j4k3

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

I like these protests

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I don't commute or ride in traffic any more. I have no margin left. My last hit was in early 2014. Bosch drive e-bikes became retail available around the summer of 2013 in south Orange County California, and were not present in substantial numbers until around 2018.

Now, drivers are much more aware of faster bikes in bike lanes. In all the crashes I was in between 2009 and 2014, I was even faster than most e-bikes are now, but I was an extreme anomaly in that respect. Bikes were not super rare on the road, but racers on general roads commuting have always been rare. Like if you're going to train, it is not on the surface streets. Several of my crashes were from a time when I rode a 33 mile route each way to and from work 5-6 days a week. I'm one of the most hardcore all-weather, nothing-stops-me roadies you'll ever meet. Like I ride home with broken bones just to say I made it.

Anyways, I'm on a tangent. On the road, around unpredictable drivers, my rather rare speed led to crashes. I had hundreds, if not thousands, of near misses. I had 6 crashes from cars in 150k miles of riding and have had none since. I am at around 250k now. I'm a lot slower by average speed, and I never ride around traffic like I did back then. Both of my bad crashes were from someone making an illegal u-turn. That is the one event where intuition lies and there is nothing a person can do to escape.

It looks exactly like all of the hundreds of times when someone has pulled out in front of you and cut you off. So you instinctively swerve, but as you do so, the car keeps going and closes the escape route faster than the brain will reprocess the inputs.

It is no different for a driver in a passing car. The worst scenario is being on a bike, right behind that passing car, and being as fast as the cars on a slight down hill when someone pulls a sudden u-turn into a passing SUV. That is what got me. The car in front of me was doing 35mph and never braked. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee t-boning a Mitsubishi Montero. I know all about it from court stuff, but I went black retroactively to the moment I merged behind the Jeep until I was in the ICU 3 hours later. I braked according to witnesses, but my Garmin GPS computer showed I made contact at 29.7mph. I was folded in half backwards.

All but one of my crashes were like that, where it was absolutely due to errors of dumb drivers. All were also in the most southern parts of Orange County CA, in smaller areas with poor infrastructure. At the time, I rode mostly in more developed areas of city with better infrastructure and those are generally much safer. I had a lot of close calls in those areas but they are usually avoidable within the space available, unlike people that get lost or are dopey on the fringes where there is no proper infrastructure.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I totally respect anyone that chooses to limit their perspective scope.

For me, everything in life is a messy statistical abstraction. I would not go out of my way to make decisions or inconvenience myself in instances where I see vectors of negativity and small errors in ethical disposition. These are simply elements I passively note, and when faced with a choice, such past occurrences will weigh into my decisions.

For me, I struggle to recall specifics like memorized trivia, instances of certain behaviors, or even people's names in conversational real time. I can recall most of this information if I try, but I must focus on it to do so. I instantly have access to my abstracted thoughts and oversimplifications that exist on something like a three dimensional roadmap. When I note these types of behaviors, it is like I am painting a picture of what driving down a familiar street feels like, and I remember that picture and place well, only that imagery is the actions of the person. It takes me a while to think about all the features that make up that place, but I know where I am and what that means just by visiting. The person is not any feature but an ambiance that exists in my mind. It is their identity to me. I may not recall the name feature well, but this is not who they are to me; they are an abstraction like everything else; a likely set of probabilities, but one where I'm always curious how they evolve or add new features. No one is static after all, unless they are dead. Still I weigh negative vectors into those statistics objectively and make predictions based upon them.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

The way root is managed and the security of OTA updates along with the demonstrated knowledge of how Android users groups and SELinux effectively work are far superior to anything else I have seen in any ROM that I have run previously. Most others were little more than novel demonstrations of CVE vulnerability exploits and setups intended for oddball extra use cases and not a primary device in their implementation. Graphene is a legitimate ongoing secured solution well worth supporting. The TPM chip is a huge deal here.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It depends on how you abstract. I believe that small patterns are strongly indicative of larger patterns. My life experiences have largely reflected this pattern. All of my worst business encounters were with people that cheated on their partners in their personal life. They ultimately showed the same types of behavior in business. The best people I have worked for were exactly the opposite. This includes both while running my own business for years and many people I have worked for as an employee.

The concept is also an extension of my realization that anyone that likes to talk about everyone else negatively at work when one on one, is doing the exact same thing with every other individual when I am not around and is saying the same negative stuff about me. Such a person appears to be everyone's friend on a personal level, but is actually stabbing everyone in the back equally to elevate themselves and increase their own awareness of weaknesses they might highlight or play against others. The act of talking negatively about everyone else is a strike or vector that will later manifest if given the opportunity or under pressure.

I am metaphorically applying Newton's premise that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, to the probability of future human behavior. If the person indicates a certain vector of thought that causes damage, they tilt the scales of future interaction and are therefore some degree more likely than not to produce a suboptimal future compared to others with a more positive track record, character, and ethics.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

My 6a does.

The trick is that, on my second Graphene phone I put it on Graphene from the start, never installed or used anything else on the device or even allowed it access to the internet. I also gave into the advice to try to avoid external apps whenever possible. I have a few odds and ends installed but not nearly as many as people have been trained to do for normalized stalkerware exploitation. Signal is my only continuous battery draining background app. I do everything in the vanadium browser like with Lemmy. The only other regular internet connected app is Pipe pipe and I do not use any scheduled background stuff with it.

I only allow WiFi data most of the time and my network is exclusive to my devices with a whitelist firewall on a dedicated device. Cookies and trackers are not just blocked by Ad Block on my network. I'm blocking tons of extra background nonsense everywhere on the internet, so these things never reach my devices.

For instance every time you see the social network icons at the bottom of a webpage, those are embedded links to those services hosting those images. You are actually visiting all of those places and retrieving those tiny images while giving them your fingerprinting information. They know every page you visited and how long it took between pages. All of that is tracked. Most pages try to use google static for fonts on their pages, which is doing the exact same thing. But, when the google static server is blocked the page will default to your system font and there is not any real difference unless they are using really odd special characters like rare symbols or super rare emojis in Unicode. Like I have almost all languages to the point of Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform, so I never see bad characters in practice.

When I visit a website, I am only visiting the sever I whitelisted. It is a pain in the ass to manually whitelist everything I want to visit, but I have been doing it for years after some sketchy stuff happened while I was building breadboard computer stuff and downloading vintage hardware PDF datasheets from 3rd party sources. Anything I download is unable to dial out to any address unless it is whitelisted on my network. I can also write code that is sketchy and I don't need to worry about it doing dumb stuff like nmap'ing the whole internet. Or like now playing with offline AI running on my hardware, I do not need to worry about a model agent doing something dumb, or nefarious stuff that may be hidden and undetectable in a fine tuned model.

Anyways, I don't do it for the battery life, but the battery life is a bonus side effect. I also do not shop or make purchases on this device or network. This is for social, YT, and news stuff only. These are partitioned so I can take absolute control over my spending habits and break any direct link between these areas and purchase tracking. This partition stopped me from making frivolous purchases.

Graphene is just one part of my strategy, but an important one. Graphene does much to limit the background junk on Android's zygote app preloading system that only really exists for stalkerware junk. It was supposed to be for faster app loading but the difference in time is far less than the speed of human persistence of vision.

 

wiki

Tit for tat is an English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation". It is an alteration of tip for tap "blow for blow", first recorded in 1558.

Tit-for-tat has been very successfully used as a strategy for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. The strategy was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. Notably, it was (on both occasions) both the simplest strategy and the most successful in direct competition. Few have extended the game theoretical approach to other applications such as finance. In that context the tit for tat strategy was shown to be associated to the trend following strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat


I'm abstracting and expanding how I interact and analyse other people in this thought. Like if a person, business, or boss takes actions that are not in line with Tit 4 Tat, I expect them to be unsuccessful and counterproductive in the long term. It is an implied strike on their part and therefore requires an equivocal response or else I am not maintaining my own requirements for success under said strategy.

Anyways, it was an actual shower thought

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Is this dumbass trying to load a jetski in the waves or something?

I have operated heavy equipment, mostly front end loaders. Beach sand below the water line is scary as fuck to me. Like no one needs to tell me that one, not even a little bit. That shit is instinctive. I'd get a little closer with an excavator if I had a few points of hard rock to push and pull with the bucket. A wheeled vehicle that creates vibrations of any kind... that is insane. Not to mention the effects of seawater and electrolysis will wreck that thing. These vehicles really do seem to attract some of the dumbest people in addition to the terrible ethics and politics of a Tesla. Like if Elon was on the moral high ground Left, cyberfruck would still be an idiot's billboard of a wheeled boat.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It is not about that. The pixel has a TPM chip (Trusted Protection Module). This is similar to how secure boot works in desktop computers. It is a special external chip that has a secret internal cryptographic key that can never be accessed by anyone. This chip can be used to create secured communications between devices. This is how it is possible to do over the air updates securely and how the device's security can be checked with a special app and an external device like an old Graphene phone. All files on the device can be hashed with the secret key to determine of they have been changed. Other phones do not include a TPM chip and this is the primary reason they cannot be supported directly by Graphene.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

Get off the train. A Pixel setup with Graphene OS never has such nonsense features. I even fully control my own notifications. A 2 year old device still has 2 days of battery life with lots of use, and I have no bloatware at all. It isn't like some difficult techie thing either. Updates are secure, automatic, and over the air.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

If I need to know who my kid's teacher forks when they go home at night, I think I should go take a dive off a cliff to free up some oxygen for better use

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

This is like the whole point in Lemmy for me. There are some advanced Linux people here that are knowledgeable, but most stuff I'm really interested in gets little to no interesting engagement and often results in negative toxic nonsense. This ain't tech support. Those that act like it are kids regardless of age. I expect everyone to act like they would with any stranger in public; just be cordial and nice to people. Look at this place like a grocery store checkout or DMV line in place where people casually talk and engage with each other. No sane person would start some smalltalk about the weather to have a person say, "hold up while I check the app for you." Same deal here, don't be a psycho because of digital anonymity. It is not harmless. Some people like me are disabled where this is all of my outside human contact and stupidity can have a real effect on me. It has a real effect on everyone, and always has. Children are just too stupid and have too shallow of a scope of self awareness to see and acknowledge their path of destruction. Real ethics come with age, and a person with real ethics is completely unchanged by anonymous interchange with anyone.

 

I don't care about the kids under 30. The funnier the better, and the older you are the more I want to know: what would you like to be when you grow up?
Achievable goals fall short of true potential.

 

Or is there maybe a way to set the pager for all help related queries to some command? I'm using bat and would like to pipe all --help through | bat --language=help by default for the syntax highlighting and colored output... Or if you know a lower effort way to color the output of --help let me know.

 
 

Adjective
recherché (comparative more recherché, superlative most recherché)

  1. Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.
  2. Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.
  3. (by extension) Precious, pretentious, affected.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recherch%C3%A9#English

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sycophant (lemmy.world)
 

Noun
sycophant (plural sycophants)

  1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
    Synonyms: ass-kisser, brown noser, suck-up, yes man
  2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
    Synonyms: parasite, flunky, lackey
  3. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.

Derived terms:
sycophancy
sycophantic
sycophantish
sycophantism

Verb
sycophant (third-person singular simple present sycophants, present participle sycophanting, simple past and past participle sycophanted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
  2. (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
 
 

I have OP magic. I can reverse time and take my money back from your future. There is no escape from OP Magic Lemmings.

You have 1 year. What do you do with this small sum of money?

 

"How many toilets do you possess?" This interview question works both ways in many cases.

 

This is the best explanation of the chemistry and properties of plastics I've ever seen from an edutainment YT channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycVtx07f0w

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opprobrium (lemmy.world)
 

Noun
opprobrium (countable and uncountable, plural opprobriums or opprobria)

  1. (archaic) A cause, object, or situation of disgrace or shame. [from mid 17th c.] Synonym: (obsolete) opprobry
  2. Disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour; ignominy. [from late 17th c.]
    Synonyms: obloquy, (obsolete) opprobry
  3. Scornful contempt or reproach; an instance of this.
    Synonyms: blame, castigation, censure, derision, invective, (obsolete) opprobry
  4. (archaic) Behaviour which is disgraceful or shameful.
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cogent (lemmy.world)
 

Adjective
cogent (comparative more cogent, superlative most cogent)

  1. Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
  2. Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
  3. Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
    The prosecution presented a cogent argument, convincing the jury of the defendant's guilt.

Synonyms:
compelling, conclusive, convincing, indisputable

Antonyms:
debatable, irrelevant, uncogent

Derived terms:
cogency
cogently
incogent
uncogent

Related terms:
cache
coagulate
squat

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