I make things. I'm ex- many things right now (programmer, artist, technician, employed...) and it's lovely. Driving southwest deserts when I can, in a car older that most people alive. I like finding novel cracks in the world. We live in an idyllic barbed-wire compound in Los Angeles. Newbie kung fu black belt. Constitutionally anarchist, queer as a $3 bill back when queer mean gay weirdo. Still true whatever the words. Every person has the absolute right to self-determination.
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Last Notes npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub1lrv…tth9 How is it that SHE has the problem? npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Good morning and -- OK WHAT NOW. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Wow. Just stumbled on this grapheneOS feature. The page itself can't be screenshotted. But a duress password, when entered to unlock the phone, erases the phone and esim. https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/793/082/139/674/448/original/415b3f99b5ab366f.jpg npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub1c0m…xqjl Are workplaces like that common(ish) today? I've been out of the job market for a while but has it really got that bad? npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Wait -- the Internet -- is that thing still around? npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings My friend Bill is just terrible at self-promotion. I've known him for 30 years, he's a prodigious doer and and maker of art. He's a real hobo and serious dedicated artist and punk film maker. He's constantly broke because he's shit at the promo. Buy his books cuz he needs to eat! This is no charity, he makes top-notch stuff. http://billdaniel.net/tri-x-noise-book http://billdaniel.net/who-is-bozo-texino http://billdaniel.net/current-shows-beyond-the-streets-nyc http://billdaniel.net/publications http://billdaniel.net/store npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings When I search the web for X I am knowingly hoping to find distinct websites that contain or refer to X. But I think google thinks or maybe knows, most people searching the web for X want an "answer". Obviously older (length of usage over time; yeah age) users at least partially understood the former was what you got. I've seen nothing about this discussed, but I'm hardly a model of normality. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Ugh, here was a weird tank of a computer, a Gridcase 1535 EXP, with plasma display (that did not look all that much better than this awful photo). It was unpleasant to use. No idea what I did with it, probably gave it away. It ran DOS. I think was used in some network field maint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridCase https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/526/089/368/406/144/original/ed5aff1412f1238e.jpg npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings I'm beginning my push to get more things out of the browser. No, not "apps" ala phones ("lock-in") but IP ports, eg email into Thunderbird. I happily pay for DI.fm (streaming music) but alas, it seems locked into the browser for money/auth reasons. If I could, the browser would be half way to browsers in say 2005. Not nostalgia, or 'was better then', but for bloat and distraction. The "Amish" cliche of putting the telephone out in a little house of it's own has the seed of a good idea. Multi-function programs kinda suck. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings UC Irvine within the last few days. The POV of this photo means that it's official, or sanctioned, or something, comfortably behind or within the massed police. https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/457/654/441/154/849/original/025f646fb59ce506.jpg npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings No publicly-traded corporation can be trusted. Prove me wrong. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Hairless dogs are vigilant about where they plant their bald butts. It's funny to watch them inspect the ground before dropping back. Sometimes they get lazy and plant their butt on something unpleasant and suddenly leap up with a shocked face when they land on something unpleasant. https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/112/426/007/942/256/753/original/54b8935676618f35.jpg npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub1hx9…lyhl Is it gold plated? Does it lower audio noise? npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub1ugp…cz6m @npub1hyk…3p33 @npub17x7…naa8 Google has our street right but the number wrong. Delivery folk never read notes attached to orders and/or just can't accept that their phone is wrong as we stand 100 feet away waving our arms at them. The reluctance to accept reality vs the phone is itself interesting. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings From reddit: BILLIONAIRES INVESTING IN SPACE DON'T WANT STAR TREK THEY WANT DUNE. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub1xq6…lysw Right! It's an odd moment, when you decide to invoke randomness (sic)(usually:-) into a creative process. It has a touch of foolishness, a leap, and hope. Very Discordian. One of my very favorite books is Rand's 1955 A MILLION RANDOM DIGITS... I did my MFA thesis on it, mining uranium, and a 4000 year old spreadsheet, amongst other things. (I re-created the RAND hardware random number generator involving a "6D4 thyratron in a crossed magnetic field" as a lovely functional sculpture. https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Objects/GTNG/index.html) RAND's book is the precise opposite of a math table: the process used to read eg. logarithm tables is rigid and invariant, to ensure repeatability; the RAND intructions: //"...open the book to an unselected page... blindly choose a 5-digit number; this number reduced modulo 2 determines the starting line; the two digits to the right... determine the starting column..."// The book is gauranteed to contain no information! Again totally discordian. Here's my book review, lol: https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/MillionRandomDigitsBook/ npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Claude Shannon explored a simpler version of the ideas that LLMs use, in his 1948 paper, "A mathemetical theory of information". The paper is a mix of arcane (to me) math and nice prose. He plays with known letter and word frequency and redundancy to create strings that appear to contain information. Starting here (page 4): 2. THE DISCRETE SOURCE OF INFORMATION or if you want a quicker look (page 6): 3. THE SERIES OF APPROXIMATIONS TO ENGLISH https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings I am disappoint. I installed ownCloud on a remote server to use with my Android phone and hope laptop to share small text files, what I had thought was a pretty modest ask. What a shit show. Can't find a single android editor that works reliably. Few work with the extended storage scheme. The one that does so tolerably ("editor") has complex issues managing files that I think are related to a problem I today found is an ownCloud misfeature -- can't create zero length files. A file "foo.txt" ends up with multiple copies "foo (2).txt" etc. Worse, android doesn't really have a concept of "text", which on every computer I've known back to 1960s is a privileged primitive concept and for good goddamn reason. Has anyone successfully setup a simple cloud like system like this? I don't need simultaneous edit. There's only me. The one feetch it would be hard to live without is the "offline" feature... I plan on writing text on the phone regardless of net connection. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Source for quality N95 masks. BTW, these folk started up in the early pandemic I think, and then added a lot of clarity to a fucked up situation. I've bought from them, twice I think, the few I've cross-checked, their prices are consistently lower. And Amazon is a criminal cesspool. https://www.projectn95.org/ npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings Stolen from Lemmy. https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/110/843/857/976/528/531/original/06d81228d046adea.jpg npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub1ddp…2tax Hold on -- did I miss something? I re-read and didn't see anything that appeared to be an insult, to you or anyone, and if I'm missing it, that's out of ignorance or naivete, please explain, as I had nor have any desire to to criticize you nor your statement, which was plainly factual. I'm not a passive-agressive preson. If I'm pissed/etc I'll bluntly say so. I took your comments to be reasonable and factual. Am I missing something? npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub19yv…2nqf @npub1ddp…2tax Thanks Pamela. Staid, you are correct. I went silent because I was playing back my logic at posting what I did, knowing that the 2020 vote was hardly a landslide. I'd intended to reply today, not leave you hanging. Pamela stated it very clearly, thanks Pamela for articulating that. npub1qd2pnra30h4mnslpdt66rweeqwnvgc00l4rv7tz0ge99zs2ypfeqw674he tom jennings @npub1ddp…2tax > when roughly half of it actually welcomes it. I do not think this is the case -- on the ground, the right wing are a minority. What they have is rich folk and corporate power behind them, including media pulling the "two sides" thing.