Posts by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
(DIR) Post #AQ9HgYQNPvnVDgHOvQ by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2022-12-01T02:15:56Z
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The China race-to-the- bottom for electronics has now reached a point where I feel like if I need something with good precision and repeatability, or that really needs to last more than a few months, I kinda have to build it myself. There's only "it's $10, but it's not worth $0.0001" and "dude! It's _German_, that's why it's $250,000!"I've been through two dozen crap CO2 sensor devices for $300 and below, they're all shit. So I have the choice of $300 e-waste, or a $30,000 NIST certified lab tool.I can build and calibrate something decent for a couple hundred dollars, if I stop feature-creep now...
(DIR) Post #AQF2787ksPTb9Qyn7g by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2022-12-03T21:01:44Z
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@splitshockvirus it's way too peopley out there.
(DIR) Post #AQQqOTfVA3gtL6mxw8 by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2022-12-09T03:12:08Z
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@josh it violates my instance's first rule: "Don't be a dickhead. Anyone thinking to declare themselves mayors of Mastodon, or HOA boards, will be executed, then banned. Or vice-versa. Whichever fits."
(DIR) Post #ATKhm7PJzMLSoesgYC by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-03-05T21:26:47Z
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"If you don't have anything to hide..."I've heard that my entire life regarding my hyperfocus on personal privacy. "I don't have anything to hide, I have nothing you need to know" is my canned response. But now fast forward to today: groups being targeted for genocide, systemic racism (from and to all sides), governments calling for the execution and enslavement of women, unchecked government just flatly ignoring the Constitution and doing whatever the fuck they want (what are you going to do about it? They own you. ), laws and pretext designed to criminalize everyone, to keep us "in line", corporations running government, above and beyond the reach of laws they write, our lives and information owned by big-co, ...Come tell me again how my hyperfocus on personal privacy is such a bad thing. "Do you have something to hide?""No idea. Maybe. Probably? If not, wait ten minutes and I'm sure I will. "
(DIR) Post #ATKhm8ffI50qjdXFfE by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-03-05T23:20:11Z
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Thinking about it, this reminds me a lot of the Commie-Hunts from my youth in the 50's and 60's, where even being accused of "being a communist" could land one in prison, or at least destroy their lives. Now we have states trying to criminalize women traveling across state lines (hello, US Constitution?!), BigCorp deciding to refuse to allow someone to purchase life-saving medication for any amount of money, and then selling/giving the information to government if you try to acquire it. But the real "commie" thing today is trans*. We even see other marginalized communities turning on trans* in the hope of currying favor - "maybe the government will ignore me today if I just turn over the trans* living next door?" - like they're not coming for [you] next, just like Nazi-controlled Germany did in the beginning. Want to participate in sports? Gonna have to pull your pants down. Wanna use the restroom? Gonna need a DNA sample. "Your papers please..."Look, I'm a Boomer, I embrace that. But this is one of those "not learning from history and doomed to repeat it" moments folks. What can you, we, us do about it? Honestly - probably nothing. The guy with the guns makes the laws. Just give some thought to your own privacy - whatever "group" you're a part of? ...you're next.
(DIR) Post #ATaILTJ34Y24afVEuW by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-03-11T21:37:25Z
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@BernieWonIowa @textfiles yes, and now we have adapters that will let you store all 16GB of that audio on a phone, and plug in an audio adapter between the phone and cassette port on vintage computers, and have access to an entire library.
(DIR) Post #ATavowxpmSgzBOcxBw by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-03-14T03:54:14Z
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Ok, so I finally sucked it up and used a burner to register for open-ai. I took an unused sim out to the middle of a park between here and work, activated it, used it and a proton mail account to register from a protonVPN, then yoinked the sim out, labeled it, wiped the phone, tossed both in a Faraday bag, and came home. Connected an old trash laptop with the WiFi card removed to protonVPN over ethernet to load the website.I'm pretty confident there's little hope of that ever being traced to me. That laptop is now dedicated to Open-AI. First impressions? Holy shit, that's a POWERFUL tool for a creative writing collaboration! It can't do it by itself, but man, combine its ability to iterate with my creativity, and that's POWERFUL stuff! I have an outline, a synopsis, and about 70 pages of a first draft (that reads much more like a third draft) in several hours. And I'm REALLY loving the story so far. I can't believe how easy it makes it to get the story out of my head and onto "paper".Sometimes I have to almost beat it into submission to get what i want, but we're still learning how to work as a creative writing team together...I really want a local LLM, like Stable Diffusion, without all the silly limitations that OpenAI embeds.
(DIR) Post #ATc4sT5Ttf0QQSusj2 by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-03-14T12:11:41Z
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@BernieWonIowa @textfiles @davoloid Perhaps not in the 8 track audio format you're thinking of (although there's no reason one couldn't they can store audio, just like a cassette), but the QIC (Quarter-inch tape cartridge) form had a format called QIC Mammoth, introduced in 1972. I believe QIC-80 had 28 tracks, and about 80MB capacity on a quarter inch tape. I just recently got around to dumping all my old QIC tapes from the 80s and early 90s to bluray disc. So, sure, multitrack recording was certainly a thing. Oh, wait, Tandberg had an 8 track reel-to-reel tape. I know we were using 9 track reel-to-reel back in the day. Much of this starts to fade from my memory as fast as wrinkles creep in! ;)
(DIR) Post #AUnAvL6o6f2tJghwlE by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-04-18T18:42:13Z
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@theADHDAcademic if you have a student taking photos of slides, pull out a USB stick, copy the deck, and give them the copy. Seriously. I would have _paid_ my students to take home study materials, sheesh.If they need to type their notes, I'll make sure they have a copy of mine too. If they need to make a transcript, "whisper" exists. If they just learn better by typing (I learn better writing), then by all means, sit front and center where you can see best. Back when I taught, I kinda thought it was my job to teach. That means meeting student's needs. I would always be versed in the tools available to help them succeed with the lowest workload for both of us.
(DIR) Post #AZ0bjQ4rM967iyDhNg by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-08-23T02:48:32Z
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@prettygood naw, toss the body in a ravine, make it look like an accident. The coyotes will scatter the bones.
(DIR) Post #AZ37s0CQWb6wv9odGa by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-08-22T16:16:39Z
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CA's covid numbers are way up.Was at a large Kaiser facility yesterday. Counted three masks, zero on health care professionals. All the plastic shields are now gone. Sanitizer station I checked was empty.Because the numbers are growing exponentially again, I've switched from N95 back to P100..Got numerous pointed looks, inc from staff, but at least I wasn't assaulted this time. Most direct was testing the seal before entering the building, a total Karen-looking type rolled her eyes and said "really?!" in disgust.I elected not to escort her to the ER...
(DIR) Post #AcODVdKeq279SSu4Rc by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-12-01T22:53:25Z
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It's been 72hrs since the end of my covid exposure. I'm going to take my first of 10x daily tests now. Wish me luck...
(DIR) Post #AcODVetn0toKJiLdqK by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-12-01T23:01:46Z
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Should have a result here in a bit less than 15mins.
(DIR) Post #AcODVgCGBiBCLHzuGu by ladyparabellum@elephantfossil.com
2023-12-01T23:24:05Z
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No result at 72hrs post-exposure.