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ekis, 4 months ago

@br00t4c Oh god now them and lockheed martin? Only destroys 2 entirely separate ecosystems at once, while doing god knows what to all the neighboring cascading ecosystems.

But hey Dabeers is getting more diamonds off the sea floor than mining now; and if people start realizing taht building UAV to mine even small scale would not be impossible task. Also gotta make more weapons of course, priorities prioritizes. Lockheed have themself the go ahead, and while negotiations on regulation were@play

ekis, 5 months ago

@oblomov So quick to jump off 6.6.6

ekis, 5 months ago

@buttondown Mastodon implements ActivityPub as a {rails}/lib/* essentially where you store code very specific to your project or, more likely, code that has not yet been encapsulated into a Gem yet

Just moving Mastodon's AP client usage to a Gem. It would 1 step away from switching out the client with for example a compiled rust implementation instead of makeshift interpreted Ruby

I love Ruby, but its also important to understand how these systems work; the cost to instance operators is alot

ekis, 5 months ago

@RyunoKi @buttondown @helge Honestly both Django + Rails client would be better served using C, Rust, whatever is the most mature, stable and will guarantee feature parity b/c we dont want to cause any feature loss (One reason Iodine needs Puma stats like additions to it)

I have limited time but I could walk someone through converting sidekiq to just redis+rails workers. That + switching to iodine would be very significant for very little work. Will see statistical significant measurements

ekis, 5 months ago

@RyunoKi @buttondown @helge Those two changes and possibly the {rails}/lib/.* going into its own Gem package would mak a solid patch to help the majority of Mastodon instance operators which use the vanilla RoR Client.

Expecting them to all switch servers at this point that quickly is just not realistic, have to bridge the gap and make it easy.

ekis, 4 months ago

@RyunoKi To be clear it was pointed out that I correctly skimmed this lib folder for ActivityPub and confused a simple client for the AP daemon.

So not much at all would be gained besides simplification and easier future management.

But we want to save instance operators money, and like next week.

ekis, 5 months ago

@br00t4c I have a hard time believing anyone who even desires to get into that sort of position within the current system, its obviously quite revealing the character they have; they hang out with people like Jeffry Epstein.

In America we always like to summarize and event quickly as a single thing.

Like the pandemic is over

ekis, 5 months ago

@villares So its a 2D matrix rendering animation of 3D shape or are path tracing the 3D shape, and then redding it on a grid of reflective services? I like it. Good experiment.

ekis, 5 months ago

@augieray To be fair, all the facts says that too; just disproportionate US soft power that was capable of making anyone believe other ways. I mean every Democrat in the US believed in science until like within a week Biden called the pandemic over. Right after a Nature article said the estimates on deaths were not 6 million globally but 3 different models indicated off by an order of magnitude; 60 million globally dead

US solution was giving tons of money to intelligence agencies primarily

ekis, 5 months ago

@grrrr_shark Calling it "AI" is a very dangerous precedent to set. And really is just to inflate stock prices of tech companies that haven't produced any good tech. All of the core technology was developed open source, even stable difussion

ChatGPT is using what are called by scientists LLMs or Large Language Models, which is a type of NLP or Natural Language Processing. These are not even new algorithms

Its all hype; and the fact they are clearly creating private data sets bypassing captchas

ekis, 5 months ago

@grrrr_shark Newest advancement is their willingness to use things like ML, or machine learning, specifically TF, or TensorFlow to bypass mostly ReCaptcha and steal copyrighted material openly + everyone knows they are doing it + yet they don't get punished for it. Tech companies hold ˜80% of their value in intellectual property not hard assets

Enabling these companies by calling it "AI" makes politicians struggle to pass AI laws;

Just need 1 new law: transparent datasets; no private datasets

ekis, 5 months ago

@grrrr_shark One final point we need to be open and transparent for many reasons including the copyright theft which would shut 99% of these criminal companies down

But also b/c we can't peer review the datasets. And because of that:

"LLM models can reinforce a wide range of stereotypes, including those based on gender, ethnicity, age, nationality, religion, or occupation. This can lead to outputs that unfairly generalize or caricature groups of people, sometimes in harmful or derogatory ways"

ekis, 5 months ago

Framing it on a single molecule, like COˆ2, or much worse gas methane, makes it seem like capitalism can shuffle things around and fix this

But the truth is, capitalism is causing this; and we have no way of slowing it down, or shutting it down

Oh, and we can't model this; its not a simple problem like what happens when there X amount of methane or COˆ2 in the atmosphere. Its too complex

I'm just hoping to introduce a new phrase to replace #climatechange

Total cascading ecological collapse

ekis, 5 months ago

I really hate being the #doomer

That is not the role I want. But this kinda makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry; but I have no one to hold me 😭

But its quite possible we are about 1 year away from David Bowie's "Five Years" making complete sense and being entirely relevant.

David Bowie's Five Years Cover Art for Zigggy Stardust

ekis, 5 months ago

And to be clear this is not at all like science journalism.

This is not sensationalism, this is a realistic look at the state of our world, using scientific articles cited to support every point made. And the outcome of the review is an explanation of how the ecosystem is collapsing. Climate instability is a single factor.

The huge problem here is there are feedback loops that maintain niche for life, and these feedback loops that maintain our various ecosystems are falling apart quickly.

ekis, 5 months ago

@Greenseer Your prose; so good.

You are so right; we have a death drive, its so clear. Its like a gambler who loses so much money they eventually keep playing expecting and wanting to lose. Become addicted to losing

Like I went to UC Davis, supposedly a "smart" school concerned about ecology. But they used leaf blowers so often I'd call them collectively "big blowie". Those engines are contributing to the death drive and for what? To move leaves around? Its just psychotic

Death cult stuff

ekis, 5 months ago

an example

capacitors in microwaves can hold so much electricity they can literally kill you

but there are so many fucking interesting parts in a microwave, like a magnatron!

also capacitors that can hold enough #electricity to kill people can also be used for a lot of things like magnetizing a permanent magnet

microwaves are a key component in modern diamond manufacture, the new lab grown type

and useful to push forward #biology or #chemistry

but probably safest to buy a new one

ekis, 5 months ago

@jens The question about who controls the dividing lines is a very interesting topic on its own. Thanks for the name too

I agree with you on topical splinternets what I don't like is when I went to Istanbul they cut off twitter, so I went around with a sign in Turkish explaining how to switch DNS to bypass it (a lot of people did, I wasn't unique in this)

But now twitter just giving control of suppression directly to the Turkish gov.

I also really don't like music and culture to be divided

ekis, 5 months ago

@thepoliticalcat @Snowshadow @Ultraverified I don't hold old people responsible for the crimes committed by our government and plutocrats

Neither do people in other countries, because from the outside its clear we don't have a democracy and everyone outside considers the people good and the government bad; we just think we have democracy, but most people around the world realize we don't

Technically I'm a native american, I'm registered with a tribe. But even then I don't hold you responsible

ekis, 5 months ago

@thepoliticalcat @Lundemo @Ultraverified @ArtBear I agree, and my prose are bad, I'm a scientist, and generally have social anxiety and communicate poorly.

BUT I did use the word "Geritocracy" which means:

"A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population"

This would explicitly not include "all old people" like it was taken to mean. It would explicitly be talking about plutocrats and politicians

ekis, 5 months ago

@thepoliticalcat @Lundemo @Ultraverified @ArtBear I apologize if anyone took offense

And even more so for dragging out a conversation you were done with

But I really wanted to demonstrate how I did explicitly select a group of old people and was not being a bigot towards all old people using "geritocracy"

Im the weird kind of girl who has old men I check up on and hang out with because I love old people. Their vibe for me makes me feel safer and they have often more interesting things to say

ekis, 5 months ago

@thepoliticalcat @Snowshadow @Ultraverified I think that is totally fair; because there is no question I have benefited from their crimes

And its awful to know I have benefited from the crimes of my home country growing up in California. Where you regularly see slave labor in the fields picking our fruit, and I was alive and saw it first hand and directly benefited from it

I refuse to live in the US anymore because I dont want 50% of every tax to go to weapons and war. I pay taxes where I'm at