It takes a special kind of stupid to govern a state with incredible natural resources, industry, the largest tech sector in the world, near perfect weather, mountains, oceans, shipping, tourism, and high taxes and still manage to have horrible public infrastructure.
California has some… special politicians.
Welp fuck there’s always a few bad eggs but don’t worry, you’re just the exception that proves the rule. Most Nostriches are intelligent enough to sense the massive amount of cognitive dissonance these two contrary positions entail.
So glad Nostr is talking about more important things than trying to pretend to be anti-woke and anti-DEI while simultaneously saying that companies should prefer hiring native born Americans over more skilled Indians because Indians are over represented in the work force.
https://openai.com/index/why-our-structure-must-evolve-to-advance-our-mission
It’s incredible how much time and political maneuvering it took Sam Altman to get to this point. He took on the entire board and research scientists for every major department and somehow came out the winner. This reads more like an announcement of victory than anything else. It means Sam won. He’s going to do away with the non-profit charade and accept the billions in investment to abandon the vision and become a commercial AI company.
🚨Two versions (1.95.6 and 1.95.7) of the popular solana/web3.js npm library were recently disovered to be malicious, harvesting private keys to drain wallets.
nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 , nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2 & nostr:npub1emdtsxly9m68m00x206t574jttp65vk0c2m89ms038q047yz7ylqcac9aw discuss the lessons to be learned from this incident in BR089.
One note, although I’m not the biggest fan of the current JavaScript ecosystem, it doesn’t seem right to say it’s wrong to do anything secure in the language. Backdoors can be put anywhere, even in “secure” systems languages without auto upgrades and vendored deps as the recent XZ Utils fiasco shows.
Merry Christmas btw
Making a Prometheus storage backend and Grafana dashboard for this data would be legitimately fascinating.
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https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/
TIL you can watch every possible piece of telemetry live from the ISS. So I'm spending my Christmas Eve watching the urine tank fill percentage while I wait for the clock to strike midnight.
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the sky,
The ISS floated, its tanks running dry.
I stared at the dashboard, no presents, no tree—
Just waiting for pee logs from zero-G.
I don’t understand how people can bear the modern internet without an adblocker. I don’t think I could visit a website and stay sane without one. How would you even watch YouTube with all the ads or open a news article and get bombarded with a million popups and not want to ever load a webpage again?
How did I just learn about this method for computing whether insurance is worth it? If computing whether or not insurance is worthwhile is basic maths, it seems like this should be more widely known.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wf4jkt4vRH7kC2jCy/when-is-insurance-worth-it
Looking back over the year, one of the skills I think improved the most was developing a better gut understanding of probability and how likely events are to happen.
One of my goals for next year is to learn more statistics to be able to mathematically analyze the world and my life.
It’s not completely free, just a trial version with a limited number of requests. That seems to be the business model most AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) have settled on. The first few requests per day are free but if you want unlimited requests you need a subscription.
That was very fast!
Oh sick. I’ve always fantasized about having a display somewhere that shows interesting visualizations etc., kind of like a digital fish tank. I’ll need to look into that.
I’m finally outgrowing my home server setup of Raspberry Pi’s I’ve accumulated over the years. If I want to do it right, how should I set up my home server network?
Currently running a little website, some other website side projects and a Jellyfin media stack.
Wake up babe, the Gaetz ethics report just dropped.
Interesting article on UFO “flaps” and the recent New Jersey hysteria.
https://computer.rip/2024-12-21-something-over-New-Jersey.html
> be matt gaetz
> nominated for attorney general
> drop out so ethics report isn’t released
> they release it anyway
Should have just been attorney general anyway. He picked the worst possible option: no attorney general and the media has a feeding frenzy on your pedo and porn habits.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/politics/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-committee/index.html
Xitter DDOSing itself? I’m not touching the screen at all in the recording. This happens whenever I open a link.