Notices by Dragon-sided D (dragonsidedd@sciencemastodon.com)

@cwebber Show me the IT professional who says otherwise, and I'll show you someone selling a VPN

As a member of the reality-based community, I am continually *appalled* at the faith-based community.

I *strongly* oppose any mission "to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God"

Keep your childish delusions personal; don't force them on us adults.

#Trump #TrumpCabinet #FFRF #freedom #religion

https://ffrf.quorum.us/campaign/105348/

In his book How #Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), Jason Stanley defined fascism thusly:

Cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation ... The leader proposes that only he can solve it and all of his political opponents are enemies or traitors.

@bmacDonald94

@bmacDonald94 This book changed my life. Possibly my proudest achievement was being accepted into Indiana University's CS graduate school shortly after Hosftadter became Distinguished Professor there.

[I dropped out to go make money writing programs. Ahhh, youth]

This article throws me into moral dilemma. What was my responsibility in this? What are the root causes?

What can we do *now* to address them?

If you have any ideas at all, I'd love to hear them

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/politics/january-6-capitol-riot-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m04.TDAy.igPUaWEKa9Nd&smid=url-share

@dalias @pezmico
I cannot seem to find a way in which libraries provide a portal to track a child's every move 24x7, build a profile of them, and specifically manipulate their political and economic life

@rms There is also this handy website & org

https://www.safecommunitiescoalition.org/rfk

(h/t microbe.tv )

@eldaking @researchfairy What kills me is that VAX had built in native automatic file versioning back in the 1970s

We have made zero progress

@FediTips I think @briankrebs nailed it

@Npars01 @noellemitchell Sorry, that does not track with what the hyperscalars are actually doing. Training runs need high continuous base load and even coal doesn’t do that well.

In reality, GenAI requirements are turbocharging the drive to carbon-free nuclear

https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cloud/article/55139736/oracle-hits-every-major-cloud-via-aws-reveals-plans-for-gigawatt-triple-smr-data-center

ICYMI: #Telegram is *not* #encrypted in any meaningful sense. Which means with Pavel in French custody, NATO is almost certainly evesdropping on the Russian military as it communicates “securely”

Remember: a #billionaire means your network almost certainly is nor primarily focused of technology, but rather profitability

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/

@dramypsyd Thank you @egallager for passing the bill that got rid of our #newhampshire State #autism registry!

#Privacy

@WarnerCrocker https://ffrf.org/news/releases/breaking-ffrf-will-combat-okla-supt-walters-religion-in-school-schemes/

This hits close to home in multiple ways. For one, I’m physically not terribly far from Littleton. For another, at least one of my own children is LGTBQ.

The article and many of the townspeople take a reasonable stance that religion is not the root of the problem. I disagree on that point; it seems to me that religion is inherently tribalistic and divisive. Muddles like this are going to happen at long as that tribalism is normal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/us/littleton-new-hampshire-mural.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n00.OJAe.LMkjpjEV3nVt&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@nsarwark How so? AFAICT:
A) the poster was the NHLP
B) you associate with the LP
C) you support, or have supported, the NHLP/FSP

Have you recanted your support?

@nsarwark this is the group you associate with. Disgusting.

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-715795

@Gargron @medley56

I am surprised at the level of visceral Luddism.

"I'm not looking at any iPhoto or Pixel pictures. If you couldn't put in the effort to get an SLR camera and manually set the f/stop and aperture to take an *actual* picture, I won't put in the effort to see it."

Wait... do you use all *handmade* paper, or do you condone that heartless machine-made stuff?

@Gargron So you're saying you want a "celluloid film" style transfer model... have you checked HuggingFace?

Using Physics to prove Mathematics(!!!)

This is the most brain-tingling talk I have seen in a long time. Drop *everything* and watch this from 3:00 to 6:30 as prof. Tokieda makes Pythagoras (and your brain) spin!

https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=vNzmj6ryulI&t=170