lori

@lori@cambrian.social

👋 Hi, I’m @n8chz.
👀 I’m interested in reverse engineering, especially under adversarial conditions.
🌱 I’m currently learning operations research, optimization theory, simulation, and statistics.
💞️ I’m looking to collaborate on volunteer curation of large nonproprietary datasets.
📫 How to reach me ... https://codeberg.org/n8chz 😉

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gavi, to random

What the fuck is an NPU

lori,

@gavi Sort of a neural net on a chip.

QasimRashid, to random
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MI GOP Rep Tim Walberg, on Gaza:
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”

MI Rep Rashid Tlaib was censured for saying "From the river to the sea." As Walberg calls for nuclear genocide of 2M Palestinians I await the censure resolution against him ASAP.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/30/michigan-congressman-tim-walberg-suggests-nuking-gaza-ending-humanitarian-aid-nagasaki-hiroshima/73156051007/

lori,

@QasimRashid In your guts you know he's nuts.

moh_kohn, to random
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Currently fascinated by "data" as a commodity and a form of capital. I think this is hugely undertheorised. It's all over the business press but only sporadically examined by economics which is usually a sign that something very important but ideologically inconvenient is going on.

lori,

@moh_kohn I advocate data as a commons.

lori,

@moh_kohn astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2…

Alice, to random
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So, is there a Mrs. Pibb?

lori,

@Alice Yes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_%26_M…

lori,

@Alice youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1AdzVLnu…

waitworry, to random
@waitworry@sakurajima.moe avatar

back on my adhd meds can i get a W in the chat?

lori,

@waitworry abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?…

shayz0rz, to HashtagGames
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You suddenly don't want Trix anymore…


lori,

@shayz0rz That's just maturation. Trix are for kids.

raganwald, to random
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“Cynics don’t believe things can be fixed and they don’t believe that fixing things would help in the first place… People who point out what needs to be improved are generally disappointed optimists. Only an optimist would believe that pointing out what has gone wrong could ever result in said issue being fixed.”

— @baldur, “I’m not a cynic, I’m disappointed”

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-software-crisis-easter-sale/

lori,

@baldur @raganwald I always thought of the careerists as the cynics. Sure, they exhibit cheerleader characteristics, but as you said, pointing out the obvious is the opposite of careerism. They might of course also be optimists, but of course that would be a very private sentiment. I'm a critic, not of "tech," but of the business of "tech," because as a long-time tech enthusiast I know these things can be done better, and as someone who has failed to lose amateur status, I'm free to say so. But I don't know whether the path not taken has a larger or a smaller cost...seems both are painfully costly.

But it's almost April Fool's day, so I'll indulge myself in a little self promotion by posting a link to one of my blog posts:

astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2…

ernie, to random
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About a month ago, a 60ish year old British woman started uploading Linux distro tours on her YouTube channel. It's great.

https://youtu.be/0XhNM_2gYBQ?si=Ra3mGXXcsXg6zfsM

lori,

@ernie iv.melmac.space/watch?v=hdokwI…

jp, to random
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Cathode Ray Dude's quick start videos never fail to shock me, and this one may be my favorite yet. What HP did with this laptop is horrifying dark magic and should be illegal.

Also I love the rant towards the end. This is why I've been so frustrated with the tech industry.

https://youtu.be/ssob-7sGVWs

lori,

@jp "I hate capitalism and I'm not here to get sponsorships, I just want to share what I'm up to for your entertainment and education."

Best thing I've seen on YouTube in multiple years.

lori, to random

astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2…
Plain English Glossary – In Defense of Anagorism

strypey, to ai
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"How much do we want AI to be involved in farming? The time for that conversation is now, before these trends are irreversibly locked in. Now is the time to set reasonable ethical limits."

& Birch, 2024

https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-reduce-the-ethical-dangers-of-ai-assisted-farming

lori,

@strypey Certainly there's too much "I" "P" in the food supply. Whatever "A" "I" is also in there is almost certainly proprietary, and therefore a source of even more "I" "P" poisoning.

lori, to random

I think the future of journalism, if it is to have one, rests not in a more robust business model, but in self-removal from the business sector.

jeffowski, (edited ) to random
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lori,

@jeffowski To paraphrase Brooke Shields, "nothing comes between me and my Calvinism."

lori, to random

Love is more powerful than incentive.

LindaCollins11, to random
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218805082

lori,

@LindaCollins11 I was wondering when the donald going postal on fifth would become a meme.

lori, to random

astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2…
Do entrepreneurs constitute a class? – In Defense of Anagorism

smitten, to random

I've noticed that the rare times when I do get into a comment fight on youtube, I invariably get blocked by some algorithm and can't respond to the thread anymore. The christofacists and eugenicists and white supremacists always get the last word. huh

lori,

@smitten Nothing in UI/UX enrages me more than a YT comment thread where some collapsed tree branch is labeled (6 replies) and I open it and there are 4 replies, or maybe no replies. I can see the slashdot or reddit practice of demoting a highly downvoted comment to near invisibility, but with a note that there's one there, and a readily available manual override. WIth YouTube the situation seems to be that some comments and replies are made completely inaccessible to some users some of the time. The only explanation I can think of is some kind of ongoing A/B testing, but (1) they don't even make a pretense of concealing their concealment of replies and (2) they make absolutely no public statements about what they're doing or why, not even PR spin. All commercial social media stinks of corporate arrogance, but no social medium is more brazenly arrogant than YouTube.

lori,

@smitten I don't know what's going on there, but I seriously doubt it comes from attempts at moderation.

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
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Fire Ronna McDaniel or you're dead to your current viewers.

lori,

@DemocracyMattersALot @mastodonmigration There will always be paying gigs for those who speak power to truth.

scottsantens, to random
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I love this visualization. Unconditional Basic Income would dramatically change the lower half, but I'm not sure how best to portray it. How would you redraw this to reflect UBI? Does UBI change the angle? Is UBI rock-climbing gear? Is UBI a raised starting platform or a ladder?

lori,

@scottsantens I adore this visualization. No income individuals are rarely discussed in the discourse, and if they are, it's not as people with agency, but as people in need of "interventions." This is bullshit. It is society that is in need of an intervention. Is UBI that intervention? I'm not as sold on it as you are, but I think it could be if done in the right way for the right reasons.

People speak of UBI as a floor. In the visualization above, between no income and low income the economic surface transforms from a ceiling to a wall. In the "middle class" this wall becomes (technically) a floor of a highly sloped sort.

I don't know what the rock climbing terminologies would be for "floor," "wall," and "ceiling" above. It would seem that the rock climbers who are capable of whatever the guy or gal in the no income area is doing are considered to be the ones with the most advanced skill set, no? I mean, I assume the people who manage mountains prohibit all but the most advanced and certified climbers from accessing the slopes of that type? Challenge, including extreme challenge, can be very rewarding, although of course non-elective challenge tends to be very not-fun. Ironically, it would seem that many of the rock climbers who are advanced enough for the batmanning sort of climbs are also independently wealthy. Hmmmmmmm.....

geekysteven, to random
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lori,

@geekysteven I like the German flag t shirt

lori, to Youtube Estonian

Please tell me didn't just kill support...

tommorris, to random
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I heard recently about the practice of trying to listen to a new album every day, specifically as a way to try and personally defend against the "algorithmisation" of everything, and the resulting reduction of all culture to machine-generated slop.

It kind of feels a bit like trying to solve climate change through recycling bottles and cans, but still worth doing. What else are people doing in the same vein?

lori,

@tommorris I've been pretty algorithm avoidant for years now. I guess I find avoidance a better approach than countermeasures when it comes to algorithmisation. For example, I absolutely only ever use Tor for any research pertaining actual money I'm likely to actually spend (hard, since retail sites attack Tor as hard as news media sites attack "ad blockers"). My favorite hobby is reverse engineering monetization strategies.

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