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karabaic

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John Karabaic's account. he/him. BLM.

NYC MIT WPAFB CIN PDX, kinda in that order

Virtual plumber to https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic

Breakfast on the Bridges volunteer https://social.ridetrans.it/@bonbpdx

Working for tech companies since they made hardware.

The gurney is the reward, as my NeXT colleagues put it.

Expect book and media reviews, comments on science and technology policy, frequent #NoirAlley #TCMParty posts.

Banner from Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts

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karabaic, to random
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Hey! US folks! Those noncompete clauses you signed? Just banned.

Celebrate!

Go work for a competitor. Go found your own competition.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

karabaic, to random
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Oh, and let's put everything, even the tilt of a tanning bed, under control of this fucking insane Alexa.

blogdiva, to random
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🙋🏾‍♀️ who else is so old, in internet years, you used Mosaic the first time you browsed the web?

h/t @augustocc
https://mastodon.social/@augustocc@social.br-linux.org/112317059607037922

karabaic,
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@blogdiva @augustocc How about the original CERN text-based browser?

karabaic,
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@augustocc @blogdiva oh, just answering the question!

karabaic, to random
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With Google's main search becoming more unreliable and the Internet itself becoming polluted with generative nonsense, I find myself searching on scholar, books, and my local library's OCLC interface and limiting myself to results from 2022 or earlier. This seems extreme.

What are you doing?

andybaio, to random
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"Consent Mode is off by default" should be the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings

karabaic,
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@andybaio Gotta wonder how this works in multi-person consent states? Would a person recorded without their consent be able to take action against Limitless? Betting the user agreement indemnifies Limitless from the purchaser, but not sure how that would work for the person recorded.

karabaic,
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@stg That makes sense for a generic recorder used in a place with no expectation of privacy with other uses, like recording music.

This is specifically designed to record human interactions and has a consent setting turned off by default.

Is there a colorable argument that the service provider knows the product has consent issues?

I'm thinking something like the product liability lawsuits against gun manufacturers who marketed guns for particular uses?

karabaic, to random
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Software is eating the world and it wants the humans sous vide.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-software-update-traps-woman-in-hot-car-1851407234

atomicpoet, to random
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If you really want to troll Star Trek fans, tell them:

  • Star Trek V was the best movie ever
  • the novels, comic books, and video games are canon
  • D.C. Fontana was the real visionary, not Gene Roddenberry
  • TOS implies a dystopic vision of humanity, not utopic
  • the reason a Star Trek future is not bound to happen is because someone in Star Trek’s timeline travelled to the 1960s, got a job as a sci-fi writer by recalling their lived history, and this therefore has changed our timeline.
karabaic,
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@flockofnazguls @atomicpoet Isn't that last one kind of the plot of Far Beyond the Stars?

StillIRise1963, to random
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I don’t give one shit that O.J. is dead. Good riddance you fucking murderer.

karabaic,
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@StillIRise1963 the only thing worth observing about his death is that prostate cancer kills a disproportionate number of Black men, regardless, and that must factor into calls to reduce proactive surveillance.

karabaic,
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@StillIRise1963 My thoughts are with you. This year is my 6th cancer-free year.

karabaic, to random
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yikes. looking for references

karabaic,
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@rjblaskiewicz What worries me is that this class of drugs is going to be continually used by folks trying to keep off a few pounds rather than folks with life-threatening obesity

mcnees, to random
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Elf -> Elves
Dwarf -> Dwarves
Smurf -> Smurves

karabaic,
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@mcnees nerf -> nerves

karabaic, to random
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boeing be crimin' https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/fbi-investigation-boeing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.gere.gkmwklCQqzDd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

karabaic,
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@thepoliticalcat I got ya. my parents and grandparents bought into being reclassified as "white" for their piece of the american dream. rejection of that bargain requires daily work.

twostraws, to random
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Sometimes I imagine that the RealityKit APIs were designed by three highly expert teams at Apple, none of whom were allowed to talk to each other. Simple things like “please rotate this entity” often end up bizarrely hard 🤷‍♂️ Here’s hoping for WWDC24 to rescue us all…

karabaic,
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@twostraws this is probably 300% correct

karabaic, to random
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If you are a fan and a fan, plan ahead for the "The Death of Venturion: A Venture Brothers Fan Ride" for

June 23, 2024

https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-18571

w7voa, (edited ) to random
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President Biden, strolling out with the first lady to the White House North Lawn, was just asked by a reporter what he's giving up for Lent. He replied: "You guys."

karabaic,
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I guess this means he loves them, they're important to him, because giving them up is a sacrifice?

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I was summoned to the front of the house by ferocious barking. Was it an emergency?

karabaic,
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@Teri_Kanefield more like a "wut ups"

<<ducks>>

lauren, to random
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I suspect VR headset manufacturers with pass-through capabilities are going to have to try find ways to minimize or ideally prevent drivers wearing them while driving. It's not going to be easy to do this while not preventing passengers from wearing them, but the specter of a driver going literally blind instantly when a headset crashes or pass-through is otherwise disabled is nightmarish.

karabaic,
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@cstross @lauren I'm sure VisionOS has the same system built in, as it comes from the same codebase.

Of course, I have not tested how macOS responds in this situation, and now I do, since "Focus" state is, by default, shared across all  devices attached to the same iCloud account.

karabaic,
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@lauren @cstross Passengers are subject to the motion-based prescription, unless they're connected to vehicle Bluetooth or WiFi (via CarPlay or not). They must confirm they are not driving before devices unlock.

karabaic,
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@lauren As @cstross pointed out: an insurance company or court would take tampering or customization of a built-in security system seriously, in line with local laws, both statutes and common law, for determining liability.  is in the clear, I think, unless a case can be made that the consequences of evasion or customization were not fully clear. But my iPhone always prompts me...

karabaic,
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@lauren I agree that Teslas are poorly designed.

I also accept your case for a layered approach for AR technology: a fail-safe see-through mode for software or hardware failure. It is a great idea.

In fact, this lack of a fail-safe mode, and the fact that an engineering practitioner like you immediately & clearly saw the need based on common (mis)use cases, might make  liable!

karabaic,
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@lauren @lain_7 @cstross Liability law, both statute & common, and insurance company policy, as I stated previously.

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