Posts by peepstein@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #AQOhI4NF0NCZFUCIHw by peepstein@mstdn.social
2022-12-08T04:36:15Z
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@gme @micahflee @pell @MattHodges you also can’t send spam email to any gmail mailbox, or else you won’t be able to send mail to any gmail mailbox over time. What google wants is for SMTP agents to filter spam outbound
(DIR) Post #ARjLj6Y3UDocH55SKm by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-01-16T21:11:07Z
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@lxo I think it is you who are confused. If I control my life, then when someone gives a tool to me, I should be “at liberty” to use it how I want, no? Once it is handed to me, I take it home, I “am free” to do with it as I wish? Give it to someone else for free? Sell it to someone else if I wish (this happens all the time in society)? An artist is given some sheet metal, they turn it into a sculpture, they sell the sculpture for money…
(DIR) Post #ARjLj88bZoe7CjC9wW by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-01-16T21:11:07Z
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@lxo should every entity in the supply chain of that metal be entitled to the copyright of the sculpture? I say no they should not. In the world of copyleft, the given sheet metal comes with a condition that controls the lives and choices of the artist, saying that any sculpture that is made from the metal must become the property of everyone else who was involved in the supply chain. This makes zero sense in the context of freedom. It is the exercise of Power. Not Liberty.
(DIR) Post #ARjLm3QbXlahSy0acy by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-01-16T22:23:39Z
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@lxo yes you’re right. I was going to edit my post earlier to change copyright to the right to reproduce likenesses of the sculpture but I couldn’t be bothered. My point doesn’t change. Most reasonable people would expect the right to produce copies would rest with the sculptor alone, not alongside the entities who made the sheet metal.
(DIR) Post #ARjLqgPoX2UNXcqVk0 by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-01-16T21:32:33Z
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@lxo your first sentence describes a false analogy. You cannot compare physical harm with a weapon and access to a tool in general. One reason is that the prohibition on harming someone applies equally to all member of society at all times, while copyleft licenses do not. One does not need to receive a knife in order to be given the admonition not to do harm. However copyleft restrictions apply only in the case of distribution of compiled software.
(DIR) Post #ASJJ4mZU8IVzWqoYng by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-03T18:14:27Z
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@lauren What’s interesting here is that to an economist, someone who is not working, but also not looking for work, is not counted in the unemployment statistic. What economists are saying is that there are too many people who are independently wealthy. Folks who don’t actually need to work but have enough money/investments to live off of comfortably. Combined with the demographic shift caused by retirement-aged boomers leaving the workforce…
(DIR) Post #ASJJ4o06onPDxiHKwC by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-03T18:14:28Z
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@lauren …this means that it’s currently a sellers market for labor. That’s what the “powers that be” don’t like, they are using inflation and interest rate pressures to draw down as much wealth as possible from the independent wealthy, so that they will have to enter the workforce and tip the balance back to favoring employers in the market.
(DIR) Post #ASLcLnlDFf7raL35Qe by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-04T20:59:52Z
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@lauren @omegaman it worked in the 20th C for the Cold War and the “Red Scare”. Why wouldn’t it work for the China conflict? Honestly it really probably was a weather balloon. I don’t think people realize that in the Cold War, the USA was always far ahead of the Soviets in technology and industry. While Americans were being told that there was a “missile gap”, America has thousands more missiles than the Soviets already. It’s all a show.
(DIR) Post #ASLcY88LKZaEFJkLYG by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-04T21:02:04Z
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@lauren @omegaman I’d be very curious to know what the Canadians think about it, since they’re the ones who probably got a first good look at it… but you won’t ever hear Canada’s analysis. But I expect more honesty from them if it ever came out. Time to file a FOIA request to the PMO!
(DIR) Post #ASLqoixhZQ0iSVZlrM by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-04T23:41:53Z
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@omegaman @lauren for some reason I keep thinking of Foghorn Leghorn as the quintessential voice in my head if someone in rural America looking to shoot down a Chinese weather balloon.
(DIR) Post #ASLyc3tbE7b1Fj88Qa by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-05T01:07:35Z
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@simon wow. I skimmed the transcript and it was a bit of a mess. Yet GPT got it. LLMs of a certain size and with the right optimizations are just going to bring about tremendous change to our world. It’ll take a long time to see the full impact but it’s kind of crazy.
(DIR) Post #ASMDXXb8rj1XElnc00 by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-05T03:56:36Z
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@lauren right now there is a 14 year old budding rock star sitting with her friends choosing “balloons of doom” as their band name. I hope.
(DIR) Post #AScBPOGAk2MYhwE6RE by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-12T19:55:53Z
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@lauren @SethKaplan don’t tell Americans that it goes the other way if necessary, rofl.
(DIR) Post #AScBjNdkksPwZrmvi4 by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-12T20:49:19Z
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@SethKaplan @lauren technically the NORAD agreement says that NORAD operational control falls to the Deputy Commander of NORAD if the commander is unavailable / incapacitated / unable to command, etc. the Deputy is always a Canadian officer.
(DIR) Post #AScBmeaaCDV60orlS4 by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-12T20:50:53Z
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@SethKaplan @lauren I suppose one could argue that in that case, US officers would elect to not follow NORAD-given orders. In that case, NORAD is effectively dead and the joint co-operation between Canada and the US for air defence would be severed.
(DIR) Post #AScC81XC5557G0TGcq by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-02-12T20:56:08Z
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@SethKaplan @lauren what is this in reference to?
(DIR) Post #AUFWi7W2vzviyDZmIi by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-04-02T17:55:06Z
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@Gargron @blaine you don’t get to control that. Mastodon has become like “Kleenex” instead of “facial tissue” and it is very possible that it a court of competent jurisdiction takes away some of your rights to control how “Mastodon” is used. If enough people do use the term “Mastodon” to mean to “Fediverse”, eventually you will lose your trademark rights.
(DIR) Post #AUFWi8UJJw8Tz7luEa by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-04-02T18:00:05Z
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@blaine @Gargron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
(DIR) Post #AUFbheIo37IO8XygXg by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-04-02T18:31:44Z
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@blaine @Gargron I don’t think you realize the minefield here. Remember a few facts: APIs cannot be copyrighted, a federation of computers on the public internet is not an own-able thing, and an organization has to be extremely deliberate in order to avoid a name becoming a generic trademark. “Linux” is not Debian nor SUSE nor RedHat, but all of those things are definitely Linux. So good luck with Mastodon, it’s probably a lost cause.
(DIR) Post #AUdLS485eT8A8QEPzc by peepstein@mstdn.social
2023-04-14T05:58:13Z
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@simon it would be potentially expensive but AWS has services for this. SageMaker, Glue, and EMR can all surface Jupyter notebooks in a certain way. A small EMR cluster can be configured with JupyterLab and you can have multiple users. It’s been a while since I set it up but it should still be possible.