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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("CandyMandu 🍬🥟 Farewell to..") wrote:
furball corner pocket
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davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:
I had a kidney biopsy on Monday. Results weren't great, so an occasion to ask:
Please consider becoming a living kidney donor. I'm years away from needing one, but without lasting health impact to you, you can change someone's life:
https://www.kidneyregistry.com/for-donors/am-i-qualified-to-donate-a-kidney/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Skellington") wrote:
Now playing: side D of Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon MoFi 1-Step.
Sounds great! It isn’t all-analogue (1/4” 15 ips Analogue master to DSD256 to analogue console to lathe), but this beats my OG pressing (used but in pretty great condition)
Woodstock is so *crystal* clear, you can hear when she has bad mic positioning ;-)
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- Photo of the Now Playing prop with the Mofi box. It’s the new style box of dark brownish black, with the OG cover inset. On the top, ‘Original Master Recording’ is reverse gold-stamped. On the bottom, ‘ultradisk one-step pressing my mobile fidelity sound lab’ in gold foil. To the left is my turntable playing the record, sitting atop an unused amp. (remote)
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danielnichanian@threads.net ("Daniel Nichanian | Taniel") wrote:
This is a twist: There's an open seat on the Michigan supreme court, and the Republican chief justice of the Michigan supreme court is endorsing the Democratic-nominated candidate Kimberly Ann Thomas rather than GOP lawmaker Andrew Fink.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
think I finally got a db for my seekrit project properly installed and locked down for support of service scalability...
I have designed so I can run identical copies of my server behind a load balancing front end, and store all user & session data on a joint-access db machine or tier of synchronized data-store machines. (each copy of the server maintains it's own connection pool)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:
Speaker Johnson's off-hand declaration that 4.5 million people would be quickly assigned for deportation should serve as a reminder that the process that would lead to those deportations is as arbitrary as the number.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/23/practical-moral-difficulties-deporting-millions-draw-closer/
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pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:
Was writing about how key members of Trump’s administration have explicitly called him a fascist prompting the Trumpworld defense “yeah, but they’re anti-Trump” when Fox News offered a perfect example.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3A69aGp
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
You're never more than 0 m away from a skeleton. 😱
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Before Google, reference librarians answered questions via telephone. “We learned not merely how to find information but how to think about finding information. Don’t take anything for granted; don’t trust your memory; look for the context…” https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-varieties-of-travel-experience/articles/the-department-of-everything
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("ZachSCARY Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
every time someone says that a web site “feels fast” you must append “on my device” to the statement and a dollar must be placed in the works-on-my-machine jar
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pts@octodon.social ("Paul Starr") wrote:
Computer programming is what happens when you wish “I want to learn something new every day” on the monkey’s paw
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
AiG has threatened to sue me for a blog post that touches on the one thing truly sacred to them, their money.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/im-in-trouble-with-aig-and-its-lawyers/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics:
"The demonstration, performed by a group of privacy advocates that gained access to the tool and leaked videos of it to 404 Media and other journalists, shows in the starkest terms yet how Locate X and other tools based on smartphone location data sold to various U.S. government law enforcement agencies, including state entities, could be used to ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/23/inside-the-us.html
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cfbolz ("CF Bolz-Tereick") wrote:
"A DSL for Peephole Transformation Rules of Integer Operations in the PyPy JIT", new blog post on the PyPy blog: https://pypy.org/posts/2024/10/jit-peephole-dsl.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
@seachanger I'm sure you've read it before but Ursula K Le Guin's definition of technology as "what we can learn to do" has long been my favorite and operating definition. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
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adhdeanasl@beige.party ("ADHauntedDean") wrote:
Listen. I’m in Alabama, which is one of the *very* few states that doesn’t have early voting, which is so red that OxyClean can’t help, and which is so politically lopsided that a bunch of seats up for grabs don’t even have a Democrat candidate. Know what I’m doing on 5 November? I’m voting so hard for Kamala Harris that it’s gonna leave permanent marks on the table and make the foundations of the church fellowship hall (our polling place) crack. I don’t give a shit what anybody says; EVERY vote counts.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
I felt this
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:
WIP - still needs a bit of clean-up and a test on some nicer paper but I've been carving this little dude. I'm thinking of making another plate for a second color...
It's such a rewarding process, hopefully I'll have some traditional prints soon! 😊
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kurtseifried@infosec.exchange ("kurtseifried (he/him)") wrote:
@jsonstein So a concrete example: take the new AICM (AI Controls Matrix, based on the CCM Cloud Controls Matrix) which has 229 controls (32 new AI ones, 197 existing CCM ones) and compare them to the EU AI Act (which has 113 articles, which has about 96 articles with content and then 17 of administravia.
So to compare these two sets is 21,984 comparisons.
Now you can reduce that by summarizing and grouping content, like a human would, but that runs the risk of a false negative, missing a match.
If you really want to avoid false negatives, you need to do every comparisons, and write up why it does or does not match.
Oh and then you want something to validate all the matches and not matches, so you effectively have to do all that work at least twice.
This is a tedious task at best, just reading and understanding the EU AI Act alone (at around 40,000 words) would take a fast reader about 3-4 hours. To say nothing of the time spent understanding it (it's legal text).
But doing it via claude/chatgpt/gemini? Doable., Designing the queries and validation? That's the work. But that work can largely be re-used (e.g. to map other things, a common task for us).
https://github.com/CloudSecurityAlliance-DataSets/dataset-public-laws-regulations-standards
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Short king.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/the-happy-couple-getting-ready-for-the-wedding/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
I thought I understood the extent to which the broad availability of mobile location data has exacerbated countless privacy and security challenges. That is, until I was invited along with four other publications to be a virtual observer in a 2-week test run of Babel Street, a service that lets users draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the area.
The issue isn't that there's some dodgy company offering this as a poorly-vetted service: It's that *anyone* willing to spend a little money can now build this capability themselves.
I'll be updating this story with links to reporting from other publications also invited, including 404 Media, Haaretz, NOTUS, and The New York Times. All of these stories will make clear that mobile location data is set to massively complicate several hot-button issues, from the tracking of suspected illegal immigrants or women seeking abortions, to harassing public servants who are already in the crosshairs over baseless conspiracy theories and increasingly hostile political rhetoric against government employees.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/
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shannoncurtis ("Shannon Curtis") wrote:
for anyone who …
— can’t be with us in PDX for our final show this Thurs
— hasn’t been able to get to a show on our tour
— wants to see our performance of Good to Me ONE MORE TIME
… we have something FOR YOU:an ONLINE PERFORMANCE of our GOOD TO ME concert, video streaming exclusively on @radiofreefedi
Wednesday, October 23
1pm PDT | 8pm GMT | 2000 UTCthe link to stream is https://party.radiofreefedi.net/
if you’d like to support me & @hilljam w/ a ticket purchase, thank you: https://shannoncurtis.limitedrun.com/products/845665-shannon-curtis-the-good-to-me-tour-rff-exclusive-online-concert
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kurtseifried@infosec.exchange ("kurtseifried (he/him)") wrote:
@jsonstein yeah I’m spending like $200 to $300 a month to do literally thousands and thousands of API queries against these foundation models. And it’s saving me hundreds to thousands of hours of work. The ROI is completely bonkers.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm hoping for a sexual frenzy on Friday.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/anticipation-2/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
heaven forbid we disturb the space-time continuum
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The whole Republican party is a collection of weird dipshits.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/walz-has-a-way-with-words/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Obama about Trump:.“You’d be worried if Grandpa was acting like this, but this is coming from someone who wants unchecked power.”
JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, when asked about whether he would strip immigrants with legal authorisation of their status: refused to answer
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an interesting piece on some major societal shifts going on now
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I got worried about how much I was spending on AI services testing things as I build my seekrit project, so I looked at the dashboard. I’ve spent $0.39 on this flurry of testing. thirty nine cents. a-friggin-mazing.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ugh, 7 am and it is already clear this is a two-cup day
