a racist, ethnonationalist law and does NOT make Jewish people more safe.

cykonot, to music
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me when I'm simping

https://youtu.be/tJ90-9e5HwE?si=mikX1Brlm25g8h32

cykonot,
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Me when I'm having a mental breakdown

https://youtu.be/sO5APfKnR50?si=6ZmTJ6jEp7TYPRCI

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/kyle-rittenhouse-flees-university-of-memphis-stage-after-facing-off-with-booing-protesters

What is interesting is so many young white men believe they are entitled to respect by birthright, and when it doesn't go as expected, they act as if society has rejected them, and completely lose their shit. They think they have a right to violent behavior, because the world is so "unfair" Meanwhile, this is only a tiny taste of what minorities deal with every day.
In conclusion, dude you literally got away with murder, SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

cue cringey Joker meme

cykonot,
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@RickiTarr i would never put myself in the situation he put himself in. Partly cuz im not a psychopath, and partly because the police would do me like ol' yeller. there would be no trial y'all.

Even if the features were right, my politics are wrong; Trump ordered the assassination of Michael Reinoehl and NOTHING HAPPENED.

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-appears-to-admit-extrajudicial-killing-of-michael-reinoehl-was-planned/

yogthos, to technology
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In a twist of irony, US immigration policies have left China with the upper hand in 5G technology. Who knew denying a Caltech and MIT graduate a visa renewal could be such a game-changer?

#5G #technology #immigration

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/16/immigration-us-technology-companies-work-visas-china-talent-competition-universities/

cykonot,
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@yogthos maybe we should have actual immigrants instead of visa slaves? Like, visas are good for keeping down wages, but making them actual citizens would clearly be better for workers already here and the overall economy since they wouldn't build skills etc then leave.

Then again, these are the same people who decided to put all the factories in China because they hate the poors, so what do i know

Toastie, to Arizona
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The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in #Arizona. It's essential to #RenewableEnergy projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.

“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.

✍️ @siisiikostagner

#Indigenous #climate #JustTransition #GreenColonialism

https://grist.org/indigenous/the-massive-copper-mine-that-could-test-the-limits-of-religious-freedom/

cykonot,
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@Toastie @siisiikostagner wild that they frame what would be a private, profit-driven extractive effort as a way of fighting climate change / doing public good. Absurd, really

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    cykonot,
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    @DrALJONES we have repeatedly allowed them to kill citizens with no repercussions. Wonder what happens if they attack a US ship AGAIN, this time in an election year.

    God, i imagine trump would come out in support of it, while also saying it wouldn't happen to him. Just like with ukraine. Because of course.

    w7voa, to random
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    Jann Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine and was a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making comments that were seen as denigrating Black and female musicians. https://apnews.com/article/4052a04c35ce13cc2b17b5455ebe6883

    cykonot,
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    @w7voa i feel that his inability to identify with people in those categories is very much connected to his seeing them as inarticulate. Proper communication requires an absence of ego, especially with people who may bring foreign contexts and perspectives.

    It can't just be differences in vernacular. He confuses his failure to appreciate the meaning of what others say with their not saying anything of worth.

    A good interviewer brings out the best of their subjects, whatever communication style

    cykonot, to random
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    Physicists made quantum circuits where time effectively flows forwards and backwards at the same time. These findings and potential implications of quantum circuits using photons undergoing phase changes with indefinite causality and indefinite arrow of time are discussed.

    https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quantum-physicists-flipped-time-and-how-they-didnt-20230127/

    dangillmor, to random
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    Dear developers: I don't want to use your app on my phone. I want a mobile web version, and you can do that.

    Thanks kindly.

    cykonot,
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    @dangillmor can't wait for a website that asks for permission to view your texts instead of ads

    cykonot, to random
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    Imma go do my own research

    Gets fed dynamically generated deepfakes and does a coup

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