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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...

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

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 🤓

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 generate from same length-controlling variable, control access with something which automatically appends or trims, or... idk

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 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.

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)

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/

cykonot,
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@StillIRise1963 I thought PACs weren't allowed to coordinate with candidates?

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

StillIRise1963, to random
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No birth control. No sex. EVER.

cykonot,
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@StillIRise1963 even birth control is not enough

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

davidzipper, to cars
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In Fast Company, I wrote about how wild it is that Ford, GM, and Stellantis no longer offer any sedan models in the US.

That's bad for Americans -- and it's risky for the Big Three.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91123174/detroit-killed-the-sedan-we-may-all-live-to-regret-it

#cars #SUVs #transportation

cykonot,
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@Slyence @davidzipper https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-loophole-that-supersized-cars/

We're all entitled to our own opinions, though some questions REALLY aren't opinion-based

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

sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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Hello Toronto - I'm giving a public talk there in 8 days. Want to hear me yell about satellites for an hour? Come say hi!

EDITED to add: Oops I didn't give image credit! The image in the poster was taken by Joshua Rozells, see APOD link: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html

cykonot,
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@sundogplanets >tfw 10,000 kilos of aluminum+etc starts burning up in the atmosphere every year in the 2030s
>tfw i recylce while elon pumps gallons hydrazine into the upper atmosphere
>tfw pollution starts slowing global warming while stripping away the ozone layer AGAIN

cykonot,
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@sundogplanets Cirrus blankeys + ozone hole?
Or sulfur particles with a reflective metallic core + soot + ozone hole?
Let's roll the dice 🙄🤡

For some reason, I feel like Elon could call this a free speech issue, and would not really be shocked if SCOTUS judged all pollution to be speech. Because, why not lol. Bribes are speech, CO2 can't be a pollutant, presidential immunity is real, etc.
Interesting times.
/Doomerism

cykonot,
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@sundogplanets dear god the 10k kilos i used was potentially multiple orders of magnitude too low 😨
https://spacenews.com/aerospace-agu-reentry-pollution/

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/united-methodist-church-votes-to-divest-from-israel-bonds/


@palestine @israel

cykonot,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel jihadi

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.

jonny, to random
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A future for the web is the radical idea that its bad to put all data in a single place owned by 3 companies and rented by a few hundred. The internet wasnt a mistake, the cloud was a mistake. Platforms were a mistake. A mistake where its not only possible but routine for "everyone's health data" to get stolen. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112341111375581551

I need to share my health data with like 3 people that arent me. Why on earth is that data in the same pile as literally everyone else's.

cykonot,
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@jonny companies are allergic to capital expenditures, and selling off your servers in exchange for a monthly fee can really make a quarter pop.

"We own nothing, we're so nimble. All we do is rent factories in China with guaranteed outputs. We're basically like any other incestment firm but we have a very special list of customers/suppliers and maybe some intellectual property, which is very real. Invest in us! Who needs a moat?"

jonny, (edited ) to random
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is occupying a floor of a neighboring building to surveil encampment - which explains choppers only in the morning and few drones: https://twitter.com/paularcurtis/status/1783659629249257549

update: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112340807050597038

cykonot,
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@jonny rant:
wtf do they think the kids are gonna DO?
Jfc these people are crazy...
So insecure with all the power because they know they dont have the people. They know how fragile their position is
And yet...

The revolution will not be televised, seize the means of communication (bye tiki talk), etc etc

So many warrantless taps etc used by municipal police. Just theater to justify their corrupt domination of local funds. If a mayor speaks out against dirty cops they all strike. Acab

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