@CrazyITGuy42 @RainCityBunnies

Very nice 😜 You didn't mention "Colossus", so the next time ...

My Discworld names try to be somewhat relevant:

-border routers named for Ankh-Morpork cops: cheery, vimes, angua
-wireless access point: klacks
-printers: teemer and spools - quite proud of these ones 😀
-main server: hex
-current main workstation: vetinari

Phil Karlton said "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

#HardProblems #NamingThings

I got frustrated with too many projects going on at once so I'm taking a break. Finally playing final fantasy 1 pixel remaster and I've found myself grinding Death Machine #hardproblems #SteamDeck

@garymarcus Sad to see #EM(=#Toxic**2) burn down the bird (he has infinite $$ so $44b is nothing to him). Now, I'm waiting for @Grady_Booch (I know Yoda has no AC) and, yes, @YLeCun (?? No idea if he has an account) to join #Mastodon to replicate the fascinating #ChatGPT #AIEthics debate here!
Some say this is “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”. Well, we need good number of Intelligent people debate cool #OpenProblems #HardProblems of our times on #Mastodon.
Source: https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/the-most-intelligent-photo-ever-taken.html

I just got reality-slapped on HN regarding browser extension permissions:

There’s no practical way to distinguish between these two options for web extensions: once the extension can fiddle with the HTML on the page, it can use that power to make network requests (trivially, by inserting tags onto the page).

The two options being:

1. "Extension sees data on pages for which it's activated, and might modify that all kept locally", and

2. "Extension sends all page information to The Cloud^WW Somebody Else's Computer where it is probably being shared with umpteen third parties, advertising^W behavioural manipulation and surveillance organisations, and will be preserved in crystal until the Heat Death Of The Universe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726116

I'm not sure the issue is completely unsolveable, or that the situation can't be markedly improved. But my shallow first take is clearly incomplete.

That said: I'm exceedingly disappointed and frustrated with standard browser / mobile app permissions settings and granularity.

#WebBrowsers #Firefox #Permissions #Surveillance #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #HardProblems #Software #MobileComputing

@Hamishcampbell This is true.

It's also ... common.

Very nearly all wars are at heart resource wars, and the resources now in contention are both environmental sinks (for ever-increasing industrial pollutants, including but not limited to CO2).

I recommend as strongly as possible the authors William Ophuls (Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity and Plato's Revenge most especially) and Thomas Homer-Dixon (The Ingenuity Gap, among others), who've explored both the ecology and politics of the era of scarcity and limits.

https://ophuls.org/
https://homerdixon.com/
https://homerdixon.com/writing/books/the-ingenuity-gap/

#WilliamOphuls #ThomasHomerDixon #ecology #scarcity #limits #HardProblems

Walked onto an impromptu discussion on gender inequality of many hackerspaces at #sha2017 . More then ever, Feel that if we can figure out how the be more inclusive in our spaces, we have a small seed to try and make all of our societies more inclusive. #HardProblems #FeedbackCycles #beautifulFuture