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barganzoon Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission

Just add larry@google.com to a GCP server churning out “inappropriate” Stable Diffusion images. The bug will be solved in no time at all.

barganzoon Young adults and mental health: Is more childhood independence the answer?

> A video call is literally only a Skype or a Discord away. Talking to someone is literally just a phone call away.

Literally zero of my Discord contacts would ever respond to a video call let alone a voice call let alone an invite to a common voice chat. Nobody uses Skype anymore. I don’t know what age group you’re in, but it sure sounds like the “happy go lucky, internet has only ever been socially profitable for me” 35-50 yo range.

> Fucking social media swamps you in the presence of others.

Fucking social media swamps you in the “impression” you are in the presence of others while leaving you in a tiny little jail cell where you can’t interact with any of the pretty pictures hurrying across the barred window of your cell.

barganzoon Bill introduced to replace HF symbol rate limit with bandwidth limit

That’s worse than I recalled. Disappointing.

barganzoon NixOS on M1

Right, but to not even open the linked page when it is so tiny seems an obvious mistake.

barganzoon TSMC starts volume production of 3nm chips

If you can’t do that stuff right now with today’s CPUs, in sub-realtime, then throwing more/faster CPU at it won’t make it possible.

barganzoon NixOS on M1

The linked site is GitHub which has neither of those things.

barganzoon NixOS on M1

How does copying the first paragraph of the linked README and adding three words improve the conversation?

barganzoon In the world of astrophysics, one failed cancel campaign led to another

Seems like a lot of people are very excited about throwing IBJIYONGI [0] under the bus for being outspoken but few are actually interested in reading Nasa's account of the situation [1:2] released in November:

> Based on the available evidence, the agency does not plan to change the name of the James Webb Space Telescope. However, the report illuminates that this period in federal policy – and in American history more broadly – was a dark chapter that does not reflect the agency’s values today. Understanding this history will help to guide NASA in its work to advance full equality for LGBTQI+ Americans, and equal opportunities for LGBTQI+ NASA employees. By sharing these findings, we also hope to promote public understanding of the history of discrimination against LGBTQI+ employees throughout the federal government and strengthen our efforts to confront the barriers that LGBTQI+ Americans continue to face.

It is disappointing that most of the pro-change activists continue to waste their breath arguing semantics instead of letting it go. It must sting for the engineers and scientists working on JWST to see so many non-stakeholders still complaining about the name.

It is more disappointing that so many new members of the conversation seem happiest to tear down and bully the individuals who asked for change. Eternal September, yet again.

[0] If you are trying to decipher the intimidating username, it is explained here: https://medium.com/@chanda/why-i-took-a-break-from-twitter-e...

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_hi...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-shares-james-webb-history-...

barganzoon Bill introduced to replace HF symbol rate limit with bandwidth limit

9cm is absolutely not gone. You must be misinformed. FCC gave up on killing it after massive opposition.

http://www.arrl.org/band-plan