Remote
jb
@jb@masto.hackers.town
mastodon
4.6.6
I'm nothing but a small cute robot gorilla.
40
Followers
159
Following
41
Posts
Joined April 17, 2025
Old Mastodon:
jb@hackers.town
Site:
jb.caustic.org
Posts
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116896966009765711
In this thread, a whole bunch of people explain mass surveillance social impact to Eva.
Quoting
An excellent piece from Vogue about Meta's continuing attempt to make their "smart glasses" fashionable and cool that makes all of the right points about the ways in which normalizing ubiquitous surveillance creates a world we don't want to live in.
https://www.vogue.com/article/do-smart-glasses-have-a-surveillance-problem
Open quoted post
Replying to
@evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io thanks. Kicked that to a person I know who‘s been involved with non-profit operations for a while.
Looks like a bad ass job, overall. I’m absolutely not qualified.
Replying to
@evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io @k8em0@infosec.exchange
Really, this means the push for larger scale sovereign LLM projects in other nations.
I still feel like these systems are mostly hype, for obvious reasons. And here, Anthropic got bitten by their own marketing and hype engine.
Replying to
@evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io I can’t even let myself do that. Hurts a bit.
RE: @ubahnverleih@chaos.social
Polaroid is still a joy to shoot with. I’m glad this was saved.
Replying to
@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
@hacks4pancakes I know more a few gay Singaporeans.
I’m glad the place is safe for them. I want the rest of the world to have that feeling.
Replying to
@evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io SF really needs to push back on the 2am shit in California in general.
The loss of all those late night places for post show noshing has been a sore point for years.
Replying to
@woozle@toot.cat
Replying to
@woozle@toot.cat
@woozle@toot.cat
It‘s not just that it‘s a bad idea, it‘s a solution looking for a problem to solve.
The only advantage in having anything beyond basic communications satellites and telescopes in orbit is solar power.
That‘s it. Everything else increases complexity while gaining very little.
@cstross@wandering.shop
Replying to
@jb@masto.hackers.town
@woozle@toot.cat Even then, it's not actually economical if the customers aren't willing to pay extra for the resources, which will be highly latent in a world that despises latency.
You end up with Sealand all over again, where the idea is better than the implementation ever can be.
Eventually, you have orbiting scrap, cluttering the sky, slowly decaying in orbit.
@cstross@wandering.shop
Replying to
@woozle@toot.cat
@woozle@toot.cat
It'd have to be as cheap as shipping a fully laden 40ft intermodal (ISO 668) container from Oakland to Shanghai before its actually economical. That's about $3000 USD for the container, not counting cargo, insurance, etc.. Max capacity is about 30500 kg.
That's getting a datacenter in orbit, securely, with cooling, radiators, shielding, power, and redundancy for under $3/kg.
That's not going to happen.
@cstross@wandering.shop
Replying to
@woozle@toot.cat
@woozle@toot.cat
Take a standard "household" laser, and point it at the sensor of a normal digital camera. That'll simulate the degradation of a CMOS in orbit pretty effectively, and slightly faster.
@cstross@wandering.shop
Replying to
@jb@masto.hackers.town
@woozle
So, if you put a bunch of computers in orbit, ignoring the hard problems like heat, cooling, moving heat away from sensitive components, per KG fuel costs to get it in orbit, fitting the shit in to geostationary, or other high orbit.
You still have "how do you deal with equipment failures and loss of components" and "get enough up there to ensure redundancy".
I don't know if you've built a datacenter, but that's a bunch of mass to move.
@cstross
Replying to
@woozle@toot.cat
@woozle
Space is a little more hostile than the deepest parts of the ocean. Except in one way: there's no atmosphere to block the nastiest bits of radiation out there.
Computers really do not like radiation. They like it less than DNA does, and are more sensitive to it. And the smaller the fab size of the chip is, the more sensitive it'll be to ionizing radiation.
@cstross
Replying to
@alienghic@timeloop.cafe
@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @evacide@hachyderm.io
It is incredibly hard to estimate demand for a new service that hasn’t existed until now.
Replying to
@abortretryfail@mastodon.social
@abortretryfail @syllopsium @gwenhael @felix
I’m not sure BusyBox counts. It is, frankly, the anti-Unix of tooling.
Replying to
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
Replying to
@syllopsium@peoplemaking.games
@syllopsium @gwenhael @felix
I can’t think of any Linux distribution that has vi by default in its minimal install.
If I have to get it installed by accessing the network, attaching a device, bootstrapping a new filesystem, it is not installed. QED.
Replying to
@gwenhael@mastodon.sdf.org
- I had a couple failures that made me use ed. A few more where I had to do some editing abusing deeper file handing in the OS.
And, yes I do like vi, the point of having vi keybindings in my IDE.
Replying to
@syllopsium@peoplemaking.games
Modern Linux environment doesn’t have vi by default.
Replying to
@gwenhael@mastodon.sdf.org
Replying to
@jb@masto.hackers.town
@cooperq@masto.hackers.town so, since Bishop was kidnapped from SF…
Replying to
@cooperq@masto.hackers.town
@cooperq@masto.hackers.town from SF, there are four bridges you can cross without crossing another bridge first.
Replying to
@eyrea@mstdn.ca
@eyrea@mstdn.ca @evacide@hachyderm.io I disagree. While cities and towns may be different, the threat models from drugs, behavior, etc, are not that different.
Perception of danger is its own thing, and I suspect no one will like what I'll say.
Replying to
@eyrea@mstdn.ca
@eyrea@mstdn.ca @evacide@hachyderm.io
There’s a wide gulf between unfriendly and dangerous. A city can be unfriendly without you risking death by just being there.
Dangerous cities implies risk to life, limb, or items. I should be prepared for someone to take my wallet at knife point in a dangerous city.
I don’t expect to get stabbed in the liver for stopping to gawk at something in an unfriendly city.
Replying to
@evacide@hachyderm.io
@evacide@hachyderm.io I recently had an American claiming Brussels, and Berlin are dangerous and scary.
Having spent time in some actually dangerous places, I have to wonder what suburban hell they grew up in.
Replying to
@richarddegenne@mastodon.online
@richarddegenne@mastodon.online @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social what is usage, then?
Is my usage of “ping” leveraging the tool, or am I just too damn lazy to build my own socket and packet?
What is “proper usage” of an LLM or LRM? If any amount of it is bad, there is no usage at all, just over reliance.
Replying to
@richarddegenne@mastodon.online
@richarddegenne@mastodon.online @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
But that’s not even usage, then. You’ve solved the problem already.
Replying to
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social so, if over-reliance makes you dumb, what does simple usage make you?