mordae's recent activity
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Comment on How Sam Altman is profiting off of AI's problems in ~tech
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Comment on AI isnโt replacing jobs. AI spending is. in ~comp
mordae Linkhttps://archive.is/PouEw (still isn't full)https://archive.is/PouEw (still isn't full)
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Comment on Statement from Mozilla's new CEO in ~tech
mordae Link ParentStop spreading lies, please. RMS did not support Epstein in any way. He stated that he can imagine that his colleague and acquaintance Minsky might have felt like what was going on was consensual....Stop spreading lies, please. RMS did not support Epstein in any way. He stated that he can imagine that his colleague and acquaintance Minsky might have felt like what was going on was consensual. That's pretty far from endorsing what was happening.
If my colleague, of whom I think highly, has been accused of exploiting a child sex slave, contrary to my expectations, I might prefer to hear from a judge before jumping to conclusions.
Yeah, he's apparently pretty rude, comes aross as an old lecher, but that's like half men in his age bracket I know. Which does not mean it is allright, but it's kinda fighting the windmills as we can keep pressing these men to behave while teaching kids to be better and wait a generation or two for actual results.
And honestly, normally you wouldn't suspect people around you to be outright slaves. Maybe we'll learn more eventually, when we get access to the investigation files. Hopefully. One day.
As for support if drawn images, some places seem to be able to handle that kind of material without getting outraged, for some reason. In Japan, Germany and Finland, for example, drawn stuff is considered a fantasy disconnected from abuse and thus fine. So maybe RMS is, despite your feelings, very much inside the Overton window?
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Comment on Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services in ~tech
mordae Link ParentLet' see... OK, so, South Korea. The country where presidents routinely end up in jail, typically right after their tenure, sometimes during. Country ran by Chaebols, where 20% people earn 80%...Here's a couple of short overview Interpol pieces: 1 , 2 on the matter.
Let' see...
December 2023, Indonesia, Korea, and INTERPOL cooperation shut down illegal IPTV service
OK, so, South Korea. The country where presidents routinely end up in jail, typically right after their tenure, sometimes during. Country ran by Chaebols, where 20% people earn 80% income.
Basically a country ran by olligarchs. Has a beef with a guy who forwarded TV streams to Indonesia.
OK, I can see why. And. I. Don't. Care. I think they should stop all anti-piracy efforts and maybe do something about the brutal, oppressive olligarchy instead.
This is getting silly.
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Comment on Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services in ~tech
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Comment on Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services in ~tech
mordae Link ParentSure, make it a crime for an elected politician to chat with lobbyists, fellow politicians, clerks outside of real-time public record, THEN we can talk. Full real-time stream of cabinet meetings,...No, for the average person, it's hugely, hugely in their interest that organized, career criminal networks have to be monitored.
Sure, make it a crime for an elected politician to chat with lobbyists, fellow politicians, clerks outside of real-time public record, THEN we can talk. Full real-time stream of cabinet meetings, for starters.
No? National Security? Yeah, as usual. Transparency for Thee, not for Me.
People who argue like this can never, ever show a workable alternative where we can have a functioning society with reasonably empowered law enforcement that can actually do their job and hold people accountable for serious crime.
Swabbing toilets inside EU parliament and my local parliament proved presence of cocaine. Nothing was done. Those laws you want to enforce so eagerly are not fair, they are to keep some people restricted while others enjoy their freedoms, including snorting coke during parliamentary sessions.
In any case, if police wants to find out who sells illegally imported weapons, they can... go and buy some? They have the ability to issue themselves fake ids, create fake paper trail, print money and so on.
I am way more concerned about structural corruption than about smuggling. The kind where Microsoft writes curriculum on digital education for my whole country. The one where chair of association of software vendors writes calls for public tender for software for multiple ministries. Legally. Also sits in the parliament. Probably snorts the coke, too.
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Comment on Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services in ~tech
mordae Link ParentHey, I don't know about you, but I routinely download books and ISO standards from libgen. Ask any researcher if they know sci-hub. Ask for their opinion. Anyway. Likely ROM nerds. Back in the...Hey, I don't know about you, but I routinely download books and ISO standards from libgen. Ask any researcher if they know sci-hub. Ask for their opinion.
Anyway.
Who runs the rom site?
Likely ROM nerds. Back in the day, sites like HOTU were ran by nerds. Nowadays, sites like Nyaa are ran by nerds. There were boxtorrents, quality anime tracker, definitely nerds.
What other things do the same folks run on the same servers?
Likely not much. It's risky, because some idiotic overly eager law enforcement goon can take it all away any day.
Who provides the infrastructure?
Usually a guy with an internet connection. Sometimes couple of those, maybe a small local ISP. Sometimes larger colocation housing with a thick connection.
The usual stuff still applies, you need fire retardant systems in the room, AC, not being in a flood zone...
Who runs the physical servers?
The nerds.
Are they stolen goods?
Are you crazy??! Why? Compared to price of electricity, AC and connectivity, refurbished server hardware is peanuts. Especially if there are tens of thousands of people willing to send you single digit dollar donations just to keep the site going.
When we're in an illegal market, the people running things are often organized crime that has many ventures.
Yeah, sure. They also scan manga and have it translated by other people. Or they might -gasp- be working with people on modding consoles to play pirated games. :scream-emoji:
You are way out of touch.
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Comment on Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services in ~tech
mordae Link ParentRemember that time US tried to prohibit alcohol and mafia took over? In my humble opinion, DMCA has to go. Copyright should be cut to 2 years + yearly paid extensions with a 5 year limit. Then...These piracy conglomerates are often run by organized crime or rouge states (like North Korea). They funnel money to other criminality, abuse/violence and online services for criminal activities.
Remember that time US tried to prohibit alcohol and mafia took over?
In my humble opinion, DMCA has to go. Copyright should be cut to 2 years + yearly paid extensions with a 5 year limit. Then it's public domain and you little Danish student theater can run with it as can your national TV.
Your "cure" is merely making the black market more dangerous, thus shadier and riskier to average folk. Even simple legalization of peer-to-peer media exchange would instantly bring all torrent trackers to Denmark, where you can e.g. mandate they do not show ads and must be not-for-profit, ran by a registered organization...
What this law does is bowing to US media companies, nothing else. Your government actively helps US monopoly. Congratulations.
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Comment on How Europe is gearing up to follow Australia's teen social media ban in ~tech
mordae Link ParentYeah, sure. Except liberals don't care. They only care about chances and maybe fairness (when it's about them). They gave us heavily commercialization, ads and pervassive monitoring, not clergy,...Yeah, sure. Except liberals don't care. They only care about chances and maybe fairness (when it's about them). They gave us heavily commercialization, ads and pervassive monitoring, not clergy, oil moguls, unions nor youth climate activists.
When I say productive, I mean you walk away with something besides hole in your pocket, mixed feelings and wasted time. And I haven't even mentioned progress!
Nobody besides liberals values money. Everyone else, who isn't deeply fascinated by the number going up or the concept of money, is just using money as a tool. Or actually is being subjected to it by via taxation and thus the necessity of it's acquisition.
So how exactly does current state of the internet cater to the needs of families and gives us pleasure? Because I feel you've got a lot of explaining to do wrt. pleasures of being on Twitter, for instance.
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Comment on How Europe is gearing up to follow Australia's teen social media ban in ~tech
mordae Link ParentYour approach sounds extremely sane and I am very happy for both of you that it seems to work. Fingers crossed.Your approach sounds extremely sane and I am very happy for both of you that it seems to work. Fingers crossed.
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Comment on How Europe is gearing up to follow Australia's teen social media ban in ~tech
mordae Link ParentIt increasingly doesn't, though. Most platforms are happy when people just follow whatever they serve them and there is absolutely no incentive to actually empower the users. Have you noticed YT...The internet as it is offers almost unlimited human agency
It increasingly doesn't, though. Most platforms are happy when people just follow whatever they serve them and there is absolutely no incentive to actually empower the users. Have you noticed YT can no longer be searched as it used to be for instance?
The software should be actively helping people to engage with whatever is out there more productively, but it isn't. The internet is not getting closer to becoming a great library where we can obtain knowledge, go on a grand adventure with our heroes or just have a coffee with a friend, it is getting more and more Black Mirror with our eyes glued to mandatory streams.
So yeah, while a lot of parents should absolutely get their s**t together, they would more readily when it's shoved into their face that maybe they actually should, like, right now, make sure their kids are not bullying a classmate over poor photoop or something, on a platform they are not yet able to handle, that likely nobody is equipped to handle.
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Comment on How Europe is gearing up to follow Australia's teen social media ban in ~tech
mordae Link ParentThere are reports of parents who i.e. agreed that no kid in class is getting an iPhone to prevent financial situation of family to cause bullying in school. I think teacher suggested it in the 1st...There are reports of parents who i.e. agreed that no kid in class is getting an iPhone to prevent financial situation of family to cause bullying in school.
I think teacher suggested it in the 1st grade.
Maybe we can empower schools to reach out to parents and educate them and maybe even set a policy for school-compliant equipment. No need to go uniforms, but maybe steering away from expensive devices, social media, brand clothing and in-game spending would alleviate some of the pressure on kids..?
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Comment on How Europe is gearing up to follow Australia's teen social media ban in ~tech
mordae (edited )Link ParentYes. First of all, there should be parental controls on the devices. Instead of website asking for your age it should call a system API that asks their parent. If they want an app to work around...Yes. First of all, there should be parental controls on the devices. Instead of website asking for your age it should call a system API that asks their parent. If they want an app to work around it, it should ask their parents and so on. People in stores should ask parents if they want to enable parental control on the device and connect it to them. And there should be standards for this to combat lock-in.
Same with devices for very old people with cognitive decline who are willing to wire money to fraudsters. There should be a confirmation of any large transfer from their kids.
In school, devices go to locker or switch to school mode where teachers allow certain apps / categories as they need. Kids can take the device out of school mode if they wish, but that notifies both parents and school.
But that's designing for specific outcomes, not making the casino larger. Liberals prefer larger casino with more chances to win/lose big, so this won't fly. So socialists who want to protect and nurture their families have to ally with conservatives instead, but those just want the world unequal, i.e. take away phones from kids, so that teachers can reign supreme once more.
Now I am not saying we should ban exploration altogether in this space, but it's about time we started pruning the tree and started exploiting the beneficial modes we have discovered. Maybe liberals could finally join in and think about structuring this part of our lives and not just about "free markets" they seem to obsess over lately. The next big word should be "human agency"
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
mordae Link ParentHahaha. In the same boat. Now only to finish migrating mail from an old VPS to the server. ๐ I wouldn't use Nextcloud voluntarily. Wife and me, we tend to use Hedgedoc for collaborative text and... -
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
mordae LinkI found out SEPIC uses low-side switching. This kinda changes things, so now I want to include a programmable power supply in my pocket electronics lab tool. It will require active discharge...I found out SEPIC uses low-side switching. This kinda changes things, so now I want to include a programmable power supply in my pocket electronics lab tool.
It will require active discharge circuit for when one sets it to a lower voltage, but I guess I'll just fry some resistors with a coil and a freewheeling diode and call it a day.
Now double it up, but second time as ฤuk to obtain the negative rail.
As for the source, I think USB-C with sensing on CC pins would allow for up to 15W. If I implement the PD protocol, even more. But I think I won't be using that beefy inductors, so 10W output tops. Still, that's not at all bad to get kids started.
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Comment on Living wage calculator in ~finance
mordae LinkHey, are you OK over there? This year over here had 251 workdays, that's 2008 work hours. Accounting for minimum of 20 days a year for vacation 231 and for minimalistic sick leave 221 (two colds a...2080 hours per year
Hey, are you OK over there? This year over here had 251 workdays, that's 2008 work hours. Accounting for minimum of 20 days a year for vacation 231 and for minimalistic sick leave 221 (two colds a year). That's 1768 hours per year.
Now, most employers offer +5 days of vacation extra and many +5 more in sickdays. Public sector and high-paying jobs have +10 days of vacation. So that's like 1728 or even 1688 hours per year.
It seems to me the true reason you haven't revolted yet is that you have to work the hours and cannot afford to step out to overthrow the government or something..?
Anyway, consider leaving US and moving to EU. We still have publicly funded healthcare, preschools and college. Or just... I dunno, vote in some radical progressive (actually a mild centrist) instead of slavers. This is getting silly.
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Comment on New community suggestion: ~tech.electronics in ~tildes
mordae Link ParentDefinitely. It's incredible how much value can you get from such a simple device. Eeeeeh. I mean, those are not exactly in the same price range, ah-hah-hah. Also, Flipper is overpriced garbage....The NanoVNA is awesome! I love their whole series of low cost / mini devices, it makes certain functionality so much more available to people, especially when traditional full-size instrumentation can be in the thousands of $.
Definitely. It's incredible how much value can you get from such a simple device.
I've got the LiteVNA 64 version myself, as well as the TinySA Ultra and a HackRF, one of the Porta-Pack versions. The Flipper Zero is fun too, in terms of handheld RF capability, though it is very short-range.
Eeeeeh. I mean, those are not exactly in the same price range, ah-hah-hah.
Also, Flipper is overpriced garbage. CC1101 is not even $1. And they didn't even bother reading errata. Anyway, dirt-cheap sub-GHz SDR is on my TODO list, but first I'll need to get into FPGAs.
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Comment on New community suggestion: ~tech.electronics in ~tildes
mordae Link ParentI see. :-)I SHALL NOT BE LIMITED BY INCONSEQUENTIAL CONSIDERATIONS SUCH AS TIME BUDGETING OR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY WHEN PURSUING MAXIMUM CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. ALL. CUSTOMERS. SHALL. BE. MAXIMALLY. SATISFIED.!!!
I see. :-)
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Comment on New community suggestion: ~tech.electronics in ~tildes
mordae (edited )Link ParentNah, it's not cool. It's extremely bad, actually. But it's also extremely cheap, which means it will likely be a part of my kids scope project for the electronics & programming club I'll be...I didn't know about that approach to making a spectrum analyzer, very cool!
Nah, it's not cool. It's extremely bad, actually. But it's also extremely cheap, which means it will likely be a part of my kids scope project for the electronics & programming club I'll be opening in September. The goal is to stay below $10 per board so I can just hand them out and kids can keep them. But I want more capabilities than just plain MCU ADCs. This lets you see if your oscillator is actually working. Or check out harmonics of your R2R DAC. Using $1 MCU, way up there at 150 MHz. Mwahahahaha.
In the past few years I have transitioned to buying/refurbishing/selling lab electronics on eBay and made that into my main income source.
Wait? That's a viable source of income? That's actually incredible. Do people actually buy refurbished lab tech? I mean besides fellow TEAs?
Ooh! Free online circuit simulator! Thank you kindly.
Yeah, Falstad's circuitjs is pretty nice for quickly sketching out stuff. You can download it as an electron app, too.
He also has an analog filter design tool running older codebase. It's super quick to throw together e.g. 4th order LC filter from actual part values.
I've built RF filters by plugging NanoVNA to both ports, then checking my work as I go against the sim. In other words, connect what I currently have on the board in the sim and compare against what NanoVNA says. Then trim my inductors. On a single-sided 1.6mm FR-4 board, with some copper tape, DIY inductors, 1206 capacitors, a 7th order bandpass @ 169MHz with a notch at 94 MHz took me about two hours to build from scratch. Had about -1 dB insertion loss.
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Comment on New community suggestion: ~tech.electronics in ~tildes
mordae Link ParentWow, your lab sure is something else! I mean, are you an EE by trade? I am extremely happy myself because I have a 66 EUR bag of goodies en route from LCSC in anticipation of the end of year...Wow, your lab sure is something else! I mean, are you an EE by trade?
I am extremely happy myself because I have a 66 EUR bag of goodies en route from LCSC in anticipation of the end of year vacation. Now I am not sure I can nerd out myself. I don't even own a scope. Ah-hah-hah.
Anyway, did you know that you can build a crude but functional spectrum analyzer out of a balun, passives and RP2040? Here, let me show you. Also, the client app.
The agenda is "you should organize and fight back against exploitation". Sometimes they are overly eager, but it's a breath of fresh air after decades of liberal-conservative "it will trickle down", so... But yeah, the one about cheese coops was better.