Notices by Joe (not2b@sfba.social)

@heidilifeldman California passed a similar law, effective Jan 1, 2026. But the feds have sued and as far as I know it isn't being enforced for now. The LA County sheriff's department said they won't enforce it until the court fights are over.

@skinnylatte I agree that the mess we have falls far short of real transit. But I've lived in the bay area for 40+ years, and it used to be so, so much worse.

@skinnylatte Clipper is better than what we had before. There are 20+ different transit agencies and they were all incompatible. Now if you're taking public transit from the South Bay, there's one payment method to deal with for VTA (buses and light rail in Santa Clara County), Caltrain, BART, and Muni. Sure, it still sucks. But I think it sucks less.

@jeridansky I guess she might have seen the NYPD fake.

@jeridansky It is Kash Patel's FBI, and they are not going to do this. If something like this ever happened, it would be all over the news and all over Mastodon, and not just in one Facebook post.

@dngrs @jeridansky @GeoffWozniak Go back and read the debunking in detail. The reporter has much more evidence than that.

@briankrebs Next step should be to track influencers and "journalists" who praise "OpenAI's First Cyber Investment" online and ask them how much they got.

@thomasfuchs Hardware has to work. Software can be patched. Sometimes a hardware can be fixed in microcode but that is basically a software fix (though sometimes there is performance price to pay, as in the Spectre and Meltdown exploits).

@dangillmor People don't have an instinctual understanding for large numbers, and often they are easier to understand if we divide by the population. So a billion dollars is about $3 per American, a trillion is $3,000 per American, 6 trillion is $18,000 per American. That is a huge number. What time period are they talking about? Something in that range is believable if the price of everything suddenly jumps.

@heidilifeldman And those who want to cave need to be removed from leadership positions. Schumer must go. He can remain as a senator, of course, but since he has demonstrated that he isn't up to the job of defending democracy, he has to be forced out.

@GottaLaff Worse, several Democrats voted to censure him, and others condemned him but did not vote to censure.

@petergleick If I recall correctly, the AccuWeather guy was pushing in the last Trump administration for some kind of privatization of NWS, effectively selling its resources off so that you'd have to pay AccuWeather or whoever winds up owning it for weather forecasts, and the government would no longer provide free information to the public, because that's socialist or something. So, kind of like the looting of government resources that happened in Russia under Putin, with first crack going to Trump and Musk's allies (or maybe SpaceX will wind up with NWS's resources). The $250M Musk paid to get Trump elected was an investment and he wants a good return on it.

@dalias While the details are new, the pattern isn't. I used to review papers for conferences and we would regularly get people applying the general method in vogue for people who don't know much about a subject area to solve a problem. At one time it was genetic algorithms. Simulated annealing was hot before that. Then it was machine learning, and now we ask an LLM to spit out an answer. Anything other than learning a subject deeply and developing methods based on actual insight. I wasn't popular for point out things like this.

@amszmidt @lauren That pauses, does not exit.

@lauren Emacs is control x control c. Editors don't want to make it easy to leave.

@dangillmor @pluralistic Yes, you see too many anti-230 posts on Mastodon, from people who don't understand that without 230, Mastodon instances will all have to close down or be legally eradicated, with admins liable for every post that might appear.

@lauren If someone already has the app, does the law require that ISPs and wireless carriers block the traffic? Not if I understand correctly. Seems users can keep using it but won't get updates. So perhaps a VPN would only be needed to get an updated version?

@glynmoody Wow, that's bizarre. Disagreeing with it is one thing, but refusing to let it go in the face of the threat to democracy we now face is kind of shocking.

@jwz If I understand this correctly, the astronomers get the full original data, but with a three day delay, while the spooks get it with no delay. Is that right? And the telescope images the entire sky every three nights. And astronomers still get immediate alerts but only if there isn't something that the spooks want to chop out near that position. I guess the astronomers will have to hope that we don't get something like a gamma ray burst too close to a satellite, which would inspire them to all look closer at that spot.

@tevo @mcc I used Teco back in the 70s on a PDP-10 (yes, I am old). You had to type a lot of dollar signs.