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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
TBH I lived like a total animal in first year (freshman) Have you seen "The Young Ones" [0] That show was not to far off reality. But there was scaffolding and support to grow up, separate and begin taking serious responsibility f
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
There is actually a psychiatric disorder (from an Oliver Sacks book) where the patient wakes up one day with a terrible conviction that their own healthy limbs are not theirs, and with an overwhelming urge to amputate them. Sometimes it&#x2
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you. 30+ years in academia, I've taught all around the northern hemisphere at all kinds of universities and have written dozens of articles in Times Higher documenting the regress of higher learning institut
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Self-similarity is a really nice property for lots of sound synthesis too, so textures like water, fire and wind can make use of Perlin control and basis signals.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Love this synthesis of safety and software thinking that seems apropos Ross Anderson's musings on software safety engineering.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Very nice read. Missing from the essay (but present in all of the philosophers mentioned) is "experience". Musk and so many other "smart" types lack it because they've used tech - smartly, and will defend to the hil
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Kind of comes down to one of Neil Postman's questions "Whose problem is it that it solves?" It's possible to get some benefit from an algorithm/process, just as a side effect, that was never designed to work in your
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> changeable process Indeed. One sentence in TFA stands out "As you adapt from cowboy to drone..." Systemantics thinkers (Gall) would say that optionally you can move the other way too. In fact that happens when old systems are
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Keep supporting the values of freedom, democracy, self-determination. These are not national or cultural preserves. There are plenty of fascists and mean-minded frightened little people here in Europe, just as the body of US America remains
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Digital Brutalism(cybershow.uk)
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I hope you're right. Incentives both ways and support for national infra is ideal. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia just showed [0] how flexible grids can be at the international level. However I think at the national level some countrie
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
The US is an ally in distress. We'll be happy to repay the debt from 80 years ago and reaffirm our common cause to freedom when the call comes.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I agree with the incentives for zonal pricing to encourage clean local production. The downside however is that the grid becomes defunded and a tragedy of commons ensues. We invest in common infrastructure precisely because of variance, whi
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
There are certainly many enemies of Mozilla who've used disinformation and exaggeration to agitate against them. From where I stand, Mozilla have done little to deflect that, everything to encourage it and generally been been their own
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Horace Mann is a really important historical figure. He founded the US school system for the reasons you mention. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Why are you thinking about war and violence? You have a computer. It does more than cat pictures.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
There is absolutely everything you can do about it. This is not a forum for plotting counter-action and with respect to the owners and moderators I will not elaborate. Suffice it to say the time has come when we all should think about how
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Too little too late. I've been deeply studying "trust" for the past year, as part of a project around "Zero Trust". It's a core pillar in cybersecurity. Trust is very complex. Extremely hard won, easy to lose,
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I see no clearer proof in the last 7 days that Trump is a Russian asset, plain and simple. The current Trump government are hostile to cybersecurity of the West, to liberal democracy and to freedom.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> Ms Fox told BBC News she was concerned at what was happening to the science community in the US, but questioned whether ejecting Mr Musk would achieve the Royal Society's overall aims of educating and advancing scientific re
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Having created a technological terror regime, those who present the greatest threat are the people who built it, understand it, and can dismantle or change it. For tyrants and terrorists, it's important to make sure there are very few
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
No doubt about this. Game-devs, modders, map-maker/hackers get hands on such a breadth of skills (graphics, sound, scripts, network) inside a contested environment that means a lot to them they naturally feel at home in cybersec.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I think we already passed the point because it's experimentally undecidable now. "distinguishing between human and AI written text or generated images was no longer easy or even possible." I mean, how would you know? This see
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I'm not a typical user [0] but am very mindful of the typical user. Maybe I'd not realised how much the browser space has shrunk and that the experience of "browsing", the abstract task, now breaks down into more speci
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
You only need one better browser to switch to. I guess you're getting at a Hobson's choice [0], that there really is only one browser and all others are copies of the same harmful set of properties, so moving isn't worth the
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> Saying "switch to a privacy-first fork" is not a long-term solution. You're 100% right while operating in an environment that is hostile to privacy. In these conditions security/privacy remains mostly tactical, not
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I don't think the analogy is weakened by bringing numbers/quantity into it. The dynamics work for any number of principals. Take a 3 player game, where Alice trusts Bob but is better off with Bill, however Bill is not visible to h
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> No better place to leave for This is an amazingly common psychological trap. You wouldn't believe the number of people, men as well as women, who end up in the therapy chair, at the police station or at the hospital A&E, becau
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Firefox is open source. You can take the source code and strip out all of the malware, spying, telemetry and corporate harm leaving a safe and private browser (to the extent any modern browser can be). There are multiple forks that do that.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Fear/risk is at work here. Government by clear guidance, not guesswork is needed. The word "unlikely" is doing too much lifting in the guidance. OFCOM need to hard clarity with the kind of detail to satisfy lawyers. OSB is s

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