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teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Holden KarnofskyView Holden Karnofsky’s profile, CEO of Open Philanthropy has thought provoking series on the current what feels like critical moment of human evolution. I need to take more time to read all of it.

https://www.cold-takes.com/most-important-century/

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Midjourney or me?

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• Dark movie theatre with people watching what looks like leaves and sticks on the screen.

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liztai@hachyderm.io ("Elizabeth Tai :verified:") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

For context, the Tor Browser project was one of the few to actually produce a coherent explanation of which entropy sources were not great and why.

Apple's browser continues to muddle through this space, both offering high-re-identification surfaces with a lot of fire-and-motion changes to things like cookies.

But you can tell it's all posturing because they still let FB rip your face off (privacy-wise) with a WebView.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

For all of Apple's privacy posturing (and, technically, that's all it really is), remember that it's restrictions won't let you get a *more* private browser, e.g.:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/3/23665477/mullvad-browser-tor-vpn-privacy-browser

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coolbutuseless@fosstodon.org wrote:

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grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ron Gilbert") wrote:

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bryanculbertson ("Bryan Culbertson") wrote:

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mxbck@front-end.social ("Max Böck") wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Eugenics keeps sneaking back.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/03/another-good-article-on-sociogenomics/

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• SOCIOGENOMICS IS OPENING A NEW DOOR TO EUGENICS (remote)

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ElizabethLeeCo@horrorhub.club ("Elizabeth Lee :autism:") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ☁️ Overcast, +64°F, 37%, →19mph, 1009hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 17:18:44-0400 | Dawn: 06:20:07 | Sunrise: 06:49:28
Zenith: 13:13:56 | Sunset: 19:38:44 | Dusk: 20:08:10
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Second Sedar night

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Pesach (First Day of Passover; sabbatical)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Tong Liu nemoliu@FreeBSD.org born in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 1981

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Hellmuth Michaelis hm@FreeBSD.org born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 1958

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: IBM 701 introduced, 1953

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Washington Irving born, 1783

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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kottke@botsin.space ("kottke.org") wrote:

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brianokken@fosstodon.org ("Brian Okken :python:") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Neat:

https://blog.datawrapper.de/dashboard-performance-web-components/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Absolute banger of an @oxidecomputer and Friends coming up today, as @ahl and I are joined by the engineers behind the Oxide rack's cabled backplane This is where the mechanical and the electrical literally meet; if you've ever been curious about the challenges in physically getting bits on and off the wire, this episode is going to be a must-listen! Join us:

https://discord.gg/JdgbAjrC?event=1090665850962464870

Recorded, as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

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sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:

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• a techy-blue background and a laptop showing listings for new homes, but the homes are earth, purgatory, and hell (remote)

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allafarce@hachyderm.io ("Dave Guarino") wrote:

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hovav@infosec.exchange ("Hovav Shacham") wrote:

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• Figure 2 from the Drewes et al. paper, illustrating bias temperature instability (BTI) effects in transistors. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Keep your mouth shut -- in this economy, Tinkerbell is looking for new profit opportunities.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/03/truth-but-funny/

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• Tooth fairy with a hammer: welcome to the gig economy. From the clever people behind Oglaf. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Turn off your TV! It's going to be nothing but foghorns blowing hot air for a few days.

Wait, that's always the way it is.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/03/i-think-ill-avoid-the-news-for-a-few-days/

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• A litany of MAGA excuses (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Brace yourself: eugenics is going to come roaring back under the label of "sociogenomics." It's going to appeal to the right people to be very profitable.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/03/what-the-heck-is-sociogenomics/

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• Donald Trump says he has great genes (remote)