Uli

@Uli@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, that’s longer than I can run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No further questions your honour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you’ve misunderstood. She married the Bigfoot and now she’s suing because she was perfectly happy not knowing he was just a bear. They had a destination wedding in London and the divorce lawyer’s bear-wedding annulment fee was 125 pounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibly. Is your husband an ass man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pirate keys for sure. Not using one is just asking for a stranger to grab your booty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – and the picture is unsettling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the strange urge or A predictable fervor To ask for red meat Or get one more burger

  As if it would be a feat To conquer my doubt That I could swear off entirely Do completely without

  And replace that hot taste The grease in my face With that more peaceable label Plant eaters avow

  To be able to face Not on my plate nor my table But a kind curious bovine Left to their stable

  Wouldn’t that be fine To let live for futures beyond now And make not food but a friend Indeed a happier end

  For us and the cow

  (I know it was meant for AI but I wanted to do it too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work for a company that did various kinds of biometric recognition. I unfortunately was paraded past these cameras many times for testing purposes, so my face was compromised many moons ago.

  We had two kinds of products we installed in airports. When looking at large crowds most airports wanted cameras that would monitor the flow of traffic, determining if there were any bottlenecks causing people to arrive at their gate (or baggage claim) after their luggage.

  The other product was facial recognition for identification purposes. These are the machines you have to stand right next to. There are various legal reasons airports did not want to use any crowd-level cameras for identification. They hadn’t obtained consent, but also, the resolution would lead to many more false positives. It was also too costly.

  But we did have high def cameras installed in strategic locations at large music halls. These private companies were less concerned with privacy and more concerned with keeping banned individuals out of their property. In those cases, we registered faces of people who were kicked out for various reasons and ignored all other faces.

  My point I guess is twofold: first, you might not be facially tracked in as many places as you think you are. Second, eventually you will be and there’s not a whole lot we can do to stop it. For many years, Target has identified people with their payment card, used facial recognition to detect when they return to the store, and used crowd tracking to see where in the store you go (and sometimes they have even changed ad displays based on the demographics of people standing nearby).

  Mostly, you will be identified and tracked when there is financial incentive to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't spell "aggressive & hostile" without "asshole".⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t know how many times that fox jumped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mind blown!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, somebody did the math wrong.

  • does the math *

  Oh no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh whale…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolves or something idk⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you’ll be all right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨normal music lyrics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate when people save their music in a lossy format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boards trodden by Shakespeare found under floor of Norfolk guildhall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, he avoided those boards like the plague. He avoided a lot of things like the plague. Like the plague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Physics of Time Actually Changing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of musings about time here which you can read if you’re into that, but the answer to the clickbait is no, there’s no indication put forth by this article that the relationship between physical time (e.g. the expansion of space) and measurable time (such as in a cesium clock) is changing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'One Piece' review: Netflix does the impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seen about the first half of it so far and I really like it. I feel like it’s something I can recommend to friends who want to understand the appeal One Piece without having to slog through hundreds of episodes. I really hope it gets a season 2 so they can give the Arabasta arc a similar treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'One Piece' review: Netflix does the impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who watches episodes week to week, no you don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A place for all the feels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not fair. She hardly even has sleeves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TECHCRUNCH] Robomart is banking on ‘store-hailing’ to bring self-driving stores directly to customers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I tend to walk to the store, so I almost never buy certain frozen foods like ice cream because they’ll melt on the way home. Would be nice if they could send a small truck around with ice cream, and maybe even play a little jingle to let me know when it’s nearby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The bull charges, the convict convicts, the writer sentences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny, I thought of the exact same metaphor to describe tech giants, just a few weeks ago. It was in the lead-up to reddit pulling the plug on their API, as I was thinking about the ideal alternative to the current model of social media. Sometime around March, I saw this video posted there: www.tiktok.com/…/7226846526713171205?lang=en

  I thought about how current platforms quash diversity similar to how huge sections of rainforest are replaced with endlessly mundane tree farms that produce only palm oil. Instead of different levels of canopy for big communities, medium communities, and small communities, the tree farm just has one level which uniformly blocks almost all the light from making it to the forest floor.

  In old growth forests, the biggest and oldest trees naturally fall and leave gaps in the canopy for new life to emerge. Right now, we have some new trees reclaiming portions of the homogeneous zones. Where parts of Facebook are burning, we have Friendica moving in. Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube are slowly being encroached upon by Lemmy, Mastodon, and PeerTube.

  I think that ActivityPub is a big step in the right direction, but it’s also just the first step of many. In the future, I want to see a full ecosystem of applications that are not just replacements of existing platforms, but living, growing, and evolving platforms of their own. We have pieces of that now, but communication between different fediverse platforms is not fully integrated. It would be great to eventually have an online world where the barriers between platforms are largely symbolic and any idea can spread anywhere with minimal effort.

  Meaning, we’ll all be passing around snippets of code, digital assets, and textual ideas, allowing us to create new subplatforms on demand, which naturally intermingle and breed with everyone else’s subplatforms to produce dynsmic macroplatforms capable of delivering desired content and behaviors quickly, accurately, and securely. We can crowdsource efficiency into every action in our society and everyone can benefit from our collective successes, while still programmatically rewarding those who work to push the progress bar forward.

  Ultimately, I think that is the way to beat both climate change and income inequality. Find ways to achieve rampant decentralized success, so that resource hoarders cannot game the system to the detriment of others, but they can use their resources to take part in building a better society if they so wish. And if they don’t opt in, the rest of us will get it done behind their backs anyway, and we’ll just have to find out whether capitalism or technosocialism works better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pooping only every 3 or more days linked with cognitive decline, research finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, my 3-year-old niece is chronically constipated, so I think this must mean she’s as smart as a 6-year-old.