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I caught wind there's a US Executive Order or some other dino-boomer busybody "rule" that restricts access to data that was processed with too many floating point operations. If anyone has links or download instructions for such illegal data, please share so I know what data to avoid downloading…

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Ok, since I can link to AT Protocol (e.g. bsky.app) threads so that anyone on the web can read them, it is definitely way better than Twitter.

My sketch comedy idea: take all the UX papercuts that bug me, and for each make an analogous scene were some characters represent users and some represent the UX.

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How can I share a URL so that people can publicly read AT Proto posts/threads (with no account, signup, etc…)?

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

New ChatGPT unlock: I was asking multiple questions like "does `git commit --amend` run the `pre-commit` hook?" Then I just tried: "Why doesn't this work?" and pasted a terminal paste where I cat relevant configs/scripts, ls, cmds. It listed multiple diagnoses. The first one resolved the issue!

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Has anyone written a wrapper for `rustc` which inserts `ChatGPT` project-specific advice for each error?

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

This is my point. People tend to assume UBI is "guaranteed income for people without work" but in reality it implies work: proving you are human. If we're not careful it might replace jobs where people do something valuable with a "job" of just proving you are human.

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Github used to have a widget for "processing" events of interest, which showed them in a list, and when you viewed an item (e.g. an issue page) it would insert a widget with next/previous, "mark as seen". Did they remove that? It was incredibly helpful for me to track my state.

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Hm, to publish on crates.io I must use github OAuth therefore I must grant crates.io the ability to read all "private" repositories on Github for every organization of which I'm a member? I can think of no reason crates.io needs to read any github state other than the "is a legit user" bit.

Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

It's high time for a Brazil-like dystopian comedy where people's full time occupation is just solving increasingly absurd and baroque CATPCHAs.

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

A fun operational engineering practice: whenever writing a delay/poll loop (e.g. `while cmd; do sleep $X; date --iso=s; done`) pick a randomish prime number for `X`. Why? The idea is to avoid different processes from synchronizing incidentally to help balance load, avoid spurious correlations, …

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I'd love to see a UX movement take over design of apps to support my particular needs/usage. One feature of my usage is desktop-per-task: I have separate desktops dedicated to specific tasks, so that all the contents there are contextually coherent.

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I'll be ready for a neural link just as soon as I can install sovereign open-web-trained me-aligned FLOSS AI on a deterministically built FLOSS software stack on silicon I've self-fabricated in my personal mobile fablab from scavenged and recycled electronics junkyards.

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Can we start civilization over without any homoglyphs like O vs 0? kthxbai

Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

The twitter diaspora plus the emergence of a multitude of social networks is like when people at a party segregate from the big center to the nooks and crannies in smaller groups, ie when the party gets good. So now I feel less frustrated and more enthusiastic about fragmentation. ;-)

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Reading Streamlet (eprint.iacr.org/2020/088.pdf) and it's *soooo* helpful! Feeling grateful for the authors' effort. Is there a general name for the pattern of researchers consolidating a field of research into a simpler form aimed at pedagogy?

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Divyaswor Makai @divyaswor.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

My son is now at that age where he's curious about the human body. I guess I'll have to hide it somewhere else now.

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Divyaswor Makai @divyaswor.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

My doctor looked over the blood test results and said, “dear god, you have reversed DNA!” I was like, “…and?”

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Divyaswor Makai @divyaswor.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Why did the hipster burn his tongue? Because he ate his food before it was cool

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Divyaswor Makai @divyaswor.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

I like this feature of my new smart watch that displays my status as "OK". Leaning across the couch to look, my partner informed me, "That's your fitness tracker telling you you've travelled a distance of 0k today."

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Divyaswor Makai @divyaswor.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

What’s worse than raining cats and dogs? Hailing taxis

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Divyaswor Makai @divyaswor.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

I lost 25% of my roof yesterday Oof

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Divyaswor Makai @divyaswor.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

What do you call a factory that makes okay products? A satisfactory.

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Reading a consensus paper by two authors, and in the paper it refers to another paper by one of those authors, then describes "in private communication with" that author, a detail was revealed. Is this typical framing? Why refer to private comms, rather than just asserting the author's assertion?

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Dang, it’s once again a risky era where new films & games are out I can’t wait to watch/play, when I have time (e.g. months or years from now), while at the same time I want to avoid spoilers, making social a minefield.

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Nate ZEC @natezec.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

USG: "People who make privacy tools are guilty of enabling the North Korean regime." Also USG: "Hey, Islamic Republic of Iran, even though you are executing peaceful protestors at a rapid rate, here's 6 BILLION USD."

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str4d @str4d.xyz · 24/08/2023

Day 4 of CRYPTO 2023! Last day, and I am *exhausted*. It's been so much fun, but I did miss the first few sessions of today due to needing to sleep in 😅

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New Tornado Cash indictments seem to run counter to FinCEN guidance

If you're not into or anti-crypto but care about rights in the US (speech, privacy, assembly), you should pay attention to the recent indictment of Tornado Cash developers: www.coincenter.org/new-tornado-...

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Our initial thoughts on a case that could potentially criminalize the publication of software code

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Why don't technical standards coming out of academia, just say what they mean? "An item is a constituent of a repository from which metadata about a resource can be disseminated." Translation: "you get xml files from a URL which follows a naming convention."

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Shill me your favorite noise-cancellation-core bands.

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What's the point on social apps to have a "username" and a "display name"? Like, what am I supposed to do with that?

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I love efforts like www.openarchives.org/ore yet these are also the kinds of creaky web1.0 committee-based efforts that will just be blown out of the water by LLMs, and it's really a great thing for everyone involved (ie: humans).

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So I got search engine results with Persian dates (in "human friendly" English which is confusing) while using Tor. A week later, I was like, wait a minute… Persian‽ (a) how would a Tor exit in Persian-date countries be helpful? (b) if it's helpful, how can I support?

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heh… my favorite response to AI x-doomers is not policy op-eds, it's shit like this: github.com/ssoudan/sapiens#readme

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reason-shell 0.3.10 - Docs.rs

Shill your favorite research paper management tools! I'm hunting around on crates.io with search term `arxiv` and finding some fun looking tools, such as: docs.rs/crate/reason-shell/0.3.10

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Enriching synchronicity in my podcast listening: 1. nav.al/david-deutsch-2 on philosophy of knowledge creation. 2. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202… on economics of knowledge creation.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/08/2023

There really is no end to the human capacity for unraveling the mysteries of the universe… For example, in 2023 we've finally come through with breakthrough LLM technology enabling us to finally decipher the near-incomprehensible git cli and man pages.

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Read our full statement about the recording industry lawsuit against our library: blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/interne…

A 78 rpm player in the foyer of the Internet Archive.

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A criticism is that this enables Shell to greenwash their image. OTOH this enables individuals to vote on where to direct Shell's money to grant applications and the barriers to application are low. If you are a critic, what would you rather have Shell do with that money?