larthallor

@larthallor@universeodon.com

The Second Cold War has begun. Now is the time to build armored divisions, not political divisions. 🇺🇸

Pennsylvania, USA
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larthallor, to AppleMusic

Was listening to using last night when I noticed that all of the songs from the Facelift album sounded like crap in my Pro.

Turns out that album has been remastered in . Despite using a solely product chain, from digital master through an output device touted as Atmos compatible, it was crap.

If you run into the same issue, you can fix it by just turning off Dolby Atmos in Apple Music settings. Once I did that, it sounded normal again.

TechConnectify, to random

If you live somewhere that offers no-questions-asked mail-in voting, and your election commission gives you the option to automatically get mail ballots with each election, I would highly recommend doing this.

Earlier in the year a ballot just showed up in the mail. It was for the very local elections like school board, parks commissioner, stuff like that.

I almost certainly wouldn't have realized the election was even happening, but having the ballot in-hand made sure I voted in it.

larthallor,

@TechConnectify

“How can we overcome the difficulties presented by Illinois voting laws that vary by county to make sure all our voices are heard? Well, through the magic of voting twice …”

;)

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

OpenAI, Google will watermark AI-generated content to hinder deepfakes, misinfo

Seven companies promised Biden they'd take concrete steps to enhance AI safety.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/07/openai-google-will-watermark-ai-generated-content-to-hinder-deepfakes-misinfo/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

larthallor,

@arstechnica

This is all well and good, but it should be the law, not voluntary.

We need regulations to foster the market for a cryptographically strong signed image chain of custody from camera to viewer. Not all images need this kind of verification, but we need to make it stupid easy to produce ones that are.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”

xAI will feature veterans from DeepMind, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/musk-announces-new-ai-company-that-seeks-to-understand-the-universe/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

larthallor,

@arstechnica

"The new company announced on its website that Musk will lead its core team himself"

[Hangs up the phone]

larthallor, to dotnet

That moment when you feel like a 10x programmer because you finally remembered to add the -Context flag to your Add-Migration EF PMC command without being reminded there are multiple DbContexts referenced in your project by the error message.

#C

supernovae, to random

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    larthallor,

    @supernovae Migratory species?

    dimillian, to random
    @dimillian@mastodon.social avatar

    What's your best list of journalists / news here?

    larthallor,

    @dimillian

    Don’t have a list, but Steve Herman is very active here.

    https://journa.host/@w7voa

    jonobie, to random
    @jonobie@social.coop avatar

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    larthallor,

    @jonobie Which brand of chocolate bitters?

    jerry, to random

    Remember friends, tomorrow is Mastodon update day! It’s going to be important that instance admins apply the updates quickly after they are released to protect the privacy of your members and integrity of your instance.

    Infosec.exchange will be down for about an hour to roll out some additional infrastructure changes, so apologies for any Sidekiq queue backups that may cause.

    larthallor,

    @jerry That easy to exploit, eh?

    larthallor, to Ukraine

    Good explainer on why the is much safer than or from expert Cheryl Rofer.

    https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2023/07/04/the-danger-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant/

    larthallor,

    @tcely @CherylRofer I didn’t even know she was here. Thanks for the link to her account.

    supernovae, (edited ) to random

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    @supernovae Twitter and Facebook were always about making money. They followed a strategy aimed at dominating their niche by funding free stuff for users with investor money, but that was always going to have to pay off with real revenue.

    Don’t make the mistake of thinking any of these companies started out as “good” and then “got greedy” and turned “evil”. That’s just not how this works.

    MarQs, to random

    Well it's not all gucci on Mastodon either :welp:

    larthallor,

    @MarQs

    Defaults to 300 API calls within each 5 minute period. Not sure if there is something weird going on with your server instance? The one time it happened to me at universeodon.com was a server issue.

    However, this can be exacerbated if you have more than one client open at a time.

    Also, one difference in the Mastodon web client vs. Twitter is that you don’t need to hit refresh. You can just leave it there at the top of your timeline and it will automatically update. Manually refreshing makes unnecessary API calls.

    https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/rate-limits/

    mastodonmigration, (edited ) to Futurology
    @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

    Summary from long thread on instance blocking.

    M = Meta
    A = Allows Meta (does not block)
    B = Blocks Meta

    1. A boosts B's post. Can M see B's post?
    2. A replies to B's post. Can M see B's post? A's reply?
    3. A boosts M's post. Can B see M's post?
    4. A replies to M's post. Can B see M's post? A's reply?

    Mastodon default (@jerry)

    1. Yes
    2. No Yes
    3. No
    4. No Yes

    Mastodon auth_fetch ON

    1. No
    2. No Yes
    3. No
    4. No Yes

    Calckey (@kainoa)

    1. No
    2. No No
    3. No
    4. No No

    1/2

    larthallor,

    @feditips @supernovae @mastodonmigration @jerry @jarm @kainoa @atomicpoet @stux @dansup @jessel @oliphant

    The point of the Fediverse is to provide interoperability and choice. It is an open, distributed solution to walled gardens, not a cudgel to punish companies you hate. Do not forget that this is a battle of interoperable protocols vs. proprietary platforms, not of good vs. evil or of socialism vs. capitalism.

    larthallor,

    @feditips @supernovae @mastodonmigration @jerry @jarm @kainoa @atomicpoet @stux @dansup @jessel @oliphant

    If you federate with Meta, you allow people to leave Meta and still interact with their friends and family who have not yet done so.

    And even if they don't leave, so what? The point is interoperability. If YOU want to leave Meta, you can and still interact with your friends and family who don't. And they get to continue to interact with you. And that's okay. In fact, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. Just like e-mail, you can change social network provider and still interact. You are not locked in.

    supernovae, to random

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    @supernovae

    Commies gonna commie.

    Defederation is a draconian solution to something that isn't actually a problem: making a profit running a service users like.

    If your users don't like your policies, they will leave. That is built right into the platform.

    Defederation is for malignant servers that disrupt how their peers' function, not to punish those who do not toe someone else's ideological line. Casual defederation is the kind of behavior that will splinter and kill the promise of Mastodon and ActivityPub, not monetization.

    jerry, to random

    The sun and this cloud are doing some cool interactions to create a circular… icebow?

    image/jpeg

    larthallor,

    @jerry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%C2%B0_halo

    SrRochardBunson, to random

    This is the message. Shout it from the rooftops and beat the GOP to death with it.

    larthallor,

    @freemo @SrRochardBunson He means that the GOP can no longer hide behind the ruse of "fiscal responsibility" to cover their actual goal of helping the rich get richer at the expense of the vast majority of American voters.

    larthallor,

    @freemo @SrRochardBunson If they actually cared about the debt, they would only make tax cuts in one area that are paid for by spending cuts in another so as to keep a balanced budget. Clearly, the do not actually care about a balanced budget.

    larthallor,

    @freemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

    arstechnica, to random
    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

    Trinity Test is front and center in trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

    "We're in a race against the Nazis, and I know what it means if the Nazis have a bomb."

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/05/trinity-test-is-front-and-center-in-trailer-for-christopher-nolans-oppenheimer/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    larthallor,

    @arstechnica

    It's just a trailer, but Matt Damon's portrayal of Leslie Groves seems MILES away from Paul Newman's in "Fat Man and Little Boy". Completely different takes.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097336/

    larthallor, to fediverse

    A truly decentralized platform would offer a different default server in this UI each time, based on some algorithm intended to widely distribute new users. This could be as simple as round-robin or be based on some concept of available capacity and good stewardship.

    https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

    GottaLaff, to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    U.S. to send #nuclear submarines in new pledge to protect #SouthKorea from North's threats

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-send-nuclear-submarines-south-korea-agreement-kim-jong-un-threats-rcna81510

    larthallor,

    @HistoPol @itwasntme223 @GottaLaff

    These are nuclear ballistic missile submarines, which have but one purpose: launching nuclear weapons. And that is the point.

    Occasionally docking Trident missile boats in South Korea is nuclear signaling. The South is currently considering making their own nuclear weapons to deter the North. The US would very much like to forestall this, so we are doing everything we can to reassure them that US nukes are sufficient to deter any North Korean nuclear attack.

    larthallor,

    @HistoPol @itwasntme223 @GottaLaff

    Navy jets like the F-18 and F-35 are capable of dropping nuclear bombs. The Navy does not disclose whether any given carrier is carrying such weapons at any given time.

    Having assets with no conventional war fighting mission show up in South Korea every now and then is just a way to show the Koreans that the US is deadly serious about using nuclear weapons to retaliate in-kind against the North attacking the South with nuclear weapons.

    larthallor,

    @HistoPol @itwasntme223 @GottaLaff

    None of the subs carrying Trident ballistic missiles have conventional missiles. These subs are designated as “SSBN”.

    Four of these subs originally built as SSBNs were later refitted to carry non-nuclear cruise missiles. No longer capable of firing Trident nuclear missiles, they were redesignated as “SSGN”.

    Currently, none of the subs that can fire nukes can fire conventional cruise missiles and vice versa.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio-class_submarine#SSBN/SSGN_conversions

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