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karlauerbach

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I'm a techie & attorney.

Been on the net a long time.

I have a Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, and I've been a Fellow of Law and Technology at CalTech & Loyola/Marymount Law.

And yes, I am that person who was elected to the ICANN Board of Directors and who ended up suing them to see the financials (I won, hands down.)

Everything there is to know about me is on my personal and company websites:

https://cavebear.com/
https://iwl.com/

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drahardja, (edited ) to cars
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Lamborghini has realized that the 0–60 war is over, and AWD electrics won.

Having said that, I literally do not care about 0–60 times. I hardly ever launch my cars. In fact I experience my cars almost entirely in every way except launching them.

We’ve reached the end point of launch times. What’s next? Sub-one second? Are people really seeking 3+ gs of forward acceleration? How much until it becomes too painful to endure for 80% of your buyers?

The joy of driving lies elsewhere. 0–60 times are irrelevant, because that problem is now essentially solved.

“Lamborghini Finally Admits Quick 0-60 Times Aren't Signs Of A Fun Car”

https://jalopnik.com/lamborghini-finally-admits-quick-0-60-times-arent-signs-1851523433

karlauerbach,
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@drahardja My 155hp Miata is qualitatively a lot more fun to drive than the Ferrari 458 Italia I drove for a while.

karlauerbach, to random
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@mekkaokereke I knew and worked with several Panthers circa 1971 in my classes and field research at Berkeley. I did not find them revolutionary as much as desirous of obtaining equality in "the American dream", just as I do (BTW, I'm a white guy.)

I remember one field study of Vallejo, Calif (a very segregated city at the time). My research partner was a Panther and he and I were chased out of many a racially biased business in Vallejo as we attempted to do our research (of mapping types of businesses and use of buildings.)

arstechnica, to random
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Google starts deprecating older, more capable Chrome extensions next week

Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

karlauerbach,
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@arstechnica Friends do not allow friends to use Chrome.

Nonilex, to frontpage
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is speaking soon on the of on 34 .

But first a look at the of today’s :

Clockwise from top left: The Sun, The Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Der Spiegel, The Queens Daily Eagle, The DailyStar, The Drudge Report, The Star Tribune. Center: The Daily Mirror

karlauerbach,
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@Nonilex Clearly the speaker has neither understanding of the separation of State and Federal authority under our Constitution nor the laws regarding the jurisdiction of SCOTUS.

I have met good, smart R-party people - such as former Rep. Tom Campbell (from San Jose, California). But the present R-party seems to be filled with non-educated morons.

shekinahcancook, to Theatre
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Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024

"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.

...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-28/neoliberal-economics-is-killing-the-arts/

#ArtHistory #PredatoryCapitalism #Orchestra #Theatre #Arts #Museum #Exhibition #Education #NeoLiberalism #Culture

karlauerbach,
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@shekinahcancook My wife and I try to donate a large chunk of our yearly income to the performing arts. And we have also volunteered our time.

It makes us very happy when we bring a person who has never seen a live play to the theatre and have them recognize that the experience is quite different, and often much more emotional, than TV and film.

karlauerbach, to random
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I am anticipating a hung jury in the TFG wrongful business records case (the one usually mis-called the "hush money" case).

The case has chain of reasoning ... A leads to B leads to C. And dependencies (e.g. the felony charges depend on the jury finding thing X and Y).

I've had enough experience with juries to know that they are often extremely stupid, and, as Lyndon Johnson once said,, "wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel."

(I was on a jury -about a gang beating of a man - that hung because although massive amounts of multiple, uncontested, eye witness evidence pointed to guilt, one juror held out because the defendants were "good boys".)

karlauerbach,
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@carlmalamud One that jury we had two licensed attorneys - and we both were tempted to bring the wrath of some deity down upon that refusing juror.

The case was so clear cut - several people, including several LA Sheriffs, watched as a gang of good-ol-boys chased a guy from a West Hollywood gay bar, seriously beat him up, stole his wallet, and then jumped a fence (into the arms of some of the sheriffs.)

I've also been on a jury where a customer chased the maitre d of a fancy restaurant around with a fire ax because of a messed up reservation. We were mis-instructed by the judge so we had trouble finding him guilty.

I got dismissed during voire dire once when the DA told me what the law was and I responded that she was an advocate for one side and that the judge would instruct us what the applicable law is. (The judge really had a happy grin when I said that.)

glynmoody, to Canada
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New research shows that the 2023 Canadian link tax has already failed – just like all the others - https://walledculture.org/new-research-shows-that-the-2023-canadian-link-tax-has-already-failed-just-like-all-the-others/ when will they lean?

karlauerbach,
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@glynmoody I am actually in favor of a "link tax" in the situation where a search/aggregator, such as Google news, does not actually provide a direct link to the news publisher, but instead, provides a URL to a Google run intermediary that tracks that access.

Regarding the other aspects mentioned in the article: I read it more as a success story for the popularity of rumor mongering than showing that the reduction in traffic to journalist-honest news sites is actually caused by a link tax rather than a corollary happenstance caused by the general erosion of journalistic integrity (such as the right shift of WaPo and NY Times) and the increasing knowledge of how to share/screenshot among people (such as older people) who perhaps are more willing to engage in rumor spreading.

aallan, to security
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By me for @hackster_io, "The End of the Default Password?" https://www.hackster.io/news/the-end-of-the-default-password-b915e8a874a5

karlauerbach,
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@aallan @hackster_io California enacted a similar law several years ago although it is rarely mentioned and perhaps rarely honored. (We had to change the way we initialize and label our products as a consequence.)

karlauerbach, to random
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I find it amusing how stupid some organizations are.

Consider "Tribel" - hoping to be an alternative to Musk & Zuck - it's home page on the web has an unavoidable pop-up demanding assent to a "Policy Update" in which you agree that you have read that policy.

Except that you can not read that policy until you assent.

That website must have been assembled by people who built Tesla's driver interface - clearly they have never attempted to use it.

karlauerbach, to random
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I am increasingly concerned that TFG is going to actually be elected, even without R-party manipulation of the count, this November

mattblaze, to photography
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31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024.

All the pixels, each of which will be famous for 15 minutes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110

karlauerbach,
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@mattblaze What is that on the top of the leftmost building - the Bank of the Metropolis? It looks like the bill of a giant trucker cap.

stshank, to science
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Wicked smart scientists calculate how long volcanoes on Jupiter moon Io have been active. Measure relative abundance of 2 sulphur isotopes belched into the atmosphere then reprocessed as crust — bias toward heavy sulphur. Compare ratio to early solar system meteorites. https://www.science.org/content/podcast/very-volcanic-moon-and-better-protections-human-study-subjects

karlauerbach,
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@stshank The technique sounds familiar - I worked for Willard Libby (of Carbon 14 dating fame/Nobel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Libby

karlauerbach, to random
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A song for our times ...

(I first heard this performed live by The Weavers [yes, I am that old] but I think PPM do better job.)

https://youtu.be/waAVfCJ59Lk

karlauerbach,
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@SteveBellovin Yes, I have seen it. (And I saw them perform several times - although I only remember them at the Hollywood Bowl.)

I got deeply immersed, at least in the West Coast folk scene - In the '50s my grandparents would take me to folk music festivals around LA - in Ojai (above Ventura) or Hemet/Idyllwild - or they would have folk musicians over to their house. In the '60s I hung out at LA's folks places - Ash Grove, Troubedour, Canyon Store (Laurel Canyon), MaCabes, ... My father lived out in Malibu and he often had well known folk musicians at his house but I can not remember any names.

A while back we did a Beatnik party at the house - a huge amount of fun (everybody wore a beret), maybe we should do a folk themed gathering especially as we kinda accidentally have built our own outdoor Greek style performance space sloping down the hill behind the house.

karlauerbach,
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@SteveBellovin You are always welcome if you get to the Monterey Bay area.

For the Beatnik party we made it a party of mass destruction - I have a quite large, illuminated, fly-in stage piece that says "The H-Bomb" (the name of a bar in the play.) It added a nice bit of rather overt, in-your-face ambiance. Most people did a Beat style performance (with me on the bongos - I have no sense of rythm - I am a terrible bongo bonger.)

Are you coming to the TCP/IP 50th even this coming Sunday in Palo Alto?

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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EDITED: One of journalism's consistent flaws is ignoring relevant context.

Case in point is this NY Times story about a judge tossing out a new federal regulation limiting extortionate credit card late fees.

Here's the context the Times didn't care to include: The financial companies went forum shopping, and landed one of their favorite Trump-appointed judges, who (to his credit) objected to the process, but then predictably ruled against the administration.

Journalistic malpractice, IMO.

karlauerbach,
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@dangillmor U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth - appointed by TFG.

My proposal to reform the lower Federal courts is looking better and better with each passing day...

https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/rubber-rooms/

karlauerbach, to random
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I just (re)watched the old movie Spartacus.

I remember when it was filmed. We often had to drive from Studio City (where my grandparents lived) to Hollywood - past the Universal back lot. I remember the big Spartacus sign on the hillside and the Roman temple at the top of the hill. When I watched tonight I noticed that that temple is present in many scenes in the movie.

karlauerbach,
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@shuttersparks My grandparents were a hop-skip-and-jump from Republic studios, home of many a B movie. Their house was designed by a Disney artist. My high school (Van Nuys) was the site for a couple of movies, such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High. We used to have picnics at the Spahn Ranch in its pre-Manson days.

Movies and TV stuff was everywhere in The Valley and everything in LA west of Hollywood. (We used to amuse ourselves by going to the Joe Pine show and yelling "go take a hop" at Pine.)

In LA it was easy to notice that movies were artificial - sets were obviously sets. It was a lot different up at the Lucas Ranch - it was impressive how much detail they put into their Craftsman/Victorian village - even to fireplaces in the offices.

One one play I worked on we had a letter prop - it was so detailed that had a proper stamp canceled in the country where they play was set. The audience could not see that detail.

dannotdaniel, to random
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that's my REP 🤩

watch every minute of this
"finger painting on the Constitution" is priceless

in this video clip from the house floor, Raskin eviscerates the shallow bullshit of the GOP with a compendium of facts, history, and trivia perfectly flipping their subject matter on it's head and revealing them for the fools they are

karlauerbach,
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@dannotdaniel Did Raskin compose this well articulated statement on the fly? If so, that is impressive.

mattblaze, (edited ) to photography
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Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Radio Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.

All the somewhat staticy pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569

karlauerbach,
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@mattblaze A few years back (actually a couple of decades back) we worked with the FAA with regard to communications by commercial pilots out over the Pacific. The radios of that era, except for legacy VHS ones, did not have the range to reach shore. So they depended on satellites or were experimenting with inter-airplane relay (each aircraft was an IP router.)

It was an interesting project, particularly as pilot-controller English is a limited subset amenable to encoding as textual words rather than voice - thus vastly reduced bandwidth - and able to withstand significant ask/answer response latency.

(We participated because we (iwl.com) build gear that can, among other things, introduce lots of issues into communications channels, including many kinds of latency patterns.)

karlauerbach, to random
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A lot of fairly important notice/response traffic - such as e-bills, legal notices, etc - travels by e-mail.

Yet email has become notoriously unreliable as an ever increasing number of defenses are erected against an ever increasing number of spammers and phishers.

Email has achieved a legal status somewhat below that of US Postal Service first class mail (which is, under deJoy, pretty awful itself).

I am wondering whether that legal recognition of e-mail ought to collapse further given today's hit-and-miss nature of email.

karlauerbach, to random
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TCP/IP 50th anniversary event…

This ought to be interesting (I will be attending). There will also be an online presence.

https://engage.ieee.org/celebrate-i50

lauren, to random
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The EV charging problem is enormous. So many people can't charge at home. And even if they find public chargers that are available and actually working, and have the time to wait around while they're charging, the COST at those chargers is usually far higher than home charging would have been. Just doesn't make sense.

karlauerbach,
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@Brendan @lauren It doesn't help that different cars brands have different locations for the plug-in socket on the vehicle. That tends to force parking/charger layouts that have long, heavy charge cables (that attract copper thieves.)

I've seen recent condo designs that have NEMA 14-50 "dryer" outlet in the parking areas. I have not seen many apartments with this. How apartment owners will recoup charge costs will be interesting to watch.

I only recently learned that plug-in level 2 chargers - the ones that plug into those NEMA 14-50 outlets - downgrade their draw by something like 10% (as compared to hard wiring of the charger) in order to provide a safety margin.

karlauerbach,
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@lauren @Brendan I totally and absolute agree with you. One decision that Tesla got right was to install a network of high power, high availability, super chargers.

It is said that buying and EV is really buying into a charging technology. CCS kinda sucks both in its "camel is a racehorse designed by a committee" engineering and its poor reliability as deployed. Tesla's is much better. But adapters have been slow in coming and are far from being trivially priced.

We recently drove to Texas (from California) to view the eclipse (it was cloudy, grrrr) and we were able to travel much further each day in our gasoline Honda than we would have been able to do in our Tesla. Even with superchargers, charging is too slow as compared to filling with gasoline. (Plus there aren't a lot of superchargers where we were in west Texas.)

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