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wcchandler
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I work primarily as a Linux admin at a local research university.
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- Pretty simple, really. Cloud native app that scrapes job postings for higher ed institutions, then send me a daily summary based on a handful of keywords. Mostly targeting something to find remote jobs offered through schools. I like working in Higher Ed and my wife is looking for a remote job. Seems like it should be easy to vibe code and run in a free tier.
- Anecdotally speaking, I believe many of these to be largely true and a good respresentation.
I never thought about the machinescapes visual and that is very spot on. That was over 20 years ago on Salvi. I was in a basement and visualized a train driving through the wall. The thing that stood out the most is the detail of the train. It looked like an old steam train and nothing like I had ever seen before in person. Was really cool and fun experience and really short lived. All done in like 15 minutes. Never really noticed the level of detail that was present until just now looking back on it.
Another great experience I had that was captured well in this was on LSD at a competitive paintball event. I could visualize the paintball streams coming at me as solid lines. I knew exactly where people were shooting at. It stood out very prominently. But also, I could “feel” an opponent moving on the other side of the field. We were ~20 meters/yards apart behind opposite bunkers but I knew exactly where and when he was moving. I could feel his moves through the ground. Like we were both remotely connected like the mycelium of a mushroom. His left movements pulled me to the right. We were connected together.
I’m really grateful to have experienced these things.
- Do they offer a swag store like OpenBSD or FreeBSD? I realize they only get pennies from those sales but that’s typically my approach, buy a shirt for $30 and make an extra $20 donation.
- This is usually something I see on Reddit first, within minutes. I’ve barely seen anything on my front page. While I understand it’s likely the subs I’m subscribed to, that was my only reason for using Reddit. I’ve noticed that for the past year - more and more tech heavy news events don’t bubble up as quickly anymore. I also didn’t see this post for a while for whatever reason. And Digg was hit and miss on availability for me, and I’m just now seeing it load with an item around this.
I think I might be ready to build out a replacement through vibe coding. I don’t like being dependent on user submissions though. I feel like that’s a challenge on its own.
- I was just exploring Pi’s and AI hats, so this post is appreciatively timely.
I’m finally at the point where I can dedicate time for building an AI with a specific use case in mind. I play competitive paintball and would like to utilize AI for a handful of things. Specifically hit detections in video streams. Pi’s were my natural choice simply because of low cost of entry and wide range of supported products to get a PoV running. I even thought about reaching out to Jeff and asking his input.
This post didn’t change my direction too much, but it did help level set some realistic expectations. So thanks for sharing.
- I've been a linux desktop user for a long time now (~25 years?). I generally don't talk about it, as it's not a suitable environment for a lot of people. So I'm always surprised when I stumble upon somebody using it. Just recently I took a Google Cloud training course and the instructor used it as his daily driver. Not only was this impressive to see "out in the wild" but it was nice to see all the tools needed to lead a remote training course worked in his setup. He had a webcam working great (even focused/panned on him as he moved). He had a powerpoint/slideshow going. He had zoom/teleconferencing software working. And it all worked through the course. There was never 10-20 minute pause because something wasn't working right. Having this level of viability and operability is something I never expected to see.
- I looked and there were some in the $22k-$26k USD range. Locations were mostly Orlando, Portland, and somewhere in Maryland I didn't bother to remember. If that's your idea of "cheap" then have at it. The last time there were articles about their selloff, I recall some around $14k-18k USD.
- We already use shade clothes for certain times of the year and plants. It’s foreseeable to use mesh screens to filter the air if that’s necessary. Although more likely to have a closed greenhouse using filtered air to control for other pests and pathogens. Rain would be similar. Cistern capture and filter before applying. You’d also use that to add fertilizer for targeted feeding.
- Traditional farming should be for non-human ingestion. There’s too much “bad” in it through normal conventions. And this isn’t even talking about our dependence on fertilizers and the growing threat of a next dust bowl.
It is labor intensive but not that much. When I tried before the pandemic the routine was very dialed in and mostly starting the seed then harvest. Using targeted water and feeding schedules, it was mostly set it and forget it with ample excess.
Finally, the more control we have of the process and the inputs, the ability we will have to eliminate microplastics from the end product. Specifically, my butter and romaine lettuce growing hydroponically in my basement would not have shown traces of microplastics. If it did, I would’ve quickly altered the necessary piece of the puzzle.
- One of the problems I want to solve during my lifetime is sustainable organic agriculture that anybody can grow in their backyards and basements. We’re so disconnected from the costs of poor health and nutrition that nobody seems interested in throwing gobs of money at the problem. Yet. Glad these studies reveal what is already assumed.
- Still haven’t found a source for the claim. That’s a red flag.
And secondly, do large investment firms regularly disclose their high earning clients and their positions?
- Can’t wait to see the kinds of “meme” stocks they create as a result of this new market. It’s funny, MSM blames the retail investors, but if Citadel had never naked shorted GameStop 3 years ago we wouldn’t be here, still witnessing the effects of mitigating the risk they created.
- More likely sold covered calls and CSPs on the way down, maintaining his long position.
- Fun. I guess I’ll have this project on my to-do list when I get back from vacation. We already have a managed GPT offering from Azure so it’ll be interesting to see where these intersect.
- Yes, you are offbase. This is a fairly well written article that highlights and summarizes a few of their most recent gaffs. We recently re-evaluated our EDR solution and Microsoft was in the final 3. We didn't move them past the RFI process because of these recent incidents, on top of a very poorly packaged product (Defender). Microsoft has been really pushing the notion they're a security company (and my 401k would love it if that were true), but the sad reality is they continue to fall short in every possible way. I'll likely share this article with my peers when challenged on why we didn't move forward with them in our EDR project.
- Reddit doesn't provide value to me anymore. I've been toying around with the idea of building out what I once used Reddit for - news from the Internet. Obviously, it's about 20 years post Reddit's inception, so I've been brainstorming how that would look today. I know I want a skimfeed-like "clean" site with OpenGraph support, but what else? Do we even need comments anymore? I'm half tempted to feed articles into AI, and get them to generate a few dozen comments. Then let users upvote those comments accordingly. Nobody can generate their own comments. Could that approach be fine tuned to a useful site? Or would it turn into a bigger echo chamber with everyone being racist? [1][2]
1 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...
2 - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/advanced-ai-chatbots-...
- I really like skimfeed. It’d be perfect with a more mobile-friendly interface.
- I’m grateful to be ~30 minutes away from totality. But I’m still shooting to spend the extra 2-3 hours driving to a place typically only an hour away just because it affords opportunities after the eclipse to entertain us while the traffic leaving the destination can taper out. On the previous eclipse, it took us about 3 hours to drive 20 miles, after the event. I’m not making that mistake again.
Going a step further, how do we encourage use? Aside from personal privacy, what if social media sites allowed us to use our identities to validate comments or attachments? Similar to the idea of a token, we upload a photo of our cat. We permit FB access to that cat pic, generate the token, say it's good until we revoke it. We revoke it, and now that picture will fail to load. We can also restrict access to our cat picture. By requesting access to the cat pic, another user provides their identity as well. If their identity is allowed to view it, then it can render. Similar to comments. It's just a string, but we can invalidate a token and make access to it no longer possible.
What about digital hoarding? Can't we screenshot everything or scrape the website and store it for later? Yes. But that's no longer a trusted source. Everything can be faked, especially as AI tools advance. Instead, by using the identity broker, you can verify if a statement was actually said. This will be a mindshift. Similar to how wikipedia isn't a credible source in a term paper, a screenshot is not proof of anything.
Identity brokers can also facilitate anonymous streams. Similar to a crypto wallet, separate personas can be generated by an identity. An anonymous comment can be produced and associated with that randomized persona. The identity broker can store the private key for the persona, possibly encrypted by the identity in some manner, or it can be stored elsewhere, free for the identity to resume using should they want to.
It's an interesting problem to think about.