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stallmanite··on K-9 Mail is back
I share your “rare grip” precisely and also adopted it to alleviate pinky pain. To add another anecdote to the pile I also prefer UI elements at the top although a toggle in settings or at least a configuration file would be best. I don’t understand my own preferences on this issue though because the arguments for the bottom position are completely convincing to me. (Thumb is closer, top of screen is better used for displaying messages, etc)
stallmanite··on GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
Thanks for posting this. As someone who was almost religiously excited about GPT3 then progressively more annoyed that I could never get access to the point of giving up this is wonderful news. Your blog post is an invaluable starting point. Seriously thanks
stallmanite··on Telehack – Simulation of a Stylized Arpanet/Usenet Circa 1985-1990
Digging the aesthetic.
stallmanite··on Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity
Just point them at a multipool and you can set it up to auto-switch to whatever "shitcoin" is currently most profitable and auto convert everything to BTC (or your output coin of choice). As someone who lived through the original GPU->FPGA->ASIC arms race it's surprising to me but you can make decent amounts of BTC with just a high end CPU let alone GPU rigs or old sha256 ASICs.
stallmanite··on The Aphex Face (2010)
Wow thanks for the tip on "Blood-Evil" been a fan for decades and it never occurred to me. Also was really into Gescom back in the day so maybe people who like hiding data in recordings have good taste.
stallmanite··on Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content
They still buy cds
stallmanite··on The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009)
Well said. Reading Banks was the first time as an adult that I had hope for the future. The resulting exhilaration literally kept me up for a couple days. Later the same year he passed and it brought home to me the gratitude I have to him for expanding my conception of what a good future (in the context of humans and super-intelligence co-existing) could be.
stallmanite··on Public Lab calls for the immediate removal of Richard Stallman
“How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look?” - Bob Marley
stallmanite··on What Went Wrong with IBM’s Watson
Was skeptical about a Slate article but they pretty much nailed it.
stallmanite··on Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
Dumb question: How does this differ from setting the view in the file selector to thumbnails?
stallmanite··on Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online
Serious question: Are you asserting that imagining women naked is wrong in the general case?
stallmanite··on Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online
What problems does this material cause generally?
stallmanite··on AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
Your argument doesn’t follow. How would being a software developer be the worst job because they “automate their own work away” when in fact they’d have a job until they automated everyone’s work away? It’s likely a given developer would reach retirement before that happens. Meanwhile tons of other people are out of a job.
stallmanite··on Microsoft's CEO is tired of working from home and he's not alone
Wow Nadella just passed Ballmer as my least favorite Microsoft CEO. Who could possibly endorse this idea in good faith? It sounds like something you’d use to keep 10-13 year olds accountable for schoolwork not something fitting for adults in a dynamic working environment.
stallmanite··on IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
This is an excellent question that I’ve never seen addressed. Replying just to call attention to it in the hopes that someone knowledgeable HN’ers can answer. It seems like cloud would quickly become a commodity but I have no special insight.
stallmanite··on Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a rebrand
If you’re searching for terrible terrible captchas though, it’s the undisputed champion.
stallmanite··on The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Ok that explains how space becomes timelike. But I never hear anyone address how time becomes spacelike. In what sense does it become spacelike? Can one move back and forth in time inside the event horizon?
stallmanite··on John Pilger – Witness to the Agony of Julian Assange
Can anyone point to anything to support the state’s case here? It seems perverse and like they’re not even pretending to seek justice.
stallmanite··on Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)
The substance starting with a D was probably Dextroamphetamine. It’s the old standard and has been around forever. It’s basically Adderall with just the R isomer rather than a mixture of Levo & Dextro isomers.
stallmanite··on Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries' virtual shelves
The local library here makes a point of never keeping a history of what books you’ve checked out. It’s actually been a problem for me when trying to remember something I read a few years back. They’re pretty big proponents of privacy.
stallmanite··on Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
Hypothetically because I’d be using it as a monitor part time and using the built in shit the other part of the time? In actuality I do as you suggest and don’t ever connect the thing to the internet. Operation Weeping Angel was enough to convince me of that.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/weeping-angel/

stallmanite··on Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
So if I’m using a Samsung TV as a monitor and working on sensitive or classified material the damn thing is taking screenshots and uploading them? Yikes
stallmanite··on Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform
The management maybe. I have a hard time believing that the rank and file engineers get to call the shots on this garbage. I have no special insight into how Samsung works internally though.
stallmanite··on Industrial Literacy
How do you propose to force people to move?
stallmanite··on The Airline Industry's Meltdown
Comsider the situation if they removed the bathrooms. What’s the plan when inevitably somebody didn’t plan ahead or gets sick? A very unpleasant ride / the whole cabin watching their fellow flyer urinate (or worse) in the aisle? Seems like a complete nonstarter.
stallmanite··on Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian
In the back yard, yes.
stallmanite··on Fatal brain-eating microbe found in Lake Jackson, Texas water supply
Aka punched in the face.
stallmanite··on After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories
I have felt this quite strongly but never quite articulated it. Thank you for the clarity.
stallmanite··on A device to restore vision to the blind is being prepared for clinical trials
I’m not blind and don’t personally know any blind people but I can imagine that blind people have heard of television at this point and the more curious among them have familiarized themselves with the technical implementation. Therefore a blind person understanding what resolution means shouldn’t necessarily be surprising.
stallmanite··on Linux Journal Is Back
Natalie Portman, Hot Grits, Beowulf clusters.
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