jarfil

@jarfil@beehaw.org

Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

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jarfil,

How were they supposed to test any of it, without releasing it to testers? Recall is an “Insider Preview” feature, it’s nowhere close to a final feature.

jarfil,

Simple explanation: 21st century tech.

A palm sized quadcopter, has more sensors and processing power, than many 20th century rockets.

SpaceX can afford to build dozens of (relatively) cheap prototypes, fill them with all kinds of sensors, hook them up to StarLink, and gather massive amounts of real-world data instead of some make-believe simulations, even when the rocket turns into thin dust. No video or flight recorders required.

For this latest flight 4, keep in mind that the damage to the flap would have thrown any simulation-based and verified flight computer program into the ground… but whatever they used, managed to adapt, compensate, and essentially land a rocket that was falling apart… all the while streaming live video and telemetry.

In software, a problem once solved is gone forever

That is not correct, and why having tests to detect regressions is important.

Not sure how much “technical debt” SpaceX might be incurring, but my guess is that each of these flights is providing massive amounts of data to plug into simulations of future designs, which might be more valuable than having a single “meticulous design” that would fail spectacularly if something like a rubber seal were to get too cold the night before.

jarfil,

Last time SWIM used a patcher, it came with a malware dropper. Is that still how this “free” works?

Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)

At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....

jarfil,

Software gets used for purpose not as initially intended… surprises no one.

jarfil,

𝑅 ⊃ Intended ⊃ Advertised ⊃ What people thought

jarfil,

I was under the impression they sold to any LEO not on a sanctions list, no bidding required.

Randim bidders probably could grab a copy through some back channels…

jarfil,

I’m not seeing it… but it might be due to Reddit having become the R word for me, never having been into T (𝕏), refusing to go on TT or D, and FB still having wide whack-a-mole word filters (main issue being flerfers, and “praise God for the AI stairs” kind). Haven’t seen it on the fediverse yet, but that might be due to curation.

jarfil,

Fat shaming is likely to be the most difficult to combat, because it’s based on an unhealthy condition anyone can slip into, so it has a warning component similar to drunk-driving shaming, the Darwin awards, various “fails”, etc. where people suffer the consequences of their own choices.

jarfil,

When I say “based on”, I mean that there are some cases where overweight is actually unhealthy, and some otherwise healthy people can, for a series of reasons, become unhealthy.

The problem about shaming above-average BMI people, is that it has two extremes:

  • on one hand, a thin-cult that leads to eating disorders
  • on the other, “fat activists” and “plus size” models dying of heart attacks at ages of 40 and under

What I believe, is that the shaming itself is a bigoted take on a warning against the latter. My point was that it’s going to take extra effort to remove the bigoted behavior, when there is a valid reason to have a warning.

Ideally, we should get to a point where the root cause of unhealthy behaviors could be addressed directly, but we’re like two or three layers away from that.

I forgot Awards existed (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

I just got this email from Reddit, and I just realized it’s been a year now since I swapped over here, and I haven’t thought about awards once. I always thought they were gimmicky and a way for people to throw away money. It’s just really nice not worrying about them....

jarfil,

If you haven’t deleted your account, you can go to the Reddit app, search, “youruser -Deleted”, click on Messages, and it will show you all the lingering ones.

I had to run the shredder script with a couple GDPR exports until it stuck.

jarfil,

Funny thing, I’ve been saying for decades that “space expansion” would be effectively undistinguishable from “particle contraction”, so falling into a black hole and getting crushed/compressed by it, would look like… the universe we see, with the singularity being somewhere around the Planck’s length, several orders of magnitude down from where we are (assuming Plank’s length would remain constant).

jarfil,

I was raised loosely Catholic, as in know the stuff but don’t go to mass regularly. I learned about other religions on my own, my doubts rose as I saw what a Catholic school looked like, then had a falling out with “God” when a school friend died in a silly way (football to the head, dead the next day). I kept a spiritual side, learning more about different cults, but after learning about the scientific method, I started recognizing the patterns of manipulation and wishful thinking in all belief systems, leading me to scientific anti-theism, or “Atheism”. I’ve considered left-hand Satanism for a while, but I’m not fond of rituals.

Right now my religion is “None”, with a dash of tolerance for those who don’t understand science but try to, and another dash of fiery wrath for those who attempt to convert me to their beliefs.

jarfil,

The only folk who have trouble identifying themselves when calling my private phone, are spammers.

jarfil,

Some as with truffles, and marihuana. I can’t smell either.

jarfil,

I’ve had people call it “strong” and even “overwhelming”, while to me it smelled like some weak dead grass. People smoking it, I barely register, unless they mix it with tobacco. Even freshly cut, it just smelled like cut grass, nothing more. CBD oil smells like grass sap.

jarfil,

Sure, why not… I’ll have 15 years of experience using ChatGPT, and only ask for a 2040s salary plus the time travel commute. 🙄

jarfil,

Germany showing the UK, that you don’t need to offshore to evade taxes?

jarfil,

Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?

Does this demonize and oppress a large chunk of the population? If so, then yes, that’s what they wanted.

jarfil,

There is a red line:

  • “From the river to the sea!”

Curiously, all sides seem to agree on it… they just have slightly opposing interpretations.

From an outside observer’s point of view, it seems to mean to keep spilling blood, so the line remains red.

jarfil,

You can milk a cat, that checks out.

jarfil,

Google controls one set of roads, people choose which roads to use.

On Android, you’re free to install any browser and search engine you wish. For example, “Bing for Android” is already a thing.

jarfil,

where did that image come from?

Just ask Google’s AI…

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/402a8e0b-0cbf-4c15-92b8-e0613e25ece3.webp

jarfil,

Search engines are not baked into Android, they get exposed through apps like everything else.

The choice is limited to every search engine out there… which are not many, but what can you do, it takes a lot of resources to spin up a search engine.

jarfil,

MS got dinged because they claimed Windows couldn’t work without MSIE, which was a lie… and they had a large market share.

Nowadays Apple forces everyone to use Safari on iOS, and nobody bats an eye.

jarfil,

It picked an image from a website talking about AI, and slapped it next to a response talking about AI.

Theoretically, a website with a text related to the response, “should” have an image related to the response… but yeah, it looks kind of like cheap box ticking, like the AI didn’t check whether the photo content itself was relevant or not.

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