Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)

former google CEO, serving children a literal shit sandwich he made for them "I just don't get why you fucking serfs are so ungrateful"

commencement speaker "I'm so honored to be here, at the apex of you all spending 4 years and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars and delaying your dreams for a chance to get into the job market! I'm proud to announce that soon, there will be no job market, because AI is going to take all of it! But don't worry, the only jobs we'll let you have will be boring, mindless, depressing work that will only serve to further my power over you. It's alright, though: we've also made sure there's no social safety net. Medicare, social security? Those are gone, don't worry! You'll be drowning in debt, unable to get medical care, and you won't even be able to google your symptoms anymore because we've flooded the internet with lies! Why are you all booing me?! It's fine, you won't have water to drink and you won't be able to afford the electricity needed to turn the AC on in your overpriced, turn of the century house that was built to withstand intense winters that won't ever happen again! STOP WITH THE BOOING, LET ME FINISH! We'll harvest your bones to make our bread, and that's the most amazing thing since the industrial revolution kickstarted this slide into complete shit, and you should feel grateful that you're now educated to know just how bollocks it all really is! What is your problem?! I'm a GUEST, let me FINISH SPEAKING..."

@jonny@neuromatch.social the idea that animals would evolve the ability to mimic precisely what is required to get food out of humans

vs

the idea of a common ancestor having evolved "emotions" because they're useful for keeping us alive and taking care of our young and forming bonds and keeping predators away

hmmm, which one does ol Occam suggest we go with here...

@jonny@neuromatch.social one of my most hated "true-isms" about animals is how they don't "love" you, they just do it for food, etc, animals don't "feel emotions"

like they imagine all animals are just sociopathic and faking it?

but the idea that humans independently evolved emotions, after breaking off from other apes, is ... I'm not an evolutionary psychologist buuuut that feels very strongly like a claim that would require evidence, and most people pushing this kind of stuff aren't scientists...

@davidfetter@kolektiva.social Gonna need to make a website on this one, I think... looking through some links and reconstructing what I can here. I am linking to blogs and mastodon posts, but I think the person impacted (ThePhD) has made it pretty clear they've moved on so I'm not linking to it to so that anyone can comment...

First, dtolnay's character is... well, he's ex-Palantir, for one. While normally I don't think a past employer should necessarily always be held against someone... he's tried to hide it (and denies it) and his behavior re: Rust is rather controlling (there's a shipping binaries drama that predates "the keynote fiasco").

The tl;dr is that dtolnay worked to remove an invited keynote speaker (ThePhD) from discussing their work on reflection, which would deprecate a large amount of work dtolnay has done in Rust. ThePhD is Black; this is not irrelevant, unfortunately.

https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023 <- ThePhD's initial blog post about it.

The Rust team did not say who was responsible for doing this but it was clear 'something had gone wrong'. Fast forward a few months and whitequark lets slip who did it:I agree that there are multiple intepretations possible and that yours also follows from the evidence available. The reason I think it’s reasonable to consider something deeper to be going on is: every single Rust controversy I’ve discussed with key Rust people had a lot more going on than was there on the surface. Case in point: dtolnay was also the one thus far unnamed by anyone speaking for the project person who was involved in ThePHD’s talk being downgraded from a keynote. If I see someone acting surreptitiously in one case I will expect that to repeat.(link here: https://archive.ph/VRQ0H)

At some point, dtolnay "responded" about it. In a gist that he later deleted. I'm getting a little sketchier on some of the details as time goes by, but I want to make it clear that his version of events is a lie and he is not a reliable narrator here.

https://archive.ph/Utaz1

ThePhD responded to this, for whatever it is worth, because dtolnay's stories is just... it's not even wrong, it's just false. He's lying about the timeline and how things were done.

https://pony.social/@thephd/111005164984251004

Whether dtolnay was being racist or not was discussed heavily in various places; he never came out and said "I am attempting to get this keynote speaker removed because they are Black and their work will deprecate mine" but they never do, of course. Him going behind backs, keeping his name secret, manipulating people at the team and the foundation to make this happen, lying about it when confronted... if he had a good reason, he wouldn't have done any of that.

To be really explicit, I am incredibly disappointed with the rust team in how they handled it. They only started talking about it in more depth once whitequark said it was dtolnay...

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@dalias@hachyderm.io it’s funny you say this, seeing as how earlier today I was thinking “lotta fucking boromirs around here”

Bluntly: you cannot use LLMs without making fascists stronger. That is the reality.

fucking... had it with this shit. You're not "vibe coding", you're polluting the planet to offload the work of thinking about what you're doing. It's fucking heinous. Your brain's efficiency is in another fucking galaxy compared to these LLMs, so fucking STOP IT.

note: most concepts of "vibes" don't involve polluting the fucking planet

"look at me, I'm vibe filtering my paper plant runoff!" dumping highly basic waste directly into the river

@aral@mastodon.ar.al so wild how once they're no longer in a position to lose or do anything, suddenly they want everyone to know they're one of the good ones...

EDIT: oh for... I missed the "but must keep supporting Israel" part. fucking...

@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co Ah, thank you! For the refurbs, is there a good supplier, or do you just find them on EBay and the like?

There's a lot of these highly specific drive units out there, meant to slot into specific tape archival units. If they could be repurposed, that'd be great.

I can find some 'normal' LTO-5/6+ drives out there, but they're running like, 600 smackers used and that is WAY more than I'm willing to spend at this time. Honestly, I just wanna get in at the 5 level, at least, due to the existence of a file system...

Anyone know what a reasonable price on an LTO-5 tape drive (just the drive is), and whether a drive like this one, for example, can have the more, uh... HP specific parts shucked off to just have what would fit into a standard 5.25 inch slot with a SAS connector?

https://ebay.us/m/uWbDma

(HP 695111-001 AQ284B#103 LTO-5 6Gb/s SAS HH Tape Drive BL540B)

I'm not specifically looking at this one, precisely, but I'm not willing to fork over 100 bucks just to find that there's no way for me to hook it up. I'd take LTO-5 or above; that's the first generation, to my understanding, that has an actual file system, which would make my life a lot easier.

Boosts appreciated!

#LTO5 #tapeBackup #backup #backupYourData #tapeDrives #LTO6

But I would still be very interested in the answer to this question, if anyone knows, because I think we're currently at an age with portable media formats that if you can, you should have a supply line of backup readers/writers...

WELL, and then I found something that'll fit, confirmed (not as part of one of these weird shells) in the price range. Luck of the draw for you, I suppose.

On this note: someone please kick my ass and make me do the bluray test I've been planning to do, where I prep a dataset + parity recovery data, burn 4 blu-ray copies with 2 burners, place two in safe, relatively controlled conditions and then place 2 in horrible shit conditions (planting them outside) and then, every month or so, test

1. am I able to read the disks?
2. if so, am I able to recover the data, and if so, how difficult is it and how much recovery data is necessary

I have the hardware and media ready to go, just have lacked time/energy for it.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @cwebber@social.coop this part drives me INSANE. They bring all of like, 12 jobs, if that, they inevitably have a TON of tax breaks so they don't bring in any freaking tax income, they get sweetheart deals on power and water that drive up costs for everyone else, they're often noisy...

has anyone done a "If Altman didn't want a molotov cocktail thrown at his house he should have opted out" bit yet, or is that still available

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party I'm struggling to imagine what might be more environmentally friendly than "just put a compostable thing up to block the sun"?! Like what was she even advocating FOR?? Tons of manual labor? Chemicals??...

ordered some relatively thin audio cable to make some new wrapped cords and it came bundled up, and it feels almost exactly like just holding a bunch of loose, fresh pasta. It is both pleasing to hold and making me a little hungry, maybe?

some soldering is in my future...!