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LMAO totally forgot about this tattoo I'm getting tomorrow. It's gonna be a two tailed cat cyclopse that's crying and praying.

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jonny (good kind)

reading Ford's "autonomous vehicles reposess themselves" patent and this is some grim, if completely expected stuff.

"Typically, the owner is uncooperative at this time and may attempt to impete the reposession operation. In some cases this can lead to confrontation. It is therefore desirable to provide a solution to address this issue."

They describe
- Escalating pressure, including disabling air conditioning/heating to "cause an additional level of discomfort to a driver and occupants of the vehicle"
- Emitting "an incessant and unpleasant sound every time the owner is present in the vehicle. The reposession system computer may also ensure that the owner is unable to turn off the sound without first making contact with the lending institution."
- Locking your car in a geofence so you can only use it to drive to work and get groceries, to not "adversely affecting a livelihood of the owner of the vehicle and hampering the owner's ability to make payments towards the vehicle."
- Yes, of course, the central component is that they want to be able to have your car drive itself to the tow lot and impound itself, but also "If the market value of the vehicle is below the pre-determined threashold price, the reposession computer may autonomously move the vehicle from the premises of the owner to a junkyard" - the logic of which is bog-typical **vile** for capitalism, they would rather it be scrapped than used by a poor person.

image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearc

#AIHell #SurveillanceHell #InternetOfShit #AutonomousVehicles #CrushAllRadiosInCarsWithNeedlenosePliers

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live tooting debugging: IPFS edition 

Digging around some more I think it might be the key resolution that's a bottleneck.

Right now most implementations rely on asking a bunch of DHT nodes for the "latest" record and checking them before letting the client know what CID to use. This can be super slow especially if results aren't getting cached agressively. The DHT is also generally slow with TCP connections for each request.

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@jalcine Boss makes a dime and I make a nickle. I'm writing grants and eating this pickle. 😜

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guns, death 

@ariadne @demize @adrienne Huh, TIL. I thought assult rifles were the ones that shoot a bunch of bullets really fast so you can kinda spray and pray and hit a bunch of people at once.

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guns, death 

@demize @ariadne @adrienne Honestly, banning assult rifles seems kinda realistic since they seem to be made for mass murder. 😅 I think most of the long guns are here are made for hunting, though some folks also use fancier things for shooting ranges. I'm not very well connected to Canadian gun culture though so I might be missing a lot of nuance.

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live tooting debugging: IPFS edition 

We've got a working version of distributed.press deployed to our staging VMm but for some reason it's taking a long time to load anything (usually the first load times out). And gateways are having trouble loading published data at all.

My initial thought was that this was a firewall thing where incoming connections aren't happening.

After tweaking IPTables rules I'm not sure. Gotta get better logs.

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gun talk, death 

@adrienne @ariadne I think the fear of getting to a point where any random person on the street might shoot you dead is pretty real and scary though. :/ One of the reasons I'm avoiding travel to the states for a while.

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gun talk 

@adrienne @ariadne Yeah! Our gun regulations are pretty reasonable IMO. I think most provices just require you to keep the bullets and gun stored separately so that kids don't get in them and stuff. Also open carry / small guns are a big no no which is pretty reasonable IMO. Of course the US is just a widely different environment so we can't just apply Canada's standards there overnight. 😅

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@ariadne Yeah, I'm in Canada and the general sentiment is that people are scared of any guns at all. I was talking with a friend about how in the US context community protection with guns a la the Black Panthers is some of the only ways people can get protection from organized hate group violence and the violence of the state.

Really sad when the state fails to fulfill it's end of the social contract. :(

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@futurebird I think I only got into math after my parents managed to get me some one on one sessions with a tutor. Very thankful to have had the opportunity to do so. I'm still not "a math person" but I think it was nice to get over the barrier of thinking there was nothing in it for me at all.

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@tty Heck yeah. I was planning to review it for myself once it was out regardless. 🥰

I'm quite excited to see what y'all are working on there.

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@tty Tech doc, also recently did a spec for this IPLD based data structure which was a lot of effort.

Web archive thing (WIP): github.com/webrecorder/specs/p

IPLD thing (done): github.com/ipld/ipld/pull/254

I could review your thing for yah once it's together if you'd like. :)

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@tty Major mood. Working on this web archive IPFS chunking thing right now and it's a lot of effort.

Wish you luck in finishing it up and that this will save others many many hours of trouble with its existence.

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9. hypha.coop/dripline/public-goo

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8. cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/meri

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7. gist.github.com/HerbCaudill/ac

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6. cip.org/whitepaper

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5. writings.stephenwolfram.com/20

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4. writings.stephenwolfram.com/20

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