khm

https://hj.9fs.net/khm

slacker / overachiever

supercomputing engineer at a national lab.
occasional 9front helper.
part-time bureaucrat.
threat influencer.
I put two spaces between sentences and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

"His personality is forceful but not objectionable" -- Tri-City Herald

Website: https://sciops.net

Public Key

npub19av2e3y0qw4egmz0w8skhv7ej6d2uakrpymcyxrdnhxvxyw7appqp6rp6r

NIP-05 Address

khm_at_hj.9fs.net@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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Author Public Key

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2025-04-13 19:15:43

setting up a family-wide jupyterlab installation because we're all a bunch of goddamn nerds

2025-01-28 20:37:45

there's an entire genre of internet poster now who complains about mastodon on other platforms

2024-10-08 02:15:47

https://hj.9fs.net/khm/s/ba922694edf63584d3832ab2b9296164.mp4

2024-07-23 18:37:36

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"Controlled" is a strong word...
CC: @npub1ucv…5a8g

2024-07-22 19:44:56

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Who's funding these people? A dude who literally wants to harvest the blood of the young in order to live forever!
https://www.inverse.com/article/29604-parabiosis-peter-thiel-blood

2024-07-19 17:23:52

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we fly an American flag and a pride flag at my house. I spent too long in the Army to cede the flag to the assholes.
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2024-06-19 18:03:32

I am in the united kingdom
everything here is built to 3/4 scale

2024-06-18 15:17:24

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there might be a fix for this installed now???

2024-06-18 01:34:51

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still my daily driver. no complaints. might replace it with a Light Phone III when those come out next year, but I've used the MP-02 for years and I love it.
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2024-06-17 19:04:58

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Diane Rehm is a radio journalist who was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia in 1998. She continued hosting her radio show until she retired in 2016 (and has been hosting a weekly podcast since 2017). She was pretty open about how she dealt with her condition over the years and how her feeling evolved. Lots to pick from, so instead of a specific link I just thought I'd mention her. I listened to her all the time while commuting on my motorcycle!
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2024-06-16 03:12:28

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https://sites.math.duke.edu/~yu/wreq/ comes to mind ,as well as debbugs. Usually the email-first approach quickly pivots to webui thanks to user demand. Request Tracker does both well, as does bugzilla.

2024-06-05 06:53:04

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I guess I'm willing to accept that but it puts shit like Wall-E in the same bucket. Any dystopian story is going to be subject to that kind of interpretation sooner or later.

2024-06-05 06:38:09

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I always thought it would be a better movie without the intro crap (no need to explain *why* the future is stupid) but "traced pretty directly to Galton" is ... a hell of a stretch, especially given the rest of Mike Judge's work

2024-06-05 06:19:27

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I don't think it ever nailed down that idiots took over because they were genetically predisposed to idiocy vs it being statistically more likely that one would be raised by idiots into idiocy
in the opening 'family tree' montage there are literal animals in the family tree

2024-06-05 06:12:39

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does it ever actually stake a position in nature vs nurture though

2024-05-03 23:31:15

I now own a Kobo Clara BW. Here's the first thing you need to know: pick a language, connect to wifi, it will update itself. After that it will ask you to 'connect the device' which requires a Kobo account.
Instead of doing that, plug it into a computer, and when it pops up a little window, click 'Connect.'
On the computer go to the .kobo/Kobo directory on the device, and edit the file Kobo eReader.conf. In the [ApplicationPreferences] section, add a line likeSideLoadedMode=true
and save and exit the editor. Unmount the device from your computer, and hold the Clara BW's power button until the white LED flashes. Then press the power button again.
When it boots back up, you don't need to register or connect shit. Dump books on it and rock on.
I'm posting this because every single internet thing which talks about this leaves out two important facts:
1) If you edit that file before updating, or before you get to the QR code screen, it won't take.
2) Most of the online people access this mode by signing out of an existing account rather than activating it during first-run setup.

2024-05-03 22:34:25

any program that can write to a cache should be able to delete, invalidate, or otherwise clean up that cache without outside interference. don't turn your users into your janitors.

2024-04-08 16:58:00

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I agree that UBO+1stparty is necessary, but I don't think it's sufficient.
Cookie autodelete extension [1] has an unfortunately-named whitelist function to make exceptions for sites you want to stay logged into, and cleans up the rest of the crap.
UBO + firstparty isolate does not fix, for instance, things like websites installing service workers which write cookies in the background.
1 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
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2024-04-08 03:27:16

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Davis is the colonial name; the Patwin tribes had other names for these places for a few thousand years beforehand
CC: [@igd_news@kolektiva.social](https://kolektiva.social/users/igd_news)

2024-04-07 17:58:28

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programmers should not be allowed to communicate with anyone else except via software patches
if a programmer signals that they have more to offer a company than programming, they should be fired immediately
if a programmer attempts to work more than forty hours a week, also fired
other employees should be carefully monitored to ensure they don't get infected and become programmers
if an employee asks how you tell a programmer from a non-programmer, it's too late, they're a programmer now, and should be fired for communicating with real employees

2024-04-05 19:51:39

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the companies in question are actively hostile to copyleft. the kernel is the only copyleft project they'll accept. anything else will be rewritten under a permissive license.
google even toyed around with replacing the kernel itself.
CC: [@drewdevault@fosstodon.org](https://fosstodon.org/users/drewdevault)

2024-04-05 17:06:36

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Energy is observer-dependent, subject to relativistic effects, one of which is that velocity decreases as the cosmic scale increases. General Relativity has no concept of conservation of energy.
Conservation of energy generally only applies within a specific intertial frame of reference. In galactic scale, we do not share such a frame of reference. If we did, there wouldn't be any redshifting anyway.

2024-04-03 22:55:14

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3. i agree
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2024-04-03 18:30:16

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the video says "eight years ago" but I'm pretty sure colors came out
like
last week?

2024-04-02 16:27:46

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CC: [@wayfinder@social.abraum.de](https://social.abraum.de/profile/wayfinder)
https://hj.9fs.net/khm/s/a367e3ef6c2c343624c643b82272583b.png

2024-04-02 04:27:39

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Everything I do requires privacy on every device. This isn't negotiable.
I can use the existing tools to inject root CAs, and those stick, but browser extensions are auto-removed every night. I do what I can do, and I'm not really on the hook to explain the school district's half-ass security measures.
That, like every other objection you've raised, is a distraction from the core argument: the Browser/CA Forum cannot be trusted to act in the public interest, and anyone placing their faith there is going to get burned again and again. Any attempt to shunt control away from the user and toward the internet landlords is hostile action and must be opposed.
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2024-04-02 00:01:30

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Not possible to install UBO on school-provided devices. We could go on like this all day; this is a rabbit hole I've lived in for many years, and it's become clear to me that anyone who hasn't lived this doesn't understand the scope of the problem.
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2024-04-01 23:43:27

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No, they wouldn't; they'd just pay Google or Apple to put their own certs on the devices. Since the user in your scenario has no control over the root bundle on the device, we've lost this battle before it was even conceptualized.
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2024-04-01 23:41:44

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I disagree with your assessment of needs. Your vision makes it *that much harder* to block corporate surveillance at the router. The Browser/CA (effectively just Google at this point) forum pushes their own root of trust to make sure that there is an uninterruptible tunnel between their ad-funneling engagement factory and the consumer device.
MITM is the only reliable way to keep that crap off my kids' computers, especially now that Google has invaded schools. I can't just block Google properties at the IP level, I have to do packet inspection to figure out which connections carry legitimate educational material and which connections are for surveillance and advertising.
Every year this gets harder as they ratchet down security in the name of safety. Every year I have to explain to a larger percentage of the IT industry that it's not *our* safety they're protecting, and it won't be until there is an independent noncommercial entity in charge of the x.509 trust chain.
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2024-04-01 23:11:32

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this is the part where I remind the world that other people don't decide what I 'need' vs what I 'want' because both of those are equal in importance as far as my computers are concerned
it's my computer and I will control it, regardless of the wishes of Internet Safety Crusade. anything that takes control out of my hands and gives it to corporate landlords is a non-starter.
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2024-04-01 18:35:23

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No. The last thing I need is to have to patch my damn browser to escape the clutches of the Browser/CA Forum. Until the root certs are not entirely controlled by landlords, I need an escape hatch from those idiots
CC: [@smn@l3ib.org](https://l3ib.org/users/smn) [@andytiedye@sfba.social](https://sfba.social/users/andytiedye)