stego-tech

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by stego-tech 3d ago
Oh, many of us understand quite clearly what world was being built. I'd argue most members of marginalized groups knew damn well what kind of world was being built by those in power. That being said, one of the best ways to fight
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by stego-tech 3d ago
Except there was literally just a piece a few days back here on HN where a Mom was arrested for letting her kid walk half a mile alone in a gated community with active security patrols. The guardrails you describe aren’t for child safety so
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by stego-tech 4d ago
What astounds me most of all from all this research is how much ownership LG (and through similar legal means, most manufacturers out there ) asserts over the device you might have just paid thousands of dollars for - including the physic
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by stego-tech 5d ago
I am not arguing in favor of the bullshit job itself, merely that we should retain the labor and dedicate it towards non-bullshit ends instead of the slash-and-burn approach favored by the loudest anti-bullshit-jobs proponents. Workers in e
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by stego-tech 5d ago
Counter-argument: bullshit jobs are beneficial to the wider economy. Society demands consumption, which is funded via wages. The higher consumption, the more the economy grows. Ergo, having more people employed with higher wages creates mor
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by stego-tech 5d ago
Shame isn’t dead. Specific kinds of shame are increasingly on the way out, particularly when it comes to individuality and self-expression, but shame itself isn’t dying or dead so much as accountability flatly does not exist anymore. When
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by stego-tech 6d ago
I hate to be that dinosaur, but this is exactly what I’ve been warning about since XaaS began taking off in the mid-oughts: any provider you use can and will use your data for their own benefit regardless of any contracts or safeguards in p
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by stego-tech 6d ago
Context matters, because absent it folks will look at these increases and shrug it off as inflation (or let companies shrug it off with that excuse). To truly contextualize it, we need to understand the total value (library sizes, removed&#
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by stego-tech 7d ago
Man I wanted to dunk on this, but it’s honestly not terrible. Their predictions - while still firmly rooting for the extreme results - feel more grounded. I also appreciate the little simulator where I could plugin my own predictions (echoi
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by stego-tech 7d ago
I’ll get on board with mass surveillance just as soon as every single elected and unelected leader, business executive, politician, celebrity, oligarch, Capitalist, all board members, all C-Suites, and every single VC has a live, uninterrup
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by stego-tech 7d ago
For me anyways, range isn’t the issue. It’s charging facilities being down far too frequently, whereas gas stations are rarely bone dry. It’s sites lying about charging port availability, leading to wasted range on red herrings (thanks for
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by stego-tech 13d ago
I hate this comes from Reason (along with an opinion piece at the bottom about regulation is always bad), but the story itself is disgusting and a complete government overreach. On the one hand, we tell parents they’re accountable for their
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by stego-tech 14d ago
Most of the names on that list are kinda expected and obvious for any of us who spent any amount of time seriously engaging online outside of social media spaces. I mean, Cloudflare defended literal White Supremacists a la The Daily Stormer
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by stego-tech 15d ago
Seconding that observation. The IT folks in charge of the compute direction have been quietly raising those concerns for over a decade (“and what happens to those alleged lower costs when their attention diverts to a new industry or pumping
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by stego-tech 15d ago
I appreciate someone picking apart Zitron in a constructive way. He’s been an easy recommend to folks in my circles who just want to be angry, but there’s a reason I don’t read his stuff on the regular or in detail: I don’t want to be a
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by stego-tech 21d ago
It sucks . On the one hand, I think destroying Meta and social media in its current form would be a net good; same with fossil fuel companies. Though you raise an issue (“what about folks whose livelihoods depend on the harm perpetuated”)
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by stego-tech 21d ago
So a literal slap on the wrist that doesn’t discourage or stop the actually harmful behavior. Look, I get that certain demographics are terrified of another Arthur Andersen-esque collapse of a firm, but if we don’t punish companies to the
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by stego-tech 22d ago
I’m not about to stifle research into genuinely useful therapies just because some aspects of society will abuse the absolute shit out of them, and these therapies seem profoundly useful to those who suffer from the mentioned ailments. Here
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by stego-tech 22d ago
Dolly was one of the unequivocal good ones. Damn girl, RIP.
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by stego-tech 24d ago
I’ve been in engineering long enough to know it’s cyclical: the new thing always eats layers that demanded expertise until it demands expertise, at which point something new tries eating that layer. It was shell scripting until it became
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by stego-tech 25d ago
TPS hits the nail on the head beautifully, here. Look, the genie is out of the bottle: we are a global economy, and increasingly a global society. Everywhere on the planet is reachable via data link within seconds, and ~95% physically withi
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by stego-tech 25d ago
Just adding in my perspective: TUIs, at least to me and some friends in my circles, do something that native applications don’t: demand focus from the user. Sure, modern terminals and TTY environments have visual tabs and virtual terminals
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by stego-tech 1mo ago
That is an incredible amount of words to expend upon a position tantamount to “neener neener we won’t change a thing and you’re in the wrong for doubting us.” I’d really appreciate it if folks stopped paying more attention to the bloviating
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by stego-tech 1mo ago
100% agree with your twist, there. I was speaking from the broadest possible sense, from local OS all the way to corporate internet infrastructure, but you're correct that one of the earliest promises was independence and intent separ
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by stego-tech 1mo ago
I mean, yeah. I got into IT because I loved working with technology, building communities and game servers and chatrooms and computers and the like. I got lucky that someone found me, my interest in these things, and showed me how it could
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by stego-tech 1mo ago
Vertical Thinkers: “Who could’ve seen this coming when all the data looks good?!” Lateral Thinkers: quietly sipping tea, nursing our wounds from layoffs, lamenting another unheard Cassandra moment. Basically sums up the mood, I find. Don’t
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by stego-tech 1mo ago
We thought the same thing. Proprietary or open didn't matter, because with enough attempts at something you can eventually sus out its operations and optimize accordingly (or distill, as we've seen with LLMs). The only solid way t
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by stego-tech 1mo ago
As a PC gamer who grew up in the 00s, this has been something I’ve tried to warn ardent LLM and model enthusiasts about for quite some time. Benchmarks are handy when they’re new, novel, and constantly changing. The second you let even a
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by stego-tech 1mo ago
I’ve read NTSB reports before. Studied aviation accidents as a hobby to help me overcome a sudden and irrational fear of flying (thanks Final Destination!). I’m on Chapter 4, and this is, by far the best report I’ve ever read. Each sectio
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
Amazing article that puts my outsider observations into technically-digestible details. Tangentially, their repeated observations to providers hiding or obfuscating important systems or processes are highly relevant to my own developing c

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