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droopybunson Everyone in Seattle hates AI

Hey man- hang in there.

FWIW: I realized this year that there are whole cohorts of management people who have absolutely zero relationship with the words that they speak. Literal tabula rasas who convert their thoughts to new words with no attachment to past statements/goals.

Put another way: Liars exist and operate all around you in the top tier of the FAANGS rn.

droopybunson Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen

Cargo cultist stem aficionados write sentences like “Can we fix it back?”

droopybunson Columbia University has a doxxing problem

Not a compelling argument.

These people are putting their bodies on the line. It is a public protest. I cannot infer anything other than that they’re willing to risk everything, including their privacy to defend their ideas.

droopybunson Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012)

Captive portal detection is endlessly buggy.

droopybunson What not to say to someone who has just been laid off

Loss of revenue puts people at risk of famine and indentured servitude.

This isn't a cultural thing. Human evolution is ugly. Evolution's filter function is death. If you can't feed yourself, nature will use you for food.

You are coming from a place of extreme privilege lamenting that people get stressed about losing a job. It's not a minor inconvenience if you're working on something you think is important. Button pushers have little to mourn. People working on big projects have to establish new goals for themselves & align themselves with an entirely new professional network. These are not minor things.

droopybunson NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts

It does serve a purpose. It announces to everyone in their vicinity that this fragile human is deficient and should only be interacted with via great caution.

edit: I don't understand the downvotes here. Is it considered poor manners to point out that people don't get to control how people perceive them?

droopybunson Show HN: Podcast API

More interesting alternative: https://podcastindex.org/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=...

droopybunson Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life

This story is like a true crime story written by an unreliable narrator.

“It was dark by now. I was tipsy, but not more so than a regular Saturday night.”

What a strange piece of [fiction || non-fiction].

droopybunson In-person DEF CON 28 cancelled

Altspace vr

droopybunson The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017)

These kinds of sites give me anxiety.

It isn’t good to see large communities of humans burning mental calories to come to the same set of conclusions (I’m on team sandwich because $REASON | I’m on team taco because $REASON). It is a mental D.o.s. directed towards humans that tend towards herding.

droopybunson Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation

I’d like some data that supports the claim that the zoning was racist by design.

Minneapolis is a farming transit hub that expanded organically. I don’t understand the underlying claims of racism here.

droopybunson Facebook's seized files published by MPs

I disagree with something you said:

>>To take a person and alias them into being "good" or "bad" based on an action or a series of actions is to explicitly dehumanize them

The only reliable method for evaluating someone’s values is to assess the choices they make. What values do their actions suggest? Do these choices affect your ability to trust these people?

I fundamentally disagree that it dehumanizes to do this, and I also fundamentally disagree that anyone intends to dehumanize them with this approach. I find it troubling that anyone expresses such a black and white assessment of people trying to determine where others should fit in the herd.

Put another way:

the only way to judge someone’s ethics is by evaluating their action and comparing it against their words.

droopybunson Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offerings

professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music producer Khaled Khaled, known as DJ Khaled

droopybunson Raspberry Pi WLAN setup

Did you try adding another wifi adapter? I’m not sure I understand your question well- seems like this is easy to resolve.

droopybunson SIM Card Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor

Yeah- I agree. Reconfigure the APN on the network side and you have clearly isolated the source of given traffic.

This is either a government honeypot, or it should be rebranded as “rusty trombone.”

droopybunson Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20

GSM does not have meaningful tower auth. It does have UE authentication.

droopybunson Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20

>> 4.) It only works on GSM, i.e 2G. Hardly anyone uses that these days. (I don't know if a similar passive approach would work on 3G and 4G, it may be that only software is required in order to support more than 2G).

Do you have some data that supports this claim? I haven't gone sniffing recently- but I believe T-mobile is still wed to 2G for the foreseeable future, and internationally, 2G is still in a lot of countries. I believe one northern european telco is going to decommission their UMTS network and support both LTE & GPRS.

droopybunson A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266

Hey- if you are the author, I want to say I support what you are doing. We need more projects like this. But when I read the source, looks pretty lean to me in terms of follow on functionality. Would love to help you expand on this.

droopybunson A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266

No.

This is an adorable project that assumes people who are familiar with nmap regularly scan whatever they can.

It’s cute, but I’d expect it to be pretty dull to watch.

droopybunson Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit” - Somerset Maugham

droopybunson Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom

I doubt that was necessary. Many of the telcos use atrocious pin security for voicemails- and they fail to prevent spoofed calls to their voicemail servers. Makes for a bad combination.

SS7 hacking to achieve that end would be a higher barrier to entry and more likely to get caught.

droopybunson Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

Friday nonsense. I can’t conceive that MS would yet again hitch themselves to a failing os.

If you want to make money in mobile, you have to prioritize iOS.

droopybunson Let Teenagers Sleep In

>> but the stress itself from not getting enough sleep can cause me to get up early again in a bit of a viscious cycle

This resonates with me.

droopybunson Let Teenagers Sleep In

>>I'm never going to become an early riser.

FWIW: I used to feel this way before I entered my 40’s.

droopybunson How Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (2016)

That’s just like, your propaganda, man.

droopybunson How Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (2016)

>>This is local propaganda by ...

I promise you I am not a Russian bot. My neighbors aren't either. We sincerely don't trust these groups.

Why escalate to claiming an opinion you disagree with is propaganda?

droopybunson How Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (2016)

https://m.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/King-County-Coun...

https://crosscut.com/2018/04/salmon-tribes-should-beat-washi...

And just try getting a building permit in unincorporated king county.

King county apparently exists for either Seattle, or anyone but King County citizens.

droopybunson How Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (2016)

Part of the problem is that King County and the Seattle city council have all alienated a major chunk of constituents.

It’s bad enough to endure a tax increase- but the leaders end up fucking over the landowners so much that even if they know it would be for the best, nobody trusts them to spend the cash the way they promised.

droopybunson What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet?

I feel like one of the truly unique aspects of American millennials is the widespread abandonment of a commitment to free speech.

It is so disheartening to hear people who earnestly equate physical violence with offensive speech. Mastodon offers a forum for people who see the wisdom of a commitment to free speech.

droopybunson Google’s first all-hands after 2016 election [video]

Reason:

Narcissist finds it convienient to assume all who disagree with them are ethnonationalists.