jacobwilliamroy

Cool. Let's lobby for regulations that force those companies to hire us. We're gonna make so much money.

I will take the free government money thank you very much. Maybe even hire another person to help make these physical site visits. If we don't take the government's money, they'll just spend it on weapons.

The system is mostly designed to prey upon inattentive seniors with disposable incomes.

mongo-express maybe?

https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express

But if couchDB works, it works. Personally I'd love to shoehorn LISP into everything I do, but most of the time I just use python and bash because things tend to get done faster when I do.

No it's not new, it's just not worth it. Especially when the remote teams have no system admin or security skills. Better to just give them a preconfigured box with all the necessary software and policies. A buddy used to work at Booz Allen Hamilton and they gave him a company laptop with very limited permissions.

We don't have the bandwidth at the moment. I would if we did.

The biggest issue is just infrastructure and security. We're still building up our system. Everything gets so much more complicated when your team is no longer all in the same building. We built up a really nice intranet with file servers, gigabit ethernet to all of our computers, encrypted backups. But now most of that stuff is useless because most of our team are not on the network! So now I have to write up a budget proposal to get offshore VPS service, gigabit fiber to the building, a software stack for secure encrypted messaging and file sharing over HTTP, trustworthy backup services. It's very time consuming research! And we haven't even deployed anything yet! And It's even worse when part of the team is in a completely different country, because then we can't reliably send data through the mail; we have to mule it.

If our threat model was milder we could just use centralized 3rd party web services for our encrypted file sharing and messaging. It's very difficult to secure an international remote team. I think it might actually be impossible to have full security. Especially when the remote teams have no system admin or security skills to help share the administrative workload.

People bringing their own computers also creates a huge security hole, so we're also planning to start loaning out laptops to people so we control all the software and policies on the machine.

IT support for a remote team is very time consuming. Very expensive. That's what I think.

You just reminded me that most of the wars in the fictional Ace Combat universe are fueled by the abuse of giant megaweapons designed to protect the earth from asteroid impacts. Gave me a good chuckle.

Have the accuser face the accused in court and prove to a jury of 12 people beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime has occured. After which, if the jury finds the accused guilty, a judge will determine what the sentence should be based upon guidlines provided by the law (which is written by congress).

We used to have a system like this. I thought it worked pretty well. Sure it wasn't perfect, but I liked the transparency.

Peace at last.

I'm primarily experienced with cetaceans, primarily the behavior of bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales. Have you had encounters with parrots? I have not and I am curious.

It's a chilling indictment of the human race that all our tools for detecting intelligent life are pointed AWAY from the earth. That's a real red flag, and it would make sense that others would see that and refuse to talk to us.

Tangentially, we put almost no effort into interspecies communication. It's asinine to be constantly searching for intelligence when we can't even figure out how to communicate with cetaceans. By now we should have a full functioning networked dolphin-computer interface and dolphin web forums and interspecies instant messenger. But NOOOOOOO, we're all too busy literally shouting at the sky.

It kind of is. The first self-learning algorithm I was taught adjusted a single variable in order to aproximate a linear function. Now, being continuous and unbounded, it is mathematically impossible to memoize such a function, however you can memoize the function calls as they happen. The results would be indistinguishable.

However real machine learning tries to approximate functions in n-dimensions and that is really, really, really hard to do. Currently no one really has a lookup table. There are some inputs where the error level is acceptably low, and others where the model just isn't optimized enough and the errors are ridiculous. The only question that remains to be answered, is whether any of these high-dimensional functions can actually be found by machine learning, or if we are just stuck with these endless approximations. Also I suppose you could ask if any such functions actually exist; maybe certain phenomena are just pure chaos.

It is a little dystopian isn't it? In European history tattoos specifically are associated with punishment, judgement and exploitation: Cain was "marked" and banished from eden, slaves and prisoners both past and present have born brands or tattoos which marked them as second-class citizens. In the United States, being marked by the government specifically is considered a sign of the apocalypse so there is a very strong fear about such things.

However this can have a positive effect in a different context. Maori don't come from a Christian background, so the act of marking people has a completely different meaning. If my life story is permanently written on my skin, that's a strong motivator to live well and do things I can be proud of. If my ancestry is part of my public identity, then I must also be excellent, so that my actions reflect well on my descendents and those descendents have a good role model to emulate in their lives. I think it encourages a strong sense of individual responsibility, a focus on supporting the community and multigenerational thinking.

It'll all be worth it when you post about your hard work on hacker forums and get a deluge of angry comments telling you how you could have gotten thrice the power in half the time for 1/5th the cost.

Think of Maori tattoos like a collection of facts about the person bearing the tattoo. Scarification is the same idea, except those facts are REALLY important, too important for a tattoo which is less memorable than a scar. Examples of facts would be: family of origin, affilliated organization, past achievements, place of birth, occupation, etc. Markings would be born on the front of the body to make introductions very quick and easy: you can just look at a stranger and you already know a lot about him or her, and assuming you have good manners, you would also know what etiquette to observe when meeting for the first time.

Just scarification, tattoos and petroglyphs. Without paper, the next best thing is to write one's entire life story upon the skin, or carve a symbol into a rock. It's not phonetic, but it does preserve information for many years, so I think it counts.

Of course tattoo and scarification were only for people who had actually done anything worth remembering.

Sponsoring international terrorism used to be a real faux pas in the U.S. I guess those days are over.

You're thinking about the situation upside down. First we find the stolen property, then we return it to the legal owner. One cannot legally own stolen property. The law is very clear: no one gives what one does not have. If for example "Leslie" inherits assets from human traffickers, those are not Leslie's assets; they are stolen assets. Leslie is not a criminal being prosecuted for crime. No one is being punished. Stolen property is being returned to the rightful, legal owners. This has nothing to do with sin, or morality, or emotion, or even race. This is just about accounting and following the law. It really is as simple as it sounds.

I already told you that's just a fantasy. There is clearly a strong opposition to that, to the point where it would never make it through congress. A real investigation is needed to separate beneficiaries from those who were uninvolved.

A reparations law suit would most likely involve a court of law in which victims and benificiaries are identified, damages are calculated, and assets change hands. This fantasy where you just have to give up your personal property for no good reason is just a fantasy. It's not the way the law works. There will be a reason, it will be documented by a trail of papers and professional judges and attorneys will agree that it is fair.

If there is no paper trail saying that you are a beneficiary of human trafficking, you will not pay reparations. In order to understand this, you and also the justice system need to evolve to see the world more granularly than just "race". Slaves had names, they had families, they had descendants. Those descendants have legal standing in the most basic sense: they have been deprived of property. Justice demands that those stolen assets be returned to the rightful, legal owners.

Forget "resolving racism". That's a red herring. Just return the stolen property to the rightful owners. That's a much more concrete, actionable goal.

Edit: please post response instead of downvoting. Why should this comment disappear?

The law enforcement have always had a weird relationship with white supremacy. For example, The Base is not classified as a terrorist group, despite the fact that their members travel abroad to Ukraine to fight in Donbass, and they explicitly state in captured Telegram(tm) communications that they are training with the paramilitaries so they can more efficiently commit acts of terror when they return to the U.S. Despite that, the FBI still does not designate them as terrorists. The FBI prefers to call them "racially motivated violent extremists" or RMVEs. Still, officially, the FBI considers RMVEs to be equivalent in threat to foreign terrorists, but this was only recently announced in 2019. Progress is slow, but it happens. The whole cyberwar with 8chan has been fascinating to watch and it has given me a lot of hope for the future. I highly recommend reading if you are uninformed.

White supremacist fascist terrorism in the U.S. is real hard to deal with, mostly because it is very well hidden and decentralized. Communications are primarily through private end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. Organizations are more like alliances of isolated autonomous cells rather than one unified structure. Symbols, names and logos are often changed to avoid any association with genocide or fascism. The people who actually commit terrorist acts, such as Patrick Crusius who killed 20 people in an El Paso Walmart, are not publicly associated with any specific group, despite being radicalized through public communication channels appropriated by such groups. The cryptic nature of white supremacist groups also grants them considerable immunity to information war. "Antifa" and "Black Lives Matter" are recognizable brands with icons, logos, flags, colors; anyone can download those symbols and use them to misrepresent and discredit the movement. This in my opinion was the greatest mistake that Black Lives Matter and Antifa made. They underestimated and continue to underestimate the power of the media misinformation machine which is currently targeting them. They still haven't accepted that we are post-truth, post-reality, operating on a purely emotional level. They will find great success when they learn how to use their messaging to connect with Americans on the heart level rather than trying to use shocking slogans to communicate complex high-level intellectual concepts to literal primates. For example, "DEFUND THE POLICE" was a terrible slogan almost perfectly designed to fail, despite the fact that I would not mind defunding the police if it meant we could offer better education to the 40% of American children currently failing school under social distancing.

The world now revolves around memes and emotions, not facts and science. Activism can only succeed if it is adapted to this new era of humanity.

No not literal nazis. They're just fascist white supremacists. I don't understand why so many people dislike using "nazi" as a shorthand for "fascist white supremacists".

Well cultus did get downvoted. So there's that.

There's no particular reason. The OS layer is just another variable which needs to be accounted for in the planning stage, so pulling the rug out like this is a nuisance.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Goddammit! I was planning a whole CentOS-based encrypted web service. SHIT!

At least we haven't bought any hardware yet... back to the drawing board.

Wow, all that work and it was just some dumb nonsense (or maybe another cipher disguised as nonsense).

One can really clean house if they understand networking well and pay close attention to what the WAN is doing. On the flip side, one can easily be ruined if the WAN is not considered during infrastructure planning.

No, not really. If a new organization needs a large block of ip addresses, they just use IPv6. The biggest reason IPv4 persists is because deploying IPv6 can be very expensive for legacy users: new equipment, retraining, hiring. For a large organization, planning and executing such a deployment can take years. There are a lot of fresh new telecom providers in India who do not have that kind of baggage, so they chose to deploy IPv6 networks from the start for their cellular internet. You'll notice that if you're on a cellular network, even in the U.S., you will have an IPv6 address. If "the market" ever tries to price gouge for IPv4 addresses to the point where deploying IPv6 becomes the cheaper option, then organizations will just use IPv6 instead.