That Mozilla thing makes me think of an effect I keep seeing that I tend to call inversion of expertise. I'm sure there's a better name that's already established, but that thing where a priority is set that's manifestly absurd, such that only people *without* the expertise to realize the absurdity get promoted into decision-making positions.
That then further erodes institutional capabilities, and makes it even harder to incorporate expertise.
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My mother-in-law overestimates my command of the Spanish language (though knowing French is admittedly helpful).
She claims that I understand 80% of what I hear. It's closer to 30%, but I can piece a lot together through context.
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I have a friend who is being harassed and threatened semi-anonymously via Facebook. She knows *who* it is, but Facebook and Police are characteristically being uselss.
I am kinda useless at this side of deanonymization, but does anyone have advice or resources for deanonymizing enough to get cops to move?
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if you can host a file on a site where you can look at the access logs and then post a link to that file, you might be able to bait them into downloading the file which could give you their IP address in the access logs. A whois search for the IP address.could get you their ISP and geolocation information on the IP could get you the general area.
That's a lot of "ifs" and "coulds", though.
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How To Bait and Catch The Anonymous Person Harassing You On The Internet
Leo Traynor, an Internet user in Ireland, had a problem. More specifically, he had a troll, a very nasty troll.Kashmir Hill (Forbes)
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from there, of the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.
Good luck.
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Just got a push notification on my phone:
To receive nearby offers and coupons, you need to agree to the location service's Terms and Conditions.
Um... no, thank you?
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@Mark Connolly π» π΄πΌββοΈ (he, him, his) I'm sure you will...
In fact, I think I've seen this notification once before.
No, this is no a new CAPTCHA, this is a new malware vector which tricks users to open #Windows command line and paste a command to download some harmful stuff.
Just reported by Mohamed Aruham on Twitter.
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Just took my first dose of metformin. The only thing I had on hand to take it with was Coke
This was not well planned out. I'm clearly off to a great start.
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In the world of computers, no matter what tool you use, someone will hate it and tell you you're an idiot for using it.
Don't worry about those people. Use the tool that works you.
(This advice probably extends beyond computers.)
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I actually wrote a column about this ten years ago, that is sadly still relevant:
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ME DRIVING PAST THIS LIKE FIVE MINUTES AGO: Oh hey, I didn't know it was called that.
ME FOUR AND A HALF MINUTES AGO: Wait, what the fuck?
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Trying to remember the formula to calculate sin (in radians). I remember it was an infinite sum of increasingly small fractions that would eventually iterate closer and closer to the answer.
It bothers me more that I never understood why the formula worked. If I did, I could just work it out myself (like the quadratic equation).
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Maybe youβre looking for the Taylor Series?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylorβ¦
Hereβs the derivation for sine:
@John Best Based also on another response, I'm inclined to answer yes.
Now I just need to make my brain understand why it works. I'm sure I'll be able to if I just have a chance to sit down and think about it. I'm already 90% there, I think.
nth term is (-1)^(n-1) x^(2n-1)/(2n-1)!
Itβs valid no matter how large x is (i.e. it has an infinite radius of convergence).
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Speak for yourself! I fly economy class with the rest of us plebs. We demanded lower fares, and we got what we wanted.
It's a win-win tacit agreement between us plebs and the airlines.
The rubes are the _business class_ flyers, who are fooled into thinking they've gotten some sort of glamorous superior option, when in reality it's barely better than economy class.
Business class fares let the airlines make more money while saving us plebs some money, so we accept it fine.
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I love reading ancient cuneiform tablets. Classics such as "Fuck you, this copper sucks." (Ea Nasir), "I should get more new clothes, my dad's employee gets new clothes twice a month and it's embarrassing.", and of course "The sesame harvest will die β let nobody say I did not warn you!", which is absolutely a set up for "Per my last clay tablet.".
Social media & email may be part of the problem. But if we're still like this when we have to carve our petty bullshit into clay then it's clear that we're the problem. It's us.
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So when I was mormon and got my endowment, I was given temple garments (special underwear) that I was instructed to wear day and night. I was also told never to show them to anyone (especially non-members).
At the time, I was a convert to the church living at home with my non-mormon family. Once a week, I used to smuggle them down to the laundry room to wash them without anyone seeing them.
I was eventually told by a priesthood leader that this was unnecessary, but still...
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@Mx. Luna Corbden Bishop Roulette strikes again!
But yeah. The temple worker who gave me my garments laid down the law.
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The trouble with making satirical posts is that it's not always obvious that they're satire. I'm learning that it's often better just not to.
(Or maybe I just suck at satire. I don't know.)
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A while ago my old temple clothing turned up. Just had an interesting conversation with Katy that made me realize something I hadn't before.
There's a specific bag that the church sells to put your temple clothing in. As far as I know, there's no rule saying you have to use it, but a lot of mormons do. I never really thought about it, but it's totally a dog whistle/status symbol. To an outsider, it's just a pretty ordinary (cheap looking) bag. To a mormon who's had their endowment, it screams "I'm worthy to go to the temple."
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Due to poor planning on my part, I'm going to run out of coffee before more discretionary funding becomes available.
Boo.
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@Todd on :mastodon: ain I'll survive. I'm not out quite yet, and I can switch to tea for a few days.
At least all the essentials are covered.
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Unexpectedly? One of the first things I learned was that my parents wouldn't let me watch the cartoons my older brothers watched.
That reason was explicit lewdness and graphic violent views of the world. Pretty sure when I got to violate those rules, my first intro was Akira. Not a huge fan of fan service, I'm in for the bleak apocalyptic stories.
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Next question, how do I get subtitles for media that doesn't already include them?
I have much to learn!
@Shae Erisson @TanekRune I've found that most media already has subtitles, bit there's always opensubtitles.org
Unfortunately, the subtitle files often need a little tweaking to get the synchronization right.
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Well, booked my first appointment with the new doctor today. Haven't had my records transferred because I don't have $200 just sitting around for the digitization fee at the moment. Hopefully he'll be willing to renew my #ADHD meds using the previous prescripiton bottles as sufficient evidence of their necessity. I really don't want to jump through those hoops again.
It's not like I'll die without them or anything, but my life will get a lot harder.
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@Shae Erisson I do plan to eventually pay the fee to have the records transferred. That should help quite a bit. It's just that the supply of meds won't hold out that long.
I should've gotten my act together sooner to take care of this, but you know... ADHD. π
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For me, turquoise is green.
You should answer the questions as if those where your only two color words, so that any color they can possibly show you is either "green" or "blue".
But, *of course* most of the colors they showed me I would *actually* describe as "cyan", a common color from my CGA roots.
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in reply to Xandra Granade π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •I think that's because it's a confluence of factors? The market reacts to the hype, big companies react to the hype to increase their stock price and then look at each other like "oh crap, we have to keep going or our *competitors will win*", lather rinse repeat. I think there are decision makers that know it won't pan out at some places, but feel obligated to get in on the hype before the bubble pops.
Was the same way with Blockchain and dotcom (in bigger ways).
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in reply to Xandra Granade π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •Oooohhhh great question. Ed Zitron encapsulates the end result in "rot economy" but I don't think I've seen a term for it. Like, Ed talked a lot about the impacts of this in this piece: wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-kiβ¦
Let's make one!
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in reply to Xandra Granade π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •I'm sure it happens for other reasons, too, but in #uspol we see it because the person appointing / hiring has a position (political view) that does not reflect observed reality, such that people with sufficient expertise can't support that position and don't be hired / appointed.
I'm sure it happens all the time for more bureaucratic reasons to.. institutions are almost always incapable of winding down and ceasing operations, even when that would benefit the persons they serve.
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