thomastjeffery

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by thomastjeffery 8d ago
I'm not voluntarily sharing my license plate number. I'm legally required to display it.
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by thomastjeffery 8d ago
All that means is that the ends (and not the means) are the determining factor. A private company can have plenty of legitimate reasons to film in public spaces, and to incidentally film people. Flock's ends are to explicitly track peo
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by thomastjeffery 16d ago
Then tell them about ADHD. The main problem is that most people have no idea what it is, or how effective treatment can be. ADHD is one of the most poorly named and broadly misunderstood conditions ever.
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by thomastjeffery 16d ago
NAT didn't save us from insecure networking. It gave insecure networking an excuse that was just good enough to satisfy the masses. This is worse for everyone in so many ways: 1. Forwarding ports suddenly makes you insecure, because yo
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by thomastjeffery 16d ago
The consequences are so much more significant than people seem to realize. Because of NAT, hierarchy (centralized servers) is the foundational design pattern of the internet, and anyone who wants any semblance of anarchy (decentralized ne
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by thomastjeffery 16d ago
You are confusing collaboration with cooperation. Most people aren't interested in cooperating. The neat thing about collaboration is that work can be shared without cooperation. Free software is inherently anarchist. Sure, there are s
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by thomastjeffery 22d ago
The problem is that we have fuzzy data and concrete semantics, when what we really want is concrete data and fuzzy semantics. What we really need is a new system of reason, where each expression implies meaning, and each meaning has implica
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by thomastjeffery 22d ago
Sure, but if you count undo as a partial game over (which is heavily implied), it's better to just be able to see what the word is and move on.
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by thomastjeffery 22d ago
Ironic to see an article lamenting the loss of public utilities from JSTOR.
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by thomastjeffery 22d ago
Unfortunately, my goto starter word is 4 green letters. It's pretty frustrating to immediately lose, and then have to undo to find out what the word was.
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by thomastjeffery 23d ago
Unfortunately, NixOS makes it impossible to configure while NetworkManager is installed. This is because bss_max_count is a runtime var, so you have to use wpa_cli instead of a config, which requires a socket in a dir that NixOS conventiona
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by thomastjeffery 24d ago
It's ostensibly a configurable variable (bss_max_count). I bet your phone's system has done so. I'm talking about my laptop and NixOS, and I was definitely getting limited to 200.
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by thomastjeffery 24d ago
I recently had to change from wpa_supplicant to iwd to get around the 200 access point search limit. It would be nice to have fewer than 200 access points in range..
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by thomastjeffery 28d ago
Seems to be designed for hyprland?
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
Most people here are missing the point. Flock isn't just a private mass surveillance corporation that leases cameras and infra to police departments. We've had that since digital cameras and the internet. What Flock sells as its
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
> Which creates some bizarre incentives, minors get rewarded for signing up for the platforms that are harming them in the first place. Only if you set aside the passage of time.
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
I disagree. Harness is a pretty great word, and it doesn't already have another familiar meaning.
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
They are not incorrect. They don't even hold a position in the first place. An LLM continues the prompt it is given. What is more likely to come after a question? An answer, not an "oh sorry I'm not sure". Sure, you coul
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
It's not a theory. It's literally what they market and sell.
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
It might be their intended use (from a police department's perspective), but it's certainly not their intended function. Flock collects these images, and uses them to train statistical models, and sells those models to police depa
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
> Police use the technology to investigate crimes such as hit-and-runs and to locate missing persons. Disgusting copy. We all know that's not their primary function.
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
The problem is much bigger than that. Their goal is to find a "good fit", not to find a good engineer. That's why their software is so incredibly disfunctional: it's just a reflection of their workplace culture.
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by thomastjeffery 1mo ago
That's another useful perspective on the same thing I'm talking about. Your speech doesn't just fail to stay with you, it's implications hang over you. What you have said is treated structurally like a magical incantatio
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by thomastjeffery 2mo ago
> the most precise way to communicate something is through a metaphor. > I think this is exactly your point Yes, it is. Another useful word would be "direct", or maybe "concrete". A metaphor allows us to get right
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by thomastjeffery 2mo ago
> It's also odd to me to say an LLM isn't subjective. I was saying the opposite. The core feature of an LLM is that it is subjective. The implications of a written expression (prompt) are not well-defined objective truth, but i
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by thomastjeffery 2mo ago
Increasing precision is good to the end that is disambiguation. The problem is that that end is not always what language is good for. Metaphor is an incredibly useful tool, because it allows us to convey meaning with imprecise definition, b
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by thomastjeffery 2mo ago
> It’s as if the world now requires you to be more precise about everything. This is something I've been thinking a lot about. We have trended from subjective language to objective language. Why? Computing. Software is written with
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by thomastjeffery 2mo ago
Then why are we all so interested? Examples provide more than syntax. It's the semantics that we care about most.
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by thomastjeffery 2mo ago
Do you like horror? That's the only genre where risky projects are getting consistent funding. Obsession and Backrooms are both really good.
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by thomastjeffery 2mo ago
No Other Choice (by the same director) is incredible, and even relevant to this post.

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