Post B4BpnFEsK4gpSRg5Q0 by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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(DIR) Post #B4BpnCnrNXtLu51U24 by joel@polymaths.social
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I keep being tempted by this e-ink device :BlobCatDerpy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-CpgERePSY
(DIR) Post #B4BpnD22WpEac3eo8O by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@joelTempting price, but no built-in illuminator and maybe a proprietary ebook format? Not sure.
(DIR) Post #B4BpnDCftHk192dIi8 by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelProprietary format? It uses EPUB. And only DRM-free ebooks.
(DIR) Post #B4BpnDONBn6BjK6dwe by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelAnd it's opened up somewhat officially for alternate firmware like CrossPoint: https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
(DIR) Post #B4BpnDUko4Ce375jtI by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelimo physical page turn buttons are a bigger deal than built-in light. And the price point is really compelling.
(DIR) Post #B4BpnDcuJkj0SOuFbE by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joel(I will probably be buying this when back in the US.)
(DIR) Post #B4BpnDmTkANgw5NtWC by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @joelWhen might that be? ;)I mean, with all that's going on, I sure wouldn't be in a hurry to come back. XD
(DIR) Post #B4BpnDw3Aa2NPlrXRA by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelMy family has been planning to be back this summer. They only really have an opportunity every other year, so they take it. I'm kinda toying with the idea of staying behind and writing, but I haven't seen my cousins in a couple years and this would be a chance to see them again…
(DIR) Post #B4BpnE7OUP6xyxAb7Q by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @joelJust curious, where do your cousins live that you haven't seen them while you were still living here?(You can fuzz the details, obvs.)
(DIR) Post #B4BpnEE85MV0JqJycK by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelThe ones in California are the ones in question. Saw them once while my family was in the US.My "nephews" (my twin youngest cousins, whose mom keeps accidentally calling me their "Uncle Benjamin") are turning five this summer!!! 🥴
(DIR) Post #B4BpnELvcMjmi1yCm0 by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelMy oldest cousin is about to start college!
(DIR) Post #B4BpnEUn5PpJ9W7HaS by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @joelI'm sure you can give them lots of pointers! ;)
(DIR) Post #B4BpnEcacQ45XhlVk8 by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelDone! I've been chatting with them on Signal, giving tips on dual booting Linux, and got them into Fosstodon.…is there another way to do college?
(DIR) Post #B4BpnEmW1W0M2UPRDM by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @joellol, literally following your footsteps.I know you're joking, because in reality, you'd get them to join polymaths. ;)
(DIR) Post #B4BpnEx9NyVmZTNvn6 by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelActually, they asked to join Polymaths and I said no.
(DIR) Post #B4BpnF5esLJizrMj3I by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joelI… kinda made a rule that I don't want family members in a community I run. Big conflict of interest from a moderation standpoint, and a big mental burden for me.Plus, family is the one thing I don't break anonymity about online, and having a family member in the same small online community would kinda ruin that. So we interact some here but I won't be shouting out their account as belonging to my cousin. ;)
(DIR) Post #B4BpnFEsK4gpSRg5Q0 by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @joelAh, that makes sense.Interesting that fosstodon was your recommendation. I guess they've cleared their name (from your perspective) from previous moderation oopsies. ;)
(DIR) Post #B4BpnFN1plDBrjUb7w by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@amin @joel @rl_dane they did not, but we unblocked them nevertheless.
(DIR) Post #B4BpqqyeT8oFMzoIEK by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@joel @rl_dane @amin stay behind and write. For a few more years, until this bakes over…
(DIR) Post #B4C4PyDCxdVvImG3CC by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos @joel @amin...or until we're just BAKED. 😆
(DIR) Post #B4C4PyS64HQK2xDwP2 by thedoctor@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @joel @amin I really can't imagine any one of you getting baked and Amin least of all.
(DIR) Post #B4C4PycNS3eAYq29QW by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@thedoctor @mirabilos @joel @aminNot THAT kind of baked.
(DIR) Post #B4C4PykswQS6zE0wgi by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@joel @thedoctor @rl_dane @amin what am I missing?
(DIR) Post #B4C4VFNSZH0nzGZM4e by joel@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos @amin @rl_dane we did tho :3
(DIR) Post #B4C4VFYnt65OYRsPku by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@joel @mirabilos @aminThe question wasn't whether fosstodon tried to make up for previous mistakes, but whether or not they had done so to amin's satisfaction.As for me, I have no particular beef with them, was very happy for my time there, and would recommend them freely.
(DIR) Post #B4C4VFj5GsJF4KgcmO by joel@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos the truth is @amin wants to sabotage me!
(DIR) Post #B4C4VFt0fyFVZ7KYFc by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@joel @mirabilos @aminIn what sense?
(DIR) Post #B4C4VG2w54Bm3tyTiq by joel@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @amin just a joke hahaLike, I wouldn't want my family to be anywhere near the fediverse, or anyone I know IRL tbh, it's just weird to think about for some reason
(DIR) Post #B4C4VGDDSqPcZmmgkK by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@joel @mirabilos @aminSamesies, at least for family.Close friends already know I'm weird. XD
(DIR) Post #B4C4VGMmtG4J3TGKfI by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @amin @joel I was a bit confused at this, but if you replace "family" with "those related to me by blood", and "friends" with "friends and family", I’m in.
(DIR) Post #B4Ch8CvbP9hRwVXmxE by amin@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos @joel @rl_daneI have family in the US who I only get to see every couple years. I’d rather not miss the chance if I can.
(DIR) Post #B4Ch8D6ElcCsTUWHWy by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @amin @joel perhaps, but it’s extremely dangerous, even as a citizen.
(DIR) Post #B4DgzPkuXMe4HKJILQ by thedoctor@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos Not sure what your confusion is but in case you weren't aware: "baked" == "high on drugs (not sure if any drug or something more specific, I associate this with pot but I could be mistaken)".@joel @rl_dane @amin
(DIR) Post #B4DgzPyNjHQ8x6c3LE by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@thedoctor @mirabilos @joel @aminThey took "baked" as meaning high on drugs, particularly cannabis, but I used "baked" as a synonym for "cooked" which in genz parlance means "a really bad situation."
(DIR) Post #B4DgzQAR0T3tYUFg80 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@thedoctor @amin @joel @rl_dane ah, didn’t know that connotation with drugs.
(DIR) Post #B4DhXjJWKJ9imbrT5k by kabel42@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @amin @joel what pointers do you need? int? char? void? ohh... ;)
(DIR) Post #B4DhXjVZbUnTNzV5sW by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@kabel42 @amin @joelheh, I was going to make a joke about pointers to functions, which was the most cursed form of pointers I could think of.
(DIR) Post #B4DhXjigojHy2fdZK4 by kabel42@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @amin @joel to me those feel the least cursed, but maybe thats just because they look the same as in python
(DIR) Post #B4DhXjqqKPoKRxS520 by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@kabel42 @amin @joelWait... python lets you have pointers to functions.That's very weird.I thought pointers to functions was just for people who wanted to do OOP in C. :P
(DIR) Post #B4DhXk51Th9Z9w5P8K by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @kabel42 @amin @joel ? No.Callbacks are the natural use.
(DIR) Post #B4Dhl9RQUpq7a3xWvQ by kabel42@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @amin @joel you can pass functions to other function, which is probably the only reason you want pointers to functions?
(DIR) Post #B4Dhl9kZLf9UXQuolM by amin@polymaths.social
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@kabel42 @rl_dane @joelThe one really annoying thing about Python to me is that anonymous functions (lambdas) can only be one line of code. JavaScript has awesome anonymous functions that are so useful…
(DIR) Post #B4DhlA5q4aALbOrnuq by kabel42@polymaths.social
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@amin @rl_dane @joel if you need more than a line, just give it a name :BlobCat:
(DIR) Post #B4DhlAM95xD4PyUpKi by amin@polymaths.social
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@kabel42 @rl_dane @joelAh, but I am! In one spot in Ariadne's codebase, I'm wanting to assign functions to the values in a dictionary. So there is a key in the dictionary; I want to be able to refer to it via, say parsers['body']['html']['function'] (that way I can iterate through each metadata field in a standard way and call the function to parse it from a page) but for a multi-line function I have to name it separately and then reference it in the dictionary.
(DIR) Post #B4DhlApDLsShs862ds by amin@polymaths.social
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@kabel42 @rl_dane @joelMakes the script's namespace more complicated than it needs to be.
(DIR) Post #B4DhlBBY0qKIzOXsS8 by kabel42@polymaths.social
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@amin @rl_dane @joel but can't youdef fun(): a = "FOOOOOO!!!" def bar(): print(a) parsers['body']['html']['function'] = bar
(DIR) Post #B4DhlBPjA7fXhNBCYS by amin@polymaths.social
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@kabel42 @rl_dane @joelMaybe? I wanted the dictionary to be in the global namespace, though…
(DIR) Post #B4DhlBgOAAzqX2yVWa by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@amin @kabel42 @rl_dane @joelparsers = {}parsers['body'] = {}#…def fun(parsers): a = "FOOOOOO!!!" def bar(): print(a) parsers['body']['html']['function'] = barfun(parsers)
(DIR) Post #B4DiZRQrse3PrFg6wS by kabel42@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos @amin @rl_dane @joelordef fun(): global parsers a = "FOOOOOO!!!" def bar(): print(a) parsers['body']['html']['function'] = bareither way, bar doesn't pollute the global namespace
(DIR) Post #B4DiZRf31vOeZEJR2m by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @kabel42 @amin @joel yeah
(DIR) Post #B4DidM5fgQU8Rsd78i by amin@polymaths.social
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@kabel42 @mirabilos @rl_dane @joelSure, but now fun() does. And it's a much less clear way to write the code than just assigning anonymous functions as values in a dictionary definition.
(DIR) Post #B4DidMN2dqNbJkkzDM by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@joel @rl_dane @amin @kabel42 "but now fun() does" you need to have a function anyway
(DIR) Post #B4Dihp5DpZiLWhYAOe by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@kabel42 @joel @rl_dane @amin just put it where you’d put the lambda
(DIR) Post #B4DpCYivIyc9UR9wLQ by spaceraser@polymaths.social
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@joel @rl_dane @mirabilos @amin If it gets back to the locals that I'm a radical leftist pacifist raccoon, I'd be completely unemployable
(DIR) Post #B4DpCYw2WD6e97IPmy by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@spaceraser @joel @mirabilos @aminI relate. XD...'cept for the raccoon part. ;)
(DIR) Post #B4DpCZ5xvJ2udtwLGC by spaceraser@polymaths.social
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@joel @rl_dane @amin @mirabilos at least in Kansas they wouldn’t just shoot me like in the Greatest Nation on Earth, where you are.
(DIR) Post #B4DpCZGFJ5Gl9mkYHg by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@spaceraser @joel @amin @mirabilosWhy are your mentions out of order? XD
(DIR) Post #B4DpCZMyu2enUftvma by spaceraser@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @joel @amin @mirabilos i guess it's a bug/feature of feditext on ios.
(DIR) Post #B4DpCZWCLm1txGDI9I by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@amin @spaceraser @rl_dane @joel known bug
(DIR) Post #B4DpGBVZYqcseBdxGy by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos @amin @joelThe unfortunate reality is, if you can pass of as white, and have USA stamped as the country of your birth, you're fine.
(DIR) Post #B4DpGBhcq2GdFZHa3k by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @amin @joel aaaah, but that’s not true any more either. And if they see what he posts on "social media"…
(DIR) Post #B4E4yKVAz09KauxxMO by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos @amin @joelI don't think the... uh... gestapo-of-unbranching-family-trees knows to look at the fediverse. ;)
(DIR) Post #B4E4yKsvYh9Fma4vNg by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @amin @joel wouldn’t be that sure, and I heard you have to disclose “social media” accounts when attempting to enter
(DIR) Post #B4EFiVYTDdIvjnAIHw by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@mirabilos @amin @joelEasy, "I don't have any."When they ask for facebook, twitter, etc., you just truthfully answer, "No." ;)
(DIR) Post #B4EFiVtjwYJmnl7HRQ by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @amin @joel suspect!
(DIR) Post #B4EeeYgw74RLA3L2zg by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @joelWas just reading the other day about an LLM setup being developed that can identify people across many websites purely from the contents of their posts… I should see if I can find that again
(DIR) Post #B4EeeYsHQtVvjEe6fw by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@amin @rl_dane @joel yikes…
(DIR) Post #B4EetAEZKO4teR2BYu by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@amin @rl_dane @joel … and, this is something LLMs are probably good for, and something permitted by the TDM exception to copyright (though the PII parts are probably still not legit from things like GDPR PoV)
(DIR) Post #B4Fm0KVmPMFgOIPO1A by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @joelNo, but they’ll happily instruct an LLM to do it for them and summarize the results.
(DIR) Post #B4Fm0KljS30pBls7sm by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @joelEven using the platform is probably a red flag.
(DIR) Post #B4Fm0Kver8x5gYW3M0 by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @mirabilos @joelProbably, but I doubt they know to ask about it, and most folks don't use their real names on here.
(DIR) Post #B4Fm0L5wEvAwCRKGNU by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @joelI do, which was the point of Mir's statement. ;)
(DIR) Post #B4Fm0LFVfKpcg7nuIS by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @joelhttps://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymizationSaw the link described in another post; haven't read it yet.
(DIR) Post #B4Fm0LON8Nv97bwz6u by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@rl_dane @joel @amin lts;dr
(DIR) Post #B4Fm5og9fqZbOvsTOS by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @mirabilos @joelYou might be overestimating their intelligence. XD(I guess I'm referring mainly to the agents, not the LLMs)
(DIR) Post #B4Fm5oywXzbOLCfTg8 by amin@polymaths.social
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@rl_dane @mirabilos @joelYou're under the impression that I think asking an LLM to do work for you is intelligent?
(DIR) Post #B4Fm5pAdqUxYvU8oue by rl_dane@polymaths.social
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@amin @mirabilos @joelKnowing what to ask, knowing where to look to collect the data, yeah.
(DIR) Post #B4Fm5pMh7gbJWrmRhQ by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@amin @rl_dane @joel only if they do it themselves