Posts by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
(DIR) Post #AtquFk1T1xNYSZRSBE by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-05-07T09:14:13.715072Z
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👀 @PamelaDrew The title gets added and in the readme, the links to the specific video is linked (w/ the understanding that the Twitch link will die eventually). This is how you find your Rumble link. Of course it would be best to get all the streams renamed across all the platforms, but we live w/ what we have.RT: https://gigaohm.bio/objects/61d07448-b01a-4b28-9fb9-669f0ed1adf1
(DIR) Post #AtsI0z6RGxuGwcDuxU by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-05-07T18:13:24.617501Z
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I think Michael Yeadon said something to the same effect a few years ago. e.g. the statistical power of trials was too low to distinguish between harm from a saline solution vs the test.
(DIR) Post #AtsI116Vpf9b9QH0Lo by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-05-07T19:57:36.603184Z
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Basically the injections themselves, regardless of content causes harm.
(DIR) Post #AtsK64j7zR63k8sJrE by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-05-07T10:44:18.331448Z
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I'd actually argue that all you really need is a Biology 12 or 1st year University level Biology to understand and explain it.However Biology is so complex that unless you've been refreshing along the way, most people have forgotten what they do know (even if what they know is wrong). I guess it's similar in Physics and Chemistry (lots of details that one forgets).This is why on the internet, you see pictures of photosynthesis (cycle diagram) and people excitedly scream "Krebs Cycle!" (It's the Calvin Cycle.) Because they kinda remembered it from HS when they had to memorize how much ATP gets created in the cycle (including in the electron transport chain), but forgot it's cellular respiration.So for anyone trying to explain why transfections (asking your cells to express a foreign protein through an inserted mRNA strand) is bad, they must remember the mechanics of protein synthesis as well as the idea/fact that proteins get presented on the surface for inspection. Then they have to tie this into "common knowledge". For example, why are immunosuppressants used for organ transplant patients?Basically walk from the top and explain it until it's at the level they no longer comprehend. The difficulty actually lies with people in a field where they should understand this. The show the greatest amount of cognitive dissonance in my experience. Yet even then, you can get them thinking if it's in an area they haven't had training against (e.g. IgG's trying to cross the blood lung barrier, why it's not transudation and why the mucosal layer orientation is the most important). Once you have a crack, you can approach them again later.Also, the closer they are to you, the less likely they are to listen to you. It's an extremely weird human trait.
(DIR) Post #AtvTJCfdFVHfCqSFCy by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-05-09T18:16:22.993626Z
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Thought it was a bad link but... DDoS currently.https://fxtwitter.com/rumblevideo/status/1920901653672132945 (https://twiiit.com/rumblevideo/status/1920901653672132945)
(DIR) Post #AtvojUEqeVAIG7Ii3s by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-05-09T21:54:28.567435Z
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Very Bayesian. 😉 Also, predictive methods > theories. Theories help you think through things but life is stranger than fiction. You can't have the theory right unless your imagination is up to par w/ the machinations of the people in the shadows willing to do unthinkable things. However, if you can predict the outcome or reaction, that helps you.This is akin to Go or Chess. "How" you think of the board in story form (e.g. "Direction of Play") helps humans contextualize these predictions. This is the "theory" which helps us think around things, but it isn't the predictive measure itself (which constantly has to be updated with new information). This is why Go/Chess AI plays "unintuitive" moves which the Pros then spent a large amount of time trying to explain (and many moves cannot still be explained).One of my mantras in life is "never be disappointed by things you expected". The irony is that I repeat it often enough that my friends and family often repeat that to me when I'm disappointed about something. 😅😅😅
(DIR) Post #Au2QVJGZc0eBNjXBPU by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-05-12T23:21:07.197381Z
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🤔 Canada is the new Atlas and he just shrugged? 🤔🤔🤔
(DIR) Post #B0MEkN52pd6GSwVjwO by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-18T03:12:20.273800Z
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You should really share the most important part. 138K views.https://twiiit.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1989613656242622675Also this one is curious.https://twiiit.com/djspeicher/status/1990466450952269859The clip did not mention his stutter. In fact it's another video altogether (probably), as that's the one I just finished recently. I haven't seen/listened to the one posted by 🐀🤴🏻 yet.At this stage, even bad PR is better than none. It's a good sign that he can't be ignored anymore.Before I watched the clip I was thinking there was a downside to calling everyone out ➡️ that is they'd use it against him.But if THIS was the best example of a clip they could find to push the message out of how he's on a personal attack spree, they're trying very very very hard to sell it, including the coordination of the responders (who are pitching in their opinions to influence their followers)... well, he's making progress.This is a very useful clip by @jeffromearth https://stream.gigaohm.bio/w/dnov2XfnhJGnYKUozToUed. I believe IIRC that the cycle threshold has already been addressed in the clip (but double check yourself).
(DIR) Post #B0NO5IOMYGs8kfYiy8 by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-18T15:49:47.172327Z
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😆 The bot they used to manage their social media posts glitched. 😆😆😆https://fxtwitter.com/lucasnme123/status/1990570654568186005 (https://twiiit.com/lucasnme123/status/1990570654568186005)
(DIR) Post #B0NO5fSOnQlcHqclxA by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-18T16:47:31.319811Z
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This post is awesome as well. 😆https://x.com/natethelawyer/status/1990799472549572906 (https://twiiit.com/natethelawyer/status/1990799472549572906)Especially the comments by people who weren't at our concert. They don't know who Richard Urso is and some reported him!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂
(DIR) Post #B0UWBcGY0BAkXUKUSW by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-22T03:20:49.719398Z
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It's worse. It's not a coding error.It's a configuration error (e.g. config was too large), which triggered this codepath, which would have been caught if they had a sane cascading deployment strategy (instead of pushing it out to everything all at once w/o smoke tests). The failure is at a STRATEGIC level, not at a "coding level". No amount of better code is going to fix the stupidity of sending robot troops to the wrong front.Meanwhile the interwebs: Rust is the fault. They rewrote it in Rust. (cue: Plane flying over head meme...) Social media of ANY sorts has made people dumber, not smarter. Reading 1 blog post a day and thinking through it is probably better (even if the blogger is telling lies). It's the THINKING part we're dearly missing. It's not the algorithms. It's natural human behaviour in this setting. It's like saying don't join the J6 "mob", join this other mob instead. It's smarter. Let's Make Individualism Great Again. (Which I guess also means make disagreements civil and common again.)
(DIR) Post #B0UgEosQZPUq3tDJnk by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-22T04:25:48.863460Z
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That's how stupid the world is it seems. The stupidest things get propagated. Then others who know nothing about it learn to repeat it loudly. We're convinced somehow that we understand more than we know.If we repeat enough of these related things, soon we'll think we know something about it.But be careful of book/social/theory knowledge versus practical/experienced knowledge. One trumps that other by a WIDE margin. So if we know what we know because we "read" it somewhere, I would wait until I've tried to use that knowledge for something in a practical way before repeating it. If I cannot reason around it if conditions change, then I'm not ready to talk about it.I guarantee that you've witnessed this first hand. You'll read stuff about farming, watch videos, etc... only to do it and find there are another 100 important things that you need to be aware of and to change to get the outcome you expected. With that experience you can argue about many things on the topic including changing conditions. We would never think that someone who's just watched a video of it would have any credible input (or at least very little) to the task at hand, yet on the internet/social media, we allow this to happen all the time.We also believe that everything written in an article was CAREFULLY placed there when it is simply not true. During my HS years, we had a tragic accident resulting in the death of 3 boys. Many of us struggled to understand what happened and as a result, many reached out to talk to the families (e.g. those w/ connections, who were friends/family friends) and collectively in groups we reconstructed the story that was mostly consistent. Yet, when both the local news and newspapers reported it, they got the most basic facts wrong, let alone time of events. Based on this wrong evidence, I'm sure someone can paint an entire other "plausible" story, but none of that would have made it true. Only the students in a few groups would know everything that happened (and who's fault it was).Therefore if someone doesn't have practical knowledge about something, sure, listen to the idea, but be careful assigning it too much value. Be extra careful about assigning things that depend on that being true value as well. Certainly it's not out of the realm of possibility, but the chances are most likely slim because it's built upon a misunderstanding of how a core aspect of how something works. (The fad these days is AI and how everyone thinks they understand something about AI, yet not having even run Whisper locally to transcribe/translate something or some other local LLM.)
(DIR) Post #B0UkZnMTna7fGBWmqu by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-22T05:56:58.589507Z
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Anyone who's been 100% sure (or very very sure), probably doesn't know enough. Even when I'm sure, I know how very much unsure I am about key aspects that could completely change what I'm sure about. Anyone who's built things (especially where other people depend on those built things) knows what I'm talking about here. (If I'm building for myself, I can live w/ duct tape in many cases as I'll also be monitoring it for failure changes on the way... but if it's out of sight for any length of time... I better not be relying on memory to fix something).I guess the corollary is that the more sure someone is about something, the less practical knowledge they have of it.(I also find it amazing that many "researchers" in social media seem to have nearly zero experience in any of the fields they claim to have intimate studied knowledge about. Yet anyone in any field of specialization knows there are things that need to be "explained" to the lay person about that field in order for them to understand it because of things known/taken for granted in the field or even the subfield. So what are the chances that missing those key details they would get things right in their analysis? 🤔 And also that they can explain it to you so that you will fully understand the context and implications beyond their simple story/claim? They will know more about it than you, so what knowledge would you have to challenge any of it if the only knowledge about it came from that person or group?)
(DIR) Post #B0bmvX43v5v5C00Gtk by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-25T05:20:50.030976Z
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I've mentioned this before, but in case anyone has missed it. 😉 That means those 2TB SSD archives allegedly being shipped around the country/world are probably useless.If you're an archivist, you need redundant hot storage with magnetic or better offline storage on a rotation (local and off premises), probably using an anti-bitrot (ZFS/BTRFS/other COWFS w/checksums). (Probably wouldn't be terrible to also have encrypted Glacier (AWS) as another backup option. But ZFS with remote send is probably a decent option at 1 or more peering sites.)And if those words don't mean anything to you, then you're not a serious archivist. (Let alone issues about chain-of-custody and tampering/re-encoding WRT to admissible evidence – remember in the Rittenhouse trial, they verified the meta-data for the drone footage.)RT: https://social.lansky.name/users/hn250/statuses/115608316278267734
(DIR) Post #B0n9L4nZyALKmrREWG by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-12-01T01:34:11.148559Z
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Nice. You can archive/backup your Soapbox posts and then create just a static HTML of all of it (if this works) for your own reference later.RT: https://mastodon.tomodori.net/users/vga256/statuses/115640459514518049
(DIR) Post #B0uF3a2d1xCwItEmSu by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-12-04T05:53:55.829071Z
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Correct. Except Crucial is owned by Micron. So basically the assembler of their own chips in consumer form.Basically consumers will have expensive RAM for the foreseeable future (and SSDs, HDDs even, also other components like Mobos and processors; it'll even eat the used market). So hopefully you've bought all your compute needs for the next two years. 😉
(DIR) Post #B0vOrHjiSK0ykx7wDw by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-12-05T02:15:09.017260Z
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If only there was one USB standard. 🤔😆😜Also standard: ability for mobile type devices (e.g. like tablets) to send video output to a TV (or even a monitor); let alone the audio as well. 🤔
(DIR) Post #B1O1C9OxsMs5fjfvYu by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-12-18T20:42:08.047718Z
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16-year old and friends find an XSS vulnerability through SVGs on Mintlify which can be coaxed to serve up their own special SVG through the domains of X, Discord, etc (collecting a measly $11k in total) by trolling through publicly available source (tarballs) to discover not fully publicly documented routes with at least one other friend who independently found a similar but different vulnerability.But yeah, it's completely easy to deploy your own tech stack/infrastructure on the public web without working in the field full time or doing this kind of stuff for funsies everyday. I'm sure it's something anyone can learn to do. 😉 (Especially when one doesn't even know what the letters CVE mean. 🤔😉😜)(BTW, the fix for this can be non-trivial sometimes; although in this case, just blocking SVGs would suffice unless it's part of the core offering...)So yes, if you're planning to roll out infrastructure, keep it behind tailscale or some other gate unless you know what you're doing. (And no, I don't know what I'm doing.)RT: https://social.lansky.name/users/hn100/statuses/115742383149316965
(DIR) Post #B1shJS8itoBR6DnO3U by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-02T16:41:17.721765Z
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If one wants to take a look at the traction of the anti-vaccine movement has had, look no further than a Hacker News post about vaccines.You will find no resistance here. They all believe the lore so hard they might as well be preachers.RT: https://social.lansky.name/users/hn250/statuses/115826334930358636
(DIR) Post #B1squY7MXE3JwSvHNo by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-02T17:40:26.031365Z
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The visa versa is also true. Watching people in other non-tech disciplines opine about tech. Or even tech people no longer keeping up with tech opine about current and leading tech. Basically a little knowledge breeds arrogance.Think about it this way. Take a topic you really know because you work in it. Now explain a current phenomenon. Is there ever a simple explanation? Or does it almost always depend on understanding 5 other complex things in order to understand a "simple" explanation of it? Where if you explained the simple explanation to your peers, they would understand it but to anyone else you wouldn't even know where to start.Take for example why perhaps the stock market seems to be way up still. I've heard plenty of people online and IRL wonder out loud about it. They all offer perhaps one or two reasons but none of them comprehensively answer the question (or give it predictive power). It's not until there's a greater understanding with half a dozen reasons or more until the model starts to be useful.It's like saying the reason Twitter only originally allowed for 140 characters was to train AI. 🤪 How does that explain FB? 🤔 I'm sure there's absolutely no other technical reasons it could that number. Just like there's no technical reason why traditional RDBMS databases had VARCHAR field limits of 255 characters or why longer fields where added later in the form of "blobs". I'm sure it has nothing to do with indexing or serving anything at speed. I'm also sure it has nothing to do with the era when the platform was created. Most importantly I'm sure that as long as the text field is large enough computers are incapable of cutting up the text into pieces. Just like it's impossible for a process to cut up audio into 30s segments for processing. Whoops, did I just describe the Whisper algorithm. 🤔Basically if one uses a superficial understanding of the situation as the linchpin to their entire theory, and keeps doubling down on it until they stumble onto more evidence or abandons it altogether, one might want to reconsider how much weight we give those theories. Especially when we're in listening mode and not thinking/challenge mode where we can sharpen our own understandings. Especially in an environment that heavily discourages or even punishes that mode.Afterall the most precious thing we have are time and our thoughts/attention. We can never get back time we lost nor wasted thoughts. We have to put our efforts into things that measurably matter to our real lives.