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irobeth
·11 ay önce·discuss
I also find some difficulty in reading the next word because of the animation obscuring it; this has my net wpm at 61, but my monkeytype average wpm is ~120
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Then you have to answer for yourself if/why you believe Elon would/wouldn't lie about having an alt account to attempt controlling a narrative or keep a troll running longer than it could?
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Is anyone else like me? A little socializing goes a really long way for me. I don't hate it, it's not exhausting, I can do it well, and I'm generally seen as a fun person to talk with.

I'm an introvert but not because my "social battery" is discharged by socializing, but instead because I need to discharge in solitude

I have unlimited social stamina and can do it forever, if by forever you mean that if I'm left in socializing without that necessary solitude I will spin off into mania and eventually get in serious trouble
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
It really is amazing how things have come full circle from the point where chrome positioned itself as a "Libre" alternative to the IE near-monopoly

There was a point between IE and chrome when Mozilla was always in the near-foreground offering alternatives to every internet hegemony, right around web 2.0, kinda makes me optimistic for the internet to see a resurgence of recommendations
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
i'm reminded of a story from around 2012? about an aerial surveillance program where they recorded a bird's-eye view of the city [1?]

they used the footage to solve some cartel murder by playing the footage in reverse to track the origin of the killers

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lowrider
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I'd point back to at least 2000 and the Supreme Court stopping the count in Florida, but maybe back to when we sabotaged the Iran hostage deal so Carter couldn't have a win
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I recently started getting "targeted" bitcoin extortion emails that have your home address (or what they scraped from public records) and a picture of Google Street view, but they're all going to the email I used for a now-defunct online grocery
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I have this same setup and this conversation happens often, you get used to it happening and navigating it.

ON only one occasion in ~20 years, someone refused to do business with me because they thought I was impersonating them and told me I was being disrespectful by using their brand as my email, and even after explaining how it works they weren't happy.
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Locked iPhone owned by law enforcement target will accept remote firmware push from trusted device?
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
some endpoint protection services will block anything not signed by a trusted signature or that doesn't match an allow-list of known-good file hashes
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I thought branches happened when a wavefunction 'collapsed' -- i.e. for every possible value of the wavefunction, you get a branch with a unique answer for 'value of the wavefunction'?
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
"slam any key to continue"
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
to hear Lenny Susskind say it, "light moves at the speed of light"
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I'm reminded of [1] a recent Palantir promotional video

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
The way I've understood it is that everything which can 'move' in spacetime has to have a momentum vector with constant magnitude C (when expressed in the right units, C = 1)

The faster you 'move' through space, the more you have to 'borrow' from the time component of the vector to maintain a magnitude of C

That means your 'position in time' moves slower; and so for people who aren't moving as fast through space as you are, they appear to 'experience more time'
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
most people now will say something about the commit timestamps indicating this is an Eastern European actor, but it seems like any sufficiently dedicated intelligence service could script their commits or even assign a person to keep certain sleep/wake hours just to falsify that data
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I think it's better to look at it like the old AOL client? I've used Opera on and off for ~20 years, and in that time I've seen it strive to be more like a "Web OS"
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
seconding this, it failed to correctly identify an AI image which had the DALL-E watermark clearly visible

what plans are there to guard against people intentionally poisoning your training data by miscategorizing the images they upload for classification?
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I just lied about both things it wanted and it was fine with that, so it seems a little silly to make it a requirement
irobeth
·2 yıl önce·discuss
seems like a sophisticated theft ring would have access to the keys for the most common guards like this, reminds me of the TSA key debacle[1]

[1]: https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys